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.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Madonna faces legal action for using Swastika on Marine Le Pen’s head Foreclosed properties ‘shadow inventory’ shows housing crash far from over Libor investigations expand to other banks Japan recalls ambassador to China China
In an interview with Jewish Life Television (JLTV), Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz failed to provide a single reason for Jewish voters to support President Barack Obama other than abortion, which she cast as somehow intrinsic to the
As I have written in other posts, there is serious trouble in Egypt. Their constitutional court recently disbanded the nation’s parliament in a bid to end the influence Islamists enjoyed there. Yet even as they disbanded it, the Egyptian people
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hollande’s women troubles and Peugeot layoffs overshadow France’s Bastille Day Libor-fixing was well known in 2008 China accuses U.S. of ‘diplomatic encirclement’ in Asia Hollande’s women troubles and Peugeot layoffs overshadow France’s Bastille Day
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Israel today, in a visit that is being billed as an effort to discuss the stalled peace process, but which Israeli media have labeled an attempt to upstage Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney,
Russia and China have long supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. And even now, as news breaks that a Syrian attack on a village in the Hama region reportedly killed 200 or more opposition members, Russia and China continue to stand
The head of British Secret Service spoke publicly about covert action in Iran for the first time this week. Sir John Sawer, head of MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA,said joint operations by the British, Americans and Israelis had
Amid the battles various portions of the U.S. military are involved in around the world, there is one in DC raging now between Capital Hill and the Pentagon over the length and methodology of intelligence and analystic reports. This
Cyprus police have detained a young Lebanese man who holds a Swedish passport on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against Israeli interests in the country, media reports said on Saturday. A police spokesman said he could not deny or
As the news stories mount regarding Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s decision to move his chemical weapons stockpile from storage to areas closer to rebel locations, there is one thing the mainstream media is not commenting on: How Syria acquired
The U.N. has long been viewed as a questionable authority in the world because it issues edicts and condemnations in a whimsical, often baseless fashion. In particular, the U.N. often condemns those it shouldn’t because of ideological differences while turning
By THOMAS ADAMSONAssociated Press WriterPARISA feud involving the French president’s live-in girlfriend, his former partner and his eldest son may have tarnished the new leader’s carefully cultivated image as “Mr. Normal” _ credited with helping him win the spring election
President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela was not a threat to the United States, after Mitt Romney blasted President Barack Obama for downplaying the risk posed by the longtime US foe. The Venezuelan leader also recounted a conversation he had
This morning’s key headlines fromGenerationalDynamics.com: China makes armed threat on al-Jazeera ship in South China Sea Canada said has no plans for military action in Mali Anti-Sunni rant given by Shia cleric Syrian regime massacre receives widespread condemnation China makes
Five cases of West Nile virus have been reported since early July in a seaside suburb of Athens, the Greek centre for disease control and prevention (Keelpno) said Friday. Since July 7, three 60 year-olds, one 40 year-old and an
Thousands of Spanish “indignant” protesters rallied against austerity cuts Friday night before some of them clashed with police, who charged demonstrators with batons. Surrounded by 20 police vans, they stood outside the headquarters of the Popular Party (PP) of Prime
In the earliest years of the 21st century, the Oil-For-Food Program (OFF) for Iraq demonstrated the weaknesses associated with using such methods to deal with tyrants like Saddam Hussein. And by the time of Hussein’s capture and death, we knew
The latest intelligence indicates that Syria has begun to shift the locations in which it’s storing chemical weapons. Some have been moved out of their storage areas to undisclosed locations while others have allegedly been moved from one place to
There are rumors that Mitt Romney may pick Condoleeza Rice as his running mate, but he may want to think it through; Rice is an archcareerist whose only goal is to make deals so she can advance her career. And
(AP) Syria activists: Regime killed scores in villageBy BEN HUBBARDAssociated PressBEIRUTAnti-regime activists in Syria said Friday that government gunners rained shells on a poor, farming village before armed thugs moved in, leaving scores of people dead in what rebel backers
(AP) With slower growth, China can’t play economic heroBy JOE McDONALDAP Business WriterBEIJINGChina’s economic growth fell to a three-year low, and a potential recovery later this year will probably be too weak to pull the world out of its slump.
(AP) Syria envoy ‘appalled’ over massacre reportBy BEN HUBBARDAssociated PressBEIRUTInternational envoy Kofi Annan says he is “shocked and appalled” by reports of a mass killing in the Syrian village of Tremseh. Syrian activists have posted videos they say show at
Can the US Senate act in time to prevent the United States from ratifying the Obama-favored United Nations International Maritime Treaty? The treaty will fail if 34 votes can be mustered against it, as a two-thirds majority is required for
When you put unaccountable leaders in place and throw money at them, almost without fail they steal it. While not endemic to only the Arab world, it does seem to happen there with unsurprising regularity. Rumor has it that Egyptian
An ad depicting the supposed shrinking of “Palestinian territory” taken out by the anti-Israel group Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine is appearing in 50 Metro-North stations around New York City. For the cost of $25,000, Henry Clifford, the
