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

He has crisscrossed the country since his party took a beating in the November elections and expanded his outreach to the corporate community to demonstrate he’s not anti-business. But in the process, President Barack Obama has not visited with ...   read more

The United States has reached a level of combined government indebtedness not seen since the end of World War II, when the federal government borrowed heavily to fight a two-front war in Europe and the Pacific. Nowadays, the U.S. debt is serious...   read more

With industry developing fewer and fewer new drugs, the Obama administration has decided to start a government-run research center that would explore new remedies for diseases.   As part of the National Institutes of Health, the new National C...   read more

The U.S. military’s plan to create Afghan Local Police (ALP) units throughout Afghanistan is supposed to turn the population against the Taliban. But some of the ALPs are filled with undesirables ranging from former warlord loyalists to criminal...   read more

Buried inside a U.S. House budget bill to keep the federal government operating past March is a controversial provision that would remove the endangered species classification for wolves in the Rocky Mountains.   Pushed by Republicans, the pla...   read more

Business was absolutely booming for the American arms industry during the Great Recession; in 2009 alone, U.S. defense companies sold nearly $247 billion in weapons worldwide. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has determined t...   read more

Making one of the most sought after cell phones in the U.S. has proven to be dangerous for the health of workers in China.   Apple has admitted that 137 workers at a Chinese factory producing iPhones in Suzhou have become seriously ill from ex...   read more

Medical studies performed by the U.S. Army and Marines Corps have found troops are carrying excessive amounts of weight on their bodies, due to body armor and other equipment, resulting in increasing numbers of neck, spine and other serious inju...   read more

Much to the relief of Wall Street, and the frustration of its critics, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has hired a corporate attorney to head the agency’s new whistleblower office.   Sean McKessy, former corporate secretary at AOL...   read more

In an attempt to head off a potential uprising like those in the north of the African continent, the Zimbabwe regime arrested dozens of students, trade unionists and political activists who gathered to watch television coverage of events in Tuni...   read more

 “All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.” -Muammar al-Gaddafi, October 1988   When I wrote my book, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators, it goes without saying that I includ...   read more

If there’s one thing House Republicans and President Barack Obama can agree on, it’s that they both distort the truth about the new budget plan.   According to FactCheck.org of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, GOP leaders and the White Hous...   read more

Under investigation by state and federal officials, Prime Healthcare Services is operating hospitals in California that have patients with unusually high rates of malnutrition that usually is found only among starving children in developing coun...   read more

Classified a “diplomat” by the Obama administration until Monday, the man arrested in Pakistan for killing two men in Lahore has turned out to be employed by the CIA.   After conducting interviews in the U.S. and Pakistan, the British newspaper ...   read more

For the U.S. government, strategic priorities have taken preeminence over human rights in Bahrain, where a substantial opposition movement by the Shiite majority is threatening to topple the long-ruling Sunni royal family.   Bahrain in one of ...   read more

Officials in Afghanistan have expressed shock at the suggestion of America’s top general that local citizens burned their own children to make the U.S. military look bad following an attack in the mountainous region of Konar province.   The Wa...   read more