With interest in American celebrity visits to North Korea on the rise in the wake of Dennis Rodman's visit earlier this month, retired professional wrestler Nature Boy Ric Flair has given an interview to an NBC affiliate in North Carolina detailing his own visit in...
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Phillip Weiss points out the conspicuous hypocrisy of Washington: whereas North Korea's nukes aren't a threat, Iran's non-existant nukes are not only a threat, they're a threat to our existence! Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been one of the foremost hawks on Iran,...
In 2008 Wired Magazine did a brief exposé on the Golfinder, a "novelty item" being marketed as an electronic golf ball finder. It turned out the machine was a joke, just an old-fashioned dowsing rod being sold for $49 and later $20. In 2010, the Iraqi government...
Stringent "background checks" are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation’s largest buyer of firearms: The applicant, U.S. Pentagon, seeks to purchase a wide variety of firearms in vast...
From The Washington Examiner: Attorney General Eric Holder wrote Sen. Rand Paul,R-Ky., to confirm that President Obama does not have the authority to kill an American on U.S. soil in a non-combat situation, Obama’s spokesman announced today. White House Press...
Senator Rand Paul's historic filibuster is still ongoing ended late last night. At one point, he made a proposal. If adopted unanimously by the Senate, Paul said, he would end the filibuster immediately. The proposal was a non-binding resolution opposing the...
Of more than 2,500 people so far thought to have been killed in the CIA’s Pakistan drone campaign, we’ve identified the names of perhaps 20%. Identifying the names of those killed can dramatically change our understanding of particular strikes, and bring more...
The threat from Iran is overhyped and there is no evidence to suggest the Islamic Republic is even interested in developing nuclear weapons, according to UN official Hans Blix. Blix was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in...
"The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the 'dirty wars' in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents," The Guardian reports. "These units conducted some of the...
