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Structural barriers to women’s rights in Iraq are loosening as women increasingly populate the national police force.
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
Iranian reformists have gathered in Tehran during the Shia celebration of Ashoura to protest the government.
More cuddly holiday season news: According to two architects who specialize in sustainable-living solutions, it takes twice as much land-use in a year to keep a medium-sized dog fed as […]
The New York Times is accused of beating the drums of war by printing an editorial advocating a military strike against Iran.
A Nevada man gamed the CIA during the Bush years claiming he could decode hidden messages in Al-Jazeera broadcasts.
Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some […]
The U.S. Senate passed the health-care overhaul this morning, which means there’s probably only one very risky step left before some sort of reform becomes law: reconciliation of the House […]
President Obama says that saving the financial system has been his greatest accomplishment one year into his first term in office.
America will begin drafting plans to sanction Iran through the U.N. Security Council in January with the support of Russia and China.
Iran will launch its new national satellite called Omid (Hope) using rocketry that could carry a nuclear warhead.
Another suicide attack in Peshwar indicates that the real battle over extreme Islam is taking place in Pakistan—not Afghanistan.
Democrats are planning how to reconcile Senate and House versions of healthcare reform now that both chambers have passed their respective bills.
An attendant to the final high-level negotiations in Copenhagen recalls how China deliberately wrecked the conference’s final outcome.
Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some […]
The Lithuanian government’s intelligence agency assisted the CIA in setting up secret prisons in the region according to a parliamentary panel which met yesterday.
Landmark legislation has been passed in the overwhelmingly Catholic Mexico City legalizing marriage between same-sex couples – the first region in Latin America to do so.
Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some […]
The Washington Post’s columnist Richard Cohen asks what happens if you’re both sick and poor? What do you do if you have no health insurance?
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Washington of forging the documents revealed last week showing that Tehran is working on a nuclear bomb trigger.
Laws, they say, are like sausages. You don’t really want to see how either is made. The Senate’s vote last night for cloture—a procedural motion limiting the amount of time […]
Iran’s opposition has seized upon the death of one of the republic’s founding fathers, Grand Ayatolllah Hossein Ali Montazeri, to take to the streets in mourning.
Early this morning the Democrats won a major victory in the push for health care reform after the Senate voted to end debate on a package of controversial revisions to the bill.
“We as a nation are television watchers. Not only do we learn about politics by watching television, but we are television watchers; who we are as humans is in part […]
The biographer of the late Edward Kennedy says that the senator would have supported the healthcare bill currently before the Senate.
The final two Democratic holdouts have been brought on board by eliminating the public option and making pork barrel promises.
Iran’s most senior dissident cleric who accused the government of being a dictatorship died today after 25 years under house arrest.
Large concessions were made to get the most conservative Democratic Senator on board with healthcare legislation to be unveiled today.
Iranian soldiers took an Iraqi oil well on Thursday night long enough to evacuate Iraqi workers and hoist Iran’s flag inside the well.
Some 100 Guantanamo inmates are scheduled to be relocated to an empty prison in the rural town of Thompson, Illinois raising several legal questions.