To die by fire in protest now registers little more than a media blip.

For more than four decades the self-made monarch of The Principality of Hutt River has matched wits with irritated Australian bureaucrats and politicians. So far, he's come out ahead.

The Israeli attacks on Syria pruned the armament trees. The Israelis needed to reduce the amount of long range, highly sophisticated missiles that could be used against them.

We live in a time that bears out the most dystopian of George Orwell's predictions, yet even in a world of bluster and BS few news events are as surreal and mind-blowing as a so-called secret bombing.

Some really smart people are anxious to persuade the rest of us that more money can't buy us more happiness. But new research finds that more money enables people to buy the experiences and conveniences that increase overall life satisfaction.

Few Americans are aware of how the vast majority of the so-called detainees got to Guantanamo. Mostly, they were sold. Yes, like slaves.

Al Qaeda is slithering along and spreading its venom throughout Africa, Egypt, Gaza, and the Sinai, as well as Syria

Why does the U.S. believe that only violent overthrow will work?

If Oracle CEO Ellison's plan works as it should, the America's Cup will morph from billionaire status symbol into real money-making sport league. That is his vision.

The Chechen-born suspects who bombed the Boston Marathon may have viewed the US and Russia as partners in crime rather than enemies.

The Boston Marathon attack was the perfect opportunity for Iran's Grand Leader to explain to the non-Western world the unfair practices of the United States and the West.

Will firms make the effort to ensure their materials are conflict-free -- and should they?

The Western world has so little understanding of the Islamic world that the enormous enmity and visceral hatred that exists between Islamic groups has gone unnoticed.

The late Margaret Thatcher had steadfast confidence in the basic principles behind her policies.

Since 2003, the Iraqi government has retaliated against the leaders of a union for oil workers.

Concerns about the online world often fixate on cutting-edge digital tech. But, as Robert McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control commercialism."

Go Code has developed the means of creating technology to give each house and location a unique identification code, enabling some slum dwellers in India to apply for state assistance, many of them for the first time.

In Russia, Stalinphilia is a grass-roots phenomenon, fueled by anger at Russia's humiliation and fantasies of national greatness.

When they do attack Iran, Israel will inform the United States, but only as a courtesy.

Inaction in Syria demonstrates that the Unites States learned little from the genocide in Rwanda.