Academic Robert Beckford visits Ghana to investigate the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold. And why, 50 years after independence, a country so rich in natural resources is one of the poorest in the world.

No matter how who recieves the GOP nomination--I think it's safe to say that it will not be Ron Paul--the big win still goes to Ron Paul. Ron Paul has achieved more than most people will in their lifetimes, and...

Not surprisingly, Israel is willing to spend $160 million dollars to slow the flow of African migrants into "their" country. How do they plan to stop them? Does a border fence and detention centers sound familiar?

Despite the reality that in our times thousands of cameras are no match for tens to hundreds of bullets, the message of this song is clear: We must be the watchers of the watchers. And, not only are the police...

Times Books recently announced that they plan to publish Todd S. Purdum's "More Powerful Than All the Armies" in 2014. The book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Lyndon Baines Johnson. The...

Apparently a woman, Laurie Ann Martinez (a psychologist), thought it was appropriate to lie about being raped to get her husband to move to a better neighborhood. Obviously she was only thinking

No matter how much these presidential candidates try to act las if they are among the masses, like the rest of us, we need to remember that they are all millionaire fat cats. If for no other reason than this,...

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury? That's been the speculation from some corners after a camera on board NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury. Theorists have...

If it was shot down over their country, when US aircraft had no business there, shouldn't they be able to keep it? At a minimum they can check reverse engineer the technology in use.

Almost daily, we see a study claiming that our genes are responsible for everything from physical ailments to psychological dispositions. There's a fine line between the discovery od a potential root cause for our issues and blame-shifting.