Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in public discourse is an explosively hazardous situation, and advises the Swiss people to arm themselves and warns that the basis for Swiss prosperity is “being called into question.” As... 

Three of the world’s biggest food producers including Nestlé, have been indicted for using unpaid children to harvest cocoa in Ivory Coast. The US Supreme Court on Monday accused Nestlé, Archer-Daniels-Midland, and Cargill of aiding and abetting human rights violations by purchasing cocoa from Ivory Coast in full knowledge of the country’s child slavery problem. The ruling was made following... 

American scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett says the full truth about the 9/11 Zionist coup d’état in the United States is probably too politically explosive for Donald Trump to ever tell since it would destabilize the US political system. Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11, told Press TV on Wednesday that if the Republican presidential front-runner did... 

US President Barack Obama has said that the United States should be the country to win a new global health race and find a cure for cancer “once and for all.” “Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer,” Obama said during his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, referencing Joe Biden’s remarks last year when he announced not to run for... 

A video released by Iran shows the moment 10 US sailors were taken into custody as their boats crossed into the country’s waters on Tuesday, and their treatment during the brief detention. Dressed in camouflage uniforms, the sailors can be seen kneeling on the deck of the patrol boat, with hands on their heads. They are then shown seated in a room, being given tea, bottled water and food by their... 

Up to 10 million more refugees will travel to Europe from Syria and Iraq as the migrant crisis spirals further out of control, a senior politician has warned. Gerd Muller predicted the continent would face an even bigger refugee influx as migrants seek to escape “misery” in their homelands. The German development minister slammed the European Union for failing to control the crisis, saying... 

Members of the “Black and Asian Studies Association” have got a history course introduced to 16 year-old English school children, which teaches that Africans were the earliest inhabitants of England. The creators of the course said the point of the course is to challenge the “white male-dominated” history of Britain. And how do they back up this questionable claim that Africans were the first... 

Consider the “soccer scandal” that Washington concocted, apparently for the purpose of embarrassing Russia. The soccer organization’s home is Switzerland, but this did not stop Washington from sending FBI agents into Switzerland to arrest Swiss citizens. Try to imagine Switzerland sending Swiss federal agents into the US to arrest Americans. Consider the $9 billion fine that Washington imposed... 

Falling oil prices are emptying Saudi Arabia’s state coffers as the country grapples with its military and social needs, according to the French newspaper Les Echos. Plummeting oil prices have ridden roughshod over the state coffers of Saudi Arabia, which is currently trying to cope with its military and social needs, journalist Yves Bourdillon wrote in an article which was published by the... 

A Republican state representative from New Hampshire heckled Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a campaign event over former President Bill Clinton’s sexual scandals. US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has responded to attacks against her husband’s past sexual affairs, saying they “won’t work” in damaging her campaign. Donald Trump, the leading... 

An astonishing Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin signed an order this morning authorizing the movement of up to 100,000 Federation troops to the Western Front to be comprised of three new divisions and five regiments of Strategic Missile Forces equipped with atomic weapons to prepare for an expected counter-attack by NATO forces due to Russia... 

Chanting “Merkel out” and waving German flags, supporters of the patriotic PEGIDA movement vented their anger Saturday against migrants after a rash of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne. Carrying banners and signs bearing slogans like “Rapefugees not welcome,” the far-right protesters took aim at Merkel, accusing her of allowing migrants to running amok in Germany through her... 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has expanded its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, according to a report. The ongoing investigation is now focused on determining whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation affairs and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources... 

A volcanic eruption with the potential to “return humanity to a pre-civilization state” could happen within the next 80 years, according to a study by the European Science Foundation. Have we now heard the last argument in the debate the study triggered? Authors of the Extreme Geohazards: Reducing the Disaster Risk and Increasing Resilience say the threat from low-probability, high impact disasters... 

Germany cannot find any support in Europe for its stance on the refugee question: its partners are demonstratively distancing themselves from Berlin, a tendency that will become even more pronounced following the reprehensible events in the city of Cologne, according to Malte Lehming, an editor at Berlin’s Der Tagesspiegel daily. “Europe’s Schengen system is on its deathbed,” Lehming states...