By MONIKA SCISLOWSKAAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandSoccer hooligans clashed with opposing fans and police before and during Poland’s game against bitter rival Russia on Tuesday, leaving 15 injured while more than 140 people were detained. Following scattered fighting in the Polish capital
In 1933, H.G. Wells, by then nearing the end of an illustrious career as a novelist, social scientist, and encyclopedist, wroteThe Shape of Things to Come, a counter-factual history of the world from 1933 to the year 2106. Ever the
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday he expected more from the US than “regret” over remarks by President Barack Obama erroneously identifying a Nazi German death camp as being Polish. “I am convinced that our American friends can today
President Barack Obama’s “Polish death camps” gaffe, which has infuriated Poles and Polish-Americans alike, is not just the result of ignorance, or bad speechwriting (he apparently read the words from his teleprompter). Rather, it is the result of a foreign
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland demanded an apology from the White House after President Barack Obama spoke of a “Polish death camp” while anouncing an award to a Polish resistance fighter for alerting the world to the Nazi Holocaust, largely perpetrated
Once again we are playing cold war politics with the Russians. Nothing seems to change when it comes to Russia and missiles. President Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s pushing the reset button hasn’t worked, and in fact, it was the wrong
As if Newsweek‘s latest “Obama The Gay Archangel” cover wasn’t enough, yesterday, Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg spoke out against the scourge of motherhood on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes. She attacked Ann Romney for talking about the glories of being
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. World View will resume on Thursday China blames Philippines for escalating tensions and endangering Chinese nationals China denies preparing for war with the Philippines China repudiates international arbitration It’s ‘strategic pivot’ to Asia brings
Russia said Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a “dead end” and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial shield. The comments came just
IMF head Christine Lagarde said Thursday that it would be able to boost its crisis intervention capacity this week as worries mounted that Spain might be the next eurozone country to seek a rescue. Warning that “dark clouds” still hover
Millions of Israelis on Thursday stood silently and all road traffic stopped as sirens wailed for two minutes to remember the six million Jews who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust. The annual ritual, which is observed at 10 am
The Philippines leads the world in the number of people who believe in God, while the elderly across all countries tend to be the most religious, according to a US study out Wednesday. Belief in God tends to be strongest
(AP) Palestinians honor columnist Helen ThomasBy DIAA HADIDAssociated PressJERUSALEMThe top Palestinian envoy to the U.S. recently hosted longtime American journalist Helen Thomas at his Washington residence and honored her for taking a tough stand against Israeli occupation, a senior Palestinian
(AP) Plane crash in Siberia kills 31 of 43 on boardBy LYNN BERRYAssociated PressMOSCOWA passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off Monday morning, killing 31 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 12 survivors
Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that an open microphone caught President Barack Obama telling outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would be prepared to yield to Russian demands on missile defense after his re-election, but needed more “space”
(AP) Syria hands over bodies of 2 foreign journalistsBy ALBERT AJIAssociated PressDAMASCUS, SyriaThe bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in shelling while trapped inside a besieged district in the central Syrian city of Homs have left Syria late
The hacker collective Anonymous has struck government websites again, this time the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the National Consumer Protection Week websites. According to the Associated Press, “both sites were replaced with a violent German-language video satirizing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,
Joel Pollak has already written on the divestment campaign going on at Occupy Oakland, but it is worth remembering that Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the two founders of the Occupy movement, have always hated the Jews and their state.
I was born to a Jewish mother and father. My mother’s maiden name was Goldberg, and her parents, my grandparents, Yetta and Louis, emigrated to the United States from Poland and Lithuania. The grandparents on my father’s side, Freda and
From Reuters: Poland fears planned defense cuts by the United States may stall the development of an anti-missile system on Polish soil and leave it more vulnerable to Russia, a senior government source said. U.S. President Barack Obama’s drive to
PARIS (AP) – Just three years ago, the euro was being praised as the can-do currency that had delivered unprecedented prosperity in Europe. Now, it’s widely derided as a hugely flawed experiment in the wake of a debt crisis that’s
PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs and world leaders paid emotional tribute to Vaclav Havel on Friday at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony, ending a week of public grief and nostalgia over the death of the dissident playwright who led the 1989 revolution
Historians locate a decisive moment in the Republican Presidential campaign of 1940: The nomination the internationalist Wendell Wilkie, and in essence forever said goodbye to its’ isolationist wing. David Petruscini designates 1948 as a similar moment for the Democrats. That
It’s simply hard to imagine this passes for a Presidency. At what point does he become simply too much for the senses? Sure we have had some interesting and bad Presidents before – recently in fact. Nixon changed our view
According to the propaganda of the teachers unions, these are bleak times for public education. Younger teachers are being laid off, school employees are making benefit concessions, and unions are losing bargaining privileges. Heck, things are so (allegedly) bad that
