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North Korea: A Grim Warning for the West
The New York Times — the newspaper whose reporter Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 while deliberately covering up Joseph Stalin’s...
Chinese Man Fights Eminent Domain With Fireworks
In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, ruled that governments in the United States...
Read moreThe Truth About the “Peaceful” Flotilla
"There has been a overwhelming criticism, both nationally and internationally, against the alleged “attack” on the so-called Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli Defense...
Read moreTimes Square Bomb Plot Suspects Released, Deported
On Monday, May 31, the Los Angeles Times was reporting that officials in Pakistan have released Major Adnan Ahmad, recently taken into custody...
Read moreLahore, Pakistan: Muslims Killing Muslims
George Washington warned Americans about entangling alliances with the Old World. Perhaps one reason is exemplified by last Friday's attack in Lahore, Pakistan,...
Read morePakistan Confirms Shahzad Had Terrorist Training There
According to UPI on Thursday, May 27, Pakisan's Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, has made known the results, to date, of his government's investigation...
Read moreIran Asks Russia, United States to Back Nuclear Deal
Voice of America News reported on May 26 that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking during a televised news speech made in the southeastern...
Read moreCrisis in Korea Continues
The crisis that began with the March 26 sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan by a North Korean submarine continued on May...
Read morePakistani Major Linked to Times Square Bomber Shahzad
Last Wednesday, May 19, it was announced that investigators in Pakistan had arrested a former Pakistani officer, Major Adnan, in association with the...
Read moreTensions Rise Between Two Koreas
As tensions increase as a result of the March 26 sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, presumably by a North Korean submarine,...
Read moreArrests in Pakistan Over Attempted Times Square Bombing
Pakistani officials on May 21 announced that they have arrested suspects in connection with the attempted May 1 car bombing in Times Square,...
Read moreN. Korea Threatens War Over S. Korean Charges
AP reported a North Korean statement on May 20 asserting that South Korea fabricated evidence implicating the North in a torpedo attack that...
Read moreAfghanistan: Still Getting Worse Before It Gets Better
The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001. Six years later then-Senator Barack Obama, in a speech entitled “The War We Need to...
Read moreIsrael Still Averse to UN Plan for Nuclear-free Zone
Reuters news reported on May 7 that Israel does not plan to review its nuclear policies, despite efforts by the United States and...
Read moreIraqi Prison: Torture Was “Routine”
The New York-based Human Rights Watch reported April 27 that a secret Iraqi prison maintained by the current lame-duck Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki...
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