Euro Under Siege as now Portugal Hits Panic Button
The euro is facing an unprecedented crisis after another country indicated on Monday night that it was at a “high risk” of requiring an international bail-out. Portugal became the latest European nation to admit it was on the brink of seeking help from Brussels after Ireland confirmed it had begun preliminary talks over its debt […]
Immigration: European Coalitions Tired of Uncontrolled Immigration
In the first of a series on the politics of immigration in Europe, Ian Traynor reveals how mainstream leftist European parties appear paralysed by populism, unable to halt the rise of the far right. Europe’s mainstream political parties are engaged in a worsening feud over how to deal with the growing power of the right […]
Quantitative Easing – A Threat to the Recovery
The latest move by Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. Bernanke plans to inject more liquidity into US markets in the latest round of quantitative easing, which is being dubbed QE2 (we’ll get to what it actually means in a minute). While there has been a […]
Brazil’s President: World Headed for ‘Bankruptcy’
A strong sense of pessimism shrouded the start of an economic summit of rich and emerging economies Thursday, with President Barack Obama and fellow world leaders arriving in Seoul sharply divided over currency and trade policies. The Group of 20 summit, held for the first time in Asia, has become the centerpiece of international efforts […]
Donald Trump: China Will ‘Destroy’ Our Country
Los Angeles- Trump: “China Will ‘Destroy’ Our Country”, Billionaire Donald Trump react to President Obama saying U.S shouldn’t contain China. [youtube TbUDfIzqpwU nolink]
Hundreds of UK Lives Saved by Waterboarding
British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding”, according to former US President George W Bush. In his memoir, he said the simulated drowning technique had helped to break plots to attack Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in London. Mr Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, is being serialised in […]
Michelle Obama Wears Islamic Headscarf at Indonesian Mosque
Michelle Obama managed to show respect to her Muslim hosts when she visited a mosque on her tour of Indonesia wearing Islamic head dress. The First Lady covered her hair with a beige animal-print scarf as she toured Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in southeast Asia. Along the way, the mosque’s imam showed them a […]
Obama Lied to Declare a Drilling Moratorium in the Gulf
The Obama run White House secretly rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report. In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White […]
Decision Points by George W. Bush
November 9, 2010 Decision Points is the extraordinary account of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 […]
Interview: The Rabbi in the California Senate Race
by Fern Sidman, INN NY Correspondent A conversation with Rabbi Nachum Shifren: So, what’s a nice Orthodox rabbi doing in California politics? According to TEA Party candidate, Rabbi Nachum Shifren (R), “I’ve thrown my hat in the political ring and am running for the California State Senate in the 26th district because like many others, […]
US About-Face on Syria; ‘Golan not Worth Lebanon’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu In a sign of another failure of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of ”engagement,” a top US official said Syria can forget Israel’s surrendering the strategic Golan Heights while it damages American interests in Lebanon. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told the Washington […]
