This week Washington and Wall Street is “Down and Out in Paris and London,” to borrow the title from the autobiography of George Orwell. We are attending the Paris meeting of the Global Interdependence Center in Philadelphia, which is hosted
Geoffrey Pyatt, America’s ambassador to Ukraine, said the US will not recognize Crimea’s referendum on March 16. Crimeans will decide if they want to stay an autonomous republic of Ukraine or join the Russian Federation. The ambassador said the White
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine – Russia crisis presents problems for China Relations between Ukraine and China China: ‘There is no room for compromise’ Libya in chaos, war threatened over North Korean tanker Ukraine – Russia crisis presents
TEXAS–Two confirmed reports of individuals with Texas ties surfaced late Saturday as management for Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor and family members of a Dallas area resident came forward to confirm rumors surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370’s passenger manifests. A spokesperson for
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia’s air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. The revelations add
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on American ambassadors around the world to make the fight against climate change a top priority ahead of new UN talks next year. In his first department-wide policy guidance statement since taking
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had
Pope Francis has cancelled his scheduled visit to Israel because of an ongoing labor dispute at the Israeli Foreign Ministry. As the Times of Israel reports, the pontiff was scheduled to travel to Israel for a stay from May 24th
Business mogul Donald Trump addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) without a teleprompter and gave a speech that covered everything from China to immigration. Trump took several shots at the perceived disrespect Putin and other world leaders have for
Speaking at CPAC on Thursday, businessman Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “toying” with President Barack Obama while nations like China are taking advantage of the United States because they do not respect the president. Trump said
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a prospective 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said Thursday that recent events have shown that President Barack Obama’s reliance on his personality to shape foreign policy has failed. Speaking at CPAC, Rubio said that the rise of
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a receptive crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday that it is time to replace the Obama-Kerry-Clinton-Biden foreign policy of “drift, decline, and defeatism” with a Reaganite foreign policy
Autumn Radtke, the 28-year-old American CEO of the First Meta bitcoin exchange, was found dead in Singapore February 28 in an apparent suicide. Toxicology test results to determine why she died have not yet been concluded. Notably, on February 10,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia’s Lavrov blatantly lies as Russia prepares for Ukraine invasion Gulf Arab states have major split over Egypt and Iran China refers to the U.S. ambassador as a ‘banana’ Russia’s Lavrov blatantly lies as
BEIJING, March 5 (UPI) —China’s defense budget will increase by 12.2 percent to 808.2 billion yuan (about $132 billion) in 2014, a draft submitted to lawmakers indicated Wednesday. The increase represents the highest growth rate in China’s defense budget since
Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea, has called for the execution of 33 people for reportedly working as accomplices to South Korean Baptist missionary Kim Jung-wook and planning to help him create 500 underground churches. The North Korean tyrant
President Obama once defended the current sanctions on Iran by insisting that they had “enormous bite” in containing the finances helping to sustain the Iranian nuclear program. Secretary of State John Kerry continued the Administration’s talking points regarding the strength
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government pledged Wednesday to promote sustainable growth by opening state-dominated industries to private investment and making banks more market-oriented while keeping this year’s economic expansion at a relatively robust 7.5 percent. In his first annual policy
In response to Democrats get their own stupid health care law wrong again: During last week’s Judiciary hearing addressing the president’s ongoing executive overreach, Elizabeth Price Foley, a law professor at Florida International University College of Law warned Congress that
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region “to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order,” Russia’s U.N. ambassador said Monday, contradicting the president’s own comments last week, while Ukraine’s ambassador said 16,000 troops
On March 1st a group of attackers armed with knives stormed a Chinese train station, killing at least 29 and injuring more than 130 others before good guys with guns showed up to end the attack. According to NBC News,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Tensions escalate between Ukraine and Russia The Charge of the Light Brigade into the Valley of Death Knife-wielding mob of probable Xinjiang terrorists kill 28 in southern China Pakistan’s Taliban announce one-month cease-fire Tensions
Associated Press: BEIJING – China’s official Xinhua News Agency says at least 27 people are dead and 109 injured after a group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China. Xinhua did not provide more details about the
BEIJING (AP) — More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in southwestern China late Saturday in what authorities called a terrorist attack, and police fatally shot five of the assailants, leaving 28 people dead and 113
In an appearance on the Fox News Channel on Saturday, Lt. Col. Oliver North told host Uma Pemmaraju that not only is Russian President Vladimir Putin laughing at Obama as he is sending thousands of troops to Ukraine but now
