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(AP) General strike in Greece over state TV closureATHENS, GreeceUnions in Greece are holding a general strike following the closure of state-run TV and radio which has divided the government coalition. Thursday’s protest called by Greece’s two largest unions disrupted

(AP) Death toll rises to 5 in Turkey protestsANKARA, TurkeyA lawyer says a protester injured during clashes with Turkish riot police has died, raising the death toll to five from the two-week standoff between police and activists that has challenged

A week ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Germany, leaders are so outraged over the news of internet spying that at least one is comparing it to East German Stasi tactics.  According to Reuters, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Iran seeks to avoid repeat of humiliating 2009 election Reform candidate Rouhani advances in Iran’s presidential polls Prism revelation is already damaging national security Syrian rebels changing strategy after disastrous Qusair loss Iran seeks

The Obama administration has an infamous history of questionable Islamist outreach, as noted here, here and here. These outreach efforts have been engaged by the highest levels of the Department of Justice (DOJ), resulting in decisions affecting potential prosecutions of Islamist leaders and closing ranks with other Islamist leaders

Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell resigned from the agency on Wednesday and will join President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Morell signed off on the now-infamous Benghazi talking points–the version without references to “jihadi activity” in and around the Benghazi area.

As a direct offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas shares a similar ideological outlook and political affinity with its historical patron. Hamas has long been accused of coordinating with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising, yet the

The revelation that the National Security Agency is tracking every phone call each American makes, and broadly mining internet data puts President Obama at the center of yet another controversy. He and supporters in the Republican leadership, not Edward Snowden,

Gunfire broke out at a paramilitary barracks in the Niger capital Niamey, residents said, with sporadic shots lasting for about an hour. Sporadic gunfire could be heard an hour later, and then the sounds of shooting stopped. Military and government

A high-profile Australian political candidate apologised on Wednesday for a menu at one of his fundraisers featuring a quail dish named after Prime Minister Julia Gillard which had “small breasts” and “huge thighs”. Former government minister Mal Brough, now an

Bombshell revelations about the United States’ wide-reaching surveillance programmes could spur China and other countries to expand their own efforts, Beijing-based dissident Ai Weiwei warned on Wednesday. America’s huge dragnet of Internet and phone data, exposed in recent days through

(AP) Turkish PM to meet Istanbul park protestersANKARA, TurkeyTurkey’s prime minister is scheduled to meet with a group of activists protesting over re-development of an Istanbul park that has sparked the country’s biggest anti-government protests in decades. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s

Japan’s human rights envoy to the United Nations was Wednesday facing calls to quit over a video which showed him shouting at fellow diplomats to “shut up”. YouTube footage of the incident at the UN torture committee in Geneva has

Libyan Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Youssef al-Mangoush resigned on Sunday, June 9, following violence on Saturday that took 31 lives in Benghazi. According to ABC News, the violence started when protesters stormed the grounds of a largely Islamist

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Déjà vu in Turkey as riots threaten Erdogan regime Greece’s disaster du jour: Privatization of natural gas firm collapses Greece’s citizens shocked when state broadcaster is shut down Déjà vu in Turkey as riots

What do Chinese government whistleblowers have in common with Marilyn Monroe, Gennifer Flowers, Camilla Parker Bowles, Lucy Mercer, and Monica Lewinsky? That’s correct; they are all mistresses. Many mistresses of government officials in China are causing an upheaval with revelations destroying the

Obama administration officials are meeting this week to decide if its time for the U.S. to arm rebels in Syria with lethal weapons.  According to a Fox News report, part and parcel to this is a parallel question of whether

While superficially similar, the protests in Istanbul’s Taksim Square are quite different from those in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which brought down Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011. In Turkey, the Islamist party is already in power; in Cairo it had been

VATICAN CITY, June 11 (UPI) — Pope Francis has confirmed there is a “gay lobby” inside the Vatican, a Catholic website reported. Reports of such a group in the Curia have circulated for months and may have been a consideration

(AP) – The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the students in this case were al-Qaida fighters in Mali. And the

The U.S. intelligence community is doing something about al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine; they’re sabotaging it. The magazine, which offers first-person accounts of terrorist acts, inspirational messages for jihadists, and do-it-yourself advice, which accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed gave him

If you’re dead, try to avoid flying Russian airlines. That’s the message after a Russian airplane, iFly Airbus A330-300, made seven flights with a corpse in its wheel well. The man’s body went undiscovered until maintenance crews noticed blood stains

With all the attention going to the multitude of scandals swirling around the Obama administration right now, some may not have noticed that the Benghazi terrorists are still on the loose. In fact, one couldn’t be criticized for having forgotten

The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country’s ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports. A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other