No Free Speech Allowed for Geert Wilders
A few months ago, the British government denied entry to Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian, who was scheduled to show his 15-minute film about Islam, Fitna, which intersperses selected excerpts from...
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Clinton Visits Mexico to Discuss Drugs, Other Issues
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Mexico on March 25 for a two-day visit that will include stops in Mexico City and Monterrey. The State Department website posted a...
China Calls for a Global Currency
China is calling for a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar. According to an AP report, the governor of China’s central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, wrote in an essay on...
North Korea Adamant on Missile Launch
On March 24, the North Korean government warned the UN, the United States, and Japan against issuing sanctions in retaliation for its planned launch of a communications satellite between April 4...
North Korea Detains U.S. Journalists
Two journalists for the California-based online media outlet Current TV were taken into custody and detained by North Korean soldiers on March 17. The two women, Laura Ling and Euna Lee,...
China Wants Importers to Pay Its Carbon Tax
During a mid-March forum organized by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington, China's top climate-change negotiator, Li Gao, said his country should not pay for cutting emissions created...
El Salvador to Lurch Leftward Under Funes
Tiny, tragic El Salvador became on Sunday the latest Latin American country to lurch leftwards, following the lead of the likes of Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. Popular former TV journalist...
Taliban Militants Hit NATO Supply Convoy
As many as 50 suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks at the al-Faisal terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, early on the morning of March 16. A NATO supply convoy loaded with supplies...
Will China Dump U.S. Debt?
The Chinese government, to which the United States is in debt approximately $1 trillion, is preparing to use its leverage to exact concessions from the U.S. government. “We are concerned about...
Clinton Wants Closer NATO-Russia Ties
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, participating in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on March 5, invited her counterparts to make a "fresh start" in their diplomatic relationship with...
Chavez Wins Referendum, Seizes Rice Processors
After waging a successful campaign to lift term limits in February, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is on a rampage. He recently sent the military to take control of all the nation’s...
Clinton Meets with Abbas
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) leaders in Ramallah, West Bank, on March 4, including Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas. Reuters...
Violence in Mexico
A report released in January by the U.S. Joint Forces Command is warning of the potential for "rapid and sudden collapse" of the Mexican government. The "Joint Operating Environment 2008" document...
U.S. to Send $900 Million to Gaza and PNA
During a Gaza reconstruction conference held at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, on March 2, international donors pledged $4.481 billion in aid help the Palestinian economy and...
Economics Trumps Human Rights During Clinton China Visit
In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world's most populous country, where human-rights concerns were trumped by global...