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EU Officials Want Larger Bailout Fund
Even as the European Union is bankrupting itself with bailouts, the EU’s top Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday that the...
EU Reinstates Travel Ban against Belarusian Dictator
The European Union announced today that they would be reinstating a travel ban against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 40 of his close...
Read moreFinancial World Eyes Portugal
The outlook for the sale today of three- and nine-year bonds by the government of Portugal is still cloudy, but late-breaking news that...
Read morePakistani Lawyers Laud Jihadist Assassin
When Governor Salman Taseer was murdered by his own bodyguard, “moderate Muslim” scholars in Pakistan greeted the assassination with cries of adulation. As...
Read moreEuropean Dis-Union
In a November 16, 2010 speech, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy warned that the eurozone economic crisis threatened the very existence of...
Read moreChina and India Fight Each Other and Christianity
The civilizations of China and India are two of the oldest in human history. Archeologists have found Bronze Age Indian artifacts from about...
Read moreIf You Don’t Pay This Tax, We’ll Shoot Your Dog
German sociologist and political economist Max Weber once defined a state as an institution that “successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of...
Read moreCommunist Laos Opens Stock Market
“Beware, my dear Zilkov. The virus of capitalism is highly infectious. Soon, you'll be lending money out at interest,” commented Dr. Yen Lo,...
Read moreThe Ongoing Portuguese Debt Crisis
New year, new crisis. For the beleaguered, once-independent nations of Europe now entangled in the eurozone, the economic drama unfolding in Portugal this...
Read moreKyrgyzstan Honors Putin
In a gesture of goodwill to Moscow, the government of Kyrgyzstan decided to name a 14,587-foot mountain, located in the Tian-Shan range in...
Read moreRomania to Tax Proceeds of Witchcraft
Everybody curses the taxman, but there is a new category of taxpayers in Romania that just might know how to really do it....
Read moreChina’s Gambit for World Dominance
The second half of the 20th century was defined by the military and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union....
Read moreAnti-American Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Returns to Iraq
Approximately four years after fleeing Iraq in fear of arrest, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is returning to Iraq in triumph. As the Washington...
Read moreCover Up: U.S. Funded Afghan Police Drug Use, Pedophilia
Analysts say secret U.S. diplomatic cables released by the whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks show that American taxpayers — through the war-contracting firm DynCorp —...
Read moreBrits Discredit Autism/Vaccine Link Study
In 1998, a study conducted by Andrew Wakefield, a former British surgeon and researcher, and his colleagues was published in The Lancet. According...
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