National Security

President Barack Obama holds a commanding lead over Mitt Romney on campaign issues like world affairs and health care, a poll showed Tuesday, but trails the Republican front runner on one key front: handling the US economy. Obama enjoys double-digit

The Miami Marlins on Tuesday suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games, effective immediately, for stirring controversy by telling an interviewer, “I love Fidel Castro.” Guillen made the comments to Time Magazine. He later amended his remarks to say “I

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Philippines to commemorate 70th anniversary of the Bataan Death March North Korea appears to be preparing for new underground nuclear test Japan deploys Patriot missile batteries in Tokyo over N. Korean missile test Syria’s

Mali’s coup leader held talks on when he would hand over power to allow the return of democratic rule in the troubled west African nation, now half controlled by Islamists and rebels. The constitutional court was expected to expedite the

Greek sailors on Tuesday began a two-day strike against government reforms, halting ferry connections to the islands ahead of the Orthodox Easter holidays and disrupting the export of agricultural produce. The sailors’ union Pno said no ferries would leave Piraeus

I spent nearly seven years in South Africa, most of it as the speechwriter for South African opposition leader Tony Leon (who now serves as that country’s ambassador to Argentina).  It was an exciting job, one that allowed me a

North Korea is set to complete the assembly of its latest rocket by installing the satellite payload later Tuesday, a senior space official said. Russia on Tuesday said North Korea’s planned rocket launch showed disregard for UN Security Council resolutions

North Korea has raised the spectre of war in a bid to influence Wednesday’s parliamentary election in the South, urging South Koreans to vote out their “pro-war conservative regime”. The two state agencies responsible for exchanges with the South accused

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has voiced concern to US President Barack Obama that the easy money policies of developed countries threaten the growth of emerging economies like Brazil. The comments from the leader of Brazil, the world’s sixth largest economy,

Syria faced a deadline Tuesday to withdraw its forces from urban areas as Washington said Damascus had shown no sign of complying with a peace deal amid fierce clashes that killed more than 100. Fighting spilled over into neighboring countries

A new psychiatric probe of Anders Behring Breivik found that the man who killed 77 people last July was criminally responsible, a Norwegian daily reported Tuesday. If the report is officially confirmed, it will run counter to an initial evaluation

Healthcare in Greece risks becoming a privilege after two years of sweeping budget cuts imposed by the authorities in their desperate effort to slash bills and steady the finances, experts warn. With public health spending at around 10 billion euros,

Britain can extradite jailed radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza and four other alleged terrorists to the United States, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday. The court found “there would be no violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman

European stock markets slid in early trade Tuesday, with banking shares among the biggest fallers as investors reacted to weak US jobs data following an extended break for Easter. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index retreated 1.15 percent to 5,657.63 points

Germany’s trade surplus fell in February but stronger-than-expected demand from outside Europe may keep the eurozone’s biggest economy out of recession, analysts said on Tuesday. Germany exported goods worth 91 billion euros ($119 billion) in seasonally-adjusted terms in February, up

UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an “immediate investigation” into the death of Trayvon Martin.   Leaving aside the matter of the despicable record of the UN on human rights, what kind of record does Pillay herself have

Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran would continue on its nuclear path even if the whole world stands up to it. Iran has rejected calls for them to close the Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility and stop the

Meet the Hamas version of Oprah.  Her name is Ahlam Tamimi, and she is the terrorist responsible for the 2001 suicide bomber attack at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem that killed 15 people and injured another 132.  Among the American

Egypt’s former spymaster Omar Suleiman lashed out at the Muslim Brotherhood and insisted his candidacy for the presidency would restore stability, as the two sides sparred on Monday ahead of next month’s polls. The Brotherhood, which dominates parliament and is

Tension escalated on Monday between Turkey and Syria after shots from the Syrian side into Turkey injured three people, angering Ankara a day before a visit by international envoy Kofi Annan. Two Syrians and a Turkish translator were wounded near

A recent meeting titled The Weather Underground Meets Occupy Wall Street, held in a small city in upstate New York, was billed as a mundane book event to celebrate U.S. “political prisoner” David Gilbert’s new memoir, Love and Struggle. But, as

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria’s Assad says that the world has ‘misinterpreted’ him Egyptians cooperating with Israel to fight Sinai terror Venezuela’s Chavez returns again to Cuba for cancer treatment Ethnic violence growing in southern Libya between Tibu

The Japanese government on Monday gave a former prime minister a ticking off over a “personal” visit to Iran, where he met President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and apparently criticised the IAEA. Yukio Hatoyama, whose short stint in the top job ended

Eleven people were killed, including five soldiers, after Al-Qaeda militants launched an attack on an army barracks in southern Yemen on Monday, military and tribal sources said. Four Al-Qaeda fighters and two members of tribes that support the military also

A peace plan for Syria was in jeopardy Monday after a rebel commander rejected fresh conditions from the government for a pullout of regime troops from protest hubs amid a new spike in violence. Under a peace deal brokered by