Lithuanian Parliament Condemns CIA Prisons
A Lithuanian Seimas investigating committee has concluded that he Soviet-era holdover “Committee for State Security” spy agency had struck a deal with the CIA in 2002 to create secret...
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Avatar: A Visually Stunning and Perfect Historical Allegory
“You are not in Kansas anymore,” the main antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) growls out at the beginning of the movie Avatar, “You are on Pandora.” The movie...
Rachel Maddow Recycles Falsehoods Against the John Birch Society
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow launched an error-riddled attack against the John Birch Society in her December 18 show, nominally because the John Birch Society has become a sponsor of the...
China Slows U.S. Debt Purchases
Chinese officials have once again publicly stated their intention to buy less U.S. Treasury debt, according to the December 18 Shanghai Daily newspaper. "The U.S. current account deficit is...
8-Year-Old Suspended From School for Jesus Drawing
Taunton, Massachusetts, public school officials suspended a second grader for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on the cross after his teacher instructed the class to draw an image...
ACLU Says Obama Is Creating “Impunity” for Torturers
“The Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture, but the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a post...
“Invictus” Means Invincible, Like Hollywood Myths
“Remember this day, boys,” the white soccer coach tells his players on the field as he watches the new President of South Africa Nelson Mandela pass by in Clint...
British Journalist Mourns Death of “Magna Carta” Under EU
“Our Magna Carta has been superceeded,” declared the London Daily Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as the European Union came into force for Britain. In his December 6 column, Evans-Pritchard explained...
Obama Escalates War in Afghanistan
President Obama announced December 1 he would immediately begin deploying an additional 30,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, an escalation that would be complete by mid-2010 and begin a draw-down...
Bernanke Attacks Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill
Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Chairman Ben Bernanke is pulling out all the stops to kill Congressman Ron Paul's legislation to audit the Federal Reserve Bank, this time with...
Fourth Amendment Under Seige (Again)
The Obama administration's Solicitor General Elena Kagan has called for all 27 judges of the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appealsa to rehear the seven-year-old baseball-steroid case, after an 11-judge...
Another Stimulus Spending Bill in the Works
Top Washington Democrats are planning another round of "stimulus" spending legislation to create jobs, according to the Los Angeles Times for November 27. “The renewed push to create jobs...
GDP Numbers Revised Downward to 2.8 percent for Third Quarter
The U.S. economy grew slower in the third quarter of the year than initially forecast according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which revised third-quarter growth down...
Leaked British Documents Reveal Deception About Iraq War Entry
The London Telegraph has published excerpts of leaked secret British documents that reveal pre-war deceit by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and ongoing friction between British and American military...
ABC Reveals Site of Secret CIA Prison in Lithuania
ABC News revealed the location of an abandoned secret torture prison run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about 20 miles northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in...