In the wake of the announcement of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, speculation has mushroomed over the cause, mainly because of the extreme secrecy in the Stalinist state. North Korea's Central News Agency reported Monday that Kim died of a heart attack last Saturday on a train while heading to an unidentified [...]

Pope Benedict XVI seems worn out. People who have spent time with him recently say they found him weaker than they'd ever seen him, seemingly too tired to engage with what they were saying. He no longer meets individually with visiting bishops. A few weeks ago he started using a moving platform to spare him [...]

"BREAKING NEWS" has headlined many of the worlds top news stations and papers, a few moments ago. The Associated Press (@AP) released a tweet stating, "BREAKING NEWS: North Korea says supreme leader Kim Jong Il has died". Shortly after, numerous other papers such as the NY Times (@NYTIMES) also released a tweet stating that the [...]

Global elite maneuver into position for final leg of Middle East campaign, one year into "Arab Spring," one step closer to global hegemony. Nearly every option described within the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution 2009 "Which Path to Persia?" report in regards to US-initiated regime change in Iran has been carried out to the letter. From proposals [...]

As 2011 draws to a close, an award-winning US magazine has handpicked a dozen of the most monstrous lies that Washington has delivered to the world over the past year. "I live in Washington where lying is an art form," David J. Rothkopf wrote on the Foreign Policy website. Before enumerating the most egregious US lies of [...]