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Arctic Sea Crew “Alive and Well”

The Russian-manned Finnish cargo ship Arctic Sea has been intercepted by the Russian navy 300 miles off Cape Verde, Times Online reported on August 17. Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has...

No State Sponsors, No Terror

“All warfare is based on deception.” — The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, Chinese General, military strategist (sixth century B.C.). It was late in the evening of February 12, 2008...

The Afghan Presidential Election, Part 2

The candidates in Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election were making their final appeals to voters on Monday, the 17th, the last legal day of campaigning before voting starts. In the election,...

India’s Swine Flu Panic

More people die every single day in India from tuberculosis and diarrhea-related diseases than the total number who have perished worldwide from the H1N1 (swine flu) virus since its initial outbreak....

Missing Russian Cargo Ship Located

“A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday [August 14] near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials,”...

Upcoming Afghan Presidential Election

With Afghanistan's presidential election to be held on August 20, candidates held campaign rallies across the country. Afghan and foreign troops deployed in areas under Taliban control to provide security against...

Hillary Clinton in Liberia

Nearing the end of her 11-day tour of Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Liberian capital of Monrovia on August 13 and was greeted under pouring rain by...

U.S. Launches Offensive Against Taliban

A joint U.S.-Afghan military assault began against Dahaneh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on August 12. Associated Press journalists traveling with the forces reported that militants fired small...

Paris Burning Again

Nearly four years after their first car-burning spasm of mayhem, vandalism, and violence, those "restive youths" in Paris are at it again. ...

Crescent Over Europe

The latest news on the Islamization of Europe is grim. By 2050, the Telegraph of London reports, Europe will be 25 percent Muslim. Muslims are a “demographic time bomb,” the paper...