For any researcher out there that feels their efforts could never make a big difference in the world, one only needs to look at Kate Doyle to gain a bit of hope. Kate Doyle, the director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive has been awarded the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive (ALBA) [...]

It was like a scene out of a horror movie – a metal tube shoved down the throat of one duck at a time, food forced down into the stomachs, and the duck tossed aside. Many survived to become lethargic up until slaughter, while a few fell ill and died. This true story came to [...]

In one of the most impressive examples of American patriotism I’ve ever seen, Donny McCall of Invis-A-Rack rejected demands by the wealthy investors of the Shark Tank TV show to consider having foreign workers produce his products. Shark tank investors repeatedly grilled McCall on why he wouldn’t consider off-shoring production in order to lower his [...]

Imagine that you heard on the news that a potentially powerful solar flare had let off a cloud of charged particles strong enough to cause concern among scientists and even world leaders. Imagine that when the particle cloud hit, that the effects were worse than anyone had predicted – that all power and all communications [...]

In December of 2011, Hillary Clinton delivered a policy statement at a UN Biological Weapons Convention, stating that biological warfare not only remains a significant threat in the world today, but that the danger from terrorists obtaining and abusing the technology is a growing threat that shouldn’t be ignored. Clinton made it clear that the [...]

On January 24th, author and Iran exile Reza Pahlavi submitted a full report to the United Nations Security Council accusing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of crimes against humanity and detailing those crimes to the council. In the report, Reza describes the attacks against unarmed civilians during the popular uprising following the fraudulent re-election of [...]

On January 22, a team of NASA scientists announced that they’ve solved the mystery of “missing energy” that was supposedly disappearing somewhere in the Earth’s atmosphere or out into space itself. The motivation for the NASA study came from the results of a 2010 article published in Science by Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo of [...]

Yesterday, a very good friend and fellow writer sent over an image of a web-cam image from Tahrir Square in Egypt. The scene was stunning. Thousands upon thousands of Egyptians were gathered within the square to mark the one year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. The gathering consisted of around 10,000 Egyptian protesters all gathering [...]

If the media portrayal of the weekend attacks by hackers group anonymous are to be believed, the country is faced with a deceptive, manipulative and highly skilled group of hacker-protesters bent on taking down every major Internet site. They have only one part right – that the group is highly skilled. If you’ve read my [...]

On January 21st, thousands of protesters and union workers gathered at a massive rally in London, Ontario, to speak out against the Electro-Motive plant lockout that took place three weeks prior. The actions that led up to the massive rally included the company management informing workers that pay would be cut nearly 50 percent across [...]