A woolly mammoth skeleton is seen on display at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas in September 2009. Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce... 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, flanked by his lawyers Mark Stephens and Jennifer Robinson, addresses the media outside Belmarsh Magistrates Court today. Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said today they fear he could face execution in the United States if he is extradited to Sweden. The 39-year-old whistleblower is wanted by the Swedish authorities over claims that he sexually assaulted... 

A bank-owned home in Miami, Fla., where foreclosure sales made up 39.7 percent in the most recent quarter, according to RealtyTrac. Analysts expect more foreclosures in early 2011. Over the holidays, many lenders put foreclosures on hold. But that temporary freeze is over now. Industry watchers are expecting thousands of foreclosed properties to hit the market in the weeks and months ahead. Home foreclosure... 

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the United States, in 2010, continued its headlong descent into becoming one of the most feared police states our modern World has ever seen. The term police state as used in this report describes a government that exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic... 

The phrase “enemy within” brings to mind the image of a shadowy spy stealing military secrets. That was the case for Israeli master spy Jonathan Pollard jailed for 1980s espionage that compromised U.S. Cold War strategy. That phrase also describes those involved in a form of psy-ops that is not easily detected because it operates so brazenly. For instance, the well-timed release of diplomatic... 

The United States-dominated defense sales in the Persian Gulf in 2005-09 and delivered 54 percent of the Middle East’s military hardware, including advanced systems that had been denied Arab states because of Israeli objections, analysts say. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors global arms sales, said in a recent study that the United Arab Emirates was the largest... 

The mounting unemployment rate in the United States has provided an opportunity for the Pentagon to recruit more people for its unpopular wars abroad, an analyst says. In an interview with Press TV, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen referred to the high unemployment rate in the US, especially in poorer states such as Alabama. “Unemployment there is at 33 percent. It is so bad that young people... 

How long before you will be subjected to a virtual strip search before you can buy food or other necessities? As we predicted, Homeland Security and national security state officialdom are in the process of expanding the police state and citizen humiliation grid from airports to hotels and shopping malls. “The United States is stepping up security at ‘soft targets’ like hotels and shopping malls,... 

An interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Wednesday. The test failed. A test of the United States’ only long-range missile defense system failed Wednesday – the second failure this year in two tries. The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said both the intermediate-range ballistic missile target and the long-range interceptor missile launched... 

The House of Representatives earlier this week approved a significant increase in the level of military aid to Israel, pushing the level to $3 billion in flat military aid, with an additional $205 million set aside for a short range rocket system. Both of the increases were already planned as part of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Israel, but were formally approved as... 

A new UN report on Tuesday warned that Africa’s urban population was set to triple in the next 40 years. It also said that the development would put massive pressure on governments and infrastructure across the continent. The report entitled, ‘The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets’, was released by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). It... 

Never has one country enjoyed complete global domination as has America. For about five decades, the United States has been the strongest military, economic and cultural power on earth. For the past two decades, the international order has been America and the others (barely). However, the fun times are coming to an end. After the financial crash of 2008 and concomitant recession, Uncle Sam was revealed... 

Liam Fox is welcomed to the Penagon by US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Britain has warned the United States that the military will not be able to fight another war like Afghanistan. Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, told his counterparts in the US that the Armed Forces would only be able to provide the manpower for medium-scale conflicts or for support in large conflicts where others took a greater... 

You certainly won’t see this make any headlines in the state-run media. According to the FBI there are more hate crimes against Caucasians than against Muslims in the United States. McClatchy reported: Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center. Jews, lesbians, gay men and Caucasians,... 

Tensions are growing between the United States and China after Washington weighed in on territorial disputes between China and Southeast Asian nations in the South China Sea. China lays claim to maritime territories in the sea along with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. While most of the territory consists of small islands, boulders, and strips of sand, some of them are believed...