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Bank of Ireland Has “Glitches” on Day of Budget Vote
Ireland has been following the path of Greece and Spain: Increasingly more of the national economy is, effectively, mortgaged to international organizations that...
Majority of Austrian Turks Refuse Assimilation
As reported previously for The New American, a recent poll of public opinion in Germany revealed that only approximately one-third of Germans have...
Read moreAre the Sex Charges Against Assange Bogus?
British police arrested Julian Assange on December 7 over charges of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Accused by two women of rape, molestation, and...
Read moreU.S. Cables: Russian, Israeli Mafias Gaining Power, Infiltrating Governments
Among the secret U.S. diplomatic cables released recently by WikiLeaks are several from Moscow, Tel Aviv, and other capitals expressing concern over the...
Read moreUN Likely Caused Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
The United Nations has been guilty over the decades of plenty of criminal and otherwise destructive acts, but causing a deadly epidemic hasn’t...
Read moreJulian Assange Arrested on Sexual Charges
Yesterday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to London police as part of a Swedish sex-crimes investigation. The arrest followed a meeting between Assange’s...
Read moreHugo Chavez Blames Bad Weather on Capitalism
Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest satirists, once observed, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Marxists, however, believe...
Read moreGermans Feel Threatened by Islam
Are Germans less tolerant of Islam than the citizens of other European nations? That is the interpretation which some members of the press...
Read morePolish President Celebrates Hanukkah with Polish Jews
Poland has been historically one of the most serious Christian nations in the world. Lech Welesa, the leader of Solidarity, and Pope John...
Read moreChina Urges “Restraint” as United States and South Korea Plan Naval Exercises
Voice of America reported on December 1 that the Chinese government has urged all sides (the United States and both Koreas) to exercise...
Read more400 Years Later, KJV Bible Still Going Strong
As the Protestant Christian world gears up to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, which many historians...
Read moreRussian Admission of Katyn Leaves Unanswered Questions
Seventy years after the dastardly deed, Russian officials officially acknowledged that Stalin, brutal dictator of the Soviet Union, personally ordered the massacre of...
Read moreEurope’s Finance Woes Widen
The sludge of spendthrift government is spreading across the continent of Europe. In Greece, public employees staged protests even though an actuarial analysis...
Read moreUKIP Leader Resembles Tea Party Leaders as He Rips EU
The viral exposure of a video of an anti-European Union speech given earlier this week at European Parliament has some political analysts wondering...
Read moreThe Unintended, or Intended, Effects of Wikileaks?
While the benefits of the items revealed in some of the Wikileaks reports are debatable, one cannot help but wonder about the motives...
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