World News

UN Secretary-General Visits Middle East

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo on January 14, beginning a Middle East tour aimed at ending Israel's offensive against the Hamas...

January 14, 2009

The Gaza Crisis Continues

January 9, 2009

The crisis in Gaza continued on January 9, as Israeli aircraft struck more than 30 Hamas targets before dawn. Hamas militants responded by...

China Curbing Appetite for U.S. Debt

Gary Benoit January 8, 2009

China is finally being forced to curb her appetite for U.S. government debt, according to the New York Times. China, which last September...

U.S. Transfers Power to Iraq

January 6, 2009

On January 1, the day after the UN mandate for foreign troops expired and the new Status of Forces security agreement between Iraq...

Russia Flexes Its Natural Gas Muscles

William F. Jasper January 5, 2009

Russia continues to surge ahead as the global energy titan, reaping huge profits and geo-strategic political advantages by exploiting its oil and natural-gas...

Israeli Invasion of Gaza Continues

January 5, 2009

Israeli tanks and troops late Saturday on January 3 entered Gaza, escalating Israel's eight-day-old offensive against the Hamas terrorist organization that controls the...

Spain’s Labor Reforms Cut Unemployment

Gary Benoit January 4, 2009

Labor-market regulations and high taxes associated with hiring workers typically lead to high unemployment figures. Not least was this the case in many...

Slovakia Adopts the Euro

Gary Benoit January 2, 2009

On January 1, 2009, Slovakia became the first former Soviet-bloc country to adopt the Euro as its national currency. Once the "-slovakia" in...

Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus Enrages Eurocrats

William F. Jasper December 30, 2008

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, can drive communists, leftists, Greens, and one-world globalists to near apoplectic fury. However, the popular Czech...

Mexico in the Grip of Drug Cartels

December 29, 2008

In a feature article, the December 22 issue of Forbes magazine reported that drug cartels are increasingly having their way in Mexico. Assassinations...

Gaza Crisis Should be Avoided by U.S.

Gary Benoit December 29, 2008

The ongoing Israeli attacks on the Palestinian-occupied and controlled Gaza Strip have provoked indignation worldwide, as flare-ups in that corner of the globe...

Press Freedom Threatened in Germany

Gary Benoit December 24, 2008

New legislation that passed last month in the lower House of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is being criticized by opponents who say it...

Dropping All Pretenses About “Global Governance”

William F. Jasper December 17, 2008

As we reported yesterday, the world-government-building plans of globalists such as Gideon Rachman and Strobe Talbott, which are so appealing to one-world elites,...