"Russian tanks rumbled into the separatist province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town Saturday, a major escalation of the conflict that has left hundreds of civilians dead and some areas in...
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" The First 10 Amendments to theConstitution as Ratified by the StatesDecember 15, 1791 Preamble Congress OF THE United Statesbegun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesdaythe Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE...
"Dili (ANTARA News) - Kung fu film legend Jackie Chan invited the people of East Timor to send him their scripts for action comedy films as he wrapped up a UN goodwill visit Thursday to promote peace in the young...
""But the Constitution of the United States, as a restraining influence in keeping the federal government within the carefully prescribed channels of power, is moribund, if not dead. We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill becomes a law, if unhappily it...
" The Israeli “haaretz” newspaper is considered as the ‘newspaper for thinking people ’. So I looked with some suspicion and disbelief at the headline “X-Men mutant survives the...
"Tokyo (ANTARA News/afp) - A court martial has sentenced a US Marine to 20 months in prison for sexual misconduct against a woman in Japan, the US military said in a statement.The case was one of a series of alleged crimes by US troops in Japan that have sparked public anger,...
It was an eerie sight, I'm sure; Nuclear missile launchers, columns of tanks and thousands of troops marched through Red Square in Russia today. The occasion was to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the victory overy...
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After a firestorm of controversy erupted surrounding the alleged rape of a Japanese woman by U.S. Marines late last year, four marines in question will now be court martialed next month for the alleged attack."The U.S. military says it will court-martial four U.S. Marines in...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThere is a saying that "Never bring a Knife to a Gunfight"Though perhaps in an emergency an Umbrella in a pinch may avert disaster when confronted by a knife...
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Daughter of the West
Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...
It's no longer Vietnam and there's no technical draft (though there are compulsory rules now that pretty much force soldiers to continue serving in Iraq) so I guess these soldiers are out of luck. "Canada's top court will not hear the appeals of two American army deserters...
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Here's a guy, who in the middle of the US "War on Terror", sits in New York and agrees to help the enemy. From a historical standpoint, he's lucky he only got a 15 year sentence. In previous wars...
This US-Iraq story seem to be taking on a new twist. Will wait patiently for the next two weeks to see what happens."A senior U.S. army officer in Iraq faced court martial accusations on Friday of aiding al Qaeda and illegally possessing secret documents that could have been...