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What Me Worry? Congress Goes On Recess With Another Fiscal Crisis Looming — $85 Billion At Stake

Archives for فبراير 2013

Illegal Wiretaps in Guantanamo Prison Cells Delay 9/11 Trial — DoD Denies Allegations

In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, far left, accused co-conspirators Walid bin Attash, second from left, and Ramzi Binalshibh, fourth from left, sit with their legal teams as defense lawyer James Connell, standing at […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

(MintPress) - Trials for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and four co-defendants believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks were delayed this week after testimony revealed illegal listening devices installed at Guantanamo Bay may have allowed authorities to hear private conversations that Muhammad and others had with their attorneys. In testimony before

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Russian Scientists, Siberian Residents Recover Meteor Fragments — Some Sell To Collectors

In this photo distributed by the Urals Federal University Press Service pieces of a meteorite are seen in a laboratory in Yekaterinburg on Monday, Feb.18, 2013. Researchers from the Urals Federal University, based in Yekaterinburg, have determined that the small stone-like pieces found near Lake Cherbarkul in the Chelyabinsk region are pieces of the meteorite […]

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

(MintPress) - As the Russian region of Chelyabinsk slowly returns to normal after a 7,000 ton meteor, the largest object to hit earth in more than 100 years, exploded in the region last Friday, many of the Siberian town’s inhabitants are finding a silver lining to having been the landing spot for this large chunk of space material: They have the

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Racism In Palmdale Elections Brings Voting Rights Act Violations To National Spotlight

Road sign entering Palmdale, Calif. (Photo/via city-data.com) Across the San Gabriel Mountains from Los Angeles, the city of Palmdale, Calif. is in the midst of a racial dispute. In this city of 152,750 — which served as the construction site for all five space shuttle orbiters — the city is currently being sued over claims […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

Across the San Gabriel Mountains from Los Angeles, the city of Palmdale, Calif. is in the midst of a racial dispute. In this city of 152,750 — which served as the construction site for all five space shuttle orbiters — the city is currently being sued over claims of racial bias in city elections. A majority-minority city, Palmdale is

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Zero Dark Thirty — A Horror Film

This undated publicity file photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Jessica Chastain, as Maya, a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas, who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures’ “Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures […]

Ed Felien
بواسطة Ed Felien

Spoiler alert: the film sucks. Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” spends almost the first hour of her two-and-a-half hour film showing the torture of an Arab prisoner by the CIA. The film begins with a dark screen and the taped conversations of people about to be incinerated in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. The torture is justified

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A Historic Resignation In The Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges a cheering crowd of faithful and pilgrims during his second-last Angelus prayer from the window of his apartments at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, before he resigns on Feb. 28, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI blessed a cheering crowd that Rome’s mayor said topped 100,000 Sunday in his first appearance from […]

Magda Fahsi
بواسطة Magda Fahsi

In an announcement that apparently came as a surprise even to his closest aides, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world and the Catholic Church last week when he said that he would step down at 8 p.m. european time on Feb. 28. Citing age and deteriorating health, the 85-year-old pontiff announced his abdication as leader of the world's 1.2 billion

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Warsaw On The Potomac:The New Partisan Obstructionism

Warsaw’s old, rebuilt city center area on Dec. 29, 2005. (Photo/via Wikimedia Commons) Last week as Congress headed into recess over the President’s Day holiday, Senate Republicans handed President Obama another black eye in their never-ending quest to stymie, block or otherwise derail his administration at every turn. They did so by voting to filibuster former […]

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
بواسطة Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Last week as Congress headed into recess over the President’s Day holiday, Senate Republicans handed President Obama another black eye in their never-ending quest to stymie, block or otherwise derail his administration at every turn. They did so by voting to filibuster former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Defense

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