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Is Israel an Apartheid State? Rhetoric or Reality

By Frances H. Remillard
Published March 6, 2010
Summary of a legal study by Human Sciences Research Center of South...

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121722

Obama Announces New DOD-led Manufacturing Institutes

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2014 – President Barack Obama today announced two new manufacturing innovation institutes led by the Defense Department and...

"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.

"Over the last...

Welfare cash pulled from ATMs inside Colorado pot shops

DENVER — Colorado welfare recipients are using ATMs located inside marijuana retail shops to withdraw cash.

The money was given to them by taxpayers to help their families survive, but an...

It’s shear madness! Brooklyn’s hipster beard craze has grown so popular that men in New York are rushing to doctors for “facial hair transplants” — surgery that helps make beards look thicker and less patchy, sources said. Stubble-challenged guys are forking over up to $8,500 for the beard-boosting procedure, which has spiked in popularity in...