Just How Awful with 2013 Be?
By Alan Caruba.
Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. [...]
164ft Zombie Rat Myth Bust
By Mike Sutton.
Mythbusting the mythbusters and their super myth making
On the 17th December the BBC (Prichard, C. 2012 ) set about debunking the old maxim that “you are never more than six feet away from a rat”.
The Six Feet From a Rat [...]
The Myth Of The Conceal Carry Hero: Coming To Your Kid’s School?
By Baldr Odinson.
It’s been more than a week, now, since the horrible mass murder of 20 young children and 7 adults in Newtown,
Connecticut. Adam Lanza, armed with a .223 Bushmaster AR-15 semi-auto assault rifle, multiple [...]
A Failed Congress
By Alan Caruba.
This is for all those who voted to reelect Obama or those who stayed home on Election Day 2012 because they found Republican candidates who talked about unemployment and the need for more jobs unappealing.
The blame falls on [...]
Le Pen’s Fascists bar press from their Reichsparteitag
By Alasia Sancha.
The far right party in France, le Front National, held its party conference over the weekend. Read my piece about what happened on left foot forward.
The Ignored War – The need for collective security enforcement
By Oliver Krumme.
War in the immediate neighbourhood
A violent conflict with catastrophic humanitarian consequences in going on in the immediate vicinity of NATO and the western security alliance is standing aside and watching. While Syrian [...]
Agreement with UEFA bolsters reformists in troubled Asian soccer body
By James M. Dorsey.
The gold standard in soccer governance
By James M. Dorsey
This week’s signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and its European counterpart, the Union [...]
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church to Do Controversial Vote for a New Patriarch
By Betre Yacob.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), one of the ancient and the largest of all Oriental Orthodox churches in the world, is to do a controversial vote for a new patriarch to succeed Abune Paulose V, who died on 16 August 2012 leaving [...]
Media Manipulation and Upton Sinclair
Democrat Upton Sinclair, was a pioneer with socialist ideas, who tried to help the working class during the age of the American Great Depression. His campaign was hijacked by Hollywood and other media networks, that opposed, any association [...]
Wasting Police Time: Ironic Unintended Consequences
Sounds like a good idea. Done with the best of intentions and for all the right reasons. What could possibly go wrong?
(Part 1)
Mid November 2012 in Kent, England, once again police officers are arrested under suspicion of committing crimes in [...]
UN Treaties Erode US Sovereignty, Exert Control
By Alan Caruba.
Following the end of World War II in 1945, the idea of a United Nations, an international body devoted to avoiding future wars must have had a lot of appeal despite the fact that, not that many years earlier, the League of Nations [...]
Is Pearl Harbor Ancient History?
By Alan Caruba.
I recall in my youth thinking that the Civil War (1861-1865) was ancient history. As with most children, anything that occurred before my birth was “ancient.” In point of fact, the Civil War had ended just 72 years before [...]
Doing Their Best to Kill Christmas Cheer
By Alan Caruba
The one thing you can count on during the Christmas season is an avalanche of media-driven scare campaigns by environmental and self-appointed consumer protection groups that are intended to ruin it with claims that everything [...]
Freedom’s Just Another Word
By Jeremy Sare, England.
In the few days since Lord Justice Leveson delivered his 2,000 page verdict on the “culture, practice and ethics of the press”, there has been a visceral rejection by the newspapers against any law to underpin the [...]
Le Pen on the rise? French Fascists seek to take advantage of UMP’s troubles
Sanchia Alasia.
The troubled Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) leadership bid and François Hollande’s popularity slump may have left an open door for Front National and their leader Marine Le Pen to resurge.
Indeed Le Pen recently stated [...]
America Went Over the Fiscal Cliff Long Ago
By Alan Caruba.
I doubt that President Obama will compromise with the House Republicans on anything that might be done to avoid the January 2nd “fiscal cliff” that kicks in with higher taxes for everyone.
Obama has made it clear that increasing [...]
The Abstention Champion – A review on contemporary German Foreign and Security Policy
Oliver Krumme.
Foreign policy without clear position
On the 29th of November, the UN General Assembly has approved a motion to grant a non-member observing state status to Palestine with a vast majority of its members. Exactly 138 states have [...]
Betre Yacob responds questions about Ethiopia’s future
By Jaime Ortega Simo.
Betre Yacob is a writer and a journalist from Ethiopia.
1) Ethiopia has experienced strong growth on exports which increased its GDP over the past years. Seems like the Karuturi Corp. and other Trade Diversify companies [...]