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POLAND REFUSES TO EXTRADITE POLANSKI TO U.S.

Refusing to extradite 82-year-old Academy Awarding winning director Roman Polanski on 38-year-old statuary raped charges, Polish authorities confirmed a lower Krakow court’s ruling that the evidence did not justify extradition. Krakow’s appellate prosecutor agreed...

CHINA CALLS FOR CALM WITH TURKEY AND RUSSIA

Calling for calm in the wake of the Nov. 24 Turkish shoot down of a Russian SU-24 fighter jet, China knows what its like to be under the gun. Building military installations in shallow reefs in the South China Sea, China’s been under fire restricting air space and...

TURKEY’S ERDOGAN DENIES BUYING ISIS OIL

Since Turkey downed a Russian SU-24 fighter near the Syrian border Nov. 24, accusations flew from Moscow, exposing Turkey’s business relationship, buying oil from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. While unproven, the State Department has known for some time that...

TURKEY’S RUSSIAN SHOOT DOWN A DIRTY PLAY

Pushing NATO to the brink, Turkey’s shoot down of a Russian SU-24 fighter jet Nov. 24 raises disturbing questions about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose son Bilal Erdogan has been accused of running a black market oil business with the Islamic State of...

TURKEY SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN FIGHTER JET

Shooting down a Russian SU-24 fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkey border, Turkey justified the action, claiming the Russian pilot strayed into Turkey’s airspace, after repeated warnings. Whatever the rationale, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered no...

OBAMA MAKES EXCUSES FOR PARIS ATTACKS

Telling the press in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that terrorists “cannot strike a mortal blow” to the U.S, 54-year-old President Barack Obama tried to reassure a weary nation not to “overreact” to the Nov. 13 Paris massacre, killing 130, injuring hundreds more. Since...

GOP HOPES TRUMP’S POLLS WON’T HOLD UP

Banking on a radical change in polls once primary voter get serious, the GOP establishment thinks that 69-year-old real estate mogul Donald Trump will get kicked to the curb. Comparing Trump to Godfather’s Pizza king Herman Cain in 2012, when he led many GOP...

PUTIN ECLIPSES OBAMA TO LEAD WAR ON TERROR

Taking a backseat to Russian President Vladimr Putin, President Barack Obama has become more than a lame-duck U.S. president: He’s become less relevant in the global war on Islamic terrorism. In the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks that killed 130, injuring...

PARIS ATTACKS RAISE DOUBTS ABOUT SYRIAN REFUGEES

Attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] at six venues in Paris Nov. 13 killing 130, injuring hundreds more raised grave concerns about President Barack Obama’s plan to admit some 10,000 Syrians into the U.S. Newly minted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)...

KERRY’S PARIS GAFFE EMBARRASSED THE WHITE HOUSE

Telling U.S. Embassy staff that the Jan. 7 terrorist attacks killing 12 on French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo has a different rationale than the Nov. 13 massacre killing 129, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry showed his age. Kerry’s gaffe rocked the French...