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
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine’s ‘separatist’ talk threatens ethnic Tatars U.S. expels three Venezuela diplomats in tit-for-tat reprisal Nigeria’s Boko Haram kills 39 school students after army mysteriously withdraws China considers two new anti-Japanese national holidays Ukraine’s ‘separatist’
Of the 27 confirmed panels at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) annual policy conference, only 1 is vaguely dedicated to foreign policy. The panel titled, “What Should be America’s Place in the World in 2017…After Obama?” leaves us with
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s violent repression of student protesters has been so egregious that socialist members of his own party are turning against him. A longtime Party member and governor of one of the more afflicted regions of Venezuela called
Ukraine port city Sevastopol in the Crimean peninsula voted in Aleksei Chaliy, a Russian citizen, as mayor while Kiev is busy implementing a new government. Crimea’s residents protested against the ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovich and declared their plans
More than one hundred of Venezuela’s most prominent beauty queens have founded a group to protest the government’s inability to stop and, in many cases, propensity to foment violence in their country. “Misses4Peace” released a video with messages attacking the
Among former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s many illuminating “rules” is his trenchant observation that “weakness is provocative.” Indeed, the accelerating instability we see worldwide is, in no small measure, a product of the weakness being communicated at every turn
After publishing some 1,300 weekly columns over the past twenty-five years at the Washington Times, former senior Reagan Defense Department official and national security advocate Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. begins today writing each week a column for the Breitbart News
A prominent Al Jazeera anchor with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement praising the murders of police officers and advocating attacks on journalists who stand with Egypt’s current government. Ahmed Mansour’s statement was reported Saturday on the
Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov warned separatism and infighting put a united Ukraine at risk. Kiev is facing retaliation from the Crimean peninsula and disagreements within the opposition. Parliament hoped to have a new government by the 25th, but pushed
On February 23rd, Fox News released a poll showing that “66 percent” of Americans want Congress to continue investigating Benghazi. Published in The Washington Times, the poll shows strong American support–across the political spectrum–for such an investigation. The poll asked:
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia says Ukraine chaos is a ‘real threat’ to its interests Ukraine says that it needs a $35 billion bailout Bitter dispute with troika over Greece’s bailout needs Russia says Ukraine chaos is a
The website of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange MtGox went down on Tuesday after the value of the virtual unit sank to about a quarter of that on other platforms and Japanese regulators said they were unable to step in. Visitors to
It was, as Sherlock Holmes might have said, the mystery of the dog that didn’t bark. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched a major airstrike Monday night on a Hezbollah base and other targets on the Syria-Lebanon border, destroying what
On Monday, Ukraine’s parliament sprung to action and filled two important posts. They appointed Oleg Makhnitski, a lawmaker with Svoboda (Freedom) Party, as the prosecutor general and Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a lawmaker with the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms party, as the
Some good came out of a very violent week in Kiev, Ukraine. David and Lisa Bundy of Montgomery, AL, traveled to Kiev during the worst week of the three month protest to pick up four orphans they adopted. Their apartment
Janet Yellen, newly confirmed Federal Reserve (Fed) chair, announced February 19th that America’s central bank is moving to cut off the massive financial lifeline that has been subsidizing the European banking system since the beginning of the global financial crisis in
A Gallup poll released February 24th shows that a majority of Americans do not believe Obama is respected on the world stage. According to Gallup, 53 percent of respondents said “leaders of other countries around the world” do not respect
The Egyptian army is conducting a wide military operation in the Sinai to crack down on Islamic movements that use the area as a launching pad for terrorist operations. As part of that campaign, soldiers have exchanged fire with a
While saying it “hears” Ukraine’s dream of joining the EU, the Western bloc failed Monday to hold out the prospect of entry in spite of regime change that began with pro-EU protests. As the bloc’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton
The Naval War College released a massive amount of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’s operational diaries from World War II on Monday. The 4,000 page “Graybook” collection, funded by the Naval War College Foundation, details Nimitz’s experience as commander of the U.S.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has a heap of problems: images of his thugs attacking unarmed protesters across the globe, John Kerry’s “concern” about his disregard for human rights, and his only friend being Bashar Al-Assad. But Maduro has chosen to attack
On February 20 the Ukrainian Gun Owners Association announced its push for constitutional protections of “an unconditional right” for “Ukrainian citizens to bear arms.” On February 24, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt told Breitbart News, “We should go
The Ukraine Gun Owners Association wants the new government to add their own right to bear arms to the country’s constitution. As of today Ukrainian Gun Owners Association will start to work on the preparation of amendments to the Constitution,
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia doubts the new Ukraine government and said he did not see any legitimate authority figures to talk to. Parliament passed a resolution on Saturday that ousted Viktor Yanukovich from the presidency and set
Ukraine issued an arrest warrant for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych on Monday as the country’s new rulers launched a probe over the “mass murder” of protesters in a week of carnage in Kiev.
