[VIDEO] England? UK? Great Britain? Commonwealth? What’s what?
The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain? Are these three the same place? Different places? Do British people secretly laugh those who use the terms wrongly? Who knows the answers to these questions? I do and I’m going to tell you right now.
Read MoreThe Cost of 911
The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush's response to the attacks compromised America's basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security.
Read MoreThinktanks crush democracy
We know that to understand politics and the peddling of influence we must follow the money. So it's remarkable that the question of who funds the thinktanks has so seldom been asked
Read MoreThe decade’s biggest scam
The Los Angeles Timesexamines the staggering sums of moneyexpended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles.
Read MoreThe Pentagon’s grip on Hollywood
Title of the article: New projects, including Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden film, show rising pressure on filmmakers to please the...
Read MoreThe French government’s dark side
"The freedom of the press and the lie of the state." The headline Thursday in the influential newspaper Le Monde was bound to make a big splash.
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