American Republican congressional hopeful Arthur Jones A US Republican congressional hopeful has emphasized that “Holocaust never happened” and that such an event amounts to “the blackest lie in history.” Arthur Jones, who hopes to challenge Democrat Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, noted that the claim of killing millions of Jews and other people by Nazis during... 

Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and... 

China says the US has no right to “protect” Arab peoples, questioning “the sincerity and efficacy of US policy.” The country’s top newspaper replied to Hillary Clinton after she called China’s and Russia’s veto of a UN Syrian resolution “despicable”. The People’s Daily commentary says, “The United States’ motive in parading as a ‘protector’ of the... 

State representatives in Wyoming have advanced a “doomsday” bill that when passed will launch a study into what the state should do in the event of an economic collapse, martial law style scenario. Wyoming House Bill 85 is essentially a state continuity of government plan that would study the impacts of the collapse of the dollar and the states ability to quickly set up an alternative currency. The... 

Soldiers from the Sudan People's Liberation Army during a military parade rehearsal in Juba, southern Sudan on July 5, 2011 Sudan says it will retaliate against South Sudan for backing a rebel attack inside the former’s territory, which it calls a violation of a memorandum on non-aggression and cooperation signed earlier in the month. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that militants... 

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services have foiled terrorist plans to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Russia’s most-wanted terrorist Doku Umarov is thought to be behind the plot. ­The internationally-wanted criminals detained in Ukrainian city of Odessa confessed they had intended to assassinate Putin. The attack was supposed to be carried out... 

Syria’s Interior Minister has announced that 89 per cent of those who took part in the referendum have voted in favor of a new constitution. The new law puts an end to five decades of one-party rule among other reforms put forward by President Assad. Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar announced the results of the referendum at a press conference on Monday.­ According to the minister, out of 14,580,000... 

Russian electronic station on Jabal Al Harrah The Russians have upgraded their Jabal Al Harrah electronic and surveillance station south of Damascus opposite Israel’s Sea of Galilee, adding resources especially tailored to give Tehran early warning of an oncoming US or Israeli attack, debkafile’s US military sources report. Before it was boosted by extra advanced technology and manpower, the station... 

New attempts have been taken recently to drag Ukraine into NATO. Vyacheslav Kirilenko, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (the Parliament of Ukraine) with the faction “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense” (OU-PSD), an ally of Viktor Yushchenko, introduced a bill abolishing the non-aligned status of the country for the sake of accession to NATO. According to Kirilenko’s proposal,... 

New British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring, the first of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers. The United Kingdom has reportedly drawn up plans to send hundreds of troops and an extra nuclear submarine to the Persian Gulf amid escalating war threats against the Islamic Republic. “MoD planners went into overdrive at the start of the year. Conflict is seen as inevitable as long as the regime... 

Iranian military complex, Parchin, which was said to be possibly involved in nuclear weapons research Iran’s alleged nuclear ambition may be high in the headlines. The US intelligence community, whose job is to assess the threat, is skeptical about it. Same as it has been for five years. The latest report accusing Iran of trying to make a nuclear weapon came Friday from the UN’s nuclear watchdog... 

Last week the North vowed "merciless retaliatory strikes" if any shells landed in waters claimed by Pyongyang during a live-fire artillery exercise near the disputed Yellow Sea border North Korea has threatened to stage a ‘sacred war’ over US-South Korean annual joint military exercises next week, denouncing the drill as a ‘silent declaration of war’. The North’s... 

Fire on the roof of a building in the Baba Amr neighborhoud of the flashpoint city of Homs, allegedly during the bombardment of the city. Britain will recognize the Syrian National Council as a “legitimate representative of the Syrian people,” Foreign Secretary William Hague said in the run-up to the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia. ­In a move that is unlikely to placate... 

Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!” ­A decade ago, Argentina too went through a systemic Sovereign Public Debt collapse resulting in social turmoil, worker hardship, rioting and street fights with the police. Some months before Argentina exploded,... 

Israeli President Shimon Peres Israeli President Shimon Peres has reportedly called on Israeli officials to halt their recently intensified war rhetoric against Iran, describing such anti-Iran remarks as unnecessary warmongering. Peres told the Israeli officials that there is no point in the “unceasing self-intimidation,” and that Israel should leave “the Iran issue to the superpowers,...