82-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...
Europe
UN 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."...
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Socialist 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...
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Icelanders 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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Europe to Investigate WHO ‘False Pandemic’ Scandal
The Council of Europe is set to investigate the World Health Organization’s swine flu campaign this month over allegations of improper influence from...
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Pachauri’s Lucrative World of Climate Change
Many analysts bemoan the failure of governments at December's UN Climate Change Conference to arrive at a legally binding agreement to rescue the...
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Copenhagen Report: Obama Fails to “Seal the Deal”
It had been billed and hyped as the "Seal the Deal" summit, a conference that would produce a binding global agreement on greenhouse...
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Cheers and Jeers at Copenhagen’s Climate Conference
Edward Conlon, in his book Blue Blood, provides an in-depth and colorful narrative of his career as a New York City cop. In...
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Vladimir Putin Condemns U.S. Nuclear Defense
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for drastic reductions in planned U.S. missile defense as U.S. and Russian officials spend the last...
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Lithuanian Parliament Condemns CIA Prisons
A Lithuanian Seimas investigating committee has concluded that he Soviet-era holdover “Committee for State Security” spy agency had struck a deal with the...
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Tony Blair: Climate Missionary or Climate Mercenary?
Tony Blair, global-warming activist and former British prime minister, is under fire from the media for allegedly trying to cash in on climate...
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Copenhagen Consequences
Parties on both sides of the global-warming debate are calling the UN Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen a failure. Instead of producing a...
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Gore Effect Impacts Copenhagen Climate
Over four inches of snow fell in Copenhagen last night as temperatures dipped to below 25°F, not including wind chill. Officials with Denmark's...
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Scientists Unravel Cancer Codes
According to Times Online for December 17, researchers led by Professor Mike Stratton of the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
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Clinton Promises Billions in Eco-Aid at Copenhagen
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is promising delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference billions in foreign aid to developing countries. She's...
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