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.
Tunisian security forces arrested seven men for actively playing a role in the recruitment of Al Qaeda terrorists. The North African government claims to have completely dismantled the cell. TAP news agency, the official news agency of the Tunisian government,
CAIRO, Dec. 17 (UPI) — Members of the Hazemoun and Ahrar movements attacked people at cafes in Cairo, chanting “Sharia is lifestyle,” witnesses said. Several people were injured during Saturday’s attack, including political activists known for frequenting the cafes, witnesses
Nascent anti-Semitism is alive and well in Hungary, where 500,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. The Jobbik party, which is the third largest party in the Hungarian parliament, has openly used anti-Semitic slurs in its campaigns, and the leader
Late in the day on Friday, Dec. 14, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned his post after denying he would be resigning earlier in the day. Prior to his resignation, Lieberman had been indicted on charges of “fraud and breach
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Japan’s leadership shifts sharply right in a return to nationalism Assad bombs a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria Iran’s Ahmadinejad cancels visit to Turkey over Syria disagreements Reminder: Generational Dynamics World View available through
It looks as if pathological liar and long-time radical Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will be nominated for Secretary of State. But who is Kerry? Let’s begin in 1971, when Kerry, ironically speaking to the same Foreign Relations Committee which he
(Reuters) – Actor Gerard Depardieu, accused by French government leaders of trying to dodge taxes by buying a house over the border in Belgium, retorted that he was leaving because “success” was now being punished in his homeland. A popular
Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party looked to have secured a convincing majority in Sunday’s general election, broadcasters said. NHK, citing forecasts based on its own exit polls, said the LDP was likely to win 275 to 310 seats in the
(AP) Egypt rights groups say vote marred by violationsCAIROKey Egyptian rights groups are calling for a repeat of the first round of a constitutional referendum on grounds that the vote was marred by widespread violations. Representatives of the seven groups
Warplanes bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus on Sunday for the first time since the start of Syria’s more than 21-month conflict, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The air strike on Yarmuk was the sixth on
When the State Department revealed on Saturday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had fainted last week and suffered a concussion due to a stomach virus, the announcement left more questions than answers regarding Clinton’s health. Her absence will raise even more
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Memories of the slaughter at Beslan, North Ossetia Ukraine’s sale of weapons to Syria’s rebels backfires Troubled Afghanistan counter-insurgency projects are costly and ineffective Memories of the slaughter at Beslan, North Ossetia A man
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Michael Sneed is reporting that President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. This comes on the heels of Thursday’s announcement that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice had
As I wrote in an earlier post, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has a long history of opposing Israel at every turn in the road. But if that weren’t bad enough, his past also demonstrates a soft spot for Iran
(AP) – Egyptians took their quarrel over a draft constitution to polling stations Saturday after weeks of violent turmoil between the newly empowered Islamists and the mostly liberal opposition over the future identity of the nation. Regardless of the outcome,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fainted due to a stomach virus that left her dehydrated and suffered a concussion in the fall last week, the State Department revealed on Saturday. As a result, Clinton is not expected to testify next Thursday at the
Against the word of the interrogators who used “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terror suspects during the George W. Bush administration, Democrats in the Senate have released a report saying those techniques “did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs.” The report was
If former Sen. Chuck Hagel is truly to be Obama’s nominee for Sec. of Defense, we do ourselves a favor by vetting him well and vetting him now. In so doing, one of the first things that stands out are
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Outrage grows that U.S. did not jail anyone at HSBC bank for money laundering President Obama gives tear-filled statement about Newtown school shooting U.S. will send 400 troops with Patriot systems to Turkey-Syria border
This week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration as the next Secretary of State, while current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went from definitely testifying on Benghazi next week to a slightly less-certain “maybe” testifying on Benghazi
As first reported by Breitbart News, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R – UT) claims that the State Department is not telling Congress where the Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi are. Chaffetz appeared on
By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated PressPHOENIXThe family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched “Fast and Furious” gun operation. Agent Brian Terry was mortally wounded on Dec. 14, 2010, in a firefight north of the Arizona-Mexico
On December 11th, as North Korea was launching a rocket, the Obama administration’s top officials who deal with Asia were reportedly at various Washington, D.C. soirees, caught completely flat-footed by the rocket launch. According to Foreign Policy magazine, “the Obama administration’s Asia team
Nearly three months to the day since her Sunday morning talk-show comments sealed her political doom, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has yet to recant for blaming the Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video at a time when we already knew
(AP) Russia backtracks on statement about Assad’s fallBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVAssociated PressMOSCOWRussia issued a clumsy denial Friday of a statement from its point man on Syria, who said a day earlier that Syrian President Bashad Assad is losing control of the
