“The human cost of the failed drug war has been enormous – egregious racial disparities, shattered families, poverty, public health crises, prohibition-related violence and the erosion of civil liberties.”-Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative for California’s 9th congressional district
The Metro Narcotics Agency of Las Cruces, New Mexico, forced a woman to undergo a costly […] Continue Reading…
At the end of August U.S. supported rebels detained 19 Ukrainian cooks and oil workers, on unsupported claims that they are mercenaries for Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi.
“How can we be snipers? They are old. She is a woman. We are not snipers. As you know, life in the Ukraine is bad. We came here to […] Continue Reading…
“Not only have we not progressed, but the country has become an enemy of its people, everywhere citizens are harassed. There are more police, and now it’s not only the lower class who are suffering, but the middle class as well.”-Charlie-Sahlom Biton, former Israeli Member of Parliament and co-founder of Israeli Black […] Continue Reading…
“These individuals intended to move large caches of arms, ammunition and explosives into the country.”-Hossein Chenarian, Police Chief Kerman Province, Iran
In the past two weeks, local Iranian police captured five al Qaeda members sneaking into southeastern Iran. This is a regular occurrence, and many of the al Qaeda members captured in Iran have stated […] Continue Reading…
Some people don’t think much of the USPS (United States Postal Service), many people, including main stream journalists, don’t know that the USPS does not get any taxpayer money! How about the fact that dozens of U.S. and European corporations rely on the USPS for business?
I’m not talking about shipping their products. Corporations actually […] Continue Reading…
A teacher at southwest China’s Sichuan University learned that Panda’s use only 30% of what they eat, so that means 70% of what they crap is still full of wholesome nutrition.
An Yanshi, the university teacher, is so convinced that he could get people to pay insane prices for Green Tea grown in Panda crap […] Continue Reading…
“We hope that the agency will gain a leading position in the global rating market within the next five years. We’re fully aware that a globally recognized organization can never be propped up by one agency, so we will bring in more countries.”-Guan Jianzhong, CEO of Dagong Global Credit Ratings
China’s […] Continue Reading…
On September 4, Israeli security forces detained a group of Turkish tourists, and made them strip naked: “…they took us into changing rooms. (We) took off our clothes and shoes. (They) searched our bodies with their hands and then with a detector.”-Arif Cinar, Turkish citizen
On September 5, Turkey responded in kind by […] Continue Reading…
On September 2 Turkey officially cut all military ties to Israel. On September 5 Turkey gave Israel two days to get their diplomats the hell out of Turkey!
This action is in retaliation for Israel refusing to apologize for killing nine Turkish peace activists back in May 2010. Turkey used to be Israel’s strongest ally […] Continue Reading…
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Iranian channel, BBC Persian, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi admitted they are conducting military action against Iran with the help of the United States.
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi is the boss of the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group.
He said the PJAK had built […] Continue Reading…