National Security

On May 18, Nigerian war planes “struck militant camps in the northeast” in an attempt to stem the growing tide of Islamic terrorists in the area. The U.S. quickly warned that Nigeria needs to be sure “to respect human rights

On Monday, former Rep. Ron Paul claimed Benghazi is the result of American “interventionism” and asserted that therefore neither Republicans nor Democrats are getting it right when they seek to explain the causes of the attacks.  Sounding a lot like

(AFP) – When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and

(AFP) – A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on Saturday on its Internet website. “One new case of novel coronavirus

(AFP) – Violence in Iraq killed eight people, including a police officer, his wife and two children, on Saturday, while gunmen kidnapped 10 security force personnel, officials said. Gunmen broke into the home of the administrator for the Rashid area,

(AP) – North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.

(AFP) – Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday. Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all

(AP) – Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women’s freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights

China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment. The world’s second largest economy “will not

Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal. The information did not include passwords and the kind

CBS News’s Sharyl Attkisson scored interviews with a number of anonymous White House officials who agreed to talk candidly about the Administration’s reaction to the September 11 terror attack in Libya. What they apparently refuse to talk about, though, is

While Friday’s Congressional hearings on the IRS were blowing that scandal up, the great Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News was putting another log on the Benghazi fire. In her Friday report, Attkisson was able to get a number of Obama

Ahlam Tamimi, “one of the world’s most renown(ed) female terrorists,” is now touring Arab media, taking advantage of her “expertise” in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in April. Tamimi regularly speaks to provide “insight on how Muslims–both male and

While the IRS was targeting the Tea Party and other domestically-focused conservatives, they were allegedly targeting foreign policy groups like Secure America Now (SAN) as well. At the time that they were “singled out for special scrutiny the [IRS],” SAN

(AP) Russian and American spies square offBy ADAM GOLDMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that, even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in an espionage battle with

Honduras is “open” to diplomatic relations with China, despite decades of ties to Beijing’s bitter rival Taiwan, Foreign Minister Mireya Aguero said. Aguero added that opening ties to Beijing would allow Honduras to better achieve its “objectives in international relations,”

Up to 50 people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong’s light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor.

In openly displaying his homosexuality while serving as an Orthodox rabbi, Ron Yosef has broken a major taboo in the closed religious world that he inhabits. Although May 17 is to be marked International Day Against Homophobia, the biblical stance

UN chief Ban Ki-moon was to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as global pressure grows on Moscow to end arms supplies to the Syrian regime and drop its support for President Bashar al-Assad. Ban was to have separate

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Obama and Turkey PM Erdogan hold bizarre press conference Nigeria’s president launches major war against Boko Haram terrorists Obama and Turkey PM Erdogan hold bizarre press conference Prime Minister Erdogan and President Obama on

I just finished one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, which tells the story of Ambassador William Dodd, President Roosevelt’s first Ambassador to Hitler.  The book chronicles the

(AP) JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. A military judge, Army Col. David Conn, found Sgt.

Obstreperous unions, an embedded welfare, system and incompetent civil servants have been obvious impediments to austerity in Europe, but the real problem with austerity is that it is a dumb idea.  Economic growth is necessary to get deficits down and

(AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in New York Thursday promoting the Keystone XL pipeline, the $5.3 billion project that would move oil from the province of Alberta to the US heartland. Washington is expected to decide soon