"Big Bang" or Black Hole?

"GENEVA - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on...

Olympic Brotherly Love

Sitting here in the Tokyo airport, returning from 18 days at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I'm struck by what we just witnessed and were part of. It was truly both historic and also amazing. Not just that China did...

Anti-government protests hit Peru

"Thousands of people have joined marches and strikes across Peru in protest at rising prices and the government's free-market policies. They say the government has not spread the wealth from an economic boom. Strikers gathered in a main square in the capital, Lima, waving...

Samsung in crisis after chairman quits

"SOUTH Korea's largest business group Samsung faces a leadership crisis after its chairman quit in the wake of a scandal, the acting chairman said today. "Without a captain or rudder, Samsung now faces...

Taliban threaten Kandahar City" Hundreds Flee!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorLast week's prison escape in Kandahar by Taliban forces it is said are regrouping for a major attack to get their stronghold back, a stronghold held by Canadian Troops does...

They May Take Our Planet, But They'll Never Take OUR FREEDOM!

Muckraking on a galactic scale or giant waste of time? It's good to know that, with everything going on in the world today, that so many people are focusing their energy on making sure no shady deals are being struck with powers from beyond the sun."A multinational...

Announcement: NowPublic named one of the Top 25 IT up and comers in Canada

"Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, the Branham300 continues to highlight the Canada’s top IT companies. This definitive listing represents a truly insightful piece of intelligence on the Canadian information...

Iraqi Chicken Farmers Get Jumpstart With Egg Delivery

" BAGHDAD, April 28, 2008 – Chicken farmers in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, received the jumpstart their industry needed with the arrival of 45,000 eggs, each ready for hatching. Army Capt. Benjamin Neusse, a civil military operations officer with 3rd...

NAFTA Kills Jobs: Mexican Labor Boss

"It was 11:34 a.m. yesterday when President Bush announced he would be fast-tracking the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia.Half an hour later, at a forum on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Benedicto...

US deaths in Iraq approach 4,000

Sadly, over this Easter weekend, the families of some soldiers serving in Iraq will be receiving news that their loved one has been killed in yet another roadside bomb just north of Baghdad today. This brings the US...

McDonald's, Cargill, Nature Conservancy & Amazon Farmer: Team to Protect Rain...

"You might call it the greening of Chicken McNuggets. At first glance, there seems little common ground between fast-food giant McDonald's, US commodities multinational Cargill, and The Nature Conservancy, an environmental group. But here in the Brazilian Amazon, all three...

Iraqi Citizens Commit to Stop Violence, Help Security Forces

Over the last four months,there's been a shift in a grass-roots"concerned-citizens" program in which about 10,000 Iraqis coming forward and providing information to assist coalition and Iraqi security forces to...

America's Iraq strategy boosts US combat losses

This sobering report comes in from the Christian Science Monitor and it is just sad.  - The Angryindian----------------------------------------------"Washington - May's spike in the American death toll in Iraq...

Israel shows new openness to Saudi peace plan

"PETRA, JORDAN - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed increased interest Tuesday in discussing a Saudi-authored initiative for reaching a comprehensive Middle East peace, inviting the leaders of Arab countries to come to Israel to talk more seriously about the...

Missile defense moves ahead by John E. Carey

"On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced from the Oval Office, "I've reached a decision which offers a new hope for our children in the 21st century." He explained his vision -- and his defense budget's inclusion -- of the first funds to go toward this nation's...

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