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Pakistan Indicts Five Americans for Terrorism

Major news sources reported on March 17 that five U.S. men who were arrested in Pakistan in December were charged this day with...

March 17, 2010

A New “Greek Tragedy”

March 17, 2010

Let us be perfectly clear: The fiscal woes of Greece, one of the European Union’s weaker economies to begin with, are quite likely...

Escalating Chaos on Our Border

William F. Jasper March 17, 2010

The escalating violence along the Mexico-U.S. border has reached new levels of ferocity, as rival Mexican drug cartels battle each other and, simultaneously,...

The United Kingdom has banned two government-funded advertisements for exaggerating claims of catastrophic man-made global warming. The independent media watchdog organization, Advertising Standards...

Resurgent Communism in Latin America

Alex Newman March 16, 2010

Many Cuban refugees risked everything to escape the murderous regime of Fidel Castro. Oftentimes they made treacherous voyages aboard rickety rafts, hoping only...

Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America

Alex Newman March 15, 2010

Olavo de Carvalho, an author and philosopher, is renowned as one of Brazil’s preeminent thinkers. He played a leading role in exposing subversive...

Climate-change Nepotism

Rebecca Terrell March 11, 2010

The United Nations is launching an independent review of its climate agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has weathered harsh...

Iceland Debt Small Part of Global Debt Crisis

Charles Scaliger March 10, 2010

Iceland’s recent vote not to repay billions of dollars owed to Britain and the Netherlands underscores the growing risk involved in bailing out...

India-Pakistan ‘Proxy War’ Complicates Afghanistan

Alex Newman March 9, 2010

After several attacks on Indian targets by militants in Afghanistan, officials and analysts claim that the governments of Pakistan and India are waging...

U.K. Trash Bins Secretly Implanted with Microchips

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 8, 2010

Not content with the constant video surveillance of her subjects, Her Majesty’s government has now begun monitoring their rubbish, as well. According to...

Icelanders Reject ‘Debt Slavery’

Alex Newman March 8, 2010

Icelandic voters went to the polls over the weekend and delivered an overwhelming blow to bankers and governments attempting saddle the people with...