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The 2012 Olympics: Stiffing the Taxpayers for Pride

Two days after the opening ceremonies of the XXX Olympiad in London, England, Smith College Professor Andrew Zimbalist was asked if he knew...

Bob Adelmann August 2, 2012

Iranian Leader Says War May Happen Within Weeks

Raven Clabough August 2, 2012

The Israeli news outlet DebkaFile reports that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned the country's top military chiefs during a recent war...

WikiLeaks’ Syria Files: Embarrassing to West, Irrelevant in Syria

Thomas R. Eddlem August 2, 2012

WikiLeaks' “Syria Files,” 2.4 million emails purloined from anonymous Syrian government sources, seem destined to have a greater impact on the West than...

Is Europe Facing a Financial “Black September”?

Charles Scaliger July 31, 2012

What is certain is that an implosion in Europe's debt crisis is reaching the point of inevitability in much the same manner that...

New York Times Sees “Golden Lining” in Zimbabwe’s Brutal Marxist Rule

Bruce Walker July 31, 2012

Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times recently suggested that the long and bloody rule of Zimbabwe's Marxist boss Robert Mugabe may...

Russia’s Cold War at Sea and Syria

Christian Gomez July 30, 2012

As the U.S. Congress moves to grant Russia with permanent normal trade relations status, the Russian Federation continues its Cold War style naval expansion of...

Hugo Chavez’s “Red Coup” at MERCOSUR Trade Summit

William F. Jasper July 30, 2012

The recent illegal ouster of Paraguay from Mercosur and the incorporation of Hugo Chavez's Venezuelan regime into the trade group is the latest in an ongoing and...

UN Conference Fails to Agree to Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Thomas R. Eddlem July 30, 2012

The month-long United Nations conference to draw up a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) failed to achieve consensus after the United States, Russia,...

Australian Government Helps Cover Up Guantanamo Crimes

Thomas R. Eddlem July 30, 2012

The Australian government folded a civil case against former Guantanamo Bay prison inmate David Hicks after former Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely pledged to...

U.S. Drones Spotted Over Somalia; Pres. Obama Issues Executive Order

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. July 27, 2012

Drones believed to belong to the United States have been spotted flying over Somalia in violation of a UN arms embargo. President Obama...

CFR Tells Americans “UN Doesn’t Want Your Guns”

Thomas R. Eddlem July 25, 2012

Stewart M. Patrick of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says that gun owners' concerns about a United Nations small arms treaty,...

Poland: Bishops, Pro-Family Organizations Resist Redefinition of Gender

Bruce Walker July 20, 2012

The Council of Europe convention is attempting to redefine “gender” to mean "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given...