Historians will look back at the Bush Administration and recognize the resurgence of The Russian Federation as the major geopolitical shift that took place on its watch. 9/11 and the War on Terror will look like side-shows through the lens of the future. When George W. Bush took office in 2000, The Russian Federation was emerging […]
Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars
Iraq War veterans protest as U.S. Republican Presidential campaign seeks to help support corporate media spin about the Iraq War. According to U.S. media reports, there are well below 5,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. However, this data appears to be very misleading. Why? Because many tens of thousands […]
On this Day: New York Establishes Country’s First ‘Pooper Scooper’ Law
Thirty years ago, the City of New York passed the Canine Waste Law in an effort to clean up the “littered” sidewalks. At the time, the New York dog population was estimated to be 500,000, although the exact number is elusive because many people do not buy the required licenses for their pets. Complaints about […]
The Outsourcing of America’s Spies
Posted by Liz Colville to findingDulcinea A new book and other data on private intelligence contracts reveal an increasingly privatized industry augmenting U.S. intelligence agencies. Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock analyzes the growing amount of espionage work subcontracted by the U.S. government to private firms in his new book, “Spies for Hire.” The book comes just […]
TRANSSEXUALS, THE THIRD SEX, A NATURE’S MISTAKE?
It is really a big handicap to be born as a third sex human and grow into a transsexual. Who is a transsexual? A person who possesses both male organ and breasts but feels like a woman and in some instances a man. What a big physical handicap? When they grow up and […]
Electrocuted at Age 22
– by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the firedoglake blog. Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat. But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home. In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing […]
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