The American Pundit

Change: Oil Hits More than $110 Per Barrel

But hey, good thing we’ve decided not to allow more oil exploration here at home, huh? It’s much better to pay $4 a gallon or more at the pump — money that will go to line the pockets of such American allies as Venezuela, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. So much better than creating American jobs [...]

HRW urges Mexican authorities to protect activists in Juárez

WASHINGTON (BNO NEWS) — Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Mexican authorities to investigate a series of attacks on human rights defenders and their families in the state of Chihuahua.

“Human rights defenders in Chihuahua take on huge risks f…

Obama Concentrates on the Important Stuff: Gay Marriage

Libya is burning you say? Bahrain, home to the United States Fifth Fleet, is at risk of collapse? Iranian warships passed through the Suez Canal for the first time in decades, you say? The United States has been reduced to evacuating its citizens by a slow ferry to Malta? Oil has hit $100 per barrel [...]

At least 475 houses submerged by flooding in Indonesian island province

BALI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — At least 475 houses on Wednesday were submerged due to the severe flooding that hit the Indonesian Island province of Bali, the Antara news agency reported,

Three villages, Tinga-Tinga, Celukan Bawang, and Pengulon, were …

Iraqi immigrant guilty of murder in Arizona ‘honor killing’

PHOENIX (BNO NEWS) — An Iraqi immigrant was convicted Tuesday in Arizona of second-degree murder in the death of his 20-year-old daughter.?

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, ran over Noor Almaleki with his Jeep Cherokee because she had brought the family …

Bomb blast kills one soldier, injures two more in northern Iraq

MOSUL, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) — A bomb blast on Wednesday killed one soldier and injured two more in Mosul city in northern Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.

An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on Wednesday afternoon in the Sumer neighborh…

Iran’s Ahmadinejad slams Libya crackdown on protesters

TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday condemned the violent crackdown on protesters in the region and called on Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to meet public demand, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

“I …

Dozen injured in Ibiza stabbing rampage

IBIZA (BNO NEWS) — A dozen people were injured on Wednesday after being stabbed by a man armed with a machete and an iron bar in the town of Sant Antoni in the Spanish island of Ibiza, local newspaper Diario de Ibiza reported.

Local police have arre…

U.S. Treasury Department designates two Iranian officials for human rights abuses in Iran

WASHINGTON D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The U.S. Departments of the Treasury and State on Wednesday designated two Iranian officials for their involvement in human rights abuses in Iran since the June 2009 presidential election.

Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran …

U.S. Treasury sanctions more than 70 individuals and entities involved in drugs, money laundering

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced the designation of Colombian national Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa (a.k.a. Elkin de Jesus Lopez Salazar) and more than 7…