For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand.

[Manila, Philippines] — The Aquino sisters — Maria Elena "Ballsy" Aquino-Cruz, Aurora Corazon "Pinky" Aquino-Abellada and Victoria Eliza "Viel" Aquino-Dee — were on the front page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Wednesday to defend their brother, Liberal Pa …

[Manila, Philippines] It all really began with the 1983 assassination of Ninoy Aquino. That event set off three years of emotional hysteria that paved the way for Edsa I.

Turkey's army has warned of a "serious" situation after 40 senior military figures were arrested over an alleged plot to topple the government. All top generals and admirals met at the military headquarters to evaluate the investigation, the military said.

Three of Turkey's most senior former military leaders are being held on suspicion of plotting to provoke a conflict with Greece in an attempt to destabilize the country and pave the way for a coup.

The US says it doesn't work with the security firm Blackwater in Pakistan, and the Pakistani government insists no Blackwater employees are working in the country. But many Pakistanis doubt those assertions, complicating US efforts to build trust.

[Manila, Philippines]Close to 10 years after the ouster of then sitting President Joseph Estrada through a coup d'etat, which was preceded by the collapse of the Senate impeachment trial deliberately done to trigger street protests, as the then political opposition and the eli …

Concern continues to grow regarding the current US role in Haiti, shattered by a massive earthquake on Jan.12.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry is urging the United States to, "immediately withdraw" plans for a meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama.

The famous chain renting out DVD, Blu-ray, and video games discs worldwide has announced it has gone bust in Portugal. Of course, it blames piracy.

[Manila, Philippines] BCDA gave Aquinos P50M downpayment for RoW

At around dinner time on Feb. 6, 2008, a knock at the door at the Rawdon, Que., home of Steve Solo set the dogs barking.

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

[Manila, Philippines] What's to make of these pre-poll presidential surveys and their claimed accuracy in gauging the pulse of the voters, even as a "snapshot" through their so-called scientific methodology, along with random selections of the respondents? The numbers appe …

The US has rejected Iran's suggestion of a prisoner swap for several Iranians jailed in the US for the three American hikers currently being held in Iran.

TYPHOON Ondoy (Ketsana) that struck the Philippines' capital region in late September 2009 with the "record amount of rainfall" officially left more than 300 people dead and nearly P9 billion in total damages to agriculture and infrastructure.

The White House shrugged off Beijing's warnings about a meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, which may happen as early as this month.

WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website that allows people to publish uncensored information anonymously, has suspended operations owing to financial problems.

[Manila, Philippines] National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) has been asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to be officially accredited as a poll watchdog for it to engage in a manual audit of the results of the automated polls.

The Asia Foundation, a "charity group" founded and funded by the CIA that represents American political and economic interests in Asia, is now part of a group that would help facilitate the peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front …

A group of architects, engineers and urban planners has met every day since the devastating quake, discussing not how to rebuild but how to start anew.Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The first e-mail went out within hours of the earthquake, calling together some of Haiti's …

Doctors have accused the government of subverting the course of justice after it was revealed that evidence relating to the death of government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly is subject to a 70-year secrecy order.

Talk of Erap Estrada being disqualified, as well as rumors spread by both the Liberal Party (LP) and the Nacionalista Party (NP) camps that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and will be endorsing either party's standard bearer can now be laid to rest, after the Commi …

A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.

Lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg accused the Guatemalan president of ordering his murder, in a video released after his own funeral. But the real story, when it finally came to light, was even more incredible

There appears to be a deliberate effort on the part of debate organizers and media to exclude former Presi-dent Joseph Estrada from participating in debates and television media forums. This was evident in two instances where Estrada, as well as his known spokesmen, was excluded …

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to hold an emergency debate and inquiry this month into the "influence" exerted by drugmakers on the World Health Organisation's (WHO) global H1N1 flu campaign.

There are many suspicious things going on that lead us paranoid freaks to question whether there may be an intention to carry out a false flag attack at the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010.

An American appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Holocaust survivors who alleged the Vatican bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi sympathizers.

When humanity's end arrives, Clif High plans to take to his plywood ark to survive. As for the rest of us? "I don't give a s---, my boat won't sink," says the modern Doomsday profit. "Every person's karma (is dealt with) alone. They're all dead."

