With the mainstream pegging Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney as the top two candidates for the Republican Party’s nod for 2012, Senator Rand Paul urged voters in an Iowa newspaper editorial this week that they shouldn’t be fooled. According to the senator from Kentucky, those frontrunners might be running as conservatives, but they don’t act like them. In an op-ed published December 8 in the Des... 

Think that President Obama will stand by his word and veto the legislation that will allow the government to detain American citizens without charge or trial? Think again. The Obama administration has insisted that the president will veto the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, a bill that passed through the Senate last week. Under the legislation, the United States of America... 

US President Barack Obama Following days of silence on the American spy drone captured and unveiled by Iranian armed forces, US President Barack Obama says Washington has asked Tehran to return the US reconnaissance drone. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said in a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday. The plea comes... 

Americans leaving US in record numbers Ever dream of leaving it all behind and heading out of America? You’re not the only one. A new study shows that more US citizens than ever before are living outside of the country. According to statistics from the US State Department, around 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying overseas, which Gallup says is the largest number ever for such statistic. The... 

All of Congressman Paul’s responses from last night’s debate. According to an ABC article, “By all accounts, Ron Paul is on a roll in Iowa. In the latest ABC News / Washington post poll, Paul is tied with Mitt Romney for second place in the state.” Ron Paul has finally started to gain momentum and turning into a top candidate as he managed to draw big crowds and many undecided voters... 

Have you heard the term “This is it!” before? Then forget everything else you have heard or read. Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is It! As the US-based writer Terrence Aym announces the release of his latest book, Mysteries of the Multiverse, we present our latest interview with the author. Terrence Aym has had several of his materials published in Pravda.Ru. His new book Mysteries of the... 

Alex is joined by Lord Christopher Monckton to discuss the latest attempt to build world government on a foundation of eco-fascism. Specifically, Monckton writes that the summit aims include: “A new International Climate Court will have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed “climate debt”. The Court... 

Ron Paul stopped in Ames, Iowa on the campaign trail on Thursday, and used some harsh words to explain President George W Bush’s reaction to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Specifically, the Texas congressman said that the former president was pretty happy about the events. After all, said Paul, the attacks served as pretext to finally put American troops overseas in what instantly became a... 

More than three decades after launching, NASA’s workhorse spacecraft is inching closer to leaving the solar system behind. Currently 11 billion miles away from the sun, Voyager 1 has been exploring the fringes of the solar system since 2004. On Monday, the spacecraft entered a new region, known as the ‘stagnation zone’ – an area close to the very edge of our solar system, affording... 

Occupy protesters block the intersection at 15th and K Streets in Washington, DC December 7, 2011 Up to 70 arrests have been made in Washington DC after the police dispersed a mass demonstration only walking distance away from the White House. “Occupiers” blocked downtown streets to protest against high unemployment and corporate bailouts. ­Hundreds of protesters from Occupy DC and other groups... 

The Jewish community in the U.S. is one of the largest in the world with over 5.5 million people. The majority of them are business people and those who have “white collar” jobs, though it was not always the case. There is no wonder that there is a powerful U.S. Jewish lobby that supports Israel. However, the relations of Israelis and American Jews have certain issues. For historical reasons,... 

Mitt Romeny (L) Jon Huntsman (R) U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday that he will not attend the debate that Donald Trump is moderating. Mr Romney joins fellow candidates Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman in rejecting the invitation to the controversial December 27 debate. Mr Romney told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto that he will not participate in the Iowa debate, but did not... 

A rapidly expanding US Pentagon program is equipping police forces, many in small towns, with second-hand battlefield-grade weaponry. The US Department of Defense distributed USD 500 million worth of used military gear to police forces in 2011, through the “1033 program”, The Daily reported. The dramatically growing figure sets a new record for the program, in comparison with distributions worth... 

Planet Earth viewed from space The search for Earth-like planets has finally borne fruit. Or at least that is what NASA claims, raising hopes among inhabitants of an exhausted Earth of a back-up planet for humanity. ­Space and extra-terrestrial life have always been a source of wild flights of imagination and inspiration for humanity. Now there is a fresh reason to be excited. NASA says it has discovered... 

An American RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned reconnaissance aircraft US officials have confirmed that the reconnaissance drone which was downed by Iran’s Army in the eastern part of the country was on a CIA recon mission. On Sunday December 4, the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit downed a RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft after it crossed into Iran’s airspace over the border with neighboring...