Welfare Rice Queens
Nationwide, the [US] government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all … In 2005 alone, when pretax farm...
Nationwide, the [US] government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all … In 2005 alone, when pretax farm...
Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid … to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal … Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan. But months later the tribunal president returned...
Apple Computer uncovered what it called “irregularities” related to certain stock options … issued between 1997 and 2001, and involve one grant to Chief Executive Steve Jobs … in at least one instance of...
CHARLIE ROSE: How often do you just get tired of it and say, you know, justI got to get away, I’ve got toI can’t BONO: Oh, I can’t stand CHARLIE ROSE:I can’t take one...
In January 2003, Spc. Sean Baker put on a Guantanamo prisoner’s uniform to allow soldiers to practice extracting a prisoner from a cell. The extraction team did not know that Baker was an American....
Together with a few sister big box stores (Target, Best Buy, and Home Depot), Wal-Mart accounts for roughly 50% of Americas much vaunted productivity growth edge over Europe during the last decade. Fifty percent!...
“Nearly five years on, there is no rule of law, no accountability. The Afghans know it is all a charade, and they see us as not only complicit but actively involved. You cannot fight...
Should all of [Greenland’s] ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world’s coastal cities, home to a billion people … the glaciers of Greenland are melting...
A fundamentalist Muslim whom the U.S. suspects of collaborating with Al Qaeda terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamist militia that has seized control of [Mogadishu]. The militia … appointed...