This season's fashion in conspiracy theories—for those out of the loop of enlightenment—concerns health.

In actuality, Rudolph was indeed ridiculed and persecuted for his red nose, and then he led the sleigh through the fog one night and saved Christmas, and then he was summarily assassinated by Blitzen, with the support of most of the other reindeer. Rudolph was not part of the  …

The world's oceans are becoming acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the last 55m years, threatening disaster for marine life and food supplies across the globe, delegates at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen have been warned.

Hitler's remains, except parts of the skull and jaw which are still kept in Russia, were burnt in 1970 and thrown into the Biederitz River, according to the Federal Security Service's archives.

Wait, what? Anyone buying this?

CNN picked it up, too.

The Cap N' Giveaway -- the Devils are in the Details.

There are claims abroad that hackers supported by Russia were behind Britain's Climategate.

We would like to set the record straight.

Six senior doctors have begun legal action to force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who died days after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC story on the Iraq war.

Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that a US government contracted airplane piloted by American CIA agents and carrying a cargo of a "mutated"swine flu virus intended for aerial spraying was shot down at China's Shanghai Pudong airport by a saboteur team of what …

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S.

...the WHO may find itself coughing up explanations, as more and more scientists and health researchers, and even journalists, are starting to question the organization's motives behind raising the alert so quickly.

... Taken together, these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011. Just as we have done in Iraq, we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground. We will continue to advise and assist Afghanistan's Security Forces to ensure that they can succeed over the long haul. But it will be clear to the Afghan government – and, more importantly, to the Afghan people – that they will ultimately be responsible for their own country. ...

My DNA Fragrance is a unique perfume company, which manufacturers one of a kind fragrance based on human DNA profiles.

I CANNOT imagine the anguish and anger that the families of the nearly 60 victims of the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) massacre might be feeling right now.

I read the story of a Zimbabwean plane crashing in China early this morning with my heart in my throat. As a Zimbabwean, images of local mourning crew families flashed before my eyes.

Michael Brklacich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

A U.S. journalist was grilled by Canadian border officials for 90 minutes Wednesday. Officials demanded to know if Democracy Now's Amy Goodman was going to speak against hosting the Olympic games in Canada.

For too long we have been told lies. The existence of the supposed European country of Belgium has been taken as gospel for years by members of the Liberati. It has long been held up as a shining example of Liberal philosophies in action.

Fox News has been assailed by American media for misrepresenting the crowds that gathered for defeated Republican vice presidential bet Sarah Palin's Going Rogue book tour, pointing out that which Fox had aired was an old file campaign video clip of the crowd, making the crowds …

Tibet's living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China's atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing's authority over Tibet's restive and deeply Buddhist people.

[Manila, Philippines] Moro-moro is a unique Filipino theater genre for the show battles between Moors and Christians. It also perfectly describes the show staged last week between Gloria Arroyo and Hillary Clinton.

The complete sequence collection of the video biography of President Joseph Estrada, the Philippines' "Father of the Masses."

There are many aspects to this story. It is impossible to know where to begin — let alone cover all the pertinent facts in just one article.

[Manila, Philippines] The Senate blue ribbon committee report released by Sen. Richard Gordon Tuesday found GMA, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, former Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos, Secretary Romulo Neri, DoTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.

A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said Friday heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration and boosting hopes of a permanent lunar base.

Astronauts, generals, top officials reveal major UFO cover-up. [movie is in 2 parts]

Two International Energy Agency whistleblowers have come forward with startling claims about the world's supply of crude oil, according to a report published Tuesday.

An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called "primitive man" and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and '70s, has died at 100.

In February of 2009 Bloomberg reported that Baxter "accidentally" send vaccine material containing both live Avian bird flu and seasonal influenza to multiple laboratories worldwide. A laboratory decided to test the vaccine on it's ferrets, but the ferrets all unexpectedly died.

not my headline - don't shoot the messenger. Lord Monckton explains the move to one world government. International Treaty to take precedence over U.S. constitution. Obama slated to sign in December.

A long-running dispute over Google's efforts to digitize books has spread this month to China, where authors have banded together to demand that their works be protected from what they call unauthorized copying.

A day after an effigy of the Grim Reaper stalked his speech in Edmonton, Canada, former President George W. Bush was on the defensive over his personal salvation.

