“Doing history” is much the same as detective work. We don’t like to be stymied. We ask questions and revise our understanding as new information, interpretations and patterns of behavior come to light. The best part is when we uncover mysteries in our own backyard.
Harry Wolfe has such a mystery. A series of stone walls, […]

Washington - Deep in a remote, fog-layered hollow near Sugar Grove, W.Va., hidden by fortress-like mountains, sits the country’s largest eavesdropping bug. Located in a “radio quiet” zone, the station’s large parabolic dishes secretly and silently sweep in millions of private telephone calls and e-mail messages an hour.
Run by the […]

BAGHDAD — Retired soldier Bill Roggio was a computer technician living in New Jersey less than two months ago when a Marine officer half a world away made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Frustrated by the coverage they were receiving from the news media, the Marines invited Roggio, 35, who writes a popular Web log […]

The public and voting officials have been assured, time and again, that Diebold vote-counting machines are not connected to the iNet. But now we know, based on physical evidence and testimony, that Diebold machines in Georgia were connected to iNet for hacking on election night!
The physical evidence is in the “Diebold files” — which […]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
In Baghdad, unknown assailants kidnapped a Sudanese diplomat and five other men as they left prayers at a mosque, a spokesman for Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said. An Iraqi […]

India has been the focus of medical research since the time when sunburned men with pith helmets and degrees from prestigious European medical schools came to catalog tropical illnesses.
The days of the Raj are long gone, but multinational corporations are riding high on the trend toward globalization by taking advantage of India’s educated work force […]

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.
Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge […]

WHO WOULD have thought that Dick Cheney, back when he was an aide in Gerald Ford’s White House 30 years ago, worried that the president’s powers were being eroded by disclosures of domestic snooping by the CIA and the FBI during the Cold War? But apparently Cheney held on to those feelings, and after the […]

Godalming geek made millions running the Pentagon’s propaganda war in Iraq
By Patrick Foster and Tim Reid in Washington. It was astounding enough for Washington’s political elite: last month they discovered that the man at the heart of a scandal over the planting of US propaganda in Iraqi newspapers was a dapper but unknown 30-year-old Oxford […]

Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff’s lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million […]

The Mayor of London says there have been 10 attempted attacks on Britain’s capital since 11 September 2001 and two of them since the July 7 bombs.
Mayor Ken Livingstone told the BBC that the terror threat is “fairly disorganised” and involves small groups of disaffected people.
He said London was not the focus of […]

“MAJESTYTWELVE stated that the first terrorist attack in the United States would occur in a large city such as New York or Los Angeles. Based upon that statement I accurately predicted that it would occur in New York, and it did when the World Trade Center was bombed.
“MAJESTYTWELVE stated that terrorism would continue until the […]

What war on Christmas? Jesus wasn’t born in December.
On December 25, don’t ask me to wish Jesus a happy birthday. Christmas day
commemorates a pagan festival, not the birth of Jesus.
Jesus’ birthday has been formally debated since A.D. 245 when a group of
scholars attempted to determine the exact date of Jesus’ birth. The result
was multiple dates: […]

TOBACCO companies are resorting to new terms and lighter coloured cigarette packets to suggest more benign contents, the anti-smoking group Quit says.
Quit executive director Todd Harper said tobacco companies had agreed to remove the deceptive terms “light” and “mild” from packaging but were still employing the same dirty marketing tricks.
“Tobacco industry documents themselves state […]

Pope Benedict XVI delivered his first traditional Christmas address yesterday as leader of the world’s Catholic Church.
In the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) address, beamed by satellite from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, the pontiff beseeched hundreds of millions of followers in nearly 40 countries to unite against […]