Pope Francis departed for Cuba Sept. 19 on the Alitalia Airbus A330-200 christened Raffaello Sanzio at 10:35am from Fiumicino Airport. The Jesuit legacy is strong in Cuba. Father Antonio Llorente, a friend of the late Pope Bergoglio who died in 2010, was actually Fidel Castro’s teacher and spiritual adviser at the prestigious Jesuit preparatory school Colegio de Belén in Havana, which was also... 

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has triggered a massive public backlash by openly declaring that he would not endorse a Muslim as President of the United States, as he claims that Islam is not compatible with the US constitution. Speaking to NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ Carson said that he would “not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not... 

Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to give a speech to Germans, but all the way through, ordinary German folk were booing her and calling her “traitor”. Despite this protest and the protests in Eastern Europe, the German government said it plans to force Eastern Europe to open its borders to the hoards of millions of Muslim invaders. Over the space of a few months, the country has turned into a neo-Communist... 

A startling new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) states the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has “broken contact” with President Obama and has begun providing Russia with highly classified intelligence/satellite reports on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) bases in Syria. According to this report, and confirmed... 

Washington has signaled its readiness to cooperate with Russia in the intelligence sphere in order to fight the Islamic State militant group in Syria, according to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag. The United States has announced plans to develop intelligence cooperation with Russia in a bid to destroy the so-called Islamic State (ISIL), the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported, citing sources... 

Tidal wave of illegal immigrants will force West to intervene militarily in Syria. Dr. Mark Christian, an Egyptian-born former Muslim who served in the Egyptian military, told World Net Daily earlier this week the refugee crisis in Europe is an orchestrated event. “The media is making this out to be a spontaneous refugee crisis when this is actually a very organized event,” Christian said. The... 

The US Defense Department is re-evaluating its Cold War era military plans against Russia, a report says. The United States is updating its contingency plans for a potential war with Russia for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to US officials. The US Defense Department is re-evaluating its Cold War era military plans following increasing tensions between Washington and... 

NATO continues its military buildup in close vicinity to Russia: for the first time since the inception of the Ukrainian crisis, German Eurofighters are set to patrol the Baltic Airspace with full ammunition. The NATO Baltic air-policing mission has been carried out by its member states since 2004, when Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania acceded to the military bloc. In contrast with September – December... 

Encryption has become a top priority for those wanting to protect their privacy online, but US whistleblower Edward Snowden says the security measure could be making it impossible to detect signals sent from…aliens. Snowden’s comments were made during an interview on the ‘StarTalk’ podcast of astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. The whistleblower was... 

New Zealand has released a final selection of four flag designs, picked from thousands of creative drawings presented over the past few months. Three “ferns” and one “hypnoflag” featuring a koru will now compete to potentially become the new national symbol. A government-appointed panel has selected the four designs from a long list of 40, itself from an initial pool of more than 10,000. Ferns... 

A senior judge has ruled a child molester was rightly given a tougher than normal sentence because his victims were Asian and so suffered more from his crimes than if they were white. Jamal Muhammed Raheem-ul-Nasir was jailed for 7 years at Leeds Crown Court last year for sex attacks on two girls, aged nine and 14. What is the normal sentence in Britain for raping a 9-year-old? 1 year?? Obviously,... 

According to an investigation by Swedish newspaper Dala-Demokraten, Arab migrants are being promised ‘free blonde Swedish girls’ and taxpayer-funded luxury treatment if they pay people smugglers to help them reach Scandinavia. The report explains how most of the migrants seeking to cross into Europe who are being targeted by people smugglers are not even from Syria and cannot be considered refugees... 

A 3D illustration of a metasurface skin cloak made from an ultrathin layer of nanoantennas covering an arbitrarily shaped object. American scientists say they have developed an ultra-thin invisibility cloak that can wrap around a 3D object and hide it from detection. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have... 

No nation in history has ever threatened peace more than the United States, US author Stephen Lendman emphasizes, adding that Washington bears full responsibility for creating the notorious Islamic State. US President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry are hypocritically calling for a diplomatic solution to the world’s burning conflicts, while waging perpetual wars in multiple theaters, US author... 

Former Secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Geir Lundestad reportedly notes in his new book that the body “didn’t achieve what it had hoped for” when it gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and conferred the prestigious award on him in 2009. While it is quite rare for Nobel officials to openly discuss the nuts and bolts of their secretive committee, the former director of the...