Vladimir Zhirinovsky A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of the planet” and kill over a hundred million people using secret weather weapons if the United States, the UN or Georgia tried to stop Russia’s entry into the WTO. Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Vice-Chairman... 

An Israeli navy vessel entering the southern Israeli port of Ashdod. Israeli naval forces have fired warning shots at a Malaysian ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore, forcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters, according to organisers and the Israeli military. Israeli naval forces fired warning shots at a Malaysian aid ship as it approached the Gaza Strip on Monday, forcing the vessel... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Rebranding Israel Campaign. The U.S. is not going to fully engage. Only bad things can come out of Netanyahu’s visit to America. And I mean bad things for all of us, everywhere. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a master of Zionist double-speak and deception, is about to undertake the most important assignment of his life. Because of its continuing occupation... 

Last year, MSNBC and other so-called “news” outlets mercilessly attacked Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul for giving an honest libertarian answer to Rachel Maddow concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On Friday’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews tried the same tactic on Paul’s father Ron, but the elder Texas Congressman was ready for the question and ended up... 

Volen Siderov, leader of the far-right Ataka formation. Volen Siderov, leader of the far-right Bulgarian Ataka (Atack) party claimed US Ambassador to the country James Warlick threatened to “destroy him”. In Siderov’s words, he encountered Warlick by chance the other day and presented him a “bill”, which was actually the total cost the nationalist believes the US has to... 

Texas has become the first state to ban intrusive airport security pat downs. The bill, passed late last night, aims to make touching travellers in an ‘inappropriate’ way during searches a criminal offence. The measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting pat-downs to touch ‘the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person’ including through clothing. It also... 

Melting of the polar ice cap has made Arctic resources more accessible. WikiLeak cables show fears that Arctic resources rivalry could lead to military conflict between Nato and Russia. The US government has signalled a new determination to assert its role in Arctic oil and gas exploration by sending secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other ministers to a summit of the region’s powers for... 

Update: Ron Paul just announced his 2012 Presidential Bid, momemnts ago as reported by Fox News. Ron Paul is set to officially launch his presidential campaign Friday morning, a Paul source told Politico. The Texas congressman will make his announcement from New Hampshire during the 7:00 a.m. hour of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Paul is then scheduled to speak at 10:00 a.m. in Exeter, part... 

Bab al-Aziziya, situated in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, is a military barracks and Gaddafi's main compound. At least six people have been killed and 10 others wounded after NATO airstrikes struck headquarters of embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. Explosions roared across the Libyan capital early on Thursday as missiles landed in Bab al-Aziziya compound. It was not immediately... 

Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary Hungary has recently adopted a new constitution whose many provisions openly contradict the current secular and liberal foundations of the European Union and the Council of Europe. Some parts of the document resemble a political bomb. The discussion of the basic law of the country was commenced in Hungary last year at the initiative of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.... 

The Libyan capital Tripoli has been hit by another heavy bombardment. Reports suggest numerous airstrikes were carried out by NATO fighter jets early on Tuesday. The UN humanitarian chief has called for a pause in hostilities, from all sides. According to witnesses, eight airstrikes were carried out by NATO forces within a period of about three hours, which is unusually intense, Al Jazeera informed.... 

Ablaze: Firemen fight a fire at a church surrounded by angry Muslims in the Imbaba neighborhood in Cairo last night. Mobs set fire to two churches in sectarian clashes that kill 12 in Cairo – after rumours that a Christian woman married a Muslim. Muslim mobs set two churches on fire in Cairo during sectarian clashes that left 12 dead and more than 200 injured last night. The deepening religious... 

Classified U.S. intelligence documents reveal the close relations that the United States military institution with the family of Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda killed about a week ago The documents reveal these relationships through the importance of business contracts with the bin Laden group, located in Saudi Arabia and led by the brother of Al Qaeda leader. The Saudi group has captured... 

Five years and one financial crisis since the United States and China commenced regular high-level economic talks, fast-growing Beijing might have the upper hand this week in the latest round of discussions between the world’s two biggest economies. China faces threats of penalties against goods shipped to its largest foreign market unless it does more to end what U.S. manufacturers say are... 

Is the far-right making a comeback? You might think so reading some of the headlines this week. “Behind the migrant row, Europe keeps shifting to the far-right,” warns Time magazine. “Finland leads rise of the far-right in Europe,” according to The Daily Telegraph. The Irish Times went with the same theme, editorialising, “As similar nationalist parties have done recently...