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WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of

A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the US to stop European "bullying," just the first of a deluge of revelations detailing how America throws around its weight. As Chelsea ...

Oct 27

Even The Daily Show Was Shocked by This Racist GOP Leader's Responses

The Daily Show's "field reporters" have dealt with a fair amount of hilariously oblivious responses from interviewees over the years, but on last night's show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi appeared to

Oct 27

The REAL 'Lone Ranger' Was An African American Lawman Who Lived With Native

The real "Lone Ranger," it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story,...

Oct 24

Every Yemen Drone Strike Creates 40 To 60 New Enemies For U.S.

NEW YORK -- A former State Department official in Yemen says every U.S. drone killing there of an al Qaeda operative creates 40 to 60 new enemies of America. In an article for the Cairo Review ...

Oct 22

Is this the stomach-turning truth about what the Neanderthals ate?

It was the tell-tale tartar on the teeth that told the truth. Or at least, that is what it appeared to do. Researchers - after studying calcified plaque on Neanderthal fossil teeth found in El ...

Oct 22

Keiser Report: Post-Kaboom Period (E512)

Oct 22

Growing up poor and stressed impacts brain function as an adult

Childhood poverty and chronic stress may lead to problems regulating emotions as an adult, according to research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our ...

Oct 22

Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it's really bad news

So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like... well, you know. Is it mites? Pesticides? Cell phone towers? What is

Oct 22

America's Working Destitute: Full-time jobs, yet homeless

US homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor Americans. The face of the average tenant has been changing in the past few years, and sometimes even a full-time job ...

Oct 22

The Swiss activist who collected 100,000 signatures to provide every adult