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Obama Criticizes Israeli Settlement Building

U.S. government-controlled VOA news on November 18 cited President Obama's statement that Israel's recent decision to authorize the construction of new settlements in...

November 18, 2009

UK Health Department to Require Snooping Into Private Homes

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 18, 2009

Just when they thought they could not be under more surveillance or monitored more often, English people discovered Sunday that inspectors from the...

UN Nuke Chief in Secret Talks With Iran

November 17, 2009

The Times of London reported on November 17 that UN and Iranian officials have been engaged in secret negotiations toward an agreement to...

UN ‘Hunger’ Summit in Rome

Bruce Walker November 17, 2009

The United Nations has entered the climate change debate in an interesting way: "There can be no food security without climate security," UN...

UK Mandates Sex Education

Rebecca Terrell November 12, 2009

Children in Britain will be forced to attend at least one year of sex-education classes before their 16th birthday, according to new rules...

Fall of the Berlin Wall … and Rise of the EU

Charles Scaliger November 11, 2009

This week, as almost everyone is aware, marks the 20th anniversary of the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that set...

Venezuela Prepares for War, Again

Alex Newman November 11, 2009

After sending 15,000 more troops to the border, leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is warning his military and the population to “prepare for...

China Executes Nine for Riot-related Crimes

Steven J. DuBord November 10, 2009

Communist China has executed nine men for crimes committed during violent, ethnically motivated riots that took place in China’s Xinjiang region in July....

Bureaucratization of Religion in Britain

Bruce Walker November 9, 2009

The New York Times on November 8 reported that the highest court of the United Kingdom was facing as a legal issue the...

Australian Prime Minister Goes Hysterical Over Global Warming

William F. Jasper November 9, 2009

Speaking to a liberal think tank in Sydney on November 6, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that "dangerous" global warming skeptics are...

Ukraine In Lockdown Amidst Swine Flu Scare

Alex Newman November 8, 2009

Martial law was effectively declared in the Ukraine last week by unpopular President Victor Yushchenko after an outbreak of what health officials described...