Will Peace Follow the UN Vote on Palestine’s Status?
On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly voted to increase the Palestinian Authority's status to that of "nonmember observer state." ...
Asia
President Obama Wants TPP Finished by End of 2013
At a meeting last week in Cambodia chaired by President Obama, leaders from all...
Xi Jinping Named General Secretary of Communist Party of China
On Thursday, November 15, at the first plenary session of the 18th Communist Party...
China Blocks Google Access for 12 Hours
Google reported a dramatic drop-off in its traffic to sites in China for about...
Suit: China Bankrolls Hamas Terror
China’s support of regimes and international actors hostile to American interests overseas (such as...
Communist Party Congress Opens in China
China's President Hu Jintao opened China’s 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall...
Obama Reelection Expands Syrian Civil War Involvement
The reelection of President Barrack Hussein Obama may coincide with an escalation from covert...
Japan, China Escalate Dispute Over Five Islands in E. China Sea
Tensions between Communist China, Free China, and Japan are escalating over ownership of five...
Shell Seeks to Pay Iran Debt With Grain
Royal Dutch Shell is seeking to pay a $1.4 billion debt it owes to...
Afghani Beheaded for Refusing to be a Prostitute
In the heartland of the Taliban it is regularly taken for granted that Western...
Drone War Creating More Enemies Than it Destroys
In the pre-dawn hours Thursday Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. drone turned a...
Balloons From South Korea Send Hope to the North
North Korea, one of the most miserable places on the planet, has threatened South...
U.S. Drones Kill 16 in Pakistan; Victims Left Unidentified
On October 11, 16 "suspected militants" were killed in a U.S. drone strike in...
Second October Socialist Revolution
Twenty years after the alleged fall of communism and the demise of the Soviet...
Son of Drone Victim Sues Pakistani Gov’t for Not Protecting its Citizens
There might be one way to influence U.S. policymakers to postpone the airborne assassinations...
Are Syrian Rebel Forces as Bad as Assad?
Members of Congress have pointed to the violence in Syria as an opportunity to...
Drone Strike in Yemen Kills Five
The Associated Press (AP), quoting Yemeni security officials, reports that a drone believed to...
Suicide Bomber Kills 19 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on foot attacked a joint patrol of coalition and Afghan forces...
Russian Red Jihad
The recent wave of Islamic terrorism and radicalism in the Middle East, from the...
UN Chief Calls for End to Syria War; Obama Vows More Aid for Rebels
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to arms shipments to both...