Tax haven USA wants to dry up other tax havens (tags)
Two US states lure with particularly lax laws for companies. Constructions such as mailbox companies, which help to conceal the true owners of companies, are flourishing. The American government can certainly be accused of double standards in this matter:
Judicial Lynching In Texas.. Time For a Texorcism (tags)
Only 7 states murdered prisoners in 2013. Texas killed more than the other 6 combined.
Targeting Lawyers: America v. Paul Bergrin (tags)
persecution
Israeli Police State Crackdowns Against Palestinians (tags)
Palestine
John Balian?s ?Novel Approach? Brings the Armenian Saga to the Masses (tags)
Armenians often wish for a tale about the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath that would make a blockbuster film and draw attention to their cause. John Balian?s new book, Gray Wolves and White Doves, may be that tale.
Author Kasbarian Rekindles Armenia’s Past (tags)
Modern-day fabulist shows that despite genocide, a culture survives.
April 1, 2010 Yesterday, I posted a followup to my Talk of the Town story in this week’s issue about the literary hoaxes perpetrated by Tommaso Debenedetti, a freelance journalist based in Rome who fabricated interviews with Philip Roth and John Grisham. I had uncovered a third fabrication—a fake interview with Gore Vidal.
My Brain Is Not Silly Putty (tags)
The term "paradigm shift" is used with increasing regularity in popular media. It describes a profound and usually irrevocable shift in the way people think. Despite its amazing overuse, I do like the term -- a change in the collective heart and mind is necessary in order for tangible change to occur.
Who's watching the watchers? How the ADL and SPLC have moved into goosestepping tandem with the FBI to observe the people..
Smoking Out Big Tobacco (tags)
By means of their settlement with the States, the tobacco people have achieved something else that is absolutely invaluable to them -- complacent Americans think that the tobacco problem is solved.