- May 12, 2010

Illinois School Nixes Basketball Team's Trip to Arizona Over Immigration Law

An Illinois high school says it's denying its girls' basketball team the opportunity to play in an Arizona basketball tournament over the Grand Canyon

State’s new immigration…

UN experts says Arizona law violates international human rights treaty

The…

March 5, 2010

Here is another chapter from Russ Kick’s classic bite-size Disinformation book 50

Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003. For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, The Memory Hole.…

Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

By David Swanson



February 12, 2010 "…

People in drought-stricken countries could one day create rain clouds on demand thanks to laser technology.

Physicists have discovered that firing short laser bursts into the air can trigger the formation of water droplets. The breakthrough technique could help

stimulate rainfall in the future.

Scientist Jerome Kasparian and his team from the University of Geneva wanted to find a more environmentally friendly alternative to cloud seeding. This…

Niger is threatened with total crop failure in some areas and the situation is worse than the 2005 crisis, the UN humanitarian chief has

told the BBC.

But John Holmes said the new government is co-operating in aid efforts.

Ex-President Mamadou Tandja, toppled in a coup in February, was criticised for doing too little then and saying the crisis had been exaggerated.

Nearly 8m people are affected by the drought this year and the UN says up to $130m…

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PLAN OF SAN DIEGO. With the outbreak of revolution in northern Mexico in 1910, federal authorities and officials of the state of Texas feared that the violence and disorder might spill over into

the Rio Grande valley. The Mexican and Mexican-American populations

residing in the Valley…