National Security

(AP) China: Politician’s wife admitted murdering BritBy SCOTT McDONALDAssociated PressBEIJINGThe wife of a disgraced top Chinese politician was a depressed woman on medication but a willful murderer who poisoned a British businessman while in fear for her son’s life, official

Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and ran outside lest I be sick in consecrated ground. I walked in several more times

(AP) US prepares new sanctions on Assad regimeBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressACCRA, GhanaThe Obama administration is readying new sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and its allies as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads to Turkey for weekend

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese data dealt policymakers fresh blows on Friday as trade and new bank lending suggested pro-growth policies have been slow to gain traction and more urgent action may be needed to stabilize the economy.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China blames loss of Olympics gold on colonialism Countries panic-buying food as world food prices surge 5th anniversary of first bailout Egypt-Israel agreement remains intact, amid military buildup in Sinai Pakistan’s Imran Khan threatened

(AP) Kaspersky: We’ve found new virus linked to StuxnetLONDONComputer security firm Kaspersky says it has discovered a new batch of malicious software linked to the infrastructure-wrecking Stuxnet virus. In a statement Thursday the Moscow-based company said it had found a

There was another in a series of cross-border attacks from Egypt into Israel Sunday evening, where the borders of Israel, Egypt and Gaza converge. Gunmen in SUV’s with mounted machine guns first attacked a military installation on the Egyptian side

Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir regime, with the endorsement of the U.N.’s Africa Group, is now poised to take a seat on the U.N. Humans Rights Council for which it is running unopposed. A situation shocking human rights organizations around the globe.

Aly Raisman, the Jewish-American gymnast who won two gold medals in London, honored the massacred Israelis from the 1972 Munich Olympics when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would not, saying, “If there had been a moment’s silence,” Raisman said, ”

The anti-Semitism flowing out of Egypt is beyond palpable, as we now have Sallah Sultan, an Islamist cleric in Egypt, preaching sermons about “[thirsting] for the blood of the Jews” and accusing the Jews of using girls infected with AIDS

REUTERS- The woman at the centre of China’s most politically explosive trial in three decades did not contest charges of murder on Thursday in a hearing that lasted just seven hours and could determine the fate of former Politburo member

According to AP reports, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad just made his first television appearance in nearly three weeks. The appearance was designed to show “solidarity with an Iranian envoy,” and it comes as the U.S. is pressing all its allies to

With the Arab Spring having come and gone, one lasting gift it gave to Egypt was Muslim Brotherhood member new President Mohamed Morsi.  In return, Morsi has given the people more Islamists in places of power, like PM Hisham Qandil.

Throughout his year, opinions have gone back and forth as to when Israel will attack Iran to stop off a major terror attack on the Jewish state. In the Spring, it seemed the attack could come at any moment, then

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Weekend attack in Sinai considered a national tragedy for Egypt Europeans take extraordinary measures to keep Greece from bankruptcy Weekend attack in Sinai considered a national tragedy for Egypt Mohamed Morsi (AP) Last weekend

On July 17, I had a post that looked at French President Francois Hollande’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthy by placing a 45% tax on all incomes between 72,000 and 1 million euros, and a 75% tax on

In an effort to keep Afghan peace talks from the going the way of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks, the Obama administrations has decided to negotiate with Taliban allies in Pakistan. Moreover, they’ve told those Taliban allies that if they will release

In another impressive display of federal oversight, New York’s top banking regulator threatened to strip U.K. bank Standard Chartered  PLC of its license to do business in the state, alleging that the bank illegally handled at least $250 billion in

Seven competitors from Cameroon have gone missing at the London Olympics and British police have been informed, a spokeswoman for Games organisers LOCOG confirmed Wednesday. The Cameroon team informed LOCOG that the competitors had left the Athletes’ Village on the

(AP) Egypt airstrikes target militants in SinaiBy AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressEL-ARISH, EgyptHelicopters carried out missile strikes against Islamic militants in Egypt’s first airstrikes in the Sinai Peninsula since 1973, as the military said Wednesday it was launching an offensive to “restore

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wages a blood-drenched campaign for survival, Washington is stepping up plans for the day after he falls, colored by costly lessons of Iraq’s implosion in 2003. Senior US officials do not know how long Assad

Myanmar authorities warned Wednesday that it was facing a deepening drug crisis after seizing narcotics including more than 1.4 million amphetamine pills and 116 kilos of heroin in July. Official media on Wednesday reported 342 drug-related cases across the country

For a time, the Obama administration made it clear they didn’t have a horse in the race as far as Syria was concerned. President Obama opposed Senator John McCain’s plan to provide arms to the Syrian opposition, yet he also

In 2008, the U.S. placed a ban on financial institutions doing business with Iran or Iranian firms. Prior to the all-out ban, business with Iranian firms was allowed, but only if it could be proven that the financial dealings “were