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Obama`s Broken Promise on Gitmo`s Tenth Anniversary

In addition to the military prison at Guantanamo, the base also included CIA “black sites” where renditions or extrajudicial, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to overseas locations where torture was used.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - January 11, 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison, an extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo prison could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002.

What do Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Occupy Wall Street, and Buddy Roemer, have in common?

Roemer, a former governor and member of congress, has ideas that are such a departure from the status quo you will not be allowed to hear them.

(JAMESTOWN, R.I.) - Who is Buddy Roemer? He is an unknown candidate for President, whose voice and ideas you are not allowed to hear.

All of the above represent refreshingly new and very different ideas about the problems of the US political system, but their ideas represent a threat to the political status Que.

Argh!

Author writes prequel to show pirates before they were famous...

(SALEM, Ore.) - We’ve seen them in movies, cartoons and theme parks. But, what are the back-stories of pirates? How does a pirate decide to become a pirate? Author Phyll T. gives us a glimpse into how good men can turn bad in her new novel, The Black Widow.

Gayest Cities in America

It’s no secret that megalopolises New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles have robust LGBT life–and we’ve even heard tell of little queer hoods like the Castro and P-Town. But you won’t find any of those homo hot spots on The Advocate’s third annual list.

(LOS ANGELES) - The Advocate, the world’s leading gay news source, has once again gathered its list of the “Gayest Cities in America.”

The NRA -- A terrorist organization

Guns + testosterone + NRA = American terrorism.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - There were sombre ceremonies across Tucson, Arizona on Sunday, January 8, 2012, in remembrance of Jared Loughner’s shooting spree a year ago where he seriously wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and wounded 12 more.

I suggest that the Untied States, is the only country in world, where remembrances could be held virtually every single day of the year for egregious killings of citizens by their other citizens—all indirectly supported by the National Rifle Association.

29 Lives, Deaths and Standing Ovations that Threaten World Peace

Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, U.S. Congress and redefined rocket science...

(SALEM) - In a violent world where a genocide can claim as many as six million human lives in a single 'program', it seems unimaginable that the deaths of 29 people could, in modern times, hugely impact the future of all human beings.

That's right, the world's safety and World War Three itself, hinges on the reaction to the deaths of 29 innocent people. Is your child's future worth the honor of 29 people?

Muslim Brotherhood Strongest Contender in Libya`s Coming Elections

Even women’s rights are being supported by the MB….sort of.

(TRIPOLI) - It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans, that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this pious conservative, Sunni Muslim society.

Yet the Muslim Brotherhood is odds-on favorite to win the June elections, in the view of many observers here in Libya.

Pricing Orange County`s Higher Educational Out of Reach

The escalation began with the realization that young educated adults often challenge racism and the status quo.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - The movers and shakers of Orange County, California have always portrayed the county as Disneyesque.

When thinking about Orange County our leaders would have us recite Ray Stevens' lyrics: "Everything is beautiful in it's own way, under God's Heaven, the world's gonna find a way."

Iran: Economic sanctions the diplomacy of cowards?

Aren’t sanctions long overdue for Israel’s repeated defiance of international and humanitarian laws in the Holy Land?

(LONDON) - Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague is taking a long time to answer the sort of questions he must have mulled over before starting this country along another warmongering road to hell.

So I’ve sent my MP, a Foreign Office minister as it happens, yet another signal…

Just Another Israeli War on the Way

How long is going to take before British people show signs of fatigue of their politicians and their institutional treacherous behaviour?

(LONDON) - We learned today that Britain sends its best warships to the Gulf. Britain's newest warship is heading to the Gulf for its first mission at a time of tensions over Iran's threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key transport route for oil.

The Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring, which has a "stealth" design to help avoid detection by radar, is to join other British ships in the region, the Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday.