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Washington - The U.S. threat last week that “all options” are on the table if the Pakistani military doesn't cut its ties with the Haqqani network of anti-U.S. insurgents …

Matias Ramos shows the ankle monitoring device he had to wear for ten days. (Photo: Michael Vanacore) Now that the electronic shackle is off, it's really nice …

On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department …

Wisconsin has been riveted in recent days by reports that more of Governor Scott Walker's top aides may be implicated in a secret “John Doe” investigation into potentially illegal …

Fidelia Perez sits in a hospital room after receiving emergency dialysis treatment at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, in this October 13, 2009, file photo. (Photo: David Walter …

“The Ever Evolving Egg” by Max Eternity. Click to view larger. At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number …

Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …

Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang. About a year after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, I visited Oklahoma City and went to …

I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of “security” hidden …

The unregulated energy hucksters behind the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago created an array of dummy financial funds to evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise …