
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 10, 2012 (TSR) - If the world ends on December 21, blame a German butterfingers who dropped a volcanic rock skull once owned by SS overlord Heinrich Himmler in his laboratory this week. According to legend, the Mayan skull, which was stolen from Tibet by the Nazis and imbued for believers with magical powers to [...]

May 9, 2012 (TSR) - France’s new president Francois Hollande has made a thinly-veiled attack on David Cameron by claiming Britain treats Europe ‘like a self-service restaurant’. The new Socialist president-elect made his aggressive position towards the UK clear while outlining plans for his first meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron. Asked by the news website [...]

May 2, 2012 (TSR) - The International Labor Organization, in its annual report on global labor conditions issued Monday, forecast that more than 200 million workers will be unemployed in 2012. The United Nations agency estimated that 50 million jobs had been wiped out since the 2008 financial crisis, and predicted no worldwide recovery in jobs [...]

April 26, 2012 (TSR) - The first round of the French presidential election on Sunday starkly exposed the political crisis in France and throughout Europe and the immense dangers facing the working class. The main political beneficiary of four years of global economic crisis, imperialist war in the Middle East and collapsing state budgets was the [...]

April 26, 2012 (TSR) - Rupert Murdoch is to complete two days of testimony before the Leveson Inquiry into the British media today. But even as questioning of the multi-billionaire began, evidence submitted by his son, James, had forced the resignation of one ministerial adviser, and forced Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to defend himself in parliament [...]

by Rick Rozoff, Investigative journalist and Manager of STOP North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) April 25, 2012 (TSR) - The largest military exercise in the High North, inside and immediately outside the Arctic Circle, since the end of the Cold War (and perhaps even before) was completed on March 21 in northern Norway. Except for the crash [...]

April 20, 2012 (TSR) – You may well wonder what noble cause brings hundreds of Romans to the streets on the third Sunday of April every year. The answer is pure unadulterated fun; a feather-fuelled expression of menefreghismo. Every year since 2006, hundreds of pillow-wielding revelers gather in the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, [...]

April 19, 2012 (TSR) - A controversial bill that will give the United States access to personal information about airline passengers has been approved by the European Parliament. The deal, which was held up for two years over privacy concerns, was agreed by MEPs in a vote of 409 to 226 on Thursday. It sets out [...]

April 3, 2012 (TSR) - On Friday, Spain’s Popular Party government announced €27.3 billion (US$36.4 billion) in cuts to the 2012 budget. With cuts equivalent to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the budget is the most austere since the fascist dictatorship. The figure, which includes cuts of €15 billion announced in December, will be [...]