President Obama's call for tougher action on Iran at the Hawaii summit went largely ignored by China and Russia US president fails to win support from Hu and Medvedev at APEC summit as he seeks to rein back Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Barack Obama’s push for consensus over renewed concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme have had a lukewarm response from the Russian and Chinese leaders... 

Damascus: Syrians hold up a large national flags as they rally to show their support for their President Bashar al-Assad in the capital in Damascus. The “illegitimate” decision to suspend Syria from the Arab League has received wide support from the EU and the US. Russia, however, has strongly opposed the measure, which is starting to look like another step on the road to a Libya-style scenario. During... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called on her country’s allies, specially the US, to fully exploit diplomatic efforts over Iran’s nuclear issue, rather than discussing the possibility of military solution. In an interview with German newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung’s weekend edition, Merkel said that diplomatic solutions to Iran’s nuclear issue “have not exhausted”... 

Possible routes of attack on Iran by U.S. and UK military The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night. Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline regime in Tehran has been linked to three assassination... 

An interesting Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States was thrown into a “panic” last week after one of its soldiers emailed his mother warning her to “prepare for the end of the world.” According to this report, American Army Specialist William Millay [photo 2nd right], a 22-year-old military policeman from Owensboro, Kentucky,... 

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland The US says it is cutting funding to UNESCO in response to the UN cultural organization’s decision to admit Palestine as a full member. Describing the decision as “regrettable and premature”, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Monday that Washington would stop all financial contributions to the UN Educational,... 

US Senator Jim Webb China is one of the biggest economies in the world and grew at more than 9 percent over the last year. It also has loaned more than $1 trillion to the U.S. to fund its deficit-spending. But at the same time, the U.S. sends foreign aid to China, which lawmakers of all stripes say is just plain nuts. “Why in the world would we be borrowing money and then turn around and giving... 

A frightening Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the Obama regime may be about to launch an Operation Northwoods type “false flag” bio-terror attack as a pretext for bombing and then invading Iran. According to this GRU report, US authorities took down one of their top bio-terror officials yesterday named Dr. Kimberly Lindsey [photo 2nd right]... 

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there would be riots in the United States if the White House does not resolve the unemployment crisis in the country. “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” he said on his weekly radio show on Friday, New York Daily News newspaper reported. “That’s what happened in Madrid. You... 

The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of racial inequality in the job market. Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for whites fell slightly to 8%, the Labor Department reported. “This month’s numbers continue to bear out that longstanding pattern that... 

The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight, but wasn’t yet through with the U.S. on Monday, as floodwaters threatened Vermont towns and big-city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems. The storm left millions without power across much of the Eastern Seaboard, killed more than three dozen and forced airlines to cancel about 13,600 flights.... 

A shocking report prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry for Prime Minister Putin on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s unexpected trip to China last week to meet with China’s President Hu Jintao states that this Western leader told the Chinese that the Americans were responsible for removing from Libya an estimated 1,500 young girls and boys purported to be utilized as ‘sex slaves.’ Though... 

Now is the time for China to use its “financial weapon” to teach the United States a lesson if it moves forward with a plan to sale arms to Taiwan. In fact, China has never wanted to use its holdings of US debt as a weapon. It is the United States that is forcing it to do so. The US House of Representatives just passed a debt ceiling bill on Aug. 1. On the next day, a total of 181 members... 

US Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defence Secretary Leon E. Panetta, during a press conference at the Pentagon, Aug. 4, 2011. The fast increasing military might of China is a growing concern for the US, a top Pentagon official said. “Having just visited China recently, certainly both South Korea and Japan; we’re all concerned with sustaining continued stability... 

USA urges Russia to de-occupy Georgia. This was stated in a resolution adopted by the U.S. Congress, which stresses that Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in line with the resolution, are recognized as the regions of Georgia occupied by the Russian Federation. The resolution urges the Russian government to take steps to meet the conditions of the armistice agreement of 2008 between Georgia and Russia, including...