Americans furious at Congress If you’re not too keen on the current state of the US Congress, you are far from alone. A poll released today by CNN reveals that 84 percent of Americans disapprove with the way Congress is handling its job. The research, obtained by nearly 900 Americans, reveals that... [Read More]

American credit rating downgrade still likely Lawmakers may have hoped that the last-minute debt ceiling deal yesterday saved the US economy, but credit agencies aren’t about ready to say that the dollar is safe from danger. Hours after lawmakers say they managed to cut a deal to cut $2.4 trillion,... [Read More]

Marines land at nudist beach All they want to do is strip naked and play a little volleyball. Is that so wrong? Outside of San Diego, California, park rangers and the Marine Corps think so. The “naturalists” that frequented Trail 6 at San Onofre State Beach were told that they had to take their... [Read More]

Fans vs Police debates over football supporters law Supporters of Spartak Moscow during the latest durby with Lokomotiv (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Pesnya) Why do Russian football fans boycott the national team’s games? What is behind Moscow fans’ reluctance to travel to the Caucasus? Who is to blame... [Read More]

Politics is playing a vital role in investigation Poland’s final report on last year’s plane crash suggests both the Polish flight crew and the Russian air traffic controllers were at fault.Mark Weiss believes politics is playing a vital role in the dissemination of information from the report. ­“This... [Read More]

Spain’s unemployment rate, despite being lowered to 20.9 per cent in the second quarter, remains the highest in the eurozone (Photo from daylife.com) Moody’s credit rating agency has put Spain’s sovereign bonds under review with a prospect to knock down its favorable Aa2 grade. Moody’s has... [Read More]

US House passes Republican debt plan The Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a vote to raise America’s debt ceiling and to cut spending, only for the Democrat-controlled Senate to block it almost immediately. Meanwhile the clock ticks toward the deadline. The Republicans pushed... [Read More]

An Egyptian shouts slogans during a protest of Islamist groups at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 29, 2011 (photo from daylife.com) In Egypt, the crowds are back in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, five months after the ousting of President Mubarak. Thousands... [Read More]

Tea Party screws Boehner collateral damage for Obama Days away from default, no solution for the US debt ceiling has been reached. On Tuesday, the United States government is planning on running out of the more than $14 trillion that DC lawmakers say the country can borrow from abroad. As Democrats... [Read More]

Government turns eyes to youth for raising tolerance The concept is supposed to be implemented through several special-purpose programs on the federal and regional level A draft concept for the state youth policy in the North Caucasus up to 2025 will soon be submitted to the government. The measures... [Read More]

Migrant workers might provoke a crisis opposition leaderMigrant workers in Russia (RIA Novosti / Sergey Pyatakov) Labor immigration to Russia should be banned from states where the birth rate is not restricted by law, the Liberal Democratic Party has stated. ­Russia should set a condition to other... [Read More]

Police ignored neighbors concerns over Breivik The farm house of Anders Behring Breivik at Aamot in Hedmark, eastern Norway (AFP Photo / Scanpix Norway / Jo E. Brenden) Reports are emerging that people living near Breivik’s farm tried to alert the police long before the events in Oslo and Utoya.... [Read More]

The FBI and Anders Breivik read the same booksThe FBI and Anders Breivik read the same books Is the FBI putting complete idiots in charge of their counterrrorism initiatives? A recent slideshow obtained from the Bureau by the American Civil Liberties Union would lead one to believe so. The ACLU has... [Read More]

US targets missile defense against Russia NATO envoy US politicians do not conceal fact that missile defense system will be aimed against Russia The US-sponsored European missile defense system will be aimed at Russia, and some American politicians openly state that, the Russian permanent representative... [Read More]

Where should money be going? All eyes are on Congress as the threat of default seems closer to becoming a reality each day. While members from both sides of the aisle are struggling to find common ground, a compromise is yet to be reached. With Congress fighting for a compromise, down to every last... [Read More]

EU bailouts impoverish small member states Europe’s small countries feel their economies are being crushed under the weight of the euro currency crisis and bailouts for eurozone member states needing to be paid for. ­One of the poorest EU countries, the Republic of Slovakia, is feeling the pinch... [Read More]

Kaczynski flight crew made crude errors Polish report Russian rescuers workers attend the site where a Polish government Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft crashed on April 10, near Smolensk airport on April 11, 2010 (AFP Photo / Natalia Kolesnikova) The commission headed by Polish minister of the interior Jerzy... [Read More]

Georgia using US media as a propaganda instrument Russian diplomat Moscow says Tbilisi is relying on US media for pushing its anti-Russian propaganda Washington appears to have accepted Georgia’s account of a bombing incident last September at the US Embassy in Tbilisi, while one Russian diplomat... [Read More]

Medvedev creates new body to fight extremism Last year, soccer fans, nationalists and natives of North Caucasus tried to organize several rallies in Moscow, but their attempts were suppressed by the police (RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev) The Russian president has formed an interdepartmental commission... [Read More]

Fort Hood Massacre 2.0 The soldiers memorial reads the date November 5, 2009 at a remembrance service recognizing the 13 victims killed in the Ft. Hood attacks (Ben Sklar/ Getty Images / AF Photo) An AWOL Army private is being held by law enforcement after he was discovered with bomb making materials... [Read More]

Libyan rebel commander killed in Benghazi.AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia The military commander of the Libyan rebels, General Abdel-Fattah Younes, has allegedly been killed by pro-Gaddafi assailants along with two of his aides, the rebel Transitional National Council has reported. ­According to Transitional... [Read More]

Government admits to spying through your cell phone The government can take data from your phones to see where you are. The US government is in a relationship with your cell phone provider, but “it’s complicated.” When the general counsel of the National Security Agency was asked if the government... [Read More]

FDA declares walnuts a drug Hey man, you know where I can score a quarter ounce of walnuts? The Food and Drug Administration is telling California-based Diamond Foods that they need to remove wording from their walnut packages that advertises the health benefits of the tasty nut. Unless, that is, they... [Read More]

Russians-approve-of-St-Petersburg-governor-as-new-upper-house-speaker-----poll Valentina Matvienko (RIA Novosti / STF)   A third of Russians view Valentina Matvienko’s tenure as the governor of St. Petersburg positively, and a slightly lower percentage believes that she will be a better speaker... [Read More]