
May 16,2012 (TSR) - Last year the number of American organ donors hit a milestone when the 100 millionth person added their name to the list. But before you boast about signing up, you might want to step onto a scale. While only a portion of Americans say they’ll will their remains to needy would-be recipients, [...]

May 14, 2012 (TSR) - The Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting among China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan was held in Beijing from Sunday to Monday. The three nations released a Joint Declaration on the Enhancement of Trilateral Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership. The main aim of the summit is to launch a Free Trade Area (FTA) [...]

May 13, 2012 (TSR) - In an impassioned plea before the European Union’s so-called “Parliament,” United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader and popular MEP Nigel Farage compared the EU to the Titanic hitting the infamous iceberg — warning that mass civil unrest, revolution, the re-emergence of National Socialism (Nazism) and economic disaster could all be imminent [...]

May 13, 2012 (TSR) – A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the American government can go dark – essentially conceal all of its information – regarding communications or operations involving the National Security Agency and Google Inc. The issue arose following a January 2010 cyber attack on Google that the court said primarily targeted Gmail [...]

by Sergey Strokan, Journalist, Essayist, Political Commentator and Poet May 12, 2012 (TSR) - May Day celebrations, with their global anti-imperialist drive, coincided with the “big two” of the non-Western world – post-communist Russia and communist China – exercising in foreign policy pirouettes and military drills to boost their all-weather ties. High-level contacts in Moscow and large-scale naval exercises [...]

by Naomi Wolf, international bestselling Author, investigative journalist, social critic, political activist and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University May 12, 2012 (TSR) - In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, [...]

May 11, 2012 (TSR) – Kuwaiti police arrested a group of Qatari agents charged for overthrowing Emir Al-Sabah IV. The seized documents corroborate the existence of a plot organized by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar. Copies of these documents as well as the legal proceedings were immediately transmitted by Kuwait to Saudi Arabia. [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2012 (TSR) – The five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered a guilty verdict against former United States President George W. Bush and his associates at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal hearing that had started on Monday. On the charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes, the tribunal finds the accused persons [...]

by David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute May 11, 2012 (TSR) - On hearing of the death of the great French diplomat Talleyrand, his Austrian rival Metternich is reputed to have said: “What did he mean by that?” Perhaps we can be too cynical in assessing politicians’ motives. And so maybe we should just give President [...]

May 11, 2012 (TSR) - Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, stressed on Thursday that sending and smuggling weapons into Syria contradict any political solution to the crisis and constitute an effort to assassinate the mission of the UN envoy to Syria Kofi Annan. In a speech during the meeting of UN [...]