Guest Column

Black Republican PAC Releases Ad Critical of Senator Barack Obama

The 30-second ad, entitled "History," criticizes Senator Barack Obama for voting in favor of increasing taxes on anyone making more than $32,000 or more, voting against the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" outlawing infanticide and his willingness to unconditionally meet with dangerous tyrants such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Canada’s Guantanamo problem

In Afghanistan, on July 27, 2002, U.S. medic Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer of Alberquerque, N.M., attached to the 3rd Platoon of Bravo Company, 505th Infantry Regiment was killed by a Toronto born Canadian citizen. Today, Omar Khardr sits at the American naval base of Guantanamo awaitng trial.

U.S., Canadian Investors Ask European Union to Impose US$183-Million in Damages on Poland

DUNMORE, Pennsylvania, August 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Investment companies, Elia Inc., and its sister company Renaissance Trust Inc, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and Dessaport International Corporation Inc. of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have filed a formal complaint to the European Union about Poland's confiscatory treatment of their Gdansk-based joint stock company, EuroPort Inc Poland.

London in new tourist record

A RECORD 16 million overseas tourists visited London last year, boosting the capital's economy by £8.7bn, according to the Office of National Statistics, The number of overseas visitors rose by 3.6 per cent on 2006, The total number of visitors exceeded 26 million.

Obama With the Standoff To Block Him

By Rev. Lainie Dowell Whose President will Barack Obama be?

Freddie, Fannie Failure Could Be World `Catastrophe,’ Yu Says

By Kevin Hamlin (Bloomberg) -- A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank.

Turks turn to diet patches to ease Ramadan fasting

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish Muslims plan to resort to appetite suppressing diet patches to help them get through the daily fast during the Ramadan holy month, Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.

Dominos anyone?

By Caroline B. Glick, Jewish World Review Russia's invasion of Georgia is exposing many aspects of the international system that the US-led West has studiously ignored since the fall of the Soviet Union. One old truth that deserves attention is that the domino-theory of international relations remains true. That theory asserts that events in one arena will foment similar events in other arenas.

Mugabe takes generals’ advice and abandons deal

Robert Mugabe has abandoned a negotiated solution to the Zimbabwean crisis at the behest of the generals who prop him up, sources have told The Independent

A Small Event with an Ominous Warning

Denver Police have closed their investigation into the mysterious death of an indigent man in a suite of a luxury Denver hotel. They announced that his death was suicide, and that there was no link to terrorism. An FBI spokesman has also stated that the incident has no apparent terrorism connection.

Moscow and the Merchant of Death

by Patrick Radden Keefe, Taking Note As tensions intensified between the United States and Russia over the crisis in South Ossetia, one person who has no doubt been watching the story very closely is the notorious gun runner Viktor Bout, who is currently sitting in a jail cell in Bangkok. Known as the “Merchant of Death,” Bout is widely believed to have been the most prolific smuggler of black market weapons during the 1990s, who flouted UN embargoes to fuel the bloody conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other African countries. Bout played a clever game of jurisdictional arbitrage through much of his career, hopscotching from one country to another, always a step ahead of national laws and law enforcement. Eventually he settled in Moscow, where despite an Interpol red notice and the fact that he was wanted in numerous countries, he lived openly, and with impunity, going so far as to grant an interview for a cover story in the New York Times Magazine.

Anti-hate group calls Democrats to disinvite radical Muslim leader from convention

(Denver, CO) Americans Against Hate (AAH) is calling on the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) to disinvite Ingrid Mattson, the National President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), from speaking at its Denver convention. Mattson is scheduled to help lead a convention interfaith forum tomorrow, Sunday, August 24th.

The Nugacity of Obama

Barack Obama will undoubtedly wax eloquent when he accepts the Democratic Party nomination in front of 75,000 adoring acolytes at Denver’s Mile High Stadium on August 28th. Obama will talk about hope, change, this being our moment and how yes we can.

Selective Human Rights- Fraudulent Democracy

(Queen’s Park) – The Liberal government is doubling the size of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and this spells double trouble for the people of Ontario. In response to a series of hearings this week at Queen’s Park, MPP Randy Hiller has lost faith in the legitimacy of committee oversight when it comes to Government bodies deciding the fate of Ontarians.

Chain wrapped around ‘old man’s body’ found in mosque

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "There are the bloodstains on the wall, and here it is dried on the floor," Abu Muhanad said as he walked through a torture chamber in a Baghdad mosque where more than two dozen bodies have been found.

U.S. Helpless To Help Georgia?

by JR Dieckmann Why is the American left not reacting to the Russian invasion of Georgia in the same way that they reacted to the American invasion of Iraq? Where are the liberal protesters gathering in the streets and burning the Russian flag in objection to this “unjustified and illegal” invasion? Where is all the shouting that Georgia doesn’t have WMDs, a nuclear program, or ties to al Qaeda? But more importantly, why isn’t the U.S. doing more to help Georgia repel the Russian invasion of their country, as we did when Iraq invaded Kuwait?

What Washington is willing to Spend in Africa

by Scott A Morgan October 1st begins the new fiscal year in the United States. This year FY 09 marks the end of the Bush Presidency. So in what is his final budget submitted to the Congress how much money does He want to send to Africa?

Remembering the start of WWII and the day before it started

World War II began when Adolf Hitler ordered the military forces of Nazi Germany to invade Poland on the morning of September 1, 1939. His blitzkrieg was a new and barbaric method of waging war which made civilian men, women and children just as much a target as any military one. It was also a war of deception, disinformation and falsification for which the German Ministry for Propaganda became notorious.

Fossil Fuels are the New Green Power

By Allan Taylor If we want a greening planet we must have more CO2 in the atmosphere. We have been doing this by burning fossil fuels to an increasing extent and the planet has responded favorably. We have benefited because now we can (almost) feed 6.6 billion people whereas 100 years ago we were feeding only 1.5 billion people when the atmospheric CO2 level was much less.

Beijing Olympics: ‘Ethnic’ children exposed as fakes in opening ceremony

Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country's 56 ethnic groups were in fact all from the same one, the majority Han Chinese race.