National Security

As today’s jobs reports points to America’s failing economy, the Obama administration is sending $20 million of your tax dollars to Africa to “help clean energy projects in Africa get started.” As if that weren’t bad enough, it’s being administered

If there was hope for reconciliation between opposition forces in Syria and the Bashar al-Assad regime, it is fading fast. Major General Manaf Tlas, ostensibly the one person who could have bridged the gap, has fled to Turkey, saying the

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line

The violently brutal drug war in Mexico has killed more than 55,000 people during Felipe Calderon’s presidency, according to Reuters, and that is the what newly-elected Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto will inherit when he is sworn in in December.

After reports arose that former PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s body will be exhumed for further testing, under the assumption that perhaps he was killed by Israel via radioactive poisoning, the New York Times has picked up right where their pro-Arafat

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. In blow to Assad, top-level Syrian army general defects to Turkey Iran’s government embarrassed by poll on nuclear enrichment Massive food crisis is growing in Africa’s Sahel region Philippines goes on spending spree for

On June 29, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared “people power” in a speech ostensibly meant to make him sound less like a radical and more like a man of the people. But now, less than a week from that declaration,

TASSANEE VEJPONGSAAssociated PressTAOYUAN, TaiwanThe photographer gingerly places a small, mixed-breed puppy on a platform in his makeshift studio at an animal shelter in northern Taiwan. The dog looks about 2 months old, with alert, trusting eyes and a shiny black

By FABIOLA SANCHEZAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaPresident Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he ordered his country’s military attaches to leave the Venezuelan Embassy in Paraguay, citing threats against diplomats amid growing tensions between the two governments. Chavez said during a speech that

(AP) ECB cuts key rate to new low to help economyDAVID McHUGHAP Business WriterFRANKFURT, GermanyThe European Central Bank has cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to a record low of 0.75 percent to boost a eurozone

We are shocked, shocked that the results of Mexico’s presidential election may have been tainted by corruption. Enrique Peña Nieto, the leader of the iron-fisted Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which was in bed with the drug cartels and ruled Mexico

(AP) WikiLeaks has data from 2.4 million Syrian emailsBy RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated PressLONDONThe secret-spilling group WikiLeaks said Thursday it was in the process of publishing material from 2.4 million Syrian emails _ many of which it said came from official government

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s new government sought on Thursday to persuade skeptical lenders visiting Athens to ease the punishing terms of the bailout that is keeping the debt-laden country solvent but at the cost of driving it deeper into recession.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank cut interest rates for the second time in two months on Thursday in the latest attempt to bolster slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

In March of 2011, President Obama told the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence that the institution of more gun control was one of his administration’s top priorities. According to Fox News, at that time Obama told Jim Brady, “I

The chief UN military observer in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, said on Thursday that he is opposed to his 300-strong team being armed. “I’ve made it quite clear, from my point of view, that to give a small observer

(AP) Hamas PM to meet Islamist president of EgyptGAZA CITY, Gaza StripA Palestinian official says Gaza’s prime minister will head to Cairo within the next two weeks to meet with Egypt’s new Islamist president, who has close ties with the

Although Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004, it appears his death is being revisited in an attempt to hold Israel liable for killing him. Al Jazeera and MSNBC are both reporting that traces of a radioactive element were

(AP) BAGHDADIraq’s foreign minister says the government has “solid information and intelligence” about al-Qaida militants infiltrating Syria from Iraq to carry out attacks. Hoshyar Zebari told reporters Thursday that authorities are worried about a spillover of violence from Syria to the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Fury at Barclays and Bob Diamond seems to grow Excuses abound for Barclays and Bob Diamond The world welcomes the reopening of Pakistan supply routes to Afghanistan Pakistan’s Taliban threatens terrorist attacks on Nato

Electricity generated from nuclear fission began flowing in Japan on Thursday, ending a nearly two-month hiatus in the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdowns, the operator said. Engineers working at Unit No. 3 at Oi power plant in western Japan connected

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has threatened to destroy U.S. military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes of being attacked, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, as Revolutionary Guards extended test-firing of ballistic missiles into a third day.

(AP) EU Parliament rejects ACTA anti-piracy treatyBy DON MELVINAssociated PressBRUSSELSThe European Parliament overwhelmingly defeated an international anti-piracy trade agreement Wednesday after concern that it would limit Internet freedom sparked street protests in cities across Europe. The vote _ 39 in

President Obama has frequently tried to differentiate between himself and President George W. Bush by taking credit for Afghanistan but linking the war in Iraq to Bush. In plain speech he’s described the war in Afghanistan as necessary while calling

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Barclays interest rate manipulation prompts desperate finger-pointing by British officials David Cameron promises to protect Britain from Greek refugees Pakistan reopens supply routes to Afghanistan after apology Pakistan and U.S. will resume stalled talks