Cartels Targeting Police in Ciudad Juárez
As cartel-related violence continues virtually unabated in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez, thousands of police officers in that city of 1.3 million people have fled...
North America
UN Brings Virulent Cholera Strain to Haiti
In November 2010,The New American reported that United Nations peacekeepers had introduced a deadly strain of cholera to victims of earthquakes and related...
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UN Agencies Will Not Explain Expenditures
Two big agencies operating under the umbrella of the United Nations will not make public how they spend their money. UNICEF, the United...
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Entire Police Department Arrested in Mexico
When the police department from the municipality of Ahome in the Mexican state of Sinaloa were summoned to meet with the director of state police,...
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Arraignment Held in First Military Tribunal Case at Gitmo
“High-profile detainee” and alleged al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was arraigned Wednesday before a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba....
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Guatemala Elects Former General as President
Retired Army General Otto Pérez Molina (left) won Sunday's runoff presidential election in Guatemala, seizing on voters' concerns about growing insecurity in the...
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War on Drugs Grows FAST Abroad
Government programs often begin with limited, easily identifiable purposes, then grow over time to become expensive, wasteful, and even dangerous monstrosities. Such is...
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Recognizing Socialism’s Failure, Cuba’s Castro Revives Market in Private Property
When it comes to private property, wrote economist Ludwig von Mises, it is a simple “either-or” proposition: “either private ownership of the means...
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UN Pushes Population Control Agenda
According to the United Nations, the earth’s population will reach seven billion by October 31. For the world body, however, that is not...
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Mexican Officials Furious Over ATF Gunrunning
High-ranking officials across Mexico including the Attorney General are reportedly demanding answers from the U.S. government about its secret program that sent high-powered...
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Canadian Judge: No Jail Time for Infanticide
In a shocking ruling by a Canadian appeal court, a woman who strangled her son with her underwear after secretly giving birth to...
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Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels
The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government’s infamous “Operation Fast and Furious” scheme to send American weapons to Mexican...
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Vancouver Health Officials to Hand Out Crack Pipes
The Vancouver Coastal Health hospital is unveiling a pilot program, starting in October, that will permit healthcare workers to hand out “crack kits”...
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“Unclean” Girls Segregated In Toronto School Prayer Service
A photograph in the Toronto Star shows a Muslim prayer service in a Canadian middle school, in which Sharia law is being imposed....
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Cuban Wretch “Escapes” Castro’s Paradise
On Thursday, July 14, 2011, a young Cuban who tried to stow away inside the landing gear of a Spanish airliner died during...
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