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Confirmed: Fox News makes people dumb
After a study published last year labeled viewers of Fox News as grossly misinformed, the researchers who conducted the poll have expanded their work and now confirm, again, that the network ...[Read more]
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Women, children among 17 Afghans dead in NATO wedding strike
A NATO airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Logar has killed 17 people, including women and children, local officials report. A NATO spokesperson said a team had been deployed to investigate the claims of civilian casualties. Afghan authorities say ...[Read more]
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Obama bars Congress from obtaining Fast and Furious papers
US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress. In the midst of an i ...[Read more]
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Fukushima mutant butterflies spark fear of effect on humans
Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species. Researches said that arou ...[Read more]
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Afghan Leader Hamid Karzai Says Al-Qaeda Is A ‘Myth’  : Political Blind Spot
During an interview the departing Afghan president said that he feels “betrayed” by America, which he believes has been “indifferent to Afghan interests” during the war which has waged for over 12 years in the region. “Afghans died in a war that ...[Read more]
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The Useful Idiots of the Corporate Elite
There are a whole lot of useful idiots in America. Yesterday, a caller called into my radio show, and echoed Congressman Paul Ryan's recent comments, blaming the black community for poverty in America. He threw out a Fox So-Called News phony statistic, ar ...[Read more]
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Murdering people with Neoliberalism : The Case of Greece
"You can use the 600 Euros that you will find on me to pay our health insurance. I paid the rent yesterday. I am sorry, my daughter, I could not take more suffering just to put a warm plate on the table - a bloody plate. Make sure that our daughter goes t ...[Read more]
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Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia-Herzegovina
As heavily-armed US and NATO troops enforced the peace in Bosnia, the press and politicians alike portrayed Western intervention in the former Yugoslavia as a noble, if agonizingly belated, response to an outbreak of ethnic massacres and human rights viol ...[Read more]
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Irish MP slams West for supporting €˜right-wing, semi-fascist€™ forces in Ukraine
Irish MP Joe Higgins has rounded on Western nations for supporting “xenophobic, semi-fascist” elements within the Kiev’s new government. He accused the EU of using hardline groups such as the Right Sector to push a neoliberal agenda in Ukra ...[Read more]
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Fort Hood shooter was on anti-depression medication
The Iraq War veteran who opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 16, was being treated for mental health issues and being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, the Associated Press reports. ...[Read more]
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Jesus€™ wife€™ papyrus not a modern forgery, scientific tests say
Scientists now say that an antiquated piece of papyrus containing an excerpt concerning the alleged wife of Jesus Christ is not in fact a forgery. According to the results of a carbon dating test just now released, the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wif ...[Read more]
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