U.S. Transfers Power to Iraq
On January 1, the day after the UN mandate for foreign troops expired and the new Status of Forces security agreement between Iraq...
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Russia Flexes Its Natural Gas Muscles
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...
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Israeli Invasion of Gaza Continues
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...
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Spain’s Labor Reforms Cut Unemployment
Labor-market regulations and high taxes associated with hiring workers typically lead to high unemployment figures. Not least was this the case in many...
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Slovakia Adopts the Euro
On January 1, 2009, Slovakia became the first former Soviet-bloc country to adopt the Euro as its national currency. Once the "-slovakia" in...
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Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus Enrages Eurocrats
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, can drive communists, leftists, Greens, and one-world globalists to near apoplectic fury. However, the popular Czech...
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Mexico in the Grip of Drug Cartels
In a feature article, the December 22 issue of Forbes magazine reported that drug cartels are increasingly having their way in Mexico. Assassinations...
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Gaza Crisis Should be Avoided by U.S.
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...
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Press Freedom Threatened in Germany
New legislation that passed last month in the lower House of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is being criticized by opponents who say it...
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Dropping All Pretenses About “Global Governance”
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,...
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Rooting for World Government
"And now for a world government." That is the title of an important op-ed by Gideon Rachman that appeared in the Financial Times...
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Bush Makes Surprise Visits to Iraq, Afghanistan
Only five weeks away from the end of his presidency, President George Bush made surprise visits on December 14 and 15 to Iraq...
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Kerry Speaks From Global-warming Conference in Poland
Speaking near the conclusion of the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, on December 11, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), who will...
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Additional U.S. Troops to Head for Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, while flying on December 11 to a regional military base for international forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan, told reporters...
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British Troops to Start Iraq Exit in March
Sources within the British Ministry of Defence in London revealed on December 9 that British troops will start pulling out of Iraq in...
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