Monthly Archives: September 2009
Photo of Obama and Spain’s First Children Causes a Stir
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero was in for a rude shock if he thought the same privacy conventions that shield the children of public figures in his home country would extend to the United States. Zapatero brought his wife and two daughters along on his trip to New York for the opening...
Postmaster General: Six-Day Mail Delivery Doesn’t Make Sense
The Postal Service is in big trouble. The quasi-governmental organization has lost money every year since 2005 and is on track to be $7 billion in the red this year. Healthcare and retirement costs are the main culprits, but the volume of mail is also plummeting. With more consumers using E-mail as their primary...
The Truth Behind UFO Sightings and the U.S. Air Force
Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist and filmmaker who writes about society’s oddities. In Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or...
CIA Works to Limit Number of Contractors
Since 9/11, the CIA has increasingly relied on private contractors to help complete a variety of its assignments. From the interrogation of so-called high-value detainees and the operation of unmanned drones to a program to kill or capture al Qaeda’s top brass, contractors have an important and controversial role in the world of espionage....