MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday accused U.S. presidential candidates of “swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican” posturing and warned the U.S. Congress not to impose conditions on a $1.4 billion anti-drug aid package. “The only theme in the (U.S.) electoral campaign is to compete to see who can be the most swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican,” Calderon told... 

The German government is considering whether to ban a children’s book in which Jews are portrayed in a way likened to anti-Semitic caricatures from the Nazi era. The book, which has been described as being Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion for children, conducts a highly critical tour of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Not one of the priest, imam or rabbi emerges creditably from the... 

President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that he wanted for school re-entry 2008 that each pupils portrays himself as a French Jewish child victim of the Shoah, during an annual dinner meeting of the representative Council for he Jewish institutions in France (CRIF). Sarkozy declared: “I asked the government, and more particularly the Minister of National Education, Xavier Darcos, to... 

Americas Greatest Threat, By Rev. Ted Pike Polls show voters in this election year most concerned about issues such as healthcare, the economy, and immigration. Yet the American people face a much greater threat. This threat is never publicly acknowledged, much less debated on national TV. Supremacist Jews dominate ownership of mainstream American media; they are able to favorably promote only the... 

  The northern town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said Monday, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village. The dispute brings together two controversies, one old and one new. Officials from the town deny they displaced Arabs during the War of Independence, and Google is defending the practice... 

Ireland’s Jewish community has been left deeply angered by the Irish Film and Television Awards decision to honour film star Mel Gibson. The Hollywood star is expected in Dublin for the ceremony next Sunday, but a leading Rabbi living in Ireland has launched a scathing attack on the decision to make the award in the light of Gibson’s widely publicised anti-Semitic comments made while he... 

Many Danish newspapers and a Swedish paper reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that prompted worldwide outrage among Muslims in 2005. The republication was to protest a plot to murder one of the cartoonists. Five major daily Danish newspapers, 10 smaller papers and a Swedish daily reprinted on Wednesday, Feb. 13, one of the 12 drawings of Mohammed that a Danish paper had published two years... 

Six million Britons are living in homes where no one has a job and “benefits are a way of life”, a report by MPs revealed yesterday. And they cost the taxpayer nearly £13billion a year in state handouts. This army of families on benefit – nearly one in six of all households in the country – has been untouched by a decade of Labour’s attempts to get them into work, said... 

  From the candle-makers’ association to the union of potato-starch factories, to the association of the crinkled-cardboard industry, there’s hardly a pressure group missing from the European Union capital. If you want to achieve anything in Brussels you need an office in the city. Between 15,000 and 20,000 lobbyists are said to work here for economic and professional bodies. The German... 

A national poll reveals that some 100,000 children in Israel have been sexually assaulted, but only 2.5 percent of the incidents are reported to the proper authorities. The poll, presented at a National Council for the Child conference in Be’er Sheva on Monday, encompassed 500 polled parents. The poll shows that 5 percent o f the parents reported that their children had been sexually harassed,... 

“F**k off! You f**king racist! Get yourself out of my country!” To Robb WJ Ellis, a young white recently appointed policeman in Zimbabwe just after Robert Mugabe’s accession to power, it was soon made clear what the new potentates thought of him. At the same time that Mugabe was being lauded by much of the rest of the world, his secret armies were murdering thousands of his political opponents... 

One of the little-known and least studied effects of diversity and multiculturalism is the way in which the First World is quietly sliding back into the past, a past we once thought we’d pulled our way up out of. Parts of our lives are literally beginning to go back in time. Increasingly, our work conditions are less stable than those of our parents or grandparents. Working conditions in... 

Rarely a day goes by without a whopping piece of hypocrisy on the part of the British Labour Party, for much of their political life is one big act of hypocrisy. Thus this weekend we have them facing both ways at once on matters of race. On the one hand they have joined in the general chorus of denunciation of Archbishop Booby’s suggestion that Sharia Law be afforded status and recognition, and... 

Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog wants to initiate a revolution for single-sex couples when it comes to adoption: According to the new policy Herzog has decided to promote, homosexual and lesbian couples will be able to legally adopt third-party children – meaning those children who are not the biological offspring of either of the couple’s members. This constitutes a breakthrough in the... 

  According to the minister of the committee on nationalities, Vladimir Zorin, the birth rate of Russia has beaten a previous record set 25 years ago, with an increase of 122.000 births (8.3%) compared to 2006, to reach a record of 1.6 millions newborns. Second and third birth has increased by 33% in the beginning of 2007 to 42% at the end of the year. Vladimir Zorin, told Russian President Vladimir...