National Security

The United States issued a security alert for the Philippine capital of Manila on Friday, warning its citizens they could be the target of an unspecified attack. The US embassy in Manila released a statement calling for US citizens to

Yesterday, we learned that within 24 hours of something they would spend nine days describing as a “spontaneous” protest gone bad, the Obama Administration itself designated the attack on our Libyan consulate as a terrorist attack. And yet, days later, Obama

U.S. Intelligence agencies say they knew the Libyan attacks were acts of terrorism within 24 hours of their occurrence, and Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) says the situation surrounding the attacks raises a lot of questions. In fact, on the heels

Yesterday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly–a snub that underscores the Obama administration’s hostility towards the Israeli government. It was not the first time that Rice, under

France presents its 2013 budget Friday with President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government set to boost taxes on the rich and businesses in a bid to hit tough deficit-reduction targets. Presenting his first annual budget since being elected in May, Hollande’s

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will unveil a draft budget for 2013 on Monday which will cut deeper into public spending to impress international lenders but also prolong the economic pain of the Greek people. Athens is keen to see its

By PAN PYLASAP Business WriterLONDONMarket trading proved volatile Friday _ the last working day of the quarter _ as investors continued to fret over Spain. Trading is often complicated at the quarter’s end as it is the deadline for certain

Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, said Friday it will open its first outlet in India next month as it seeks to tap the beverage’s growing popularity in a country famed for its love of tea. Seattle-based Starbucks, which has

The trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler and a Vatican computer technician for leaking secret papers starting on Saturday has no precedent since the Holy See became a sovereign state in 1929. The 19th-century courtroom where the trial takes

(AP) BERLINGermany’s Finance Ministry says Berlin and Paris have jointly appealed to the European Union’s executive to prepare the introduction of a tax on financial transactions. The proposal has failed to secure a majority within the 27-nation EU. Germany and France

By BRADLEY BROOKS and JULIANA BARBASSAAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIROThe arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed

Seemingly disparate calls for enforcement mechanisms to encourage “religious tolerance” throughout the world are slowing but surely coalescing around the pursuit of laws banning criticism of Islam or Mohammed.  We’ve seen this approach to speech in Islamist countries, where criticism

The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan has come and gone, and not much has changed since Obama initiated it in 2009, according to data released by NATO. The Taliban’s momentum has not been stopped and attacks on our troops are

ROME (Reuters) – Two of Italy’s biggest unions have called a strike by public sector workers on Friday to protest against spending cuts enacted by Prime Minister Mario Monti in his attempts to pull the country out of crisis. The

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com At U.N., Israel’s Netanyahu says that Israel will live forever Palestinian president Abbas launches blistering attack on Israel Iran’s Ahmadinejad awaits the arrival of the Mahdi More on the Sunni versus Shia television debate

The United States is withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Tripoli, some two weeks after cutting personnel to emergency levels following an attack on its consulate, officials said Thursday. Most American diplomatic staff had already been withdrawn from the

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans lashed out at President Barack Obama and senior administration officials over their evolving description of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a late campaign-season broadside challenging the veracity and leadership of

If you think depraved school boards only exist in the United States, wait until you hear about Toronto, Canada’s. On the Toronto District School Board website there is a section that encourages children to not only experiment with sex toys

The wheels appear to be coming off a two week attempt by the Obama Administration to cover up its fatal security failures at our consulate in Libya and to cover up the very fact that this was a successful pre-planned

Tammy Duckworth, Iraq War veteran and Democratic nominee for Congress in the 8th district of Illinois, said today that U.S. Marines should have guarded the consulate in Benghazi, Libya–not private military contractors. Duckworth was asked about the issue while greeting

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas took to the podium at the UN General Assembly today and proceeded to blast Israel as an “occupier” and a human rights violator. He accused Israel of racism against Arabs – an absurd charge, considering

President Obama is too busy to meet with Israeli PM Netanyahu, but he appears to have plenty of time to campaign in Virginia. Obama left the White House at 10 a.m. Thursday to return at 2 p.m., all for one campaign

This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium at the General Assembly of the United Nations – and once again, he gave an impassioned speech outlining the history and values of the Jewish State, and explaining in

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says nothing could imperil the world more than a nuclear armed Iran. Speaking Thursday before the United nations, Netanyahu warned of the danger posed by Iran going nuclear. Netanyahu has repeatedly

Over at the corrupt Politico, Josh Gerstein has discovered video of Obama’s morning-after admission that what happened two weeks ago in Libya was “terror.” But as you would expect from the corrupt Politico, Gerstein is spinning his find as some