For a country that prides itself on the transparency with which it governs, the United States has suffered a few too many hiccups of late. Even by the standards of many politically unfastened observers, revelations concerning the data...
17 October 2013
Before Fox News, there was the Daily Mail. If Fox News is a howling Tea Partier, the Daily Mail is his even more insane great uncle, the old master, the one who invented the game. For over a century they have printed stories to support...
14 October 2013
This article is excerpted from the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition.
In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth's population,...
In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth's population,...
14 October 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Saudi Arabian court sentenced four men to
prison for up to 10 years, plus up to 2,000 lashes with a whip, after
they were convicted in what the local media dubbed as the "naked
dancing" case, Al-Sharq newspaper...
13 October 2013
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, from his asylum in Russia, accepted an award on Wednesday from a group of former U.S. intelligence officials expressing support for his decision to divulge secrets about the NSA's...
09 October 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's Hindu temples possess donated gold which
may equal half of America's Fort Knox bullion, but some are rejecting
demands by the government to reveal the value of their sacred
stockpiles.
"India's...
"India's...
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