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Julian Assange expects to remain holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for up to a year as the two countries struggle to resolve a diplomatic row over the controversial WikiLeaks founder. Assange took shelter in the embassy in June after

Breitbart News editor Dana Loesch confronted Code Pink demonstrators who attempted to disrupt Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s speech accepting his party’s nomination Thursday night. When two demonstrators stood up to the left of the stage and heckled Romney, Loesch

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressTAMPA, Fla.Republicans delivered a scathing indictment of President Barack Obama’s national security policy, although the Democrat’s aggressive approach has often been compared to that of his GOP predecessor, George W. Bush. Defense and foreign policy, largely footnotes

Occupy protesters, anarchists, and other left-wing revolutionaries have been ramping up direct-action protest demonstrations all week in opposition to the RNC convention being held in Tampa, Florida.   While organizers claimed the Monday protests would draw thousands, only 250 showed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Nato airstrike kills Pakistan Taliban leader in Afghanistan Pakistan prepares to eject Afghanistan refugees Pakistani immigrants protest in Syntagma square in Athens, Greece Corrections to yesterday’s World View (corrected online): Warren E. Pollock interviews

Two air strikes in eastern Afghanistan killed a dozen insurgents, including a top Taliban commander, NATO and Afghan officials said Saturday. The police chief of Kunar’s Shigal district, where the attacks took place, said most of the militants were from

Former US ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker is facing charges of drunk driving and hit-and-run after causing an accident while intoxicated, police said. Crocker, who left his Afghanistan job early this summer for health reasons, was cited after

Mitt Romney, who attended his 100th town-hall meeting on Monday with Paul Ryan (so much for Romney being out of touch with ordinary Americans) was queried about his plans for Afghanistan if he is elected. A veteran stated that his

(AP) Afghan militants hit US military chief’s planeBy KAY JOHNSONAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanInsurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan and damaged the parked plane of the visiting chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, the U.S.-led military coalition

Britain came under pressure Monday after Ecuador’s South American neighbours backed Quito’s decision to grant Julian Assange asylum, but he remained a virtual prisoner in its London embassy. The WikiLeaks founder made a defiant appearance from the balcony of the

General Martin Dempsey, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the obvious in Afghanistan this weekend: that the U.S. and Israel see the Iranian nuclear threat differently–not because they are operating on different facts or intelligence about Iran, but

Following last night’s coordinated protests, which included the occupation of Obama campaign headquarters in Oakland, California and Portland, Oregon, video footage from inside the building in Oakland has surfaced. Scott Olsen –the Iraq war veteran who was injured and hospitalized

(AP) Another Afghan police attack kills 2 US troopsBy KAY JOHNSON and AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they handed him his

Conservative voice Josh Treviño, formerly of RedState and the Texas Policy Center, was recently announced by the Guardian as their newest columnist. His conservative perspective will counter that of fellow new hire, Glenn Greenwald of Salon. Two new hires, one

(AP) Black Hawk crash kills 7 Americans, 4 AfghansBy HEIDI VOGTAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans in one of

Media Matters’ Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert slammed America’s Navy SEALs as ‘gutless’ on the same day that two are killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.  As we reported earlier: Boehlert, sensing that these new ads from the Special Operation

KABUL (Reuters) – Eleven people have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, including three U.S. soldiers and four other foreign troops, the NATO-led coalition force in the country said on Thursday.

As we go about our daily business, free from terrorist attacks and warfare in our homeland, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget one every important thing: we are at war. We have troops spread throughout

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France’s politicians fear widespread unrest after Amiens rioting German view of France: Nostalgic and Narcissistic Multiple bombings create hundreds of casualties in Afghanistan Egypt reopens Rafah border crossing with Gaza Norwegian tourist falls asleep

President Obama is pulling troops out of Afghanistan, but they’re not all out yet. This means that many of the troops that remain are in a dangerous spot because they are in a blurred role which puts them somewhere between

A group of suicide bombers killed up to 20 people in the capital of Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran, officials said Tuesday. Deputy provincial police chief Mujibullah Latifi said there were six attackers, three of whom

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told reporters that a former U.S. Marine had been arrested Aug. 4 for entering Venezuela illegally from Colombia, he gave no proof that the man was, in fact, a former Marine or that the man

(AP) Storied 101st Airborne marks 70th anniversaryBy KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. After months of grueling road marches through the north Georgia mountains, a group of elite paratroopers had to put their training to the test in a trial by

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

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

On May 1, 2011, the free world applauded as Osama bin Laden’s death was announced. The U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six had stormed his compound, killing the terrorist leader who had taunted America in video and audio recordings from secret

Iran’s government has seen the future, and it doesn’t like the way its population’s growth is dwindling down to nothing.  As a result, it is jettisoning its birth control program. Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi said, “The budget for

Now two of America’s greatest enemies are openly collaborating with each other: the Taliban, which planned 9/11, and Iran, which threatens the U.S. and the West with its nuclear program. The Taliban has been discussing the possibility of obtaining surface-to-air

The network which gave us the short-lived “GCB” is back with a series targeting a Texas-based militia group. Courtesy of Deadline.com: The network has bought drama pitch Founding Fathers, from Di Bonaventura Pictures TV and ABC Studios. Written by feature scribe

– “I realize that there will be some in the Fourth Estate, or whichever estate, who are far more interested in finding something to write about that is unrelated to the economy, to geopolitics, to the threat of war, to

The exit of Roger Moore from the James Bond franchise opens the doorto better films, a return to espionage plots and an outstanding new lead.  I am a big Timothy Dalton fan. Detractors of Dalton are lunatics. There, I said it. He is

By JULIE PACEAssociated PressSEATTLEIn a rare face-off on foreign policy, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are swapping sharp criticism but exposing few clear policy differences on key national security matters. For Romney, who seeks to boost his

(AP) Britain deploys 1,200 more troops for OlympicsBy DANICA KIRKAAssociated PressLONDONBritain’s government opted Tuesday to deploy 1,200 more troops to protect Olympic venues, after a key security contractor failed to supply enough guards. The fresh troops come only three days

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton (D) apologized on Thursday after he compared NFL football players to returning combat veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, Dayton said that the off-the-field problems encountered by