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Plans Revealed for Greek Default on March 23

Writer Bruno Waterfield’s claim that Germany has drawn up plans to deal with the inevitable Greek default was published in the British newspaper...

Bob Adelmann February 21, 2012

Homeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution

Alex Newman February 17, 2012

As the government intensifies its persecution of homeschoolers in Sweden, the president of the Swedish Association for Home Education (ROHUS) has finally been...

Eurozone Recession Accelerates; Moody’s Piles On

Bob Adelmann February 16, 2012

Economists polled by Reuters predicted that the recession in Europe that began late last year would continue into the new year and they weren’t disappointed....

Libyan Militias Face Accusations of Ongoing War Crimes

Alex Newman February 16, 2012

As Libyans prepare to mark the one-year anniversary of the Western-backed uprising that ultimately toppled the regime of despot Muammar Gadhafi, human-rights monitors...

State Dept. Seeks “Special Fund” for Arab Spring

James Heiser February 14, 2012

While the purported reforms brought on by last year’s “Arab Spring” appeared to be floundering in Egypt, the Obama administration is preparing to...

Anarchy Draws Near as Greece Flirts With Default

Charles Scaliger February 14, 2012

The debt chickens are coming home to roost in Greece, and the hen house is collapsing. As the hard-pressed Greek parliament convened to...

Greece Burns as Police Threaten to Arrest EU & IMF Leaders

Alex Newman February 14, 2012

Following the approval of fresh austerity measures in Greece demanded by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to qualify for the...

Al-Qaeda & the West Back Syrian Rebels Against Assad

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

Western governments and the notorious al-Qaeda terror network have teamed up to bring down the relatively secular dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in Syria,...

Gadhafi’s Son Warns of Imminent Uprising in Libya

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

An armed uprising in Libya is imminent as people in the oil-rich North African nation continue to reject the new NATO-backed regime, one...

Syrian Christians Fear Genocide if al-Assad Falls to Muslim Extremists

Bruce Walker February 10, 2012

Catholic bishops are warning that if the Bashar al-Assad (left) regime in Syria falls to Islamists, there may well be a mass genocide of...

Egyptian Government May Prosecute Foreign Activists

James Heiser February 9, 2012

Egypt’s purportedly ‘transitional’ government — upheld throughout the past year as the example of the “Arab Spring” movement that was destined to bring...

Is It Nuts to Let Iran Go Nuclear?

Charles Scaliger February 9, 2012

On the morning of January 11, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a 32-year-old chemist from Sharif University in Tehran, was riding in a Peugeot 405...

Members of European Parliament Preach Austerity, Practice Luxury

William F. Jasper February 6, 2012

Marta Andreasen (left), the courageous former chief accountant of the European Union, will not give up. In 2002 she was fired for refusing...

Russia, China Block UN Vote on Syria Regime Change

Alex Newman February 6, 2012

The governments of China and Russia blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to hand over power,...

Cartels Targeting Police in Ciudad Juárez

James Heiser February 2, 2012

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...