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Russia's anti-gay drive takes global turn

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Russia has disassociated itself from the language used in a statement on fundamental human rights and freedoms by the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting Chair, as the document listed both gays and bisexuals as separate groups. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergey Ryabkov told reporters that Russia considers inadmissible any aggressive propaganda and imposing of ways of life and values that could insult the... 

Libya: So it was all about oil after all!

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Last year NATO countries bombed Libya, demanding “democracy” in the country. But now it’s clear it was all about oil and it’s not like the Americans and Brits are going to be democratic about it, and share those spoils equally with France and Italy. So… oil giants Total from France and ENI from Italy are just going to have to wait in the sidelines while the hungry American and British big... 

Real Madrid removes Cross from Emblem to please Muslims

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Real’s old (L) and new logo (R) Spanish football giants, Real Madrid, have decided to make changes to the club’s logo, getting rid of the cross, which was present on the emblem for nearly a century. ­The rebranding was needed in order to strengthen Real’s popularity among Muslim football lovers in Europe and the Middle East. The Spanish Marca newspaper is citing a source in the club’s... 

NBC apologizes for editing Zimmerman phone call to 911

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The NBC network has apologized after it was revealed that they doctored a 911 call made by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin that some say depicts him as racist. In apologizing, NBC calls the gaffe a production error. NBC came under fire after it was made clear that the network edited the February 26 phone call that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch member and confessed killer... 

French commandos arrest dozens as crackdown in aftermath of Toulouse

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Heavily armed and dressed in black from head to toe, an elite squad of balaclava-clad police commandos storm the homes of suspected Islamic extremists. Officers arrested ten terror suspects in a series of dawn raids across France this morning in a nationwide crackdown a month after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman. The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by police... 

US News Media edits Zimmerman's phone call to 911

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NBC appears to have edited an excerpt of a phone call made by Trayvon Martin’s killer to portray him as a racist. The edited George Zimmerman says he thinks Martin is ‘up to no good’ just because he was black – but that’s not what he really said. On Tuesday, NBC’s Today Show hosted by Ron Allen ran a segment of a phone conversation Zimmerman had with police shortly before killing Martin,... 

The Shocking Face Of China's Brutal One Child Policy

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Can’t happen here? Top academics and eugenicists are calling for what Obama’s science czar once advocated. This is the shocking face of China’s brutal one child policy which many academics and pressure groups are now calling to be imposed in the west – the image shows a 9 month old baby lying dead in a bucket, forcibly aborted by Chinese family planning authorities in the town of Moshan, Shandong... 

French leader likens Toulouse shootings to 9/11, vowing crackdown

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US. “The trauma… is profound for our country, a little, I don’t want to compare the horrors, a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in... 

Fear Of Radiation Treated as “Psychiatric Disorder” In Fukushima

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Despite the fact that the Japanese government and TEPCO were caught red-handed underplaying the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a study has found that almost a quarter of Fukushima residents hospitalized in the aftermath of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami were treated as having a “psychiatric disorder” because of their concerns over radiation. “Some 24.4 percent of... 

"Russia is Public Enemy No. 1" - Mitt Romney

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US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has branded Russia as America’s number one geopolitical enemy. He slammed President Obama’s comments to Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev over flexibility concerning US missile defense as alarming and worrying. “This is without question our number one geopolitical foe; they fight for every cause for the world’s worst actors. The idea that he... 

Iran war will be worst mistake in US history: Fidel Castro

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Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro has warned Washington against a military attack on Iran, describing such a move as the worst mistake in US history. In an article titled “The Roads Leading to Disaster,” published in the official daily Granma on Thursday, Castro said there is no doubt that the US would be making the greatest mistake in its history... 

North Korea calls criticism of its nuclear program declaration of war

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A missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea Right ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, North Korea announced that it will consider a statement about its nuclear program a direct “declaration of war”. This comes as the USA has condemned the country’s planned rocket launch in April. The US administration announced on Thursday that President Barack Obama considers... 

France's gunman shot in head, falls to death in hail of bullets

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Mohamed Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. Mohamed Merah, the man behind the Toulouse killing spree, is dead after a 32 hour siege ended in grenade explosions and gunfire. ­He jumped out of his bathroom window blazing an automatic pistol as police broke through, and was found dead where he fell. Two police commandos were wounded in... 

EU slams Belarus's Death Sentences

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Another scandal is brewing in the relations between Belarus and the European Union. This time, it goes about the death sentences against two young men, who were found guilty of conducting the terrorist act in the subway system of the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The largest terrorist act in the history of Belarus took place on April 11, 2011. The explosion ripped through the busiest station of the Minsk... 

Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans

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Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has publically attacked the Obama administration’s abolishment of due process in a new editorial, calling the move a turning point in American history. Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent justification for the extrajudicial killings of three American citizens on foreign soil, Republican Party candidate Ron Paul has penned a scathing op-ed condemning... 
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