Instead of liquidating bad debt, banks are rescued by lavish funding even though they’re technically insolvent. Toxic debt’s are still with us, and the public’s on the hook for amounts the government is covering.   The public sector is equally fragile, but unlike banks the people are paying for their own losses. Greece is the epicenter [...]

Wikileaks has revealed US ties to Honduras wealthiest businessman and political heavyweight Miguel Facusse. Miguel Facusse’s private security guards, known locally as sicarios, have been connected with alleged assassinations and armed attacks in the impoverished campisno of the Aguan Valley where Facusse owns approximately one-fifth of the land.   Human rights groups all over the [...]

Virginia Bill  Bans Same-Sex Couples from Adopting A bill that would enable state-funded private adoption agencies in Virginia to refuse placements on the basis of their religious or moral beliefs, including banning placements with same-sex couples passed the state House of Delegates by a vote of 71 to 28. Leslie Cooper, an attorney at the [...]

Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush [...]

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge. They found the same differences in the brains of addicts and their non-addicted brothers and sisters. The study suggested addiction is in part a “disorder of the brain”. Experts were unsure whether drugs [...]

An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 [...]

US military officials confirmed that US drones are flying of over Syria in intercept government and military communications to “make a case for widespread international response.” Growing concerns over the recent bombings in Damascus and Aleppo have raised concerns of al-Qaeda involvement in Syria.  While fighting and assassinations continue to mount within Syrian borders, the Western [...]

The teenage birthrate reached a 40 year low in 2008.  Although the number of pregnancies, births, and abortions has decreased among all teenagers, there is still a large gap in the pregnancy rates among Hispanics, African Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. The African American and Hispanic teenage pregnancy rate is still two to three times higher [...]

  American intervention in Afghanistan has come to a crossroads; one path leads to “further nation-building”, and the other is a path for the soldiers to make their way back home.  Many will agree that we have served our duty in the Middle East, and have carried out our nation’s military mission to curb the [...]

The Department of Defense (DoD) doesn’t follow No Child Left Behind, nor  Race to the Top. Standardized tests are not the focus of education, said Leigh Anne Kapiko, principal at one of the seven schools at Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.  “We don’t have to be so regimented, since we’re not worried about [...]