Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange recently published leaked chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive trade agreement between fourteen Pacific Rim countries, including the United States.
RIMPAC 2016. COLIN CLARK for Breaking Defense reports, China, which continues to militarize the fake islands it's creating in the South China Sea, may get uninvited to RIMPAC, the biggest naval exercise in the world.
AP reports, North Korea warned Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul's presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes for "treason" and publicly executes officials responsible for what Pyongyang says ar
Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven't been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a cult, and like most cults, its followers would probably object to the characterization.
Despite overwhelming fears of deflation in Japan by economists, by the Bank of Japan, and by prime minister Shinz? Abe, all of the preceding forgot to get the opinion of consumers.
The vicious attack on the Brussels airport and metro underscores the futility of focusing on the Syrian "Caliphate" as the epicenter of terrorism: as I've been saying in this space since 2001, the snake has no head. Both al-Qaeda and now ISIS a
The U.S. government was robbed. Last month, hackers stole $100 million from the Federal Reserve. Authorities recovered $19 million, and the hackers got away with $81 million. It was the largest bank robbery in history.
TN Note: Trump is certainly not a politician in the traditional sense, having never run for office at any level. As a businessman, every problem has a financial solution, or "deal", that would make the problem go away. This pragmatic approach to
scientists discover. (NaturalNews) Scientific breakthroughs often come from unlikely sources, and a recent discovery has proved to be no exception. Who would have imagined a connection between moldy bread and 'greener' electrical batteries?
detrimental to human health and rights. (NaturalNews) The War on Drugs has been a colossal failure. That is the implications of a major new report by The Lancet and John Hopkins University, which found that 50 years of restrictive drug policies have
(NaturalNews) As news of an illegal vaccine distribution scandal in China continues to emerge, outraged citizens are demanding to know why the government waited so long to inform the public that their children were at risk.
Tony Blair [in the Sunday Times]: Britain and its western allies must be prepared to send ground troops to "crush" Islamic State forces or risk a terror attack in Europe of "such size and horror" that draconian security measures would have to
TOKYO (Reuters) - Driving interest rates below zero, the Bank of Japan has turned a comatose government bond market into an enormous free-for-all, complicating the central bank's own efforts to kick-start growth and end deflation.
In a Monday-morning appearance on "Fox & Friends," Donald Trump slammed President Barack Obama for saying the US must continue to be open to accepting refugees, even after the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels.
President Barack Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro during his historic visit to Cuba last week, but apparently that does not mean that Castro did not have any thoughts about el presidente norteamericano in his country.
In 1993 I was a seasoned federal prosecutor, but I only knew as much about Islam as the average American with a reasonably good education--which is to say, not much.
ERIK PRINCE, founder of the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and current chairman of Frontier Services Group, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies for attempting to broker military services to forei
A former CIA director has waded into the Brexit debate by declaring he does not believe that national security would be compromised if the UK were to leave the European Union (EU).
One person was wounded and detained in a major police operation in the northern Brussels borough of Schaerbeek, the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF quoted the local mayor as saying.
Anyone could predict this: just days after the Brussels attacks the security "experts" warned Europeans that they must give up some more of their liberties so that their governments can keep them safe. It's the same old refrain, but does it ever work
Anonymous has promised to bring down Islamic State following the #BrusselsAttacks
On March 22, 2016, a horrendous terrorist attack rocked the Brussels airport and Metro subway station. According to sources, 31 people died and hundreds were inj
Tony Blair has warned against "flabby liberalism" and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis …
The Rio Olympics Could Be the Next Victim of Brazil's Corruption Scandal … A massive corruption investigation is reaching into construction deals done for the already troubled Rio 2016
A new video has emerged of the aftermath of Tuesday's terror attacks at Brussels Airport, showing the true scale of the horror, shock and devastation of those caught up in the bombings.