It’s not fiction — although it sounds like something straight out of a dystopian novel. The so-called “fruit machine” was a homosexuality detection system commissioned by the Canadian government during the Cold War — and developed largely by a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa — to keep LGBT people out of the public service or military. While the machine is long gone, its legacy is …
An Iraqi refugee who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against former President George W. Bush over the Iraq War has filed an appeal containing new evidence released by the United Kingdom’s Iraq Inquiry Committee. Iraqi refugee Sundus Skaker Saleh, who fled her home country due to war, and her attorney, Inder Comar, the legal director of San Francisco-based Comar Law, …
An Army captain sued President Obama on Wednesday, alleging that he doesn’t have the proper congressional authority to wage war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Capt. Nathan Michael Smith filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Washington as the president is deploying more special operations forces to the region – and a day after a Navy SEAL was killed in …