Landmines are responsible for 15,000 to 20,000 deaths every year around the globe, the vast majority of them (80 percent) civilians, according to the United Nations. Back in late 1997, a bunch of countries agreed that they should try and put a stop to these preventable horrors, so they signed a treaty in Ottawa, Canada, vowing not […]
Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, gave an searing speech on Capitol Hill accusing CIA officials of hacking into computers to find an internal report that details the agencys torture tactics during the Bush years. Sources now tell Al Jazeera that the report outlines in great detail how the […]
Facebook looks like it’s foraging for more ‘friends’ in Washington with the creation of its new Political Action Committee. Zuckerberg and Co. have just filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Committee. This will enable the company to legally funnel donations to the candidates they feel will further their cause. “FB PAC will give […]
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