Indian Emperor Ashoka lived some 2300 years ago. He's remembered for his wisdom, his efforts to promote peace, and his edicts on right ...

Can U.S.Army Private Bradley Manning justly be tried by the U.S. military after releasing documentation of American war crimes and murder...

The USA tries to make peace in the Middle East. Or do they?  Israel does what it wishes. The USA pays out huge subsidies for the opport...

Both Brad Manning & Eddie Snowden are tormented by the U.S. government not so much because they released truthful information to the me...

William "Billy" Bulger was President of the Massachusetts Senate - over a period of 25 years he was New England...

Democracy was overthrown in Egypt's recent military coup. The military has begun to massacre the non-obedient. Pres. Morsi's l...

Why care about Wisconsin democracy? Police wade into crowds arresting protestors, whose constitutional right to freely assemble is revok...

Bradley Manning is being tried by the U.S. military for "aiding the enemy" and now faces possible sentencing to life in prison. H...

The above gentleman is on trial in Boston, accused of 19 murders and assorted mayhem over many decades. Much of the time he ...

No money for basic education. No money for our crumbling domestic infrastructure. But there are hundreds of billions for overseas militar...

A mix of Americans last Saturday at a barbeque were discussing government & political affiliation. Most (perhaps all) were disgusted by...

Poorer U.S. students are being told by wealthy officials they're being 'saved' from high interest rates on student loans. But i...

Assorted plant deformities are being found in the vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear disaster (link). Officials say there's no proven ...

George Zimmerman hunted down and confronted an unarmed high school boy, and shot the kid dead. It was just 7PM when Trayvon Martin was kill...

Masao Yoshida, nuclear engineer, died of cancer this week in Japan. He was chief of Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear plant during the March ...

Does an individual have any abiding rights to their own DNA? Police followed a person they acknowledge was uninvolved in crime, and collect...

Chris Deedy shot & killed a man in a crowded McDonalds in Waikiki. It was 2:30 AM. Both men had been drinking. After the shooting, De...

Each year the USA gives Egypt's military over $1.3 billion (link); $1,300,000,000 in "military aid"... Now Egypt's milit...

Cape Cod, Massachusetts is downwind of Entergy's Pilgrim Nuclear Power plant. In case of accident, survivors can't run away -- gat...

Major media in the USA is servile. Corporate interests don't equal public interest. Duh Sad the Washington Post  eliminated its omb...

Recent findings show happiness is integrally tied to involvement with friends, family, love & community. Abstract achievement means li...

The American people are being hoodwinked again with scare stories. Remember the scare & horror of Communism - it was a word so terri...

The government of the USA is admittedly spying on its people. The people can't be trusted to know about it. Why not enlist people in ...

An 11-year old American kid is in the news for singing the national anthem before an NBA game (basketball finals in San Antonio, Texas, USA...

  The President of the United States claims to be acting in secret for our best interests. U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon claimed the same --...

The U.S. Government blatantly favors insider corporations. The neutrality of government is violated by corporate criminals enjoying public ...

  What happened to Dick Cheney's rotten old heart? Was it put into President Obama? Skynet says "=!*@%  you ! " ...

Americans and the rest of the world are waking up to the fact that wholesale monitoring of the citizenry is established, pervasive, and per...

In today's BBC business news :   (link) "The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Apple infringed on a Samsung paten...