As the three day meeting for the 6th annual “BRICS” conference of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa comes to a close, the most important accomplishment is the founding of the BRICS Development Bank and a currency stabilization pool
Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo, suggested this morning that the separatist “warlord” who may be responsible for shooting down a Malaysian airliner and killing nearly 300 people is, somehow, just like the Tea Party. After a quote noting
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama directed U.S. officials on Thursday to do all they could to support an investigation into what caused a Malaysian jetliner to crash in a Ukrainian war zone and pledged support to the affected
China is cracking down after the CCTV state-owned broadcaster secretly recorded a state-owned bank executive bragging that the bank illegally provides in-house money laundering services for wealthy Chinese nationals to violate currency controls and buy real estate in “world cities”
In this current humanitarian crisis of illegal immigration on our southern border, the American Immigration Control Foundation takes on new relevance. But far from wanting to simply stop immigration, the group wants common sense policies to “prevent our American melting
A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices were Friday sentenced to 20 years in jai for murdering a British holidaymaker on Christmas Eve and raping his Russian partner. The Colombo High Court said town council chief Sampath Vidanapathirana
On July 16 a “good Samaritan” with a concealed carry permit intervened to stop a knife-wielding thief at an Orlando bus stop. According to the Orlando Sentinel, witnesses say Thomas Thorpe “attacked Donald Sacco and attempted to steal his bag
Russian newspaper Kommersant reported this week that, upon his visit to Havana, Russian President Vladimir Putin had reached an agreement with the Cuban government to reopen a spy base in Lourdes, a town south of Havana. The Russian President is
The jihadist group Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), rose to prominence in June as it swept through northern Iraq, conquering major cities like Mosul and Tikrit. One month later, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
According to intercepted calls, the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine allegedly shot down the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Luhansk Oblast. The Kyiv Post translated the phone calls and published them on its website. The phone call is between Igor
Israel is the United Nations’ greatest bugbear. We know it from following websites such as UNWatch for many years, and it was most pertinently highlighted by the UN translator who said the organisation’s focus on Israel was a “bit much,
As Israel begins a limited ground invasion of the Gaza Strip–with orders ” to be prepared for an expansion of the ground action”–it is winning the all-important public relations battle. That is yet another way in which this Gaza war is
On Thursday, a week after former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates argued for amnesty and for an unlimited number of high-tech guest-worker visas, Microsoft announced it would slash 18,000 jobs. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promised his employees that “we will go
A Honduran Congressman of the far-left Freedom and Refundación Party (FREE) supportive of former President Manuel Zelaya was arrested yesterday after shooting and killing a taxi driver with whom he had a dispute. The Congressman, Luis Galdámez, claims he fired in
A drunk man who took it upon himself to pose as a TSA screener at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and who gave two unsuspecting female passengers private patdowns, has been arrested. The 53-year-old male impostor was a ticketed
Leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union failed in the early hours of this morning to agree how to share out the remaining three top jobs in Brussels, after tensions over the appointment of a new EU
The United States announced harsh sanctions against Russia which, this time, could actually harm Russia’s economy. The biggest name on the list is Rosneft, which owns major deals with ExxonMobil. “We have said for quite some time that Russia’s failure
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly sent illegal immigrant children with communicable diseases on planes to sites around the country that are being forced to house them. According to an ABC News report, HHS has admitted to
A British imam has said that the increasing prevalence of the burka among young Muslim women is “one of the most sinister developments of our time” and called for the garment to be banned. Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim
Tel Aviv, Israel– Officials from both Israel and Hamas have said that there has not been an agreement on terms of a ceasefire, as was reported by multiple international media outlets. However, they said significant progress has been reached towards
Former US president Bill Clinton has warned Israel about “isolating itself from world opinion” due to repeated conflicts in Gaza after four children were killed on a beach in the latest violence. More than 220 Palestinians, most of them civilians,
(Reuters) – America’s top diplomat and the head of its Defense Department will visit India in coming weeks seeking to revitalize a relationship the United States sees as a crucial counterbalance in Asia to an increasingly assertive China. Secretary of
Via the Daily Mail: Al-Qaeda is at the gates, and there are enough jihadis within already. Intelligence agencies say the terror network is making inroads into India, sowing the seeds of a “final war” across the country. Information gathered on al-Qaeda’s India
Tel Aviv– Israel and Hamas have struck a long-term ceasefire agreement through Egyptian intermediaries that is set to begin at 6:00 a.m. local time Friday. An Israeli official reportedly released the terms of the agreement to the BBC. Agence France
Australia has become the first country in the world to abolish its hated carbon tax – in fulfillment of an electoral “pledge in blood” by Prime Minister Tony Abbott. The tax was introduced by the Labor-Greens coalition in mid-2012, despite
