In order to make a buck and pad their already exorbitant compensation packages, the executives of corporate America have hidden a number of inconvenient truths about China that may change the perceptions of American citizens about doing business there. These executives, through corporate “talking heads” and “China apologists”, are engaged in an active campaign to [...]

Corruption allegations are flying back and forth after the Ecuadorian courts ruled against oil giant Chevron, to the tune of $18 billion, for contaminating the Amazon. February 2011’s judgment came after 18 years of legal fights over whether Chevron’s subsidiary, Texaco contaminated the water in the Ecuadorian city of Lago Agrio while exploring for oil. [...]

“Chinese human-intelligence operations primarily rely on collecting a small amount of information from a large number of people”, said Peter Grier, “Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage”. Although China has been suspected as having a long history of espionage in the U.S. in order to gain knowledge and insight about military and industrial [...]

A poorly written Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) policy meant to prevent proselytizing has sparked the anger of religious and political conservatives across the nation. The hospital’s September 14 memo entitled “Wounded, Ill and Injured Partners in Care Guidelines,” was designed to provide guest policies. The memo addresses a variety of rules including [...]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has formed a partnership with St. John Health System to implement a new performance-based reimbursement program. The goal of this innovative partnership is to improve patient care while reducing healthcare costs. The five hospitals in the St. John Providence health System serve the southeast Michigan area. (1) In theory, [...]

Barnstormer, world speed record holder, crash survivor, stunt pilot, founder of a pilot union, and owner of a fly-in ranch depicted in The Right Stuff and frequented by friends like Chuck Yeager, Buzz Aldrin, and Jimmy Doolittle. Pancho Barnes was an unconventional character that had a big effect on aviation and aviators during some of [...]

A team of US researchers believe that they are a step closer to creating self-repairing electronic chips. Such a future electronics technology would not only have the potential to provide more sustainable consumer electronic devices, but it could also prove to be invaluable in implementing safer space travel. The research has been carried out by [...]

John Downey and Richard Fecteau were young and eager U.S. intelligence neophytes shot down over Communist China in the fall of 1952. As CIA paramilitary operatives, Downey, 22 and Fecteau, 25 were assigned to help halt the spread of communism during the Korean War by training anti-communist Chinese guerillas. But things went horribly awry when [...]

In the wake of Alabama’s new anti-immigration law, there are new reports that agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been making terrorizing raids on north Alabama families that undermine federal efforts to protect the civil rights of the state’s Latino community. According to a press release issued by the Southern Poverty Law [...]

Well, once again we’re at the end of another year. It would be an understatement to say that 2011 has been an amazing ride. We’ve covered some amazing stories – most of which I never would have imagined we would see if you’d have asked me in January. We first predicted, and then covered the [...]