First things first, RIP to a Adam Yauch, a hip-hop innovator whose contribution to the art form is widely recognised. The Beastie Boys form an important chapter in hip-hop history. Even as white, middle-class kids whose main effect was to… Read More ›
Two more NATO protesters have been charged with felonies in the wake of Sunday night’s demonstrations in downtown Chicago. Alex Cerajewski, 20, of Indiana, was accused of hurling two Gatorade bottles at police and urging “Black Bloc” anarchists to blend… Read More ›
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Courts Reporter Three out-of-state anti-NATO protesters accused of making Molotov cocktails and planning a violent attack during the international leaders’ summit have been kept in isolation in the Cook County Jail, a lawyer for one of… Read More ›
By John Miller (CBS News) The would-be bomber in the recently-uncovered plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner leaving Yemen was an undercover intelligence agent. The plot was revealed to U.S. intelligence officials based on a tip by Saudi intelligence… Read More ›
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled against an appeal for release from two Palestinian prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for more than two months, their lawyer said Monday. Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, members… Read More ›
A one-sided justice sees weaker states punished as rich nations and giant corporations project their power across the world by George Monbiot The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to have sent an unequivocal message… Read More ›
by Ben Feller President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness last night on the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden to sign an agreement cementing US commitment to the nation after American combat troops… Read More ›
NewsRescue- Sadly feels like we are back to the early 90′s, when the Darwin racist evolutionary theories were fresh, and Africans were kept in US zoos. Many of us remember the story of Ota Benga, the pigmy from the Bachichiri… Read More ›
NEW DELHI — India’s successful test of a powerful new missile that can carry nuclear weapons to Beijing caused barely a ripple — even in China — just days after North Korea was globally vilified for a failed rocket launch…. Read More ›
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea unveiled new cruise missiles on Thursday that it said could hit any target in North Korea, and warned Pyongyang it would immediately retaliate against any provocation. The announcement follows a failed North Korean… Read More ›
The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks. Two of the 18… Read More ›
After the Los Angeles Times publishes two pictures, American officials denounce the actions of troops photographed with dead insurgents and their body parts. By David Zucchino and Laura King From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 