Dictators get a political facelift from K Street lobbyists

Dictators get a political facelift from K Street lobbyists


Authoritarian heads of state, undemocratic governments and coup regimes from Africa to Central America to Eastern Europe are increasingly hiring K Street lobbyists to polish tarnished reputations, whitewash human rights abuses and curry favor in Washington. But when despots and dictators pay big bucks, the voices of ordinary people get drowned out

NASA confirms: Aliens are among us

NASA confirms: Aliens are among us

NASA held a press conference Thursday afternoon in which they revealed the discovery of arsenic-based life forms on Earth. Many believe that this proves there is the possibility life was or is on other planets already. Space Entrepreneur Jeff Manber says this is a huge discovery because it changes the way scientists view how life can be sustained.

Europe protests while America sleeps

Europe protests while America sleeps

Despite 2 combat missions costing thousands of US lives and more than a trillion dollars, average Americans on the streets of New York are hard-pressed to come up with details of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile overseas, European citizens of US allies are protesting their countries' involvement in these missions. Whether people know it or not, the costs of these wars are being spent and protested internationally in the name of US foreign policy.