http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/2/obama-us-global-decline-year-two/ American power is diminished by a weak president The second year of President Obama‘s foreign-policy and national-security management continued the pattern of decline established in his first year. The unbridled and naive optimism that ill-served the country in Mr. Obama‘s failed freshman outing gave way to a sense of policy drift in 2010. Even […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/1/3/main-feature/1/the-huguenot-connection The Huguenot Connection By Allan Nadler “In the darkest hours of the Holocaust, the safest place for Jews in occupied Europe may have been the southern French hamlet of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Inspired by the town’s Huguenot (that is, French-Protestant) pastor, the residents collaborated in the war’s best-organized and largest-scale rescue operation, hiding and saving […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513204576047680350412562.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Thousands suffered in the leftist rampage that precipitated the 1976 military coup. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Those who control the past, control the future: who controls the present controls the past. —Big Brother’s party slogan, “1984,” by George Orwell Justice is not easily secured anywhere in the world. But in Argentina today it is […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-wikileaks-war-on-america-15611 The WikiLeaks War on America Jonathan Foreman “It would be interesting to see if Assange ever dares to take on the Russian FSB, the Chinese government, or even the French security services—all of which would have far fewer scruples about lethally punishing him than the American state he believes is so dangerous.” The indefinable […]
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/reforming-voices-in-the-middle-east/story-e6frg6so-1225979029307 AMID calls for jihad emanating from websites and television channels in the Muslim world, a counterpoint has emerged: fierce Arab self-criticism and openness to the West. Although small in number compared with fundamentalists in the media, Muslim liberals have been able to expose the Arab world to a totally different, often shocking, way of […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7010X120110102?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true Kremlin critic Nemtsov and two others jailed By Vladimir Soldatkin and Nikolai Isayev MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three Russian opposition leaders received short jail terms on Sunday for “disobedience toward police” after a rally, a party spokesman said, a sign of a new crackdown on critics of the Kremlin. By Vladimir Soldatkin and Nikolai Isayev […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.99e856a0fb5a9fea7bf35be7ef15b71d.e61&show_article=1 Despite a simmering diplomatic row, President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were seen having a brief, friendly chat Saturday at the inauguration of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. Clinton Makes Nice With Chavez “They talked and smiled, at least for five minutes. It looked like a social conversation, both were smiling,” […]
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/02/iran-is-talking-tough-and-expanding-its-military-capabilities/ Iran is Talking Tough and Expanding Its Military Capabilities Posted by Peter Schweizer Jan 2nd 2011 at 1:38 pm in Iran | “He also boasted that all ‘enemy’ bases in the region were within range of Iranian missiles, referring to arch-foe the United States. He said that even the aircraft carriers deployed in the […]
