U.S. and the World
Cher Angers Australians by Selling Key to City on eBay
If she could turn back time, Cher might have decided not to allow the sale of a “Key to the City,” presented to her in November 1990 by the lord mayor of Adelaide, Australia, a city of 1.2 million. As it is, the appearance of the key on the websit... read more
Should U.S. Compensate Guatemalan Victims of American Medical Experimentation?
The Obama administration is resisting an effort to compensate victims of American medical experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s.
For at least eight years, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted numerous experiments on Guatemala... read more
Did the U.S. Train Iranians on Terror List?
American Special Forces provided training during the George W. Bush administration to a terrorist group bent on the overthrow of the Iranian government, according to the New Yorker.
According to a story by investigative journalist Seymour He... read more
U.S. Oil Imports Down, Exports Up
Price spikes of crude oil during the middle of the last decade prompted the United States to reduce its reliance on petroleum imports. Since 2005, gross oil imports have declined 17%, according to the Congressional Research Service, while gross oi... read more
139 Female Soldiers Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated how much the roles of women in the U.S. military have expanded.
During a decade’s worth of conflict, more than 283,000 women were deployed to the two countries. Hundreds of them served in harm’s wa... read more
U.S. Aid to Israel Equals $4.9 Million a Day for 64 Years
No one can say the U.S. hasn’t been generous towards Israel since it was founded in 1948.
Over a period of 64 years (including the 2013 budget request), the U.S. has given Israel more than $115 billion in military and foreign aid, which averag... read more
Egyptian Anti-Foreign Presidential Candidate Disqualified for Having American Mother
A leading contender for Egypt’s presidency who has run on an ultra-nationalist, anti-foreign platform has been disqualified from running because his mother reportedly is a U.S. citizen.
Authorities with the nation’s electoral commission said H... read more
Study Claims NAFTA Led to Obesity in Mexico
A new study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement resulted in an unhealthy diet shift for millions of Mexicans.
Since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, Mexico’s ... read more
German Railway Hires Lawyers and PR Firm before Holocaust Lawsuits in U.S.
More than 65 years after the end of World War II, Germany’s national railway, Deutsche Bahn, has hired an American law firm and a PR agency to lobby against legislation now before Congress that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue European railr... read more
Obama Administration Drastically Steps Up Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens
The Obama administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has swept up significantly more adults whose children were born in the U.S., potentially breaking up thousands of families.
In just one six-month span last year (January to June), Imm... read more
American-Allied Dictatorship Shuts Down Pro-Democracy U.S. Group
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week forced the closure of two non-governmental organizations that promote democracy, mirroring the actions last year of the military-led government in Egypt against the same NGOs.
The first NGO shut down wa... read more
Jews in Bosnia Not Allowed to Run for President
Sixteen years have passed since the end of the Bosnian War, yet the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to discriminate against ethnic minorities.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jews, Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies) and other national min... read more
Poland Charges Ex-Spy Chief over Involvement in Bush Torture Program
Unlike President Barack Obama, who has refused to prosecute American intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, leaders in Poland have charged their former top spymaster for helping the Central Intelligence A... read more
Cholera Epidemic in Haiti Caused by U.N.
Cholera has ravaged five percent of Haiti’s population, killing thousands. And the impoverished island country has the United Nations to blame.
Since the January 12, 2010, earthquake, more than 7,000 Haitians have died from the world’s worst r... read more
Fukushima Reactor Too Dangerous for Even Robots, One Year after Disaster
Reactors inside Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant are still too hot for man and machine to get close enough to assess the damage from last year’s disaster.
Radiation levels inside reactor No. 2’s containment vessel are so high—(73 sieverts ... read more
British Politician Reveals Failed U.S. Plan to Wiretap All of Afghanistan before 9/11 Attacks
The U.S. intelligence community might have known ahead of time about al-Qaeda’s plan to attack the United States on September 11, 2001, had it managed to follow through in the 1990s on plans to eavesdrop on Afghanistan’s proposed new phone system.... read more