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Did Jesus Approve of Torture?

“In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12   The majority of evangelical Protestants in the United States have no problem with the use of torture on suspected terrorists, a...   read more

33 Americans Killed by Terrorists in 2008

The United States suffered 33 deaths at the hands of terrorists in 2008, none of which occurred at home. Americans killed were in Iraq (21), India (6), Afghanistan (4), Sudan (1) and Yemen (1).   While the United States often assumes it is the N...   read more

Island of Plastic Trash Twice the Size of Texas

Floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a man-made island of plastic, invisible to the naked eye, that’s twice the size of Texas. The refuse was born of decades of dumping plastic containers, bottles and other material that gradually collec...   read more

Condoleezza Rice Echoes Nixon, Blunders into Possible Conspiracy Admission

If her six-minute confrontation with students in a Stanford University dorm is any indication, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is ill-prepared for life outside the bubble of the Bush administration.   As recorded on video by student R...   read more

Gates Rejects Trials for Dozens of Guantánamo Prisoners

In the midst of testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates let drop a piece of news that unsettled civil libertarians: between 50 and 100 of the prisoners currently being held at Guantánamo Bay...   read more

Justice Department Moves to Equalize Cocaine Sentencing For All Races

The federal government may finally be moving towards eliminating the unequal sentencing in U.S. drug laws that punish users of crack more than cocaine. Key government and judicial officials testified at a congressional hearing on Wednesday that th...   read more

Appeals Court Reinstates Black Site Torture Lawsuit

The ugly truth about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim the...   read more

U.S. Actively Engaged in Cyber-Warfare

The U.S. government is preparing to go on the offensive against the growing threat of cyber-warfare, a New York Times investigation has determined. Like the Cold War, during which American officials planned not only defensive but also “first strik...   read more

False Statement on ABC about Waterboarding Shaped Media Coverage

John Kiriakou was the man who made waterboarding okay for Americans to accept. Back in December 2007, just as the use of the controversial interrogation technique was first becoming known by the public, the former CIA officer appeared on numerous ...   read more

Swine Flu: Is a U.S. Company Responsible?

Lost amid the panic over the growing swine flu epidemic is a key question: How did it start? According to sources in the United States and Mexico, the culprit may be Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest owner of hog farms, which operates hog-rais...   read more

CIA Inspector General: No Evidence Torture Stopped Terror Attacks

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials have insisted that the use of torture techniques yielded valuable information that helped the government thwart terrorist attacks in the United States. But the CIA’s own ins...   read more

Supreme Court Hears Reverse Discrimination Case

In a classic case of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t, the US Supreme Court is deciding a discrimination case (Ricci vs. DeStefano) that has huge ramifications for affirmative action. In 2003 the city of New Haven, Connecticut, gave a test t...   read more

CIA and Bush Administration Ignored Ineffectiveness of Torture

“A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” was how one former CIA official described the decision by high-ranking members of the Bush administration to utilize torture methods against detainees that had been proven ineffective years earlier by...   read more

Cheney, Rumsfeld Pushed for Torture to Find Non-Existent Saddam-9/11 Link

According to former intelligence and military officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pushed interrogators to use torture to prove once and for all that a link did exist between al Qaeda and the regime of...   read more

Fewest Americans Moving Since Recordkeeping Began in 1948

Because of the current recession, more Americans are staying put than ever before, or at least since the government began keeping track of such figures. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Wednesday that the national mover rate declined from 13.2%...   read more

Computer Spies Hack into Pentagon’s Costliest Weapons Program

Not once, not twice, but several times have plans for the Defense Department’s most sophisticated, and expensive, military plane been hacked by cyber spies from China. In the most recent occurrence, intruders were able to gain access to the design...   read more
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3217 to 3232 of about 3314 News
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Did Jesus Approve of Torture?

“In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12   The majority of evangelical Protestants in the United States have no problem with the use of torture on suspected terrorists, a...   read more

33 Americans Killed by Terrorists in 2008

The United States suffered 33 deaths at the hands of terrorists in 2008, none of which occurred at home. Americans killed were in Iraq (21), India (6), Afghanistan (4), Sudan (1) and Yemen (1).   While the United States often assumes it is the N...   read more

Island of Plastic Trash Twice the Size of Texas

Floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a man-made island of plastic, invisible to the naked eye, that’s twice the size of Texas. The refuse was born of decades of dumping plastic containers, bottles and other material that gradually collec...   read more

Condoleezza Rice Echoes Nixon, Blunders into Possible Conspiracy Admission

If her six-minute confrontation with students in a Stanford University dorm is any indication, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is ill-prepared for life outside the bubble of the Bush administration.   As recorded on video by student R...   read more

Gates Rejects Trials for Dozens of Guantánamo Prisoners

In the midst of testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates let drop a piece of news that unsettled civil libertarians: between 50 and 100 of the prisoners currently being held at Guantánamo Bay...   read more

Justice Department Moves to Equalize Cocaine Sentencing For All Races

The federal government may finally be moving towards eliminating the unequal sentencing in U.S. drug laws that punish users of crack more than cocaine. Key government and judicial officials testified at a congressional hearing on Wednesday that th...   read more

Appeals Court Reinstates Black Site Torture Lawsuit

The ugly truth about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim the...   read more

U.S. Actively Engaged in Cyber-Warfare

The U.S. government is preparing to go on the offensive against the growing threat of cyber-warfare, a New York Times investigation has determined. Like the Cold War, during which American officials planned not only defensive but also “first strik...   read more

False Statement on ABC about Waterboarding Shaped Media Coverage

John Kiriakou was the man who made waterboarding okay for Americans to accept. Back in December 2007, just as the use of the controversial interrogation technique was first becoming known by the public, the former CIA officer appeared on numerous ...   read more

Swine Flu: Is a U.S. Company Responsible?

Lost amid the panic over the growing swine flu epidemic is a key question: How did it start? According to sources in the United States and Mexico, the culprit may be Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest owner of hog farms, which operates hog-rais...   read more

CIA Inspector General: No Evidence Torture Stopped Terror Attacks

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials have insisted that the use of torture techniques yielded valuable information that helped the government thwart terrorist attacks in the United States. But the CIA’s own ins...   read more

Supreme Court Hears Reverse Discrimination Case

In a classic case of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t, the US Supreme Court is deciding a discrimination case (Ricci vs. DeStefano) that has huge ramifications for affirmative action. In 2003 the city of New Haven, Connecticut, gave a test t...   read more

CIA and Bush Administration Ignored Ineffectiveness of Torture

“A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” was how one former CIA official described the decision by high-ranking members of the Bush administration to utilize torture methods against detainees that had been proven ineffective years earlier by...   read more

Cheney, Rumsfeld Pushed for Torture to Find Non-Existent Saddam-9/11 Link

According to former intelligence and military officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pushed interrogators to use torture to prove once and for all that a link did exist between al Qaeda and the regime of...   read more

Fewest Americans Moving Since Recordkeeping Began in 1948

Because of the current recession, more Americans are staying put than ever before, or at least since the government began keeping track of such figures. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Wednesday that the national mover rate declined from 13.2%...   read more

Computer Spies Hack into Pentagon’s Costliest Weapons Program

Not once, not twice, but several times have plans for the Defense Department’s most sophisticated, and expensive, military plane been hacked by cyber spies from China. In the most recent occurrence, intruders were able to gain access to the design...   read more
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