Bill O'Reilly's torrent of attacks upon Rosie O'Donnell, Charlie Sheen and Mark Cuban over the past few days in regards to their outspoken views on 9/11 is a prime example of why the First Amendment should never be presided over by those in power.
In what has been described by many as a crude attempt to piggyback on the spiking of viewers to O'Donnell's show The View, O'Reilly has gone on the extreme offensive, suggesting that O'Donnell has "crossed a l... (more)
Informed sources have told PRESS TV that the story of an American businessman and retired FBI agent gone missing from Iran's Kish Island is somewhat misleading.
The truth of the matter is he has been in the hands of Iranian security forces since the early hours of March 9, and his inability to communicate with his family or his company, has raised the alarm about his health, safety and whereabouts. Speaking to PRESS TV on condition of anonymity the sources made clear that aside ... (more)
A federal lawsuit accuses two Allentown police officers of ''outlandish and outrageous conduct'' in what it calls the unprovoked shooting of a man who tried to kill himself with a box cutter.
James H. Stewart, 24, died from two gunshots to his back after the officers tried to arrest him for failing to return to Northampton County Prison after a work-release assignment. He had been jailed for failing to make child support payments.
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the... (more)
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee spoke yesterday of the sense of hopelessness he felt during his 4½year incarceration at the internment camp.
“My nightmare is finally at an end,” said Bisher al-Rawi, 39, after returning to his family’s home in New Malden, southwest London.
Mr al-Rawi was briefly detained for a security check at Luton airport on Friday night. But unlike other Britons who have been freed from the camp, at a US naval base o... (more)
On March 31 the President of the United States made a statement pertaining to the 15 British sailors and marines unfortunately detailed in Iran: "The Iranians must give back the hostages. They're innocent. The Iranians took these people out of Iraqi waters. It's inexcusable behavior."
But since the American people don't trust George W. Bush, let's seek a second opinion. A credible authoritative one.
Let's ask the top Iraqi military officer in charge of guarding the ... (more)
DAVID HICKS feared he would be shot if he did not co-operate with US interrogators, the Australian prisoner says in an affidavit for an English court case.
And his Australian lawyer says he was tortured during his time at Guantanamo Bay, contradicting Hicks's plea bargain statement, in which he said he had not been mistreated by the US.
Hicks, who has spent five years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after he was captured in Afghanistan in late 200... (more)
THE father of admitted terrorist David Hicks claimed yesterday he had been gagged from revealing facts about his son's five-year incarceration in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Terry Hicks said the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had written to him outlining the 12-month gag order issued to his son as part of his plea bargain to serve only nine more months in jail, mostly in Australia.
Mr Hicks said the letter - outlining how his son could not be ... (more)
WILSONVILLE, Ore. - A bizarre standoff in Wilsonville took place between police and a double-amputee and ended with the suspect in the hospital.
Around 2 p.m. Saturday, Newberg police tried to stop Christopher Wayne Larson, who was wanted for failing to appear in court on a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun. Larson attempted to escape and took his friend's wife along for the ride.
The chase headed east on Wilsonville Road until Larson drove his red pi... (more)
Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq?
If your answer was Saddam Hussein's cousin, the notorious "Chemical Ali" -- aka Ali Hassan al-Majid -- you're wrong.
The correct answer: Sainted Winston Churchill. As colonial secretary and secretary for war and air, he authorized the RAF in the 1920s to routinely use mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq and against Pashtun tri... (more)
One by one, the helium-inflated excuses for arresting and imprisoning Suzi Hazahza have been popped and now lie on the ground. And the single memory humanizing the government that still holds her unlawfully behind bars is the look on one Federal Magistrate's face Thursday in Dallas when he was told by a US Attorney that Congress has stripped the federal bench of any right to order Suzi Hazahza freed until a full six months of illegal detention have... (more)
Despite an avalanche of criticism from the right, talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is pressing on with her calls for continued investigation of the events surrounding September 11.
At her eponymous blog, O'Donnell devotes "2 whole paragraphs" to the controversial topic.
"9/11 affected me deeply, as I know it did many Americans," O'Donnell blogs. "The falling of the twin towers served to remind m... (more)
A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
Company director Alan Rawlinson said he was astounded after two police officers arrived at his home in Bold Heath, Cheshire, to speak to his son George.
The officers were called earlier this month after a parent complained that George had called her son a “gay boy” in an email.
BRITAIN’S first 24-style Counter Terrorist Unit is to open today.
Manchester CTU will guard against threats — just like the unit agent Jack Bauer works for on Sky’s hit TV show.
MI5 have said there were 1,600 extremists operating in the UK.
Det Chief Supt Tony Porter, 44, head of Greater Manchester Police CTU, said: “This is a significant development that will enhance our capability to protect the public.” CTUs are also b... (more)
More servicemen and women have committed suicide over the past two decades than have died in military action, according to new figures.
The latest death toll for those in the armed forces who have taken their own lives has risen to 687 compared with 438 killed during active service in major conflicts such as the Gulf, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures released this weekend also reveal that the number of suicides among servicemen and... (more)
Last weekend saw widespread reports in the mainstream media that the United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6."
An AP report printed in the Jerusalem Post, amongst others, stated on Sunday that Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported that Russian intelligence ... (more)
CNN reporter Michael Ware this morning hit back at news aggregator Matt Drudge who accused him on Sunday of 'heckling' Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham in a Baghdad press conference. Video acquired by RAW STORY appeared to show a short press conference without any interruptions, and with Ware himself asking no questions during its question and answer session.
On CNN this morning, Ware denied the Drudge Report 'exclusive,' which ... (more)
I’ve often wondered how one accounts for the appearance of a murderer like Adolph Hitler. Psychiatrists have blamed it on a too-small sexual apparatus, others on inflated testicles, still others that he lived with his “half-niece,” presumably the child of a half-sibling, who in her young womanhood committed suicide or, as others pose, was murdered by a newly risen Adolph who feared the bad press.
That would make him guilty of “half-incest,” pedophilia... (more)
