America’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) secret Prism spy project has drawn national and international criticism. A recent interview revealed that Germany is the NSA’s most watched EU nation (EU Observer, June 10, 2013). This information has taken top German officials by surprise and stirred animosity toward the U.S.A. (EU Observer, June 12, 2013). One German leader noted “This looks to me like it could become one of the biggest data privacy scandals ever” (ibid.). Read More »

Recent reports highlight a growing problem of lawlessness in the U.S. State Department. The department, “tried to cover up several crimes committed… Some of the allegations are against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail who allegedly hired prostitutes, a U.S. ambassador accused of trolling public parks for paid sex and a security official in Beirut committing sexual assaults on foreign nationals” (Fox News, June 11, 2013). In addition, there are “allegations that US security contractors in Baghdad bought narcotics from an ‘underground drug ring’…” (Telegraph, June 12, 2013). Read More »

“Germans might not know it, but they desperately need the moral guidance of a re-instated royal family,” says “the great-great grandson of the last Kaiser, Prince Philip Kiril of Prussia” (The Local, June 6, 2013).  Prince Philip, who is a Protestant vicar, “believes that a royal family with divine right conferred by God could offer Germany what it is missing.”  The prince comments, “‘I think young Germans wants something they can orientate towards… When a leader answers to himself, and not God, an atheist-led country ends in disaster.  Look at Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin’… Religion, ‘tames the selfishness naturally present in all of us’” (ibid.) Read More »

An Australian nurse pleaded guilty to the worst mass murder in New South Wales history. In 2011, he set fire in the nursing home he worked at—apparently to cover up his theft of drugs. The rapidly burning fire killed eleven residents and caused “grievous bodily harm” to eight others (9News, May 27, 2013). Questioned by police, he said, “It was Satan telling [me] to do it” (ibid.). Read More »

Muhammad died in 632 AD and his followers disagreed over the next Caliph (leader of Islam). Believers in a Muhammadan dynasty chose his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, who was eventually killed. Ali’s followers, feeling betrayed, separated from the majority (Sunnis) and called themselves, Party of Ali or Shiat Ali—thus the name Shiites (Time, September 16, 2009).  Now, the current Syrian war is fueling a proxy war between major Sunni and Shiite powers across the Middle East. Read More »

With its growing power-base in Brussels, the EU is requiring more fiscal accountability from member-states (EU Observer, May 30, 2013).  But responding to Brussels’ directive to revise its pension system, France’s President Hollande commented, “The European Commission cannot dictate to us what we have to do.  It can simply say that France has to balance its public accounts, which is true” (ibid.).  Read More »