Europe
Strikes Threaten Sarkozy’s Plan to Raise Retirement Age
The decline of Europe continues. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that permitting vast numbers of Muslim Turks into her country without their...
Fuel Supplies Low as France Engulfed in Protests, Strikes
France is running low on fuel supplies as nationwide strikes led by labor unions paralyze roads, fuel refineries, public transportation, and more. And...
Read moreMuslim Scholar Upholds Christian Presence in Middle East
Reuters News reported on October 15 that Mohammad Sammak, a Sunni Muslim who serves as secretary general of Lebanon's Christian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue,...
Read moreEuropeans Push Back Against Criminal Immigrants
As debate continues in the United States over the impact of illegal immigration on the economy, crime, and the future course of American...
Read moreBrussels Grasps While Eurozone Gasps
“I believe that the debt crisis affecting Spain, and the euro zone in general, has passed,” Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero...
Read more“Criminal Standard of Proof” of CIA Torture in Poland
The U.S. CIA engaged in torture in its secret prison in Poland with a “criminal standard of proof,” the British Broadcasting Corporation reported...
Read moreVilius Brazenas: Lithuanian-American Freedom Fighter Extraordinaire
Few other human beings were eye witnesses to, and participants in, events of the 20th Century as was Vilius Brazenas. A survivor of...
Read moreThe “New European Soviet”
This article, originally published on September 6, 2004, was written by noted Lithuanina-American journalist and author Vilius Brazenas for The New American. A...
Read moreSwedish Anti-immigrant Party Wins Big
When Swedes went to the polls late last month for the parliamentary election, most of them did not suspect the anti-immigrant “far-right” Sweden...
Read more“Agony Aunt” Supports Child Suffocation
On the British Broadcasting Channel's Sunday Morning Live for October 3, British television pundit Virginia Ironside provoked outrage from the audience as she...
Read moreGermany Makes Final World War One Debt Payment
In a few days, Germany will pay off the last of its debts arising out of the Treaty of Versailles over 90 years...
Read moreSix UK Men Jailed as Racists for Burning Koran
When Australian lawyer (and atheist) Alex Stewart allegedly rolled marijuana “joints” from pages of the Bible and Koran and smoked them on YouTube,...
Read moreScots Try to Snuff Out Cigarette Smuggling
With tobacco smuggling on the rise because of high taxes on cigarettes in the United Kingdom, Scottish government officials and anti-smoking activists met...
Read moreWhose Money Is It Anyway?
Since the advent of the income tax, it has been obvious that governments believe that their citizens’ earnings actually belong to the government...
Read moreSweden Considers Cashless Society
The move toward a cashless society is accelerating in Sweden as plastic payments become the norm and various government officials, unions, and high-profile...
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