Ireland’s EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, has conceded that voters in most EU countries would reject the stalled Lisbon Treaty. His admission came as Brian Cowen, the Irsih prime minister, was set to announce 2 October as the date when Ireland holds its second referendum on the document. The treaty, which proposes the first full-time President of the European Council, is highly contentious... 

A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff’s plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin cited the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as he sentenced Madoff to the maximum of 150 years... 

Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation’s congress, courts and military. Presidents from around Latin America were gathering in Nicaragua for meetings Monday to resolve the first military overthrow of a Central American government... 

That’s the essential message from the 111th Congress to you and me: “eat dirt and die, peons”. The cap and trade bill passed in the House, 219- 212. More than forty Democrats voted against it, but a half dozen or so Republicans crossed over, enough to give them a majority. Here’s where you can read the roll call results to find out how your Congressman voted. Those suckers passed on it... 

The Jews in Iraq seem to be getting desperate. A bomb ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad’s main Shiite district on Wednesday, killing at least 69 people and wounding more than 100 less than a week before a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq’s urban areas. The explosion in Sadr City — the deadliest to strike the sprawling slum in more than two years — came just days after... 

Throughout the history of Europe,  the Socialists creates problems, bringing more immigration and raising taxes on the poor people native people and exploiting the race issues to stay in power. If the SPD ever win the elections,it would be a catastrophe for low income earning Germans. Conservative leaders voted unanimously on Sunday, June 28, in favor of a program of moderate tax cuts and income... 

The American propaganda Western Media depicts Hossein Mousavi as ‘freedom fighter’ to defend democracy, portraying him as a much better alternative to the current Ahmadinejad, but he was linked to the American hostage situation in Iran during the times of  Jimmy Carter.  Read More »

Russia on Friday stated it will not consider orders issued by a US court as binding, saying that the American legal system can not tell the country how to handle sacred Jewish documents held in its state library that were seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies. The documents are at the center of a lawsuit brought by members of Chabad-Lubavitch, who are suing Russia in US court to recover thousands of... 

A CIA-trained sharpshooter takes position on a rooftop in Tehran. His contact on the street below, waiting with a camera, calls. “She just got out of the car. A perfect target.” He takes aim. Shoots. He disappears. On the street, the contact takes the video of the young woman, her face visible and unscarred, helped by people on the street around her, bleeding to death. Within an hour, the video... 

British citizenship has rocketed almost 500 per cent under Labour The number of British passports given to migrants is set to hit a record 220,000 this year. In the first three months of 2009, 54,615 citizenship applications were approved – up 57 per cent on the same period in 2008. At that rate, the number receiving passports – and with them the right to full benefits – this year... 

Gaza’s hospitals are used to treating victims of rocket attacks and gunfire. But now their waiting rooms are increasingly filled with severely malnourished children. Since Israel imposed a blockade on the strip following the Hamas takeover a year ago, families have been struggling to feed their children. Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports from Gaza.  Read More »

A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US Middle East envoy was called off because of disagreements over settlement growth, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Officials close to Netanyahu said he had called off the meeting and denied an Israeli newspaper report that Washington had cancelled it over Israel’s refusal to halt “natural growth” in the settlements. “The... 

ALIPAC is rallying Americans against Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty plans that are being discussed with Congressional leaders in the White House today because a path to citizenship for millions of illegals would bring more illegal immigration to America and create a one party political system, both of which are opposed by a large majority of Americans. “They did this... 

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But the next day, newly released tapes reveal, he privately expressed ambivalence. Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion... 

Conservative leader David Cameron warned today that Labour has created a ‘control state’ with sweeping powers to intrude into people’s private lives. Officials now had more than 1,000 reasons to knock on people’s doors and demand to enter their home, he said. That was more like a ‘foreign dictatorship or bygone age’ than a modern democracy. Mr Cameron also attacked...