The Obama Administration is threatening to use its first ever UN Security Council veto this week when the Palestinian Authority moves forward with a non-binding resolution referring to the settlement construction in the Occupied Territories as "illegal." The case for...
McClatchy Newspapers are running a fascinating history entitled "How Congress helped thwart Obama's plan to close Guantanamo." The article cites heavily from WikiLeaks cables, showing how the "done deal" announcement by President Obama from January of 2009, promising...
The US State Department has released their list of films for the 2011 "American Documentary Showcase," a program that brings their approved documentaries to audiences around the world to "offer a view of American society and culture." Amongst the list of selected...
Dr. Martin Luther King's outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam put him neatly in the milieu of modern Christian non-violence that started with the religious writings of Leo Tolstoy, and which had impacts well beyond Christendom (Gandhi's interest in non-violence,...
It may not be as noteworthy as Time's Person of the Year, but CNN appears to have actually stuck to the results of its voting in selecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange their "Most Intriguing Person of the Year." Though the article spends much of its time carping...
NORAD officials are adamant that their annual Santa-tracking exercise does not interfere with their ordinary operations, and officials have made on-again, off-again claims that the operation costs either nothing or very, very little (which in Pentagon terms could be...
In an example of how quickly many members of the public have become not only comfortable with by comforted by the harsh and seemingly arbitrary treatment received by others at the airport, 56-year-old rape victim Claire Hirschkind was hurled to the ground and dragged...
Time Magazine has announced that it has named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg the "Person of the Year," despite the billionaire's decidedly lukewarm showing in the online poll on their website. As of last night the leader by a strong margin was WikiLeaks founder Julian...
Pointing to the Cameron government's growing impatience over student protests, British officials have reportedly moved against 12-year-old Nicky Wishart, henceforth known as the Notorious Nicky of Oxfordshire, threatening him with arrest for threatening the public...
Update: The eBook is no longer for sale on Amazon's site, but Amazon insists they didn't remove it. Rather, the author removed the book himself. Already with enough egg on its face to endanger a species of birds, Amazon.com's WikiLeaks headaches don't appear to be...
