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
The United Nations international nuclear inspection team arrived in Iran Sunday to visit the country’s nuclear facilities. Iranian state media is reporting the inspectors will visit two separate sites in the coming days. ‘Most of the seven-step procedural agreement between
On May 4th the Syrian supreme constitutional court announced three candidates had been “accepted” to run for the office of the presidency – among them current Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The other two candidates are Maher Abdul-Hafiz Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri,
The “Interoceanic Grand Canal” (IGC) is about to be dug across Nicaragua to compete with the Panama Canal by as early as 2019. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega granted a 100-year concession to the Hong Kong Nicaragua
The UN Committee Against Torture began its questioning of the Holy See Monday morning in Geneva. So far, the questions have focused on a number of controversial topics including the sexual abuse of minors and Catholic opposition to abortion, both
The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast. There was no comment about whether the
Israel’s jails, especially its maximum security prisons, employ cutting-edge technology to prevent contraband – drugs, cell phones and weapons – from being smuggled in. Recent reports in the Palestinian and international media, however, point to a new challenge: Palestinian women
The leader of Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has vowed to sell the more-than-200 Nigerian schoolgirls his group abducted “on the market,” insisting in a new video that “Allah says” the girls should be sold and married
The new Palestinian unity government hosted a military funeral last week for a suicide bomber responsible for killing 15 innocent civilians, including two Americans. The suicide attack took place at a Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem in 2001. Two United
On May 5th the Center for Security Policy released a letter in which “sixteen influential former leaders of the U.S. military” express strong opposition to a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment that will “open service in the armed forces
The U.N. is cracking down – on the Vatican. A U.N. committee said Monday that the numerous cases of sex abuse by priests should be prosecuted and dealt with by the Vatican as cases of torture. The committee wanted to know why the
Venezuela, under the socialist regime of President Nicolás Maduro, boasts the second highest murder rate in the world, and tensions in that country fueled by the military’s violence against unarmed protesters threaten to worsen the situation as the nation is
Kenyan legislators passed a new law legalizing polygamy countrywide. The parliamentary measure, which passed in March, allows men to marry multiple wives. Previously, men were restricted to one spouse. Last week, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta signed the measure into law,
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry is reporting four soldiers were killed after a shootout in Sloviansk. Pro-Russian forces have a stronghold on Sloviansk since mid-April, but the Ukrainian army has pushed back and gained control of at least nine checkpoints. However, Interior
A private bank in Mariupol, Ukraine was the first non-government building attacked by the pro-Russian forces. The violence forced PrivatBank to close regional branches in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast. Billionaire Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Ihor Kolomoisky owns the banks. PrivatBank stated
On November 4, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama said, “Change has come to America.” That change is most evident today in voters’ opinion of the benefits of United States world involvement. The newest Wall Street Journal/NBC surveys “portray a public weary of
In an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described the crisis in Ukraine as “a global problem concerning Asia,” one which he intends his government to be heavily involved in solving. Abe, who is in Spain
On May 2nd, Syrian rebels and the government reached a truce in Homs that would give rebels time to “withdraw” from the city. According to the BBC, “rebels will be allowed to pull back to opposition-held areas north of Homs.”
The Malaysian Inspector General of Police, Khalid Bakar, says the recent arrests of “11 alleged militants” is not connected to the disappearance of Flight MH370. According to NBC News, the suspects were “[detained] in the Kedah and Selangor regions last
The eleven suspects arrested and questioned over a potential al Qaeda link to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are alleged to be part of a new terror ring in Malaysia and have denied any involvement in the mystery
The Ukrainian government’s new initiative against pro-Russian militants in the east of the nation is beginning to yield results, according to a BBC report claiming that militants are beginning to retreat from Sloviansk after the government regained control of nine
Pakistan’s intelligence agency (ISI) has a controversial history of assisting terrorists, including the Taliban and al-Qaida. Now, the Times of India is reporting that Pakistan’s ISI has plans to conduct terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India, including the U.S. consulate in Chennai
Even during the peak of Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations, Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi said that Palestinians would not abandon violence as a potential means. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), Tirawi said that negotiations are just one option and do not replace
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Japan’s pacifist constitution limits much military activity Japan debates ‘collective self-defense’ to protect America and Japan Japan’s pacifist constitution limits much military activity After the end of World War II, Japan adopted a ‘pacifist’constitution,
As reported by NPR, it’s the national sport watched by enthusiastic fans, it involves the use of animal hide, and the object is to score a goal. It’s Buzkashi, where the “ball” is a goat with its head and hooves
(AFP) — Four Ukrainian troops were killed and 30 wounded in intense fighting around the rebel-held town of Slavyansk on Monday, the interior ministry said. The ministry added that the pro-Russian gunmen controlling the town were using civilians as human
