Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Following on his criticism last year of the Republican-led plan, President Barack Obama this week attempted to get around the mandate that terrorism suspects be tried by military tribunals.   To accomplish this end-around, Obama issued waivers t...   read more

Qorvis, one of Washington, DC’s top lobbying and public relations firms, has continued to help one of its most controversial clients improve its image with American leaders.   Since signing a $40,000-a-month contract with the government of Bahra...   read more

From cars to diapers, the Dr. Seuss character known as The Lorax, created back in 1971 to “speak for the trees,” can be seen promoting one consumer good after another, as part of the new Universal Pictures’ film debuting this week.   The use of ...   read more

Top officials in the National Security Agency (NSA) are pushing for greater access to private-sector computer networks, all in the name of preventing cyberattacks. But the White House has insisted the NSA slow down its efforts, mainly because of p...   read more

Twitter partner DataSift is now offering companies access to two years of tweets, making available a vast amount of market-research information. Through its new program Historics, the United Kingdom-based Datasift is providing businesses with the ...   read more

Despite its oil well causing the worst spill in U.S. history, oil giant BP has enjoyed increased business with the Department of Defense.   Sales of BP fuel to the Pentagon rose 33%, from $1.02 billion in 2010—when the Gulf of Mexico became foul...   read more

At the behest of nuclear power companies, government officials in Japan softened language relating to the threat of earthquake-produced tsunamis only eight days before last year’s disaster.   In early March 2011, representatives of Tokyo Electri...   read more

Taking a cue from North Dakota, a large number of state governments are considering the establishment of a state bank.   In the wake of the financial and mortgage crises, proponents are pushing for states to rely less on large national private b...   read more

American corporations continue to enjoy healthy profit margins, while the average worker is watching inflation outpace wages.   Earnings for businesses began to rebound in early 2010 and have continued to do well ever since. By the third quarter...   read more

Hungry to take advantage of an unfulfilled market, the pharmaceutical industry is hoping the latest diet pill to gain federal approval will open the way for other drugs in development that are designed to cut pounds off of millions of obese Americ...   read more

Act of Valor, which opened nationwide this past weekend as the top-selling movie in the U.S., is perhaps the closest yet that Hollywood has come to producing a pure propaganda film for the “Military-Entertainment Complex.”   For the past 25 year...   read more

According to the oil industry’s top lobbying group, President Barack Obama’s corporate tax reform plan is discriminating against petroleum producers.   Apparently with a straight face, Jack Gerard, the president and CEO of the American Petroleum...   read more

The U.S. government has agreed with its negotiating partners to keep details of a new international trade agreement involving Pacific Rim nations a secret until negotiations are completed.   The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the...   read more

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) last week sued the State Department for access to communications between it and lobbyists promoting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, two of whom were prominent fundraisers for the 2008 presidential...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to monitor social media websites and other Internet communications to find criticisms of the department’s policies and actions.   A government watchdog ...   read more

The vast majority of “small businesses” that won the largest share of federal contracts last year turned out to be large companies, according to the American Small Business League.   Businesses qualify as “small” based on their annual revenue an...   read more