Europe
UK Torturing Youth With Classical Music
Can music be a weapon? Undoubtedly Gen. Manuel Noriega thought so, when U.S. troops blasted his hideout — the apostolic nunciature — with...
Greece, Euro, and Even the EU on the Ropes
Let us be perfectly clear: The fiscal woes of Greece, one of the European Union’s weaker economies to begin with, are quite likely...
Read moreDutch Government Collapses Over Afghanistan Withdrawal
Following a heated debate and the collapse of the Dutch government over the issue, Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende announced Sunday that the Netherlands’...
Read moreTop UN Climate Official Resigns
The top United Nations climate official is resigning. Yvo de Boer, executive director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), announced...
Read moreEU Trouble: US Banks Helped Hide Government Debt
American banks helped Greece and possibly other governments to run massive deficits and conceal them from European Union officials and the public, according...
Read moreA Greek Tragedy
As reported by the New York Times Tuesday, Greece, the widely recognized cradle of self-government, is teetering on the precipice of self-destruction and...
Read moreThe Grasp of Socialist International
World government and world socialism. Those are the explicit goals of the Socialist International (SI), one of the planet’s most influential organizations, but...
Read moreBritish Police Plan Fake Break-ins
British police have a new strategy in their supposed effort to reduce burglaries: posing as robbers themselves. ...
Read moreWorld Economic Forum Pushes Global Controls
The annual meeting of the rich and super-rich at Davos, Switzerland, ended January 31 with the usual calls for greater empowerment of the...
Read moreU.S. to Develop Missile Shield in Romania
Romanian President Traian Basescu announced on February 4 that Romania's Supreme Defense Council had approved a U.S. proposal to include Romania in a...
Read moreBritish Inquiry Into Iraq War
Reuters news reports that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will make a long-awaited appearance before an inquiry into the Iraq War on...
Read more82-year-old Russian Dissident Arrested in Moscow
Veteran dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva’s recent arrest by Russian authorities is demonstrating several facts: First, that “post-Soviet” Russia is still far from being a...
Read moreUN Commercial to Feed Hungry Schoolchildren
During much of 2009 European TV audiences were shown a commercial in which Sean Penn makes a plea for a "human rescue plan."...
Read moreSocialist International in Copenhagen: “Birth of Global Governance”
World government and world socialism. Those are the explicit goals of the Socialist International, one of the planet's most influential organizations, but one...
Read moreIcelanders Resist Bailout Scheme
As reported previously, last year’s financial meltdown in Iceland seemed in many ways to offer a summary of the worldwide economic crisis. Rampant...
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