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
SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s acting government issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for
On February 22nd, former world chess champion and political activist Garry Kasparov intimated that if Barack Obama had been president instead of Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union would still exist. Kasparov was born in the Soviet Union in 1963. He
The Taliban in Afghanistan said Sunday they have cut off any “mediation” with the United States in which their captive U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be exchanged for five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Protests in Caracas threaten both Venezuela and Cuba Mass murderer Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has 90th birthday Russia on top of the world as Sochi Olympics games end Protests in Caracas threaten both Venezuela
The violent repression of anti-socialist student activists in Venezuela continues, with Nicolás Maduro increasingly desperate to quell the uprising against his post-Chávez regime. While rallies around the world called for an end to the violence, the death toll rose to
WAM BEIJING, 23rd Feb. 2014 (WAM) — China overtook India as the world’s largest gold consumer for the first time in 2013, official data showed. China’s gold consumption hit 1,176 tonnes in 2013, up 41.4 percent, as declining gold prices
On Saturday, Ukraine’s parliament passed a resolution that kicked out President Viktor Yanukovich and set new elections on May 25, but it also voted out many department heads, while other posts resigned. Now Ukrainians need to structure a new government
It is finally calm in Ukraine’s capital Kiev after three months of active protests, but the Crimean peninsula is heating up. Protesters gathered in Sevastopol in Crimea to demonstrate against the actions of parliament in Kiev and declare their plans
LONDON (AP) — Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest-known survivor of the Holocaust, died Sunday morning in London at age 110, a family member said. Herz-Sommer’s devotion to the piano and to her son sustained her through two years
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev weighed in on the political crisis in Ukraine and said it occurred because the country’s government did not act democratically. “Ultimately this is the result of the failure of the government to act democratically” and
Lamp fittings worth tens of millions of euros, money transfers for vast sums, lists of critical journalists: more evidence of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s pampered lifestyle and paranoia emerged on Sunday. As parliament voted to handover his lavish private
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be nervous after the recent unrest in Ukraine, and a partition of the country would be unacceptable. Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation after a peace deal in which
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President George W. Bush says his focus on a new initiative helping returning veterans also aids him emotionally. The George W. Bush Institute and Syracuse University are undertaking a study on issues affecting veterans who have
On Sunday on CBS’s Face The Nation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that recent events around the world show that President Barack Obama is the most naive president during his life in public service. Host Bob Schieffer asked McCain to
Secretary of State John Kerry had some stern words for the socialist leadership of Venezuela yesterday, warning that the violent repression of the opposition was “unacceptable.” President Nicolás Maduro took to Twitter this weekend to denounce “insolent” “threats of violence”
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave his new cardinals what amounted to a code of conduct : “no intrigue, gossip, power pacts, favoritism.” Francis also urged the 19 men he elevated to cardinal a day earlier to
Ukraine’s parliament sprang into action on Sunday and voted their speaker Oleksandr Turchynov interim president until elections are held on May 25. They passed a resolution on Saturday that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and called for early elections on May
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Freed Yulia Tymoshenko gives passionate speech to Ukraine’s opposition crowds Ukraine protesters storm Yanukovych’s secret palace President Obama draws another line, and tells Ukraine not to cross it Freed Yulia Tymoshenko gives passionate speech
Now that the Ukrainian opposition has toppled the government, the leaked telephone conversation between the U.S. Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, in which the latter told him to “f— the E.U.,” has taken
2013 was a banner year for uncalled for expansion of China’s borders, from the Senkaku Islands Air Identification Defense Zone to a state TV show claiming the entirety of the Philippines for China. But on the economic front, China plans
Human Rights Foundation Chairman Garry Kasparov has been a consistent voice against the aggression of Russian premier Vladimir Putin, and on Thursday night on Twitter he made his dissatisfaction with Obama’s passive approach to the situation in Ukraine strikingly clear: “How
On February 18th, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel misrepresented the Obama administration’s position on Iran by telling “a Jewish congregation at a Maryland synagogue” that Obama has the same position Bush had on Iran and nuclear weapons. He said the Obama
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan, Feb 22 (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban told the government there was no chance of peace in the country unless Pakistan changed its political and legal system and officially embraced Islamic law. The government of
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel who was the world’s most powerful drug lord was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, The Associated Press had learned, ending a bloody
Iraq’s defence ministry on Saturday announced a 72-hour halt to military operations in the city of Fallujah, which has been held by anti-government militants since January.
