The South China Morning Post is reporting: "Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and is due to arrive in Moscow by this evening, the South China Morning Post can confirm. "The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, who was last known to be hiding in Hong Kong,...
The White House petition calling for President Obama to immediately and unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for informing the American public about the NSA's surveillance schemes has reached its goal of 100,000 signatures today, and in less than two weeks. The...
Tiny Maury County, Tennessee seems like a strange place to go looking for terrorism, but that's where we find ourselves focusing today. There's just something in the water in Maury County - or not depending on who you ask. Residents have been complaining about it for...
Death penalty hearings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees were quickly shelved today, and the courtroom ordered "cleared" during the defense lawyer's questioning of a former Gitmo prison commander Rear Admiral David Woods sparked an angry exchange with the...
Libertarian television show host John Stossel, and liberal creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire David Simon have reacted to the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal in a similar fashion - -namely, they suggest we stop worrying about it so much since...
Physics lesson time guys. So we've heard in the past 24 hours that: a) Some guys totally built an X-ray death beam to kill Obama and/or "enemies of Israel" b) Those guys were KKK but somehow pro-Israel too c) The whole thing was a "portable Hiroshima" that ran...
Introduction by Tom EngelhardtYes, the predictions are in. By 2016 (or 2030?), China will have economically outpaced the U.S. So say the economic soothsayers. And behind them lie all those, in the Pentagon and elsewhere in Washington, who secretly...
"In Yemen we are close to the bottom in all kinds of measures like income and education, but there’s one statistic where we come out on top: the number of prisoners in Guantanamo," laughed Mohammad Naji Allaw, a successful Yemeni lawyer who ploughs his...
Just a reminder for those who haven't done so already, the White House petition calling on President Obama to preemptively pardon leaker Edward Snowden is still a little short of its goal. There's plenty of time left and no reason we shouldn't be able to get another...
OKLAHOMA CITY – A state lawmaker will lead an anti-war rally on the south steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol at 7 p.m. Friday, July 12. The public is invited.The rally’s theme is “Not Our War!” and will be held to reflect the views of those who...
