The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist terror group based in that nation and partially bankrolled by the government of Cuba, is richer than Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Boko Haram combined, according to a Forbes ranking of the
The world’s richest terrorist group, the Islamic State, has begun making strides in Iraq’s Anbar province, now a new epicenter of fighting for the soul of that country. Rumors that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been wounded
The Ebola crisis may have brought nothing but terror and devastation to the countries it affected, but for the communist hermit island of Cuba, it was an opportunity to gain political leverage with impoverished nations like Sierra Leone. With Cuba
Liberian officials announced in late October that health workers had made significant gains preventing the acceleration of the Ebola virus in the capital, Monrovia. Unfortunately, those gains appear short-lived, as new Ebola epicenters appear in Monrovia’s suburbs. As reported earlier
Trust between health employees and government officials in Liberia has diminished to such a low degree that an attempt to pay Ebola health volunteers for their services in October resulted in violence, as government officials requests that workers both form
Teresa Romero, the Spanish auxiliary nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa, is suing the Health Council of Madrid for 300,000 Euros, as well as filing other lawsuits to demand damages for a number of
Last week, a shock poll of Spanish voters found that the Occupy Movement-affiliated “Podemos” (“We Can”), a new radical leftist party, is likely to sweep parliamentary elections. As Podemos snowballs into a formidable organization, facts have begun to surface about
The Spanish radical left has had much to celebrate these days. The Occupy-inspired socialist party, Podemos, is cruising to a crushing electoral defeat of everyone from mainstream conservatives to the country’s official Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). In the midst of
The government of Australia, which has been at the forefront of resisting international pressure of developed countries to manage their economies around the threat of climate change, is expected to resist more spending proposed at the summit for a “Green
On Thursday and Friday, the socialist government of Venezuela stood before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to answer for more than 5,000 complaints of human rights violations over the last decade—3,000 of which occurred in 2014. El Universal, Venezuela’s
The Chinese government is banning individuals in Beijing from burning the clothes of dead relatives–a common tradition–during this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation Summit (APEC) in an attempt to diminish the alarm pollution raises in the capital. According to the
It’s a sad, gloomy, play-Careless-Whisper-on-repeat day for the Democrats after receiving a veritable trouncing in this year’s midterm elections. In one attempt to cheer the left up, the Huffington Post is highlighting successful leftist parties around the world–parties that are
The Iranian government– which punishes homosexuality by death– accepts the existence of transgendered individuals. The Ayatollah’s fatwa allowing gender reassignment surgery has led to immense pressure– and sometimes full enforcement– on cisgender homosexual men and women to undergo these dangerous
The head of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency stated this week that the EPA has “nothing to do” with disposing of hundreds of bodies of Ebola victims as communities near the Boys Town crematorium protest that officials have provided little to
Chinese state-affiliated news agency Xinhua cites a U.S. expert arguing that, while the threat of radical Islamism is an existential one to much of the world, the United States is ill-equipped to fight it because “the U.S. is perceived by
Since the Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa began to develop into the menace it currently is, among those most critical of Africa’s response efforts have been virologists and scientific experts well acquainted with the virus. Oyewale Tomori, an African virologist
Leftist President of Bolivia Evo Morales is spending lavishly on a new 29-floor presidential palace, complete with heliport and chambers designed for indigenous ceremonial rituals. “This is not a luxury; it is to serve the people,” Morales insisted, though many
The Australian state of Victoria has implemented a law that makes it illegal to send lewd photographs to a partner without their consent via telephone or internet. The new “sexting” law may result in up to two years in prison
The Ebola virus outbreak’s toll in West Africa has expanded at such a grand scale that the devastation has begun to vary from country to country. Liberia has experienced some reduction in the acceleration of cases, but Sierra Leone’s condition
Asia’s drug problem is ravaging communities at an alarming rate, but in the nation of Myanmar, the drug addiction epidemic has become so pervasive that shopkeepers give customers syringes as change when they do not have currency. In “Silent Offensive,”
Saudi Arabia’s health ministry announced this week that it has detected a surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after medical facilities confirmed six new cases of the disease within a 24 hour time frame. Reuters reports that
In a striking case of perseverance that may be among the youngest instances of Ebola survival in the history of the disease, a two-week-old baby near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, was declared Ebola-free after enduring the ravages of the illness
“I’m not celebrating because there is nothing to celebrate,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says. She and her nation observed her 76th birthday quietly, given the current Ebola crisis in the nation. As gifts, several groups presented the President with
Iraqis fortunate enough to have survived the wrath of the Islamic State in northern Iraq as the terrorist group took control of Mosul and its surrounding areas have begun to tell their stories. Children, mothers, husbands, and clergy lost all
US troops ordered to aid in construction of Ebola treatment centers in Liberia will be subjected to a 21-day quarantine upon their departure from west Africa. That quarantine will take effect in Italy, where local legislators are outraged that the