The Government's drugs tsar, Professor David Nutt, was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.

The justices above are clearly the most rational group of high level functionaries in the industrialized world. They did what no other court would do in Europe or the United States. They effectively outlawed electronic voting.

parliamentarian with a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in jail for spreading 'propaganda' on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In Islamist propaganda she is the "Little Satan," as the U.S. is the "Big Satan." And while there is plenty of blood-curdling anti-Semitism in Islamist pronouncements, there is also clarity about the long-term goal.

A MYSTERIOUS carved stone has been uncovered alongside a 12th-century church associated with the Knights Templar.

The vaccine against the new flu virus is not suitable for small children and pregnant women, a member of Hungary's Collegium for Infectology, an advisor to the Health Ministry, said in a television programme on TV2 on Sunday evening.

Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn't specifically criticize China's outrageous currency policy.

A British nuclear energy expert who plunged 40 metres to his death at the United Nations' (UN) building in Vienna may have been murdered, police said today (Thurs).

The former Dutch Defence Minister, Joris Voorhoeve, who watched as his troops, Dutch peacekeepers, capitulated to the attacking Serbs would also like answers to questions which have haunted him for 14 years.

Tibetan exiles have reported the first executions of those convicted for last year's riot in Lhasa, with at least two people put to death in a rare implementation of capital punishment in the restive region.

After seven years of forced silence, a government whistleblower is opening up on what she learned while working as a Turkish translator for the FBI in the wake of 9/11.

A prominent human rights group says at least 43 men and teenage boys have "disappeared" in China and it blames Chinese security forces for allegedly cracking down following ethnic riots in Xinjiang province last summer.

[Manila, Philippines] Malacañang's hand is definitely behind the move of the daughters of slain publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer to file an amended complaint against former President Joseph Estrada alleged involvement in the double murder case.

CATARMAN, Northern Samar, PHILIPPINES – Sept. 6 was just like any other Sunday in the laid-back town of San Jose, Northern Samar.

Just read it. It's funny

The United States would find it difficult not to join an Israeli air strike in the event that Jerusalem decides to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, a former top-ranking U.S. Air Force officer told participants at a conference this weekend organized by a Washington think tank.

Spiegel Online is reporting that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and government ministers will receive a special, additive-free H1N1 vaccine.

This is, of course, the precise sort of thing which FBI linguist-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been alleging concerning both Turkish and Israeli interests for some time. In her case, she has testified under oath to nearly-identical behavior by U.S.

The findings mean that Hamid Karzai has not achieved the 50 per cent of votes needed to avoid a run-off. His share of the vote has been cut to 48 per cent.

Twenty-five countries voted for the resolution. In most cases, there were no surprises. All the members of the Arab League and most of the Organization of the Islamic Conference voted in lockstep to condemn Israel. No news there.

The Real News Network interviews Dr. Leo Panitch on the American dollar as the world's currency and the recent fall in its value. [HERE is part 2].

Sir, - For the Turkish Prime Minister to criticize the IDF punitive raid into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead is another glaring example of Islamic hypocrisy ("Ankara must decide," October 13).

The High Court has ruled that US intelligence documents containing details of the alleged torture of a former UK resident can be released.

From the Archives: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

According to a report in Le canard enchainé quoted by Israel Radio, Jerusalem has already ordered from a French food manufacturer high-quality combat rations for soldiers serving in elite units and also asked reservists of these units staying abroad to return to Israel.

"Because... we demand to know where you are at all times."

# Issued an order to close the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, but has not approved any plans to actually do so. # Oversaw a reduction in actual US troops in Iraq, only to replace them with private mercenaries

Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks on disinformation, Iran, and "faith-based intelligence".

Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy, and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist.

Part 1: Philippine 'President' Gloria Arroyo: Anatomy of a fraud? (Part 1 of 2) [Manila, Philippines] Is this how they did it?

First, depose a president. Second, hire a lobbyist.

China plans to spend billions of dollars in the next few years to develop media and entertainment companies that it hopes can compete with global giants like the News Corporation and Time Warner, and will in the process loosen some of its tight control of these industries.

The title is of this article is alarming, and accurate. It will brief you on: · the treaty that manages Iran's nuclear program, · the status of compliance with Iran, the US with the UK and now France, and Israel,