This post is part of a Progressive Media blogging series on the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California’s clean energy climate law.

Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin.

Audit shows 95% of the funds for rebuilding Iraq 2007-2009 is MISSING and 100% from the years 2004-2007 is unaccounted for. Pentagon doesn’t even know where it all went. Unbelievable!

WikiLeaks recently gave selected media accomplices–The Guardian, The New York Times and the German magazine Der Spiegel, copies of some of its materials.

Recently, the United Nations broke its silence on the siege of Gaza which is about to enter its fourth year, not to denounce it or speak up against it, but, shockingly, to endorse it.

For the second time this year, parents said employees at one school district have been spying on their kids at home by accessing the web camera on their school-issued laptop.

“COIN” is a doctrine of counterinsurgency, a carefully designed strategy to wrest a strategic area. If it isn’t challenged, we may find ourselves debating its merits in places like Somalia, Yemen, or Mauritania.

A public health nurse who helps special-needs children, says she had always believed that her son’s life insurance funds were in a bank insured by the FDIC, but found out it wasn’t actually sitting in a bank.

This forthcoming documentary by The Corbett Report interrogates the theory that Al Qaeda is a centrally-operated terrorist organization run by Osama Bin Laden that perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.

The White House wants to give the FBI easier access to the Internet activity of suspects without a court order, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

In the present atmosphere of the everlasting “reset” of relations between the U.S. and Russia, it is not difficult for the Kremlin to camouflage its arming of Palestinian terrorists.

The true extent of the Labour government’s involvement in the illegal abduction and torture of its own citizens after the al-Qaida attacks of September 2001 has been spelled out in stark detail.

There is a strong belief in some Asian countries that the website Wikileaks is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s own cyber-warfare activities.

A federal judge ruled on July 15 that the government can withhold information from the public about intelligence sources and methods, even if those sources and methods were illegal.

More than one in five Americans in 2009 suffered a household income loss of 25 percent or more over the previous year.

An unidentified flying object (UFO), which apparently consisted of three bright lights, astounded residents from Booysens in Pretoria for two consecutive nights for several hours.

Animal rights activists say meat is murder — bloody, bloody murder.

Twain made us wait 100 years for this memoir. He’s still an enigma shrouded in a white suit.

A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.

On Monday morning, July 26th, John Stetson woke up early to watch the sunrise over Casco Bay in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He expected a pretty view. What he got was pretty strange.

Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation.

A team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya.

The new movie Agora chronicles the life, challenges and death of a 4th Century woman astronomer whose contribution influenced and shaped modern science and our understanding of the world and the universe.

A new superfly has been blamed for a suspected surge in infected insect bites that in extreme cases have left some victims hospitalised, wildlife experts warned.

JK Galbraith, a giant of 20th century economics, said the purpose of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. This week’s inflation numbers bear out his maxim.

Nowadays, we know what meteors are. But just over 200 years ago, meteors vexed the great minds of Europe.

Another possible Russian spy has surfaced in the U.S. and her name just also happens to be Anna.

The calls to Colorado voters Wednesday night were just one sign that the federal ruling in Arizona is likely to ripple through this heated campaign season.

To avoid getting imprisoned, a murderer tried to poison himself to death. When he was revived, he find out that he has been placed at the top of a liver transplant list at a hospital in New York City.

Perhaps the most important cause of the oil’s disappearance, some researchers suspect, is that the oil has been devoured by microbes.

Researchers using NASA’s fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights.

Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that is a first and significant step away from the mouse and keyboard touchable holograms.

Resolution 1553 presented by Rep. Gohmert is brief and fairly vague in terms of providing a time-table for finding a ‘peaceful solution’ but is flagrantly providing explicit support for military strikes against Iran.

A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.

Talk about piling on — now even Santa Claus is taking shots at the Catholic Church.

Marie Exley of Colorado Springs is convinced that Armageddon, the end of the world as written of in the Bible, will come next year.

WikiLeaks released Sunday some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories.

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, with the Big Government claiming ownership over our water.

US industrial titan General Electric has agreed to pay over 23 million dollars to settle allegations that it bribed Iraqi officials, a US financial watchdog said on Tuesday.

An unemployed 20-year-old man in Virginia who this year threatened South Park’s creators over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, has been arrested.