
Before an international incident that involved Turkey shooting down a Russian fighter jet Tuesday morning, which purportedly violated Turkish airspace several times, Ankara’s forces were also engaged in attacks against Kurdish revolutionary forces in the southeast of the country.
by Jordan Schachtel24 Nov 2015, 8:22 AM PST0

Zaqueo Báez, the Cuban dissident arrested for approaching Pope Francis during his visit to the island and shouting the word “freedom,” was just freed from prison and is awaiting trial in the communist dictatorship for “public disorder” and “disrespect.”
by Frances Martel11 Nov 2015, 12:46 PM PST0

North Korea is planning a major tourism push beginning with new helicopter tours of Pyongyang this month in an attempt to boost one of its largest, and only, industries.
by Frances Martel11 Nov 2015, 8:58 AM PST0

Lost in the media’s reportage of Quentin Tarantino’s using rhetoric scripted by Black Lives Matter is the fact that the Rise Up October event at which Tarantino spoke was organized by revolutionary communists who advocate the armed overthrow of the United States of America.
by Lee Stranahan7 Nov 2015, 2:03 PM PST0

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ended its ceasefire with Turkey on Thursday after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development (AKP) Party swept parliamentary elections.
by Mary Chastain6 Nov 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

The Obama administration authorized the U.S. Navy to conduct “freedom of navigation” operations in the South China Sea.
by Admiral James A. "Ace" Lyons4 Nov 2015, 8:31 AM PST0

The editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s largest publication in western Xinjiang province, China, was dismissed from his job and will be prosecuted for “serious discipline breaches” that include questioning China’s policy to combat Islamist Uyghur terrorism in the region.
by Frances Martel3 Nov 2015, 7:15 PM PST0

A new poll shows that, despite public support for a peace deal with the FARC terrorist group, a significant portion of the population of Colombia remains uncomfortable with the idea of FARC terrorists abandoning the guerrilla lifestyle and settling into civilian life.
by Frances Martel29 Oct 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

Franklin Nieves, the prosecutor responsible for securing a conviction and 13-year prison sentence for Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, has defected to the United States and confessed that the evidence he brought to the trial was “100% false.”
by Frances Martel28 Oct 2015, 7:30 PM PST0

The latest brainstorm from the Chinese Communist Party is a system for monitoring the Internet activity and financial transactions of its citizens, computing a “social credit” score on the acceptability of each person’s behavior, similar to the credit ratings compiled by financial institutions.
by John Hayward28 Oct 2015, 6:46 PM PST0

Years of purposeful, subversive leftwing indoctrination have made some Americans open to a radical socialist candidate like Bernie Sanders.
by Robert Davi27 Oct 2015, 4:43 PM PST0

Pope Francis said that on hearing the news of the passing of Cardinal Korec, he was moved with “deep emotion” and sorrow, calling him “a generous and zealous shepherd who in his long ministry in the Church offered a fearless witness of the Gospel” and was a “staunch defender of the faith and human rights.” The pontiff sent a telegram of condolences to the President of Slovakia’s bishops’ conference.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Oct 2015, 8:30 AM PST0

The estimated 460 Cuban doctors deployed to west Africa to participate in the fight against the Ebola outbreak developing there last year have not been paid the car, home, or World Health Organization (WHO) salaries they were promised if they returned from the mission healthy.
by Frances Martel26 Oct 2015, 7:07 AM PST0

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas told Spanish newspaper ABC he will find himself forced to undergo a 25th hunger strike against the communist Castro regime unless the current increase in abusive incidents and oppression ceases.
by Frances Martel23 Oct 2015, 10:02 AM PST0

Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, known by his stage name “El Sexto,” tells journalists he has no intention of censoring his art after being freed from a ten-month stint in prison after being caught painting the names “Fidel” and “Raúl” on two pigs.
by Frances Martel22 Oct 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

On the occasion of the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth, Paul Kengor has published a major exposé of Miller’s dedication to communism in the American Spectator.
by Spyridon Mitsotakis21 Oct 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

Actor Jon Voight describes his decades-long career as a Hollywood conservative in a new interview, where he also discloses he feels the political left uses the term “progressive” as a substitute for “communist.”
by Kelli Serio21 Oct 2015, 12:56 PM PST0

Former Colombian president and current senator Álvaro Uribe claimed on Twitter that FARC terrorists “forbade” the local agricultural population from joining him at a political rally in the nation’s mountainous interior region on Sunday.
by Frances Martel20 Oct 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

Three men have been arrested in rural China after being caught attempting to raid the tomb of a woman who died single in order to sell her corpse to the family of a deceased, single young man, to be used in a practice known as a “ghost wedding.”
by Frances Martel16 Oct 2015, 10:25 PM PST0

A rally calling for the liberation of democracy activists arrested during Pope Francis’ visit to the island resulted in more than 300 Cuban freedom fighters arrested this weekend and the destruction and vandalism of multiple offices of the anti-communist Cuban Patriotic Union.
by Frances Martel13 Oct 2015, 12:10 PM PST0

In a belligerent speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Communist Workers’ Party, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un told a captive audience his military is “capable of fighting any kind of war” against the United States, implying that North Korea has nuclear capabilities.
by Frances Martel12 Oct 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

In the lead-up to a major summit on religion, the Chinese Communist party is preparing intensified restrictions on Christian churches, according to the Party’s official newspaper on religious issues, Zhongguo Mingzu Bao.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.11 Oct 2015, 7:11 PM PST0

As North Korea prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the communist ruling Korean Workers’ Party, signs have begun to spring that the nation’s people are growing restless and fatigued of the constant military displays, crippling repression, and widespread poverty.
by Frances Martel7 Oct 2015, 8:20 PM PST0

“Colombia’s conflict is on the path to a genuine solution,” President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday in a celebratory speech announcing the provisional deal the Colombian government reached with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terror group last week.
by Frances Martel29 Sep 2015, 10:13 AM PST0

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced an agreement with the head of the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that will see the creation of a special tribunal to judge the crimes of terrorists, and in return, offer smaller punishments for “political” crimes.
by Frances Martel24 Sep 2015, 9:19 AM PST0