House To Launch Investigation Into Rep. Rangel

"WASHINGTON (CBS) ― CBS 2 has learned the House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry into Rep. Charles Rangel, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The ethics committee of Congress...

Poverty Reduction or Pork? WorldBank IMF

"Although less well known as a multilateral government agency than the United Nations, the World Bank still has many of the same problems. The World Bank has remained considerably corrupt, perpetuating inside procurement deals, exorbitant salaries, and fund embezzlement,...

No New Nuke Cash: Perhaps a Bake Sale

Those bumper stickers may well be right: they'll have to hold that bake sale after all."The House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the U.S. nuclear weapons complex's funding voted yesterday to eliminate all...

Pentagon Defends Internet Blockage

"Earlier this week, we posted about the US Military blocking certain sites online. Everyone from the blogosphere and the man on the street to Congressman Ed Markey and even YouTube's founders has complained about the decision. Representative Markey, who heads the House...

Inciting a New Cold War: Hypocritical US Views about Russia's Democracy by Wa...

"READ MORE: Russia, United States, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Cohen, Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, Iraq, U.S. Senate, George W. Bush, Katrina vanden Heuvel Paper to be presented at the 16th Annual Russian-American Seminar, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg,...

Black Day For Future Combat Systems Program As Funding Gutted

"It was a day of rare bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. But it was also a Black Wednesday for U.S. high-tech defense contractors and for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For Wednesday was the day that a subcommittee in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of...

Lawmakers Decry Iran-India Alliance

"Key congressional supporters of closer ties with India have signed a toughly worded bipartisan letter to the Indian prime minister warning of "grave concern" that India's ties with Iran "have the potential to significantly harm prospects" for a nuclear cooperation deal that...

'They sold out the world for an F-16 sale'

" Onetime CIA analyst alleges Cheney, Libby lied to Congress about Pakistani nukes In the era of Ronald Reagan, intelligence officer Richard Barlow was an analyst for the CIA, monitoring Pakistan's nuclear program. In 1989, he moved over to the Pentagon, where he worked for...

Murtha: President's Iraq war plan requires draft

"Rep. John Murtha, a veteran of the U.S. Marines who served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, said that President George W. Bush cannot continue to carry out his current war plans in Iraq without starting a draft. "The president asks the impossible and the burden continues to...

Google maps "airbrushes history" of Hurricane Katrina

People using Google Maps' satellite imagery as an accurate window into their world now have good reason to doubt what they're seeing--recently it was revealed that the imagery of New Orleans currently reflects the...

House Democrats delay effort to close Guantanamo

" House Democrats delay effort to close Guantanamo Michael Roston Published: Wednesday March 14, 2007 Print This Email This House Democrats have dropped plans to use the coming Defense Supplemental Appropriations legislation to permanently close the terrorist detention...

Hewlett-Packard shares up

"Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. climbed Friday following Chief Executive Mark Hurd's testimony before a House subcommittee Thursday about the company's spying scandal. Hurd appeared along with Patricia Dunn, the company's ousted chairwoman, and Anne Baskins, who resigned as...
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House To Launch Investigation Into Rep. Rangel

"WASHINGTON (CBS) ― CBS 2 has learned the House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry into Rep. Charles Rangel, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The ethics committee of Congress...

Poverty Reduction or Pork? WorldBank IMF

"Although less well known as a multilateral government agency than the United Nations, the World Bank still has many of the same problems. The World Bank has remained considerably corrupt, perpetuating inside procurement deals, exorbitant salaries, and fund embezzlement,...

No New Nuke Cash: Perhaps a Bake Sale

Those bumper stickers may well be right: they'll have to hold that bake sale after all."The House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the U.S. nuclear weapons complex's funding voted yesterday to eliminate all...

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