The UN General Assembly's upgrade of Palestine to observer state status was immediately condemned by the USA. Echoing earlier argument ...

Today at the United Nations, the General Assembly will vote on recognizing Palestine as a UN Observer state, upgrading their status from UN...

The General Petraeus scandal's Lebanese-American socialite has begun fighting back over media portraying her as less than wholesome. Ji...

Victoria's Secret (a lingerie firm) recently celebrated Native American Heritage Month by highlighting a controversial outfit in their ...

There ' s been an unreasonably low financial settlement between the US Federal Government and BP over the huge BP oil spill in the...

The most recent incarnation of mobile phones (cellular phones) are now called "smartphones" -- because they upgrade their predece...

  Does Walmart overpay its workers? Surely not.  

The American people have been burgled. The face of organized crime in America is the fixer - the financial industry fixer, banking industry...

On American Thanksgiving Day, former US President George W. Bush indicated a potential willingness to return to public service -- as Presid...

Moist Thanksgiving walk Vigorous yet comfortable Embracing silence Yankee holiday Just another workday here Celebrating ...

Workers at Walmart are pledged to strike on Black Friday (23rd November), the crazy US shopping day after Thanksgiving. Many Walmart staf...

Yesterday the Government of India executed the sole surviving militant from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, where over 150 people were massacred. ...

I did not know Capt. Jean Frottier of Welfleet, who perished two miles offshore when his vessel Twin Lights capsized & sank last week....

Killing civilians ? We're led to believe Even their babies are guilty. One day, after lengthy investigations, "a few mistakes...

Top-tier US military commanders are under siege on the personal front: Army General William "Kip" Ward  ---- demoted one star...

Here's a widely reprinted snapshot from summer 2011 of US Army General David Petraeus (Ret.) accepting a "community service aw...

RIP Hostess Twinkies Hostess Brands ownership blames the union workers for their shutdown (link) , but management grabbed more ...

Assorted anomalies and shenanigans are now under investigation by a wide range of US officialdom interested in the circumstances surroundin...

Five hundred and one posts to this blog. Hurrah !

I learned the name of the Perform Group and PIAS today when trying to watch a football (soccer) replay. Perform claims to have a "uni...

Interview of reserve US Army Lt. Col. Paula Broadwell by Arthur Kade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXcDlk_RijQ At the 3:45 point of t...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) would be a great US Secretary of State, or a brilliant US Secretary of Defence. But it's unlike...

"Maybe we should care a bit less about who they’re screwing than how we’re all being screwed all the time."    --- Dr. Randall ...

Republican staffers gathered on election night to discover their dreams for President Mitt Romney were no more than intestinal gas. Those w...

Sweden failed today in its bid for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council. It's a big black eye for the centre-right R...

The murder of four Americans assigned to the US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya continues to be outrageous. Surely a posting to this...

U.S. Army General David Petraeus (Ret.) has just resigned in a sexual scandal as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Detailed ...

It's morning in America. Time for a new beginning. Mega-corporations nearly stole election USA as they funneled billions of corrupt f...

The US Republican Party has resisted the idea of climate change & global warming while the richest segment of its rightist cabal market...

BBC News reports (link) that among Australia's "Top Ten Inventions" is the dual-flush toilet . The backstory is appealin...