As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11 consider this paradox. In the post 9-11 years the scientific evidence for disbelieving the official government story has mounted incredibly. And the number of highly respected and credentialed professionals challenging the official story has similarly expanded.
In Iran, nearly two months after the disputed presidential election that generated mass protests, the crackdown on opposition members, activists, journalists, scholars, students and ordinary citizens continues. As court proceedings in a mass trial of reformers and protesters continued into their second week, a top judiciary official acknowledged Saturday that some of the arrested protesters had been tortured in Iranian prisons. We speak with leading Iranian dissident and journalist Akbar Ganji.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's detained opposition leader, has been sentenced to another 18 months under house arrest after being found guilty of violating an internal security law.
Kuwait has arrested six suspected al-Qaeda members who plotted to attack a US military base and state security offices in the country, the country's interior ministry has said.
Taiwan authorities have launched a massive operation to find tens of thousands of people unaccounted for in the wake of floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot.
The leadership of the Palestinian Fatah movement has been overhauled after a vote by party delegates gathered at a conference in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early results have shown.
A 90-year-old former Nazi army commander has been jailed for life by a German court for murdering 10 Italian civilians and attempting to kill another in a village in Tuscany in 1944.
A prominent Yemeni Islamic scholar and his aide have returned home after six years of imprisonment in the United States after a US federal court overturned their terrorism conviction.
The US secretary of state has said that young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo must press the government to take action against corruption and sexual violence in the war-torn east of the country.
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Taiwan authorities have launched a massive operation to find tens of thousands of people unaccounted for in the wake of floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot.
The US secretary of state has said that young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo must press the government to take action against corruption and sexual violence in the war-torn east of the country.
