To Obama, the Geneva Convention applies to stateless terrorists–who are not parties to the convention, and are not lawful combatants–but not to U.S. sailors captured and detained by Iran at gunpoint
Shortly before being killed, one of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped by suspected Hamas members and found dead this week made a call to Israeli emergency services – a call the Israeli government has made public, in which Gilad Shaar
In April, an Italian court convicted former head of state Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud. Given the 77-year-old’s increasingly fragile state, the court decided it would be best for Berlusconi to serve out his sentence through community service.
In dropping their criminal contempt case last week against Sami Al-Arian, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s board of directors during the 1990s, prosecutors said they will seek to deport him under terms of a related 2006 plea agreement. That may not
Venezuela’s two biggest problems–a socialist government that has left the population bereft of necessary goods and skyrocketing crime that has led to Venezuela having achieved the second-highest murder rate in the world–have long been considered unrelated. But what of a
Europe has finally come to its senses and taken a stand in favor of the Western Enlightenment enterprise. On July 1, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the 2010 French burqa ban, a religion-neutral piece of legislation
While many in the mainstream media push the narrative that Cuba’s communist government is somehow more “open” than in the past, the Cuban government is exploiting that good will to violently detain and torture political dissidents. According to one NGO,
(AFP) Violence in South Sudan’s civil war including the execution of scores of hospital patients is the worst seen for decades and is an “affront to human dignity”, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday. Thousands have been killed in the conflict
Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have been rampaging through the streets of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shu’afat since early morning Wednesday following news that the burned body of 16 year Palestinian teenager Muhhamad Abu Khdeir had been found in the
The group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has taken issue with fellow Sunnis who do not pledge allegiance to their Islamic State (IS). According to reports, the IS has told other Sunni jihadist groups
An 80-year-old Professor of chemistry in New York recently brought the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel a Nazi magazine featuring her photograph on the front cover, revealing how she had become the poster child for the ‘perfect Aryan’ baby.
A new Japanese nursing home has everything seniors could want, from a hair salon and 24-hour medical care to comfy beds and a swimming pool to keep those legs in shape — all four of them. The facility in a
The kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach has put an end to Palestinian statehood as a viable diplomatic option in the foreseeable future, regardless of the insistence by the Obama administration that negotiations will
As ISIS uses Twitter to further its reach, “Anonymous” and the U.S. State Department are targeting the “social-media campaign” in an effort to stifle it. According to the National Journal, ISIS has used Twitter extensively “to amplify its presence” over time.
(AFP) Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge pro-democracy rally that organisers said mobilised half a million people demanding the right to choose their next leader. The arrests came at the
JERUSALEM (AP) — The suspected abduction of an Arab teen followed by the discovery of a body in Jerusalem on Wednesday ignited clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians, who saw it as a revenge attack for the killing of
BAGHDAD (AP) — An extremist group’s declaration of an Islamic state in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria poses a threat to the entire region, Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday, warning that “no one in Iraq or any
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has risen to 467, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Giving the latest update on the disease which has hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the WHO said there have
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine’s forces assault pro-Russian separatists as cease-fire ends China’s neighbors react to new South China Sea claims In face of China’s increased aggression, Japan reinterprets its constitution Ukraine’s forces assault pro-Russian separatists as cease-fire
Over the weekend terrorists declared the formation of an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. In Afghanistan, the New York Times recently reported that the Taliban was responsible for “one of the most significant coordinated assaults on the government in
A 34-year-old man in southwest Sweden has been fined for possessing radioactive material. He had the radioactive elements americium, radium, and beryllium in his apartment in the Ängelholm municipality. Richard Handl said he had attempted to create a nuclear reactor
Hacktivist group Anonymous is said to be planning a series of cyber attacks against countries it accuses of arming and abetting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant jihadist group. According to Forbes, the Anonymous campaign will be
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), sent a message to his fellow Sunni supporters to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Baghdadi wrote: Soon, by Allah’s permission, a day will come when
Russia continues its war on freedom as Moscow passed a law that says people could receive a prison sentence for supporting extremist activities online. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on Monday. However, the extremist activities were not specified,
Former Weather Underground radical and colleague of President Barack Obama Bill Ayers told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly in an interview Monday that “I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.” Reacting to a line of questions
On June 30, the Supreme Court “gave the go-ahead” to a lawsuit that September 11, 2011, victims filed against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit alleges the Saudis “indirectly financed al-Qaeda in the years before the hijackings” and subsequent 9/11
