Israel's Interior Ministry has announced that they are banning German Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass from entering Israel, despite the fact that Grass never suggested he wanted to visit in the first place. Termed Germany's "most famous living writer," Grass spawned a...
Unveiled over the weekend and dismissed as an April Fool's Day joke, Russia's announcement of a zombie-creating "superweapon" is all too real, insists Premier Vladimir Putin. The zombification ray is being developed by scientists as a more "politically acceptable"...
On March 25, I reported that the ongoing Gaza blackout had killed an infant after his respirator failed. Though the infant did die in the manner reported, later information has showed that he actually died earlier in the month. This isn't the major shift in story that...
Speaking before a broad collection of the Israeli Lobby at AIPAC, President Obama followed up a week of repeated threats to attack Iran by warning of "loose talk" about attacking Iran. We learned last week that Israel, the presumptive aggressor in he upcoming war,...
An article today by Charlie Savage in the New York Times looks at President Obama's announcement of "waivers" related to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its provisions related to the open-ended military detention of suspects. It is noteworthy in two...
The imposition of ever stricter sanctions on Iran over its civilian nuclear program has already spilled over in a big way against Iran's private economy, though it has largely spared the public sector that it supposedly targets. But we can add another side effect to...
Fresh off yesterday's story of US rice farmers being "furious" that Iraqis are buying their rice from other countries now that the US occupation is over, twelve members of Congress have fired off a letter to Iraq's Trade Minister pressing for him to get Iraqis back on...
Officials are still hard at work trying to blame the Iranian government for it, but revelations about the Bangkok bombing plot show an extremely cheap effort to blow something up, which hinged entirely on the ability to hail a cab in the Thai capital. The surveillance...
Readers may already be familiar with the tiny town of Keene, NH despite its population of some 20,000 people in rural New Hampshire. The town has been a major site for the Free State Project and radio advertisements mentioning Keene are heard regularly when listening...
Israel's far-right government's bellicosity seems to sit well with most of the voting public come election time. But it can also be a real pain when you've got something other than war you want to do. So Israeli fans of Madonna, who is starting her world tour in Tel...
