In 1998, Fethullah Gülen left Turkey for the United States, reportedly to receive medical treatment for diabetes. Since his voluntary exile, Gülen has resided on a large, rural estate in eastern Pennsylvania, together with about 100 followers, who guard him and tend to his needs. It is from his U.S. base that Gülen has built his fame and his transnational empire. As Turkey’s ruling Justice... 

Britain’s The Independent newspaper says Gulf Arab states are in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the US dollar with a basket of currencies in the trading of oil. The US dollar eased after the report, written by veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk and posted on The Independent’s website. It cited unidentified sources in Gulf Arab states and Chinese... 

Iran will “blow up the heart of Israel” if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran’s most powerful military force — the Revolutionary Guard — warned Friday. Cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, who is the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in the Guard, said that if a U.S. or Israeli missile lands in Iran, Iranian missiles... 

Israeli PM’s visit to Moscow was about his Mossad agents involved in Arctic Sea hijacking jailed by Russia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly traveled to Moscow with a plea for the release of Mossad commandos allegedly related to the hijacking of the “Arctic Sea” vessel, says RT contributor Wayne Madsen. But the mission was not a success, believes the journalist. “Netanyahu... 

Mr President: Tony Blair, pictured here with wife Cherie in 2004 on holiday with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is expected by many to become the new EU president Italy wants Tony Blair to become president of the European Union – but a minister admitted today that Britain’s stance on immigration might hamper the former Prime Minister’s bid. ‘We have expressed our... 

Croatian extreme right-wing NGO The Croatian Cultural Movement (HUP) has announced plans to erect a monument in honor of former Croatian president Ante Pavelic in Zagreb, Croatia, this December. HUP president Tomislav Dragun has been quoted as saying that the monument will stand adjacent to the capital’s central square. Pavelic, the president of Croatia during World War II, was known for... 

Mongolia has been an independent country for almost a century, but some nationalists there say they fear that the time when it was under the control of the Chinese is returning. Nationalists in Mongolia say Chinese people who live in their country today pose a threat to Mongolian ethnicity. Fears among Mongolians that they will be extinct are spreading throughout the population of approximately 2.5... 

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday that “Israel is number one threat to Middle East” with its nuclear arms, the official IRNA news agency reported. At a joint press conference with Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali Akbar Salehi in Tehran, ElBaradei brought Israel under spotlight and said that the Tel Aviv... 

For over 50 years, one party ruled Japan virtually uninterrupted. During that time, Japan remained a loyal ally and supporter of U.S. policy. This month, a historic event took place. Japan has new leadership. In a landslide victory, a new party has done the seemingly impossible. A new freshman class of leaders now governs the Land of the Rising Sun. The effects are already rippling across the... 

An Israeli diplomat in Russia has been accused of being involved in unlawful activities and has left Moscow, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Diplomat Shmuel Polishuk was briefly detained by authorities on Sept. 24 and left Russia, spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said, without saying the offense Polishuk was accused of. “We hope that this regrettable incident wouldn’t... 

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) are both hostile to the accession of the overwhelmingly Muslim country of 71 million. The CDU is against the Turks joining for cultural reasons while the FDP leader, and probable new foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle has said the country’s economy is too far below European standards to integrate comfortably with other... 

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When the police lend support to vigilante groups hounding Jewish-Arab couples, what hope is there for coexistence? Whilst the proliferation of ultra-orthodox “vigilante police” is a stain on Israeli society, their Taliban-esque actions can at least be contextualised as the inevitable consequence of religious fundamentalism gone wild. Such communities are dominated by leaders who refuse... 

Israel has received two German-made submarines which are capable of launching missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the regime has received the two Dolphin-class submarines. Israel ordered the submarines in 2005 and they were expected to be delivered in 2010. Nuclear capable submarines are key weapons in Israel’s arsenal. With the delivery of the... 

How sweet it is. The US advisor for Marxist Obama David Axelrod is the great, great grandson of Leon Trotsky the butcher. Ho-hum, is anyone paying attention to the Communists in the White House? Here is more proof of what I said long ago as to the commies running Washington. D.C.. Even Glenn Beck is finally starting to call Obama a COMMUNIST. Hmmmm, maybe he’s been peeking at my Blog? Dr. James...