Europe’s anti-immigrant party leaders hailed a decision by Swiss voters to ban building minarets and called for similar referendums to be held in other countries. Europe’s anti-immigrant party leaders hailed a decision by Swiss voters to ban Muslims from building minarets last Monday and called for similar referendums to be held in other countries. Immediately after the 29 November Swiss... 

U.S. President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East. Before leaving to the U.S. on Sunday, however, Erdogan said Turkey has already contributed the “necessary number” of troops. Turkey took over the rotating command of the NATO peacekeeping operation in... 

Time is running out for Iran to avoid sanctions over its nuclear program, Reuters quoted White House spokesman Robert Gibbs as saying on Thursday. He added that Teheran’s deadline is still the end of the year for responding to international demands. Iran has ignored a deal offered by the Western powers that would have Iran sending its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into uranium for... 

Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs on Friday, Martin said no substantive reason had been given for the refusal. “I just wanted to go in myself and see Gaza,” he said according to the Irish... 

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Kogan), of Jewish descent, was born in Kubany, near Kiev, Ukraine, in 1893. In 1911 he joined the Jewish-founded Communist Party and became involved with the Bolsheviks. Kaganovich took an active part in the 1917 takeover of Christian Russia by Communism and rose rapidly in the Party hierarchy. From 1925 to 1928, he was first secretary of the party organization in Ukraine... 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has joined a chorus of international criticism of Switzerland’s ban on minarets, saying it refelects an increasingly racist and fascist stance in Europe. The Swiss foreign minister said the vote may pose a threat to the country’s security. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Switzerland’s vote to ban the construction of minarets... 

The level of American isolationism is the highest since the Vietnam war Americans are turning their backs on the rest of the world, showing a tendency towards isolationism that has risen to the highest level in four decades, according to a poll published yesterday. Almost half (49 per cent) said the U.S. should ‘mind its own business’ internationally and let other countries get along as... 

You wouldn’t normally expect Bloomberg, that bastion of free market capitalism, to publish seditious material, but that is exactly what they have just done. This little gem was written by no less a figure than Alice Shroeder, a former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and now an author and columnist. She describes how, unnerved by mounting negative headlines and outright hatred that is being... 

Germany is just 10 short months away from finally paying off one of the most onerous post-war reparations debts in human history, its massive war debt from the Treaty of Versailles. The German Empire entered World War One in 1914 on the side of Austro-Hungary. In June 1919 they were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, ceding West Prussia to Poland and Alsace-Lorraine to France. In addition, Germany... 

People who use it in public are prosecuted (arrested and fined) almost daily. Belarus’s Moscow-sponsored government of Lukashenko wants to create some sort of Soviet-style paradise, so just like during the Soviet times they make illegal everything they just don’t like. In 1991 after the collapse of the USSR, Belarus’s national flag became a state symbol. However, in 1994 the Communists... 

Belgium's PM Van Rompuy and EU Trade Commissioner Ashton arrive at a news conference after being elected respectively as EU President and EU foreign policy chief The EU’s first president, Herman Van Rompuy, officially took office Tuesday as the bloc’s reforming Lisbon Treaty entered into force, giving the European project a human face as it enters a new era. Baroness Catherine Ashton... 

The European Union needs the joint all-European army. The subject surfaced in the beginning of the 1990s, when European countries realized the scale of global changes after the fall of the iron curtain. The US administration is very negative about the idea. The question about the all-European army was pushed into the background after the Balkan war, when European armies were acting within the framework... 

Japan was a main member of the Axis Powers (or how the US renamed them “Axis of Evil”) who signed the Tripartite Pact. Hitler called the Japanese “Aryans of the East” which is true. Just look at the Japanese society today. They are highly advanced people with a very complex life-style, advanced technology and it’s one of the countries with the highest IQ in the world. Even... 

Poland’s president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended. The new law says that people who posses, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols could be fined or be imprisoned for up two years. The new law has drawn criticism from left-wing lawmakers... 

Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the...