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Operation Ghost Click International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled

DNSChanger was used to redirect unsuspecting users to rogue servers controlled by the cyber thieves, allowing them to manipulate users’ web activity.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry.

Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their machines vulnerable to a host of other viruses.

PRESS TV Interview: Dr. Ashraf Ezzat on Targeting Iran

“The problem lies not in this chain of US-NATO-Israel command but it lies in the chain of obedience by the people”

(TEHRAN / ALEXANDRIA) - Dr. Ashraf Ezzat a columnist at Veterans Today says the world is breaking loose from the ‘chain of obedience’ that he believes is the source of world problems.

“The problem lies not in this chain of American-NATO-Israel command but it lies in the chain of obedience by the people” Ezzat told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in an interview on Tuesday.

A Graphic View of Poverty in Oregon

By 2010, Oregon's poverty rate reached 15.8 percent.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - More Americans lived in poverty in 2010 than was reported in the official poverty statistics, according to a new, Supplemental Poverty Measure released by the U.S. Census Bureau in early November 2011. The supplemental measure did not include state-level data.

But even under the inadequate, official definition, poverty engulfs a large share of Oregonians. And the social tragedy that is poverty is getting worse.

Northwest natives were fishers, not hunter-gatherers

In two new books, the University of Oregon's Madonna Moss challenges conventional thinking about the region's early inhabitants, pointing to cultures built around fishing, fish processing and fish resource management.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Native people of the Pacific Northwest were fishermen and food producers, as well as stewards of their environment who timed their fishing practices to promote the production of salmon and the other fish that they relied on.

Sri Lanka: Suspend General Silva`s Credentials to Promote Justice

I urge you to encourage the Credentials Committee to recommend to the General Assembly that General Silva’s credentials be suspended

(COLOMBO) - Salem-News.com has been reporting the Sri Lanka Genocide from the time it was taking place in 2009, to the present day.

We are horrified that such crimes against humanity could take place right under the world's nose, essentially, and that the Rajapaksa government terminated the existence of every journalist in the north and east who would would have reported the truth.

Congressional Gold Medal for Montford Point Marines

"A nation that forgets its heroes is a nation destined to be forgotten." - President Calvin Coolidge

(QUANTICO, Va.) - Commandant of the Marine Corps, says the Montford Point Marines, and the ones who have passed, are as equally important to the history of the Marine Corps as the Tuskegee Airmen and the Buffalo Soldiers.

Bipartisan Senators Urge Passage of Montford Marines Congressional Gold Medal Bill

The 236th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps approaches while Montford Marines Recognition lingers 50 years overdue.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Kay R. Hagan and other U.S. Senators are calling on their colleagues to cosponsor legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The legislation passed in the House 25 Oct., but the Senate faces a 67-cosponsor minimum before it can be brought to the floor.

Obama and Hegel Meet Healthcare

The utilitarian view of who gets treated, which appears to be about wellness for those who are productive, is a false veneer however, disguising an even more dangerous utilitarian view, that of corporate profit.

(LONDON) - Many people were worried that Obama's health care plan contained death panels.

Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a ` liar`

"You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!" - Obama to Sarkozy, addressing Israel's Netanyahu

(TEL AVIV ) - This one is funny, and so apropos... both Sarkozy and Obama didn't know their microphones were on when the began discussing Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli news group YNET carries the story of French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly telling US President Barack Obama that he could not "stand" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he thinks the Israeli premier "is a liar."

Dover AFB Takes a Big Chance With the Honor of our War Dead

The process depicted in the film Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon was not followed by the Air Force; the only people who were in trouble are those who blew the whistle on the practices.

(SALEM) - I'm following two stories closely that involve our nation's war dead, and it seems almost timely and logical that the news would be released today about the U.S. Air Force mishandling the remains of Americans killed in the battle theaters overseas.

Apparently they are making as little of it as possible, however the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs office did issue a press release.