“I’m not saying don’t join the CIA. No, go and join the CIA. Go in there. Go into the ballpark and get the ball and bring it out.”
Enforced exile hasn’t slowed Julian Assange’s efforts stop international government surveillance. This week the WikiLeaks founder slammed government spying while appearing on BBC Radio 4’s
Charities for veterans pay professional fundraisers to run call centers that generate funds, then allow them to keep up to 90 percent of donations.
Six charities purportedly devoted to American veterans ranked among the 50 worst charities in the nation, which means most money donated to them never reaches the intended beneficiaries.
America’s Worst Charities, a collaboration by the Tampa Bay Times and the CenterSo far, Russia’s $50 billion Winter Olympic development has failed to deliver any help to rural areas.
With only six weeks until the opening ceremony of the most expensive Winter Olympics in history, the International Olympic Committee has been severely criticized by Human Rights Watch for leaving villages without water for five
As all sides continue to kill civilians and ravage cities, the future of Aleppo’s ancient civilization has become a glaring question.
The city of Aleppo, Syria, was once the cultural jewel of the Ottoman Empire and the last outpost of Silk Road trade route to the west. Today, however, the historic city is at the heart of the Syrian civil war -- bombarded with missiles and bombs, and suffering the loss of its historic treasures, such as the home of the ancient 700 Dead Cities,
The privatized prison industry has allowed the Corrections Corporation of America to increase its profits by more than 500 percent in the last 20 years.
The private prison industry has become an increasingly lucrative business, as the companies running them seek to increase profits by cutting inmates’ food provisions while pressuring state governors to guarantee prisons remain 90 percent full at all times.
In recent years, for-profit prisons have grown in popularity. The number ofThe new policy will allow 160 detainees to be released in various repatriation processes in some countries but not all.
Will 2014 be the year President Barack Obama finally fulfills his 2008 campaign pledge to close Guantanamo Bay prison? It appears, at least, that the notorious detention facility’s closure is something he continues to work toward. On Thursday, Obama signed into law the 2014 defense spending budget, which changes how the military handles sexual
The Israeli blockade of Gaza has caused extreme poverty — making daily life a struggle for survival.
On the day that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Jesus a role model for the Palestinians in a Christmas message, Israeli military open fired on a Palestinian home killing a
