President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account. "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …
Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we …
Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being …
Obama is twice over responsible for Occupy Wall Street's existence. On the one hand, the failures and disappointments of his administration have been well documented and have totally undercut his campaign promises of hope and change, leaving former supporters completely disil …
Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, an …
Mother's Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use their position as mothers to influence society in fighting for …
Many folks on the Vine are comfortable with the claim that the likely Republican candidate will be working hard and furiously for the 1%. It doesn't take a lot to realize that the same is also true of the Obama Administration. While one can make excuses for Obama, t …
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It's official; George W Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld an …
The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago must ensure that special measures are taken to protect the rights of Afghan women as US-led coalition forces prepare to pull out, UN organisations said Saturday. There is widespread concern that gains women have made in the 10 years since th …
Continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama's failure to close Guantanamo Bay in the face of vehement congressional opposition have dashed European support for Obama. In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack …
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