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Slightly after midnight on May 25, 1945, B-29 bombardier Scott Downing and his crew dropped their incendiary ordinance on Tokyo and banked northeast to return to the US base. That is when their plane was hit by either a Japanese

On November 11, 1918 the “Guns of August” fell silent, and the First World War—the “War to End All Wars”—mercifully came to an end. The fighting began after a quarter century of peace in Europe, when many believed that a

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Vladimir Putin causes scandal with shawl for Xi Jinping’s wife European high court clamps down on ‘benefit tourism’ African football (soccer) federation expels Morocco over Ebola fears Vladimir Putin causes scandal with shawl for

The Obama administration is touting a new deal on greenhouse gas emissions between the U.S. and China, according to which the U.S. will decrease its emissions more rapidly now, and China will stop increasing its emissions around 2030. The deal

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in southern Pakistan killed 58 people on Tuesday, police said. The collision ignited a fuel fire, and a rescuer later described how he

BEIJING (AP) — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant,

At least 20,040 American soldiers had been wounded in the 13-year-old Afghanistan war theater as of November 10, according to a Pentagon tally. As the U.S. military winds down its presence and combat role in Afghanistan, the number of American

Illinois GOP Senator Mark Kirk was welcomed last night by a standing ovation from a crowd of nearly 300 members of Chicago’s pro-Israel community gathered for the “Campus Champion Gala,” a project of the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs. Kirk, who suffered a

In a welcome challenge to the barbaric gender apartheid practiced by ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the Al-Qaeda offshoots, a group of Kurds in northeastern Syria have issued a women’s right decree which calls for “equality between men and women in all

CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The announcement reflects the growing regional appeal of

(AFP) An indigenous court convicted seven FARC guerrillas of murdering two leaders of the Nasa tribe in western Colombia on Sunday, sentencing them to between 40 and 60 years in jail and 20 lashes. The harshest sentence — 60 years

President Obama on Sunday said the deployment of 1,500 additional American soldiers to Iraq signals a “new phase” in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State jihadists, one that will help Iraqi forces go on the offensive. On Nov. 7, Pentagon

Gun control is a tool that individual tyrants and various colonial rulers the world over have used to place—and keep—entire populations in a defenseless and subjective posture.  Three examples that clearly illustrate the truth of this are Cambodia, China, and

Twenty five years ago yesterday the Cold War official ended. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West, led by America, triumphed over the murderous ideology of Communism. Two Gulf wars, the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan

Scandal, says Pope Francis, is to “profess one way of life – ‘I am a Christian’— and then live like a pagan, who does not believe in anything.” In his homily at Mass Monday morning, the Pope said that Jesus

Ali Khamenei, the theocratic despot of Iran, tweeted his nine-step plan to destroy the state of Israel.  On Sunday, he posted the following graphic from his Twitter account, @Khamenei.IR: The Ayatollah argued that Israel must be wiped out because the

Liberia reports a decrease in Ebola cases, but there is one town near the Sierra Leone border that is still fighting the disease. Jene-Wonde is a small town with 300 people, but is the new epicenter of Ebola in the

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has alleged that Iran may have subverted a nuclear enrichment deal struck last year with world powers. Last year, the P5+1 countries signed a deal that the New York Times described as

(AFP) South Korean troops fired warning shots Monday as a North Korean patrol approached the heavily fortified border inside the so-called Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates the two rivals. There was no exchange of fire and the North Korean patrol

The Muslim Brotherhood’s leading global voice, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, called on MuslimsThursday to fight “the greatest battle of liberation” against Israel and the Jews. In an Arabic message posted on his website and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Qaradawi called on Muslims

Aaron David Miller, one of the most prominent analysts of U.S.-Israel relations, conducts an extended thought experiment in Foreign Policy today about the possible impact of a Hillary Clinton presidency on the alliance. His conclusion is that Clinton “would indeed

Even as he defiantly moves to unilaterally grant legal status to millions of people inside the U.S. illegally, President Obama’s State Department is making sure that such special favors are not meant for everyone. The State Department’s unexplained refusal to

BEIJING (AP) — His influence at home quickly fading, President Barack Obama is looking east to China, the opening stop of a three-country tour that will test his ability to play a commanding role on the world stage during his