Asia
Communist China’s Cold War
Despite conventional wisdom of a benign China, the recent landing of a J-15 fighter jet on the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning CV-16, plus the...
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." ...
Read morePresident Obama Wants TPP Finished by End of 2013
At a meeting last week in Cambodia chaired by President Obama, leaders from all the countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) approved...
Read moreXi Jinping Named General Secretary of Communist Party of China
On Thursday, November 15, at the first plenary session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Vice President of the...
Read moreChina Blocks Google Access for 12 Hours
Google reported a dramatic drop-off in its traffic to sites in China for about 12 hours Friday, November 9, into Saturday morning. According...
Read moreSuit: China Bankrolls Hamas Terror
China’s support of regimes and international actors hostile to American interests overseas (such as Sudanese leader Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and Syrian ruler Bashar...
Read moreCommunist Party Congress Opens in China
China's President Hu Jintao opened China’s 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 8. During...
Read moreObama Reelection Expands Syrian Civil War Involvement
The reelection of President Barrack Hussein Obama may coincide with an escalation from covert to open warfare by the United States and its...
Read moreJapan, China Escalate Dispute Over Five Islands in E. China Sea
Tensions between Communist China, Free China, and Japan are escalating over ownership of five uninhabited islands in the East China Sea — known...
Read moreShell Seeks to Pay Iran Debt With Grain
Royal Dutch Shell is seeking to pay a $1.4 billion debt it owes to Iran that it has been prevented from settling since...
Read moreAfghani Beheaded for Refusing to be a Prostitute
In the heartland of the Taliban it is regularly taken for granted that Western notions of human rights are dismissed as an attempt...
Read moreDrone War Creating More Enemies Than it Destroys
In the pre-dawn hours Thursday Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. drone turned a farmhouse in rural Yemen into a smoldering heap of...
Read moreBalloons From South Korea Send Hope to the North
North Korea, one of the most miserable places on the planet, has threatened South Korea with artillery and missile fire if South Korean...
Read moreU.S. Drones Kill 16 in Pakistan; Victims Left Unidentified
On October 11, 16 "suspected militants" were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. As has become standard operating procedure for such...
Read moreSecond October Socialist Revolution
Twenty years after the alleged fall of communism and the demise of the Soviet Union, KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn's predictions from his books...
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