Netanyahu’s grand coalition
The "international community" is eagerly anticipating the incoming Obama administration's policy toward Israel. It is widely assumed that as soon...
Year: 2008
Victory for Chavez in Panama?
It is no secret that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is mobilizing politically and militarily to create an anti-U.S. climate in...
Pirate outlaws, outlaw state
An almost perfect metaphor for one of the world’s greatest threats came sailing out of the front pages of the...
Chavez proclaims himself winner in Venezuelan elections
The results of the Venezuelan state and municipal elections that took place on November 23rd 2008 have been interpreted in...
Chavez proclaims himself winner in Venezuelan elections
The results of the Venezuelan state and municipal elections that took place on November 23rd 2008 have been interpreted in...
The jihadist-multicultural alliance
Doctors at the Mumbai hospital who treated the victims of the past week's jihadist attacks were rendered nearly speechless by...
Our long twilight struggle
Sometimes a problem has no real solution. Sometimes the only option is to accept that plainly and emphatically, as in...
Fact vs. fiction on food vs. fuel
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally,...
Fact vs. fiction on food vs. fuel
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally,...
Intelligence mis-estimates
One item of good news in a week buffeted by the Dow Jones' death-spiral, reports of the domestic automakers' incipient...
ISNA’s Ingrid Mattson in her own words
Ingrid Mattson is the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), one of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups named...
Will the real Bush finally stand up?
US President George W. Bush has six weeks left in power. If he acts fast, that may be enough time...
Iraq: right time, right place, right war
It needs to be said: It was smart to go to war in Iraq; it was courageous to go to...
Nicaraguan elections, Venezuelan fraud
There has been very little attention paid to the current conflict in Nicaragua which if unaddressed by the international community...
The perils ahead
US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead...
The Autos’ perfect storm
Meltdown in the financial sector. Recent spikes in oil prices. Democratic electoral gains throughout Washington, made possible in part by...