"A protest rally of about 100 representatives of Georgian United Trade Union is being held at Igoeti village, where the first checkpoint of Russian occupation armies is located. ‘You cannot make Georgia to bring to its knees with bombing’; ‘There is no place for...
I came across this story which was published on the US Department of Justice website today and after reading the story, I had to share this with the NowPublic community.This 26 year old has been controlling OUR computers without our knowledge for sometime now. The thing...
"Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets. By Fred Weir | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 25, 2008 editionOstIngur, AbkhazGeorgia border - Tensions are again spiking...
"Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Grim reapers. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. Moons. Stars. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws.No, this is not the fantasy world of a 12-year-old boy.It is,...
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"High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
As any of you who visit The MountainWorld Blog know, ethics on Everest is a very important topic to me and one I've written about at length here and...
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Here is the whole news statement, VERBATIM, as issued by Farsnews
"Iran Blocks Israel’s Participation in World Armies’ Olympic Games (2007-10-07)
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s efforts...
As Washington and Blackwater spin machines crank out a flood of official justifications for the massacre of innocent civilians by Blackwater "contractors" on the mean streets of Baghdad, it's important as a...
So much terrible conflict has been centered for so many centuries in the region where humans first began to develop some of the reasons for war - trade, calculating, writing, money, ideas, powerful...
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"Jacob Sullum ask the cogent questions and poses the important issues in his essay, "America's Taliban-Support Program" on Reason online Magazine.
The title alone gets to the heart of the issue of Afghanistan's record opium crop. Last year foreign policy expert Barnett R....
"Car bombs have almost as long a history as the car. What has changed since the invasion of Iraq is that bombers targeting civilian targets in the West now have a popular base and access to expertise in the Sunni community of Iraq.
The invasion was seen as an attack on...
"The Small Arms Trade covers everything from gun-toting militias to child soldiers to terrorists armed with shoulder-fired missiles, and is loaded with fascinating anecdotes and disturbing statistics. This captivating new book provides a gripping overview of the global impact...
"The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones, according to a new Franco-American study.
The research, by materials scientists from national institutions, adds fuel to a theory that the...
My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its...