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Why an Art Professor Wants a Camera Installed in His Head

Known in the artistic field as a "participatory artist, Wafaa Bilal has caused uproars at NYU in the past...

(CHICAGO) - Some film and video enthusiasts have been accused of letting their passions go to their head. But their fanaticism pales when compared to New York University assistant-professor Wafaa Bilal.

The photography expert intends to have a camera implanted in the back of his head.

AK-47 and the M-16

Peasants and villagers fighting in Vietnam in 1967, according to tactics articulated by Mao, were killing eight hundred Americans a month. How?

(CLEVELAND) - When the M-16 was introduced to the war effort in Vietnam, it largely failed. What fired well in the Southern California desert did not endure the tropics of Vietnam. An AK-47 can be immersed in water and it will still fire.

Kalashnikov later stated that he wishes he'd designed a refrigerator, instead of the world's most widely manufactured combat rifle.

Caregivers of Veterans Face Greater Stress, More Years of Care than the National Average

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The first national study to give a voice to family caregivers of veterans reveals that they are twice as likely as family caregivers of adults overall to consider their situation highly stressful, and yet 94 percent of them are proud to serve.

This first in-depth study finds people caring for veterans bear higher burden, helping manage emotional and physical conditions often for 10 years or longer.

Wake up and Dream

(LONDON) - Our latest poetry by Mamoon Alabbasi is a thoughtful look at this life and the world around us; life and death intermingled with technological advancement so intense that it threatens the world's very existence.

Mamoon grew up in Iraq and he knows what it is like to feat what the next moment will bring, yet it isn't generally the feared Dictator that men like this fear, all too often it is the deathly threat of the U.S. military...

Zahir`s Response to Iran`s `Holy` Defense

Zahir Ebrahim responds to 'A defense which deserves being called “Holy” by Iranian Journalist Kourosh Ziabari'

(LOS ANGELES) - I have to respond to this “holy” bit of bullsh*t: “Iranians defended themselves nobly and their moral resistance against the coalition of global tyrants deserves to be called a holy defense.”

Are you a journalist or the PR spokesman of the beleaguered state?

Have you seen any war? War casualties?

Selma Al-Radi`s Life and the Amiriya Madrasa

Loss of Iraqi/American Archaeologist is felt by many...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Noted Iraqi archaeologist Selma Al-Radi passed away 7 October 2010.

She was known by many and highly regarded for having spent more than twenty-years involved with the restoration of the Amiriya Madrasa, a sixteenth-century madrasa in Rada, Yemen, which is under consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Scholarship, Scams and Credentials in an Academic House of Cards

The Contrasting Styles of Michael Shermer and David Ray Griffin...

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - As we continue our decline into the superstitious darkness of the 9/11 Wars, the media blackout of most truths is becoming more and more obvious every day.

The info-entertainment cartels are becoming increasingly desperate for content that offers pseudo-truths in pretty commercial wrappings.

Wikileaks for Dummies

(LONDON) - A number of media outlets seem to go out of their way to make the best of a bad situation (for Pentagon officials) by derailing the essence of the message that comes out of the classified documents released by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

They are desperate to downplay the scandalous actions perpetrated by the American forces with the green lights that go high up the chain of command, and try to divert the focus on the Iraqi side alone.

Gadahn Call to Attack Americans Comes from Israel

Gadahn works for the Israeli government, end of story.

(CINCINNATI) - “Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is Wikileaks”

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world.

Two thirds of Australians Believe 9/11 Was an Inside Job

American activists thank the Aussies for seeing the facts...

(CINCINNATI) - When staunch conservative Kevin Bracken, on the ABC show “Talk Back” publicly aired his views on American government complicity in the 9/11 attacks, host Jon Faine made every attempt to humiliate and silence him.

Bracken, known for taking tough stances during his tenure as head of Australia’s Maritime Union, didn’t back down.