Argentina is demanding help from the United Nations, in helping to fight slave trades, run mainly by organizations from the United States.
Argentina claims that U.S. organized crime is using Argentina as a recruiting grounds, and transit point, for human trafficking. Poor people are promised well paying jobs in the U.S., but end up working […] Continue Reading…
The Bosnian Serb government is refusing to recognize the Bosnian national government. This over the country’s national court, which has been hearing cases of war crimes.
Austrian Valentin Inzko, is the supreme decision maker in Bosnia, and has ordered the Serbs to back off their plans to officially refuse to recognize the Bosnian national government. […] Continue Reading…
Greek officials announced that the 110 billion Euro (U.S. $160 billion) bailout money they got from the European Union is not enough.
Officials say they need another two to four years of bailout funding. They are willing to cut even more from social programs to satisfy lenders.
China is the number one exporter, which country is number two? Germany.
Germany continues to do well when it comes to exporting its products to other countries. So well, that it’s hit a record of 98.3 billion Euros (U.S. $140.9 billion) in exports for the month of March: “That was the highest monthly figure recorded […] Continue Reading…
In another sign of who’s got the money, for the second year Chinese tourists have topped the list of biggest spenders in France.
The study was done by the UN World Tourism Organization. Recently the Japanese, in their own study, found that Chinese tourist were the biggest spenders there.
The study showed a 60% increase in […] Continue Reading…
It’s interesting how the main stream U.S. media reported the number of Drugs War protesters, over the weekend, as in the “hundreds”. It was tens of thousands!
Reports out of Mexico vary from 20,000 to 85,000. The latest protests took place from May 5-8, in several Mexican cities. The people were not only protesting drug […] Continue Reading…
Iran is joining China in blaming the U.S. bank, Federal Reserve, for destroying the world economy.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says the “paper money” policy of the Federal Reserve is playing a part in the increase of poverty around the world, by forcing most international trades to use U.S. dollars. He says the Federal Reserve […] Continue Reading…
Polish media reporting that President Obama will be announcing a deal made with the Polish government that will allow a permanent U.S. base on Poland’s territory.
The new U.S. air base, at Lask air field, would replace the Aviano air base in Italy. The USAF has F-16s based on Aviano, and they might be transferred […] Continue Reading…
The home video released by the U.S. Department of Defense is pathetic. The decrepit man in the video, supposedly Osama bin Laden, was so much a threat to the world that we had to expend such great effort to kill him?
What I see in the video, is a really old man who spends his […] Continue Reading…
Italian media is claiming that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is dead. They point out that it’s been nine days since he was seen in public, since the time a NATO airstrike killed one of his sons.
Several foreign envoys are also spreading the rumor by saying there is talk within the Libyan government about who […] Continue Reading…