Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
The U.S. is enhancing the efforts of Mexican military officials in their fight against the Mexican drug cartels, and there is some concern that the enhanced techniques may not only lead to more human rights abuses by the Mexican military
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bulgaria blames Hizbollah for bus attack killing Israelis Lebanon promises to cooperate with Bulgaria’s investigation In escalation, China locks its ‘fire control radar’ on Japanese targets China accuses Japan of escalating dispute of Senkaku/Diaoyu
The White House said Tuesday that Barack Obama will visit Israel for the first time since traveling there as a presidential candidate in 2008. March 20th has been reported as the tentative date for the trip. After Benjamin Netanyahu won the
During Tuesday’s press briefing, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about a legal memo used by the Obama administration to justify drone strikes against American citizens. Carney gave a prepared response which was reminiscent of the “Bush Doctrine.” There
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) has released a report focusing on the evils of rendition, enhanced interrogation techniques, and, of course, George W. Bush. Regarding rendition and enhanced interrogation techniques, OSF says: 54 foreign governments reportedly participated in these
Criticizing Obama’s plan to provide Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi with F-16 fighter jets and “no less than 200 M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks,” retired Navy SEAL Capt. and co-founder of Special Operations Speaks Larry Bailey says there’s no way to
A Chinese official demanding a couple pay a fine for violating the country’s one-child policy crushed their 13-month-old boy to death with a car, a local spokesman said. Under China’s population controls, instituted more than 30 years ago, couples who
Riots broke out in several Bangladesh cities after a court sentenced a senior Islamist opposition official to life in prison for mass murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Abdul Quader Molla, 64, the fourth-highest leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami
Iran will attend fresh negotiations with world powers in Kazakhstan on February 26 over Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities, its top negotiator Saeed Jalili said in a statement released on Tuesday. The decision was made in a phone conversation earlier Tuesday
A Chinese military frigate locked its weapon-targeting radar on a Japanese navy vessel on at least one occasion, Japan’s defense minister said Tuesday, as the neighbors spar over territory.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak believes North Korea could detonate multiple devices when it goes ahead with a nuclear test expected in the coming weeks or even days. In an interview published Tuesday in the Chosun Ilbo daily, the outgoing
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Neo-Nazis in Greece and Germany establish mutual links Japan blanketed by suffocating smog from China Israel considers a 10-mile buffer zone within Syria Conspiracy theory alleges link between Jews and Muslim Brotherhood Neo-Nazis in
Anyone who watched Chuck Hagel’s lamentable performance before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week had to conclude that the man is inadequate at best and woeful at worst as the choice for the next Secretary of Defense. Here was
The U.S. Navy has cut fleet goals from 313 ships to 306. Much of this reduction is due to a cutback in the number of littoral combat ships (LCS), small vessels designed for shallow coastal engagements, which the Navy says aren’t
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is considering establishing a buffer between Israel and Syria. The buffer zone would reach “up to 10 miles inside Syria” and remain in place for a number of years. Although a security fence is being “erected
Despite allegations by President Obama that Hilary Clinton ranks among the greatest Secretaries of State the country has known, it is difficult to see any part of the world as being safer today than it was four years ago. The
(UPI) — One of the deadliest incidents in the history of the Mexican energy industry is unlikely to have much of a long-term effect, an analyst said. At least 34 people were killed in an explosion at the Mexico City
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Polish is second most spoken language in England Israel’s air strike into Syria raises regional tensions Thousands of migrants in Athens Greece apply to return home France protects uranium mines in Niger Polish is
Iran’s currency plummeted to an all-time low on Saturday, registering a more than 21-percent drop in a span of two weeks against the US dollar, currency tracking websites and money changers said. The rial was traded at between 39,000 and
The Israeli army said it arrested 25 Hamas members during the night in the West Bank, among them three parliamentarians, according to sources in the Islamist movement. The army said that “overnight 25 Palestinians were arrested all over the West
(AP) France targets Islamist bases in northern MaliBy ANGELA CHARLTONAssociated PressPARISNew French airstrikes targeted fuel depots and bases of Islamist extremists in northern Mali overnight, as the French military intervention turns away from cities and toward the radicals’ desert outposts
(AP) 22 killed in clash of Filipino extremists, rebelsBy JIM GOMEZAssociated PressMANILA, PhilippinesA Muslim rebel group said Monday it attacked Abu Sayyaf gunmen after the al-Qaida-linked militants refused to free hostages, sparking fierce jungle clashes that left up to 22
(AP) SKorea, US begin drills amid NKorea nuclear threatBy HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaSouth Korean and U.S. troops began naval drills Monday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon carry out
(AP) Egypt opposition: Police torture activist to deathCAIROAn Egyptian opposition party alleges that one of its activists has died of wounds sustained during police torture while in custody. It’s the latest case highlighting the brutality of the Egyptian police in
“Why shouldn’t Iran have Nuclear weapons?” Those were the disconcerting words from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) during a 2011 GOP debate in Iowa as the perennial presidential candidate gave Americans reason number one to not take him seriously as a candidate
