This first appeared on the .EconocideBody Count 3By Nick TurseAfter David B. Kellermann, the chief financial officer of beleaguered mortgage giant Freddie Mac, tied a noose and hanged himself in the basement of his Vienna, Virginia, home, the New York

On Thursday morning, President Barack Obama decided to see what happened when America and the Muslim world stopped being polite and started getting real. In an hour-long speech in Cairo, Egypt, Obama bluntly discussed seven of the most vexing problems

You've heard of credit default swaps and subprime mortgages. Are carbon default swaps and subprime offsets next? If the is signed into law, it will generate, almost as an afterthought, a new market for carbon derivatives. That market will be

In 1927, was the richest man in the world—so when he needed cheap rubber, he simply bought a Brazilian rainforest and set about turning his little corner of the Amazon into a model American town. In this lively history, Greg

Mere semantics? Hardly. Linguist knows words are more powerful than we give them credit for. A professor of linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley, Nunberg has been a regular contributor to the National Public Radio program Fresh Air since 1988,

This first appeared on the website.The folks over at have taken to demonizing their MSNBC counterparts, accusing them of being radical tools of the far-left. But MSNBC's morning program is dominated by one of their own ideological brethren, Joe Scarborough.

The last few days we and the world have been trying to digest the Obama Cairo Speech. Here's my two and a half cents.I think it's been so hard for people to make out what happened because he did so

Help! I'm being outgunned on K Street! That's the message ambassador to the United States is sending home, according to an internal government (PDF) obtained by Mother Jones. His complaint signals that Kabul's man in Washington has learned a fundamental

This first appeared on the .Confronting the CIA's Mind MazeIf, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, you can't help but experience that eerie feeling of déjà vu these

This first appeared on the .As though we don't have enough to be afraid of already, what with armed lunatics mowing down military recruiters and doctors, the H1N1 flu virus, the collapse of bee populations, rising sea levels, failed and

A Calgary man wanted by police for abducting his infant son, who is now believed to be in Lebanon, has been arrested in a northeast home.

An Alberta grizzly bear and one of her cubs were hit by a train and killed Monday near Canmore. A second cub survived the accident.

Calgary police are trying to track down four tricycles stolen from a school for children with disabilities.

A Calgary man charged with first-degree murder in a gang-related attack was released on bail with a weapons prohibition just three days before the New Year's Day shooting.

A former car salesman and member of the Ontario legislature who moved to Calgary fewer than two years ago wants to be the city's next mayor.

In only seven years the Shangri-La Dialogue has cemented itself as the pre-eminent defence and security dialogue in the Asia Pacific region.

Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, has congratulated the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and her Department on the preparation of a fact sheet on the interaction of proposed new Disability (Access to Premises - Buildings) Standards (Premises Standards)

Today I announce a minor reshaping of the Executive - underlining the Australian Government's core priorities of nation building for recovery and strengthening Australia's national security

Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, we usually prorogue and re-open Parliament midway through the term of a government. It gives us a chance to set the direction for the remainder of the term of office of the Government and to give

Mr Speaker, I move that the Bill now be read a second time.IntroductionThis Budget is forged in the fire of the most challenging global economic conditions since the Great Depression. It is a budget that supports jobs today by investing