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`If Raymond Davis is Released, Pakistan`s Government Will Fall`

The current incident is being compared with the U2 incident in 1960 when Francis Gary Powers, an American pilot was shot down over Russia. Incidentally, Powers flight had originated from Pakistan.

(CINCINNATI / ISLAMABAD) - The diplomatic standoff between the United States and Pakistan over the arrest of State Department security contractor Raymond Davis for murder continues while the courts in the state of Punjab consider their options.

Icy Conditions Lead to Sunday Morning Tragedy

This was the second crash due to ice in the area within hours.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - A Hamlet fire truck with volunteer firefighter Kyle Mergel seated inside, was stopped in the right hand eastbound lane with emergency lights activated when a 2002 Kia Optima four-door was westbound and lost control, spinning around and across the highway where it crashed broadside into the front of the fire truck.

60 Lab Studies Confirm Cancer Link to Polio Vaccine

A peer-reviewed, published study claimed that SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus had contaminated the vaccine as long ago as 1953.

(CHICAGO) - Dr. Maurice Hilleman was a very angry man, and if his 2002 allegations are true he had every right to be.

Hilleman made mind-numbing allegations during an in-depth PBS television interview; alleging that giant pharmaceutical company Merck produced and distributed dangerous vaccines containing deadly viruses that have infected millions of people.

Cops, Crime and Drugs

1,066 minors were slain in drug war-related incidents from December 2006 to December 2010. Increasingly targeted for killing, children also fell victim to cross-fire in the streets and slippery triggers at military checkpoints.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Constant headlines about the security situation in Mexico rivet the US media. Statements, questions, policy assessments and more questions echo from Capitol Hill and the White House, feeding a constant video and audio stream of punditry.

Is Mexico a national security threat to the US? Does criminal violence constitute a narco-insurgency? Will drug cartels team up with Al Qaeda?

The Veto and the Case for Impeaching President Obama

The American Constitution states that a president can be impeached and removed from office for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanours.”

(LONDON) - Never before has a US President’s fear of offending the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress been so exposed as it was by Obama’s decision to veto the Security Council resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlement activities on the occupied West Bank and demanding that Israel “immediately and completely cease” all such activities.

In a different America - an informed America - some might think, I do, that Obama should be impeached. The charge? TREASON.

`We the Forgotten People of the United States...`

And so the voices cry in the wilderness the lies that have sustained them these many decades.

(LAVERNE Ca.) - Let’s admit it, the country has been stolen.

Congratulations Gaddafi

Some questions are hard to answer...

(ISTANBUL) - Nearly 25 years ago, U.S. air strikes on Libya killed 41 people in Tripoli and Benghazi, including the adopted daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, in what Noam Chomsky has referred to as the “major single terrorist act” of 1986.

In 2009, Gaddafi himself posed the question: "What’s the difference between the U.S. airstrikes on our homes and [Osama] bin Laden’s actions?”

Tragic 3-Vehicle Crash Near Silverton Claims One Life, Six Injured (UPDATED)

A family dog, a black & white Terrier, has been located, and has been returned to the family.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - UPDATE:
Names of those involved has been released by police. See the full story

Hey, Wisconsin, Remember The Union Thugs in Action

Just less than a century ago, Colorado state troops committed the rampant murder of over 40 striking miners and their family members.

(LUDLOW, Co.) - The Ludlow Massacre is only one of many instances of people who put their lives on the line to exercise their rights as human beings against the power of money.

March to Gaza - End the Egyptian Blockade of Gaza

The Plan: A march to the Rafah Crossing on MARCH 4th.

(GAZA) - To everyone who knows injustice, everyone who knows tyranny: we are all brothers and sisters with the people of Palestine. Let us act like it and let us march on Gaza on March 4th, 2011.

Let us amass in the greatest numbers possible, and let us march week after week if necessary, to make Rafah Crossing an open border.