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
On Wednesday, the National Geographic Society announced that they would be altering the global map to include Crimea in the map of Russia after Crimea’s secession from Ukraine is legally finalized. On Tuesday, National Geographic editorial leadership, led by geographer
After Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, the government said they would seize all Ukrainian property and disband the Ukrainian military in the peninsula. They are keeping their word, as Crimean forces took control of Ukraine’s Navy headquarters
On Tuesday evening, Loyola University of Chicago became the first Catholic institution, and the first from the state of Illinois, whose student government has passed an anti-Israel divestment resolution. The resolution, which a source says was not announced in advance,
As part of the “Harvard College Israel Trek 2014,” some of Harvard’s students recently visited the grave of former PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat. The students even posed for a photo-op next to Arafat’s grave in Ramallah. #Harvard students posing, smiling
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Putin announces the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation Furious Vladimir Putin expresses contempt for the West Putin’s spokesman signals plans to invade eastern Ukraine Report: Chechnya terrorist leader Doku Umarov is dead
First the White House meddled in the healthcare industry, and now it is telling people how to invest. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told investors not to invest in any Russian stocks since the US imposed economic sanctions against
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could be anywhere within a 7.68 million square kilometer area, authorities said Tuesday, leaving a mass of land and sea the size of Australia in which the plane could be found. According to Reuters, Malaysian
From the Daily Mail: A satellite image appears to show the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the skies above a jungle. The image is taken from Tomnod, the map search website currently being used by hundreds of thousands of
On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests
While in Poland on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden claimed that as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he led the fight for Poland’s entry into NATO-an event that occurred before his chairmanship. “Fifteen years ago, I was honored, as
A Dearborn resident was arrested Sunday night and charged with providing material support to the Shi’ite terrorist group Hizballah. Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, who was born in Lebanon and has been living in the United States since 2007, tried to travel
A web of bureaucratic requirements are preventing a fleet of aircraft from flying over Indonesian airspace to find missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, according to a report from the BBC. Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes visited Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to find
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told radio station Europe 1 the G8 decided to suspend Russia from the forum, but the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan said no agreement was made. “As for G8, we decided to suspend Russia’s membership,”
Now that Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the east part of the country is worried they will be Russia’s next target. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is not the only one who threatens Ukraine in the east. Pro-Russians have been
In the aftermath of Vladimir Putin’s Russian annexation of Crimea – and in the wake of the Obama administration’s tepid response, amounting to a slap on the wrist directed at a specific few individuals who seem less than perturbed by
On Tuesday, gunmen opened fire on a Ukrainian base in Simferopol, Crimea and one Ukrainian soldier was reportedly killed after he was shot in the neck. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said it was an act of war. “The conflict
With the resurgence of a Cold War sensibility in Europe and the U.S. now that Russia has annexed Crimea, it is getting hotter for Westerners living in Russia. Many foreign business leaders and ex-patriots living in Moscow are beginning to
A new twist has emerged in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, as a newspaper in the Indian Ocean nation of the Malvides has reported that residents of the remote island of Kuda Huvadhoo report having seen
One month after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro arrested Popular Will opposition party leader Leopoldo López for leading a protest against the government’s socialist policies, Venezuelan protesters plan a day of marches and demands for justice after hundreds have been arrested
On March 18th, Ukrainian troops at a base in Crimea reported they were surrounded and under attack by Russian troops. At least one Ukrainian has reportedly been killed and another wounded. According to The Jerusalem Post, Russians forces are demanding
A Malaysian newspaper is reporting that authorities have found five runways in the Indian Ocean on a flight simulator kept by the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370– including one in the Maldives, where reports have surfaced of locals
Vice President Joe Biden is in Poland to discuss the tense situation between Ukraine and Russia. At the same time Russia President Vladimir Putin signed the decree officially recognizing Crimea’s independence from Ukraine and then claimed it as a Russia
Ukraine’s Western-backed prime minister said on Tuesday that his country’s conflict with Russia was entering a “military stage” following claims by Kiev that one of its officers was shot and wounded in Crimea. Ukraine’s navy chief Sergiy Gayduk said earlier
FBI agents arrested a 20-year-old convert to Islam at the Canadian border early Monday morning as he tried to cross into Canada. Nicholas Teausant, who now goes by the name Assad, hoped to get to Syria to fight alongside the
Russia sent Crimea the first of what will most likely be several checks after the peninsula voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, the amount totaling $414,550,645.45. Crimeans expressed frustration with Kiev, and they hope to prosper financially under Russia. They
