Amidst heated debate and controversy, Norway became the sixth nation (following, South Africa (5th), Spain (4th), Canada (3rd), Belgium (2nd), and the Netherlands (1st), to grant same-sex marriage privileges. "...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Canadian who takes exception to Canada's Free Speech, certainly has not witnessed the horrors of repressed speech as the world is full of detractors to free speech. ...
(*room temperature)"Muqtada Al-Sadr Announces He’s Retiring From Leadership Of Sadrist Movement, Sequestering Himself
The leader of the Shi'ite Sadrists in Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, has announced in a letter to his...
Another potential blow to the image of athletics, with the sentencing of one of its golden girls. "Former sprinter Marion Jones has been sentenced to six months in prison for lying over steroid use and cheque...
The differences and difficulties between the U.S. Departments of State and Defense may well be hurting the war effort.DoD believes it is in charge of the lion's share of the war and many wonder, "Where is State?"
Last Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at a U.S. State...
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The Carnegie Endowment's Nonproliferation Program has just released its report on universal compliance. Some samples: "Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible -- D. Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military...
In a virtuosic display of journalism on April 25th, Bill Moyers aired a 90-minute special on PBS titled, "Buying the War," in which the Main Stream Media was gutted with an awesome, well-controlled, thoroughly...
"Poor Slam Dunk.
Not since Madame Butterfly has anyone been so cruelly misunderstood and misused. Slam Dunk says that when he pantingly told the president that fetching information on Saddam’s W.M.D. would be a cinch, he did not mean let’s go to war.
No matter how eager...
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A DISPUTE over US plans to station anti-missile bases in eastern Europe escalated dramatically today following Russia's call for a freeze of a key European defence treaty.
In heated NATO talks in Oslo, Russian...
"WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has warned opposition Democrats against cutting funds for the Iraq war, and challenged those who oppose his new plan to put an alternative on the table.
"Those who refuse to give this plan a chance to work have an obligation to...
Only 14 percent of the nation's small-business
owners offer a 401(k) plan to their employees, and 63 percent do not
offer any retirement benefits at all, according to a new survey.And
those levels do not appear headed for change. Just 17 percent of
respondents said they feel...
"American Muslims making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca are being encouraged to file civil rights complaints if they feel discriminated against by airlines.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), citing...
"Illegal and unethical experiments were conducted over several years, in a systematic manner, on thousands of elderly patients. At least one patient is suspected of having died as a direct result of one of the...