National Security

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Vladimir Putin eats lunch alone at G20 meeting Jonathan Gruber on Obamacare and the stupidity of the American voter Massachusetts health care site finally up — for $254 million The implementation of Obamacare Vladimir

Simultaneous efforts by the Venezuelan government to force unreasonable price controls on vendors of necessary goods and arrest any who sell those goods on the black market has led to the rise of a unique phenomenon known as the “street

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine warned Thursday that the security situation is steadily worsening in the country’s rebel-held east as separatist fighters move closer to government forces. One official said he feared an attack soon by Russian forces. A cease-fire

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The annual G-20 leadership summit that groups democrats with authoritarians and rich nations with poor has long suffered from a perception it’s all talk and no action. This year, leaders are under extra pressure to produce

Former Secretary of State and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger told an awards dinner in New York this week that Israel should not seek a permanent or comprehensive peace with the Palestinians until regional turmoil settles down, Algemeiner reports.   Kissinger’s advice

A full 65% of Latin American Protestants now either belong to Pentecostal churches or identify themselves as “Pentecostal,” according to a new Pew Research Center report. The report says that certain practices such as “divine healing, speaking in tongues and

In the final joint statement, delegates from the Catholic-Muslim Forum in Rome “unanimously condemned acts of terrorism, oppression, violence against innocent persons, persecution, desecration of sacred places, and the destruction of cultural heritage.” In this third seminar of the Forum,

The seemingly interminable outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has begun to ravage new territory. This week, the nation of Mali recorded its official second death due to the virus and has announced it is closely monitoring up to 200

“The Lord never says that the Kingdom of God is a show,” said Pope Francis Thursday. “It’s a party! But it is different. And a party is beautiful, of course. A big party. And Heaven will be a party.” In

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said. Dr. Martin Salia was

(Reuters) – Eight northern European nations agreed on Thursday to step up cooperation to counter an increase in Moscow’s military activity that has included a tripling of NATO intercepts of Russian jets this year. Defense ministers from Nordic and Baltic

100 years ago today, the last Caliph, or emperor of Islam, declared the last Jihad against the infidel– and today is the first time ever that the National Cathedral in the nation’s capital will host Muslim prayers. Most American’s will

A long-hidden official observer report on the 2002 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, which the South African government fought for years to conceal, was finally released on Friday following a decision by South Africa’s Constitutional Court. The report, compiled by two

Boko Haram militants have seized the north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok, from where they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April. Militants attacked and took control of the town, in Borno state, on Thursday evening, residents who escaped told the

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s president said Thursday she is lifting a state of emergency imposed to control an Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country, as Mali reported a fourth person now believed to have died of Ebola in

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Liberia announces end of Ebola state of emergency Ebola cluster growing in Mali, hundreds possibly exposed U.S. scaling back troop presence in Liberia Liberia announces end of Ebola state of emergency A woman crawls

(Washington, D.C.)– 100 years ago today, on November 14, 1914, the last “Caliph” of the Islamic world declared a holy war on all non believers. Just a few months later, a jihadist genocide of Christians occurred on a massive scale,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering top-to-bottom changes in how the nation’s nuclear arsenal is managed, vowing to invest billions of dollars more to fix what ails a force beset by leadership lapses, security flaws and sagging

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting his first glimpse of life as a lame-duck president traveling overseas. And so far, he has reason to like what he sees. Obama arrived in the Asia-Pacific region weakened by a

Palestinians are most likely to support the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group, according to a recent poll that surveyed Arab citizens of the Middle East. The polls were conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, which is

ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level

In the wake of the confusing meeting in October, the American bishops are taking no chances with next year’s conclusion to the two-part marriage summit. They have sent a strong message, electing a solidly conservative team of bishops to represent

CAYKARA, Turkey (AP) — Their collars pulled up against the evening cold, a group of men and women peer through binoculars, scanning the fields along a barbed wire fence. A few kilometers (miles) away across the Turkish border, black smoke

Archbishop Flavio Calle Zapata, of Ibagué, Colombia, has instructed local parishes to offer an exorcism prayer because of the alarming increase in suicides in his archdiocese. During the year 2014, seventy people have committed suicide in the region, and violence