![Kim Jong Il – The Forbidden Biography [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/North-Korea-new-banknote_3_2010.jpg)
When Kim Jong il commissioned his biographies, they usually portray him as a genius who got a Phd before he was out of diapers, or a gold medal champion inboxing, tennis and chess, when he is not busy composing poetry in 74 languages.It would all be very funny, if he didn’t bring starvation and terror [...]
Mitt Romney has faced an uphill battle with social conservatives who are deeply distrustful of his past as a liberal Republican governor from Massachusetts. By endorsing gay marriage, President Obama tossed Romney an easy pitch. By simply maintaining the position he has had all along, in keeping with his Mormon beliefs, Romney has done [...]
![Shabbat Shalom Dear Readers, Parshat Emor [Music Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DGMendes400.jpg)
Candle lighting this week is at 7:45PM in New York City. Candles lighting time is 18 minutes before sunset, which marks the start of Shabbat. To find the local candle lighting time in your location, Chabad.org has a section of their site for this purpose. Chabad. Org also has links to articles that can [...]
![The Real Cuba Behind the Health Care Myths [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Cuban-stamp.jpg)
Cuba has gotten a lot of favourable press concerning its health care system. Training doctors from underprivileged backgrounds around the world for free in Cuba has also earned them a lot of good will. In reality, the quality of care received by ordinary Cubans is not the same as in some of the showcase clinics. [...]
The New York Times had a lengthy and unspeakably sad piece about people in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who have been shunned after reporting the sexual molestation of their children. Rabbinic authorities with no powers to imprison or execute offenders are, according to some misguided people in the community, supposed to be the first stop for [...]
It is now well known that the southern European states that signed onto the adoption of the Euro cooked their books and created a far rosier picture than was accepted as factual by the majority of the nations that adopted the Euro as a European currency. Der Spiegel reports that . Der Spiegel report s [...]
On May 8, the United States observes the acceptance of Germany’s unconditional surrender at the end of World War Two in 1945, which was 67 years ago today. The following day, the former Soviet Union May 9 is celebrated, since that is the day on which Germany’s surrender was announced to the citizens of [...]
Well After the end of World War Two, the image France projected of itself was that of an occupied nation, one that fought valiantly against German occupation. In reality, wide sectors of French society collaborated with the Germans, who were able to exploit divisions and rifts in French society to put together cadre of collaborators [...]
![Whicker’s World Looks At the Summer of Love In 1967 [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/SummerOfLove2007_0506.jpg)
Alan Whicker is a universally known figure on British television. He is most commonly associated with Whicker’s World, a program that explores a single topic in depth for about 45 minutes such as a visit with a dictator or a visit to places as diverse as Hell’s Kitchen a remote jungle. Whicker’s World, which ran [...]
![Romney Blasts Obama on Chen Guangcheng Treatment By US [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Chen_Guangcheng_at_US_Embassy_May_1_2012.jpg)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasted the Obama administration for its mishandling of the asylum bid of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is a renowned opponent of China’s policy of forced abortions. Reports reaching the public indicate that the US embassy staff worked hard at pressuring Chen to leave the embassy, out of [...]
