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
WASHINGTON (AP) — The three-star Army general who has headed the Defense Intelligence Agency for less than two years is being nudged aside amid conflict within the agency and between the general and leaders elsewhere in the intelligence community, a
Secretary of State John Kerry told a private meeting that the US intercepted orders from Moscow that prove Russia is behind the violence in east Ukraine. “We know exactly who’s giving those orders, we know where they are coming from,”
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse, his lawyer said Wednesday. Dennis Morris said he spoke to Ford earlier Wednesday and said Ford has accepted that he has
According to a World Bank report released Wednesday morning, the United States is on the cusp of losing its economic global supremacy for the first time since it took the crown from the United Kingdom in 1872. However, after its
The arrest of IRA Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for questioning in the 1972 murder of a widow is a new twist in the career of a political figure praised by American politicians for his role in the Northern Ireland
Last night I received a last-minute invitation to a lunch today with Vladimir Putin’s representative to Washington. I paused for a moment and then said, fine, let’s hear about the Kremlin’s version of the Ukraine crisis from a genuine source.
Egypt’s foreign minister Nabil Fahmy is defending his country’s sentencing “of nearly 700 people to death, many of them members or supporters of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.” Fahmy is currently touring the U.S. and spoke to NPR’s All Things Considered (ATC)
BEIJING (AP) — An explosion rocked a railway station in China’s restive far-western region of Xinjiang, and the state broadcaster said three people were killed and 79 people were injured. The attack Wednesday came as President Xi Jinping wrapped up
The European Union undercut the United States’ sanctions against Russia by failing to match America’s April 28th sanctions against 17 high-tech companies that are directly owned or controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although the EU issued “enhanced” sanctions against
When the media reported the assassination attempt on Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes, they forgot to mention he is Jewish. Kernes was shot in the back when he was going through his regular morning exercises. Kharkiv’s spokeswoman told reporters, “It was most
TROUT RIVER, Newfoundland, April 29 (UPI) — The rotting stench of a bloated blue whale has residents of Trout River, Canada, worried. The dead whale washed ashore more than a week ago and has since doubled in size — its
This afternoon, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations will vote on whether to admit J Street as a member of the 51 member conference. J Street’s hostile policy stances regarding Israel continue to generate controversy across the political
From NetRight Daily: The latest polling in the United Kingdom has shown a surge by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to take the lead in the upcoming European parliamentary elections. UKIP leads with 31 percent support, the Labour Party with 28
Radical Islamist groups fighting in Syria continue to conduct atrocities and executions. Now, reports indicate that extremists fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have publicly crucified two Syrian rebels. The executions allegedly took place in Raqqa, a
From the BBC: Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has been arrested by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. Mrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother of 10, was abducted from her flat in the
Fourteen people have died, and Islamist militants threaten to attack as many others as they can, but the national elections go on nonetheless in Iraq today, as voters return to the polls for the first time since the United States
On April 30, the Sultan of Brunei announced “a controversial new penal code” based on sharia law. According to AFP the penal code is being introduced one phase at a time and will eventually “include flogging, amputation, and death by stoning
“It’s like hearing of the return of the slave trade,” the father of two girls abducted by Islamist terror group Boko Haram said of the ordeal. As more than two hundred girls remain missing after a kidnapping this month, reports
WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in the number of aggressive al-Qaida affiliates and like-minded groups the Middle East and North Africa poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and allies, the State Department said Wednesday in reporting a more than
The ties that bind communist Cuba to socialist Venezuela grow stronger and stronger, as President Nicolás Maduro orders the delivery of twenty million communist textbooks from Cuba to Venezuelan schools. The books teach that a Cuban woman breastfed founding father
James Kottak, drummer for the legendary hair metal band The Scorpions, has been arrested in Dubai for a number of charges stemming from several drinks in which he partook at Dubai’s airport on the way to Bahrain: insulting Islam, raising
Although Kuwait supports the U.S. in aiding “besieged Syrian civilians,” they have also become “the leading source of funding for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists fighting in Syria’s civil war.” According to The Washington Post, experts have said that “the amount of money
As the Obama administration works to bring Japan and South Korea into better relations, China casts a large shadow over the efforts. The administration points to North Korea as the ostensive impetus for these efforts, but fear of China’s growing
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Proof that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad used chlorine on civilians Kerry says that Russia’s Sergei Lavrov is ‘Kafka-esque’ Deadline expires for Kerry’s Mideast peace talks Russia closes the Sea of Okhotsk to Japan and China
Americans no longer trust President Obama’s “lackadaisical” approach to foreign policy and would rather the United States diminish its presence in global affairs, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Forty-seven percent of Americans responded to the poll
