Tehran threat in the US’ backyard
While some world leaders are extremely concerned about the real threat Iran poses to peace, with Ahmadinejad announcing just recently...
The ever-shrinking al-Qaeda
By Bryan Hill Al-Qaeda in Iraq is deteriorating, and U.S. troops have the momentum. Looking for new evidence of the...
“Unavoidable” choice
Archbishop Williams calls for the appeasement of radicals Ironically, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Rowan Williams, who...
The danger of sovereign wealth funds
by Shaun Seifert Dangers emerge when foreign governments buy up American assets.Typically, governments hold cash reserves in their central bank as...
Russia extends a helping hand to Chavez
Closer, ever closer. Putin and Chavez are working against the U.S. The last 20 years of the USSR were characterized...
A teaching moment
Lost amid the national distractions of a Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, the clock is running down on an immense...
The State Department and Chavez
The Undersecretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Dr. Thomas Shannon, once again expressed a positive attitude towards President Hugo Chavez...
The State Department and Chavez
The Undersecretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Dr. Thomas Shannon, curiously expressed a positive attitude towards President Hugo Chavez by...
Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat
For leaders in democracies, perhaps the most difficult decision is to change course. Decision-making is hard enough. Revisiting decisions...
Terry Elkes Democrats
Terry Elkes - stalwart of the old-style Democrats. On January 18th, America lost a gifted corporate leader, generous philanthropist and...
Chavez to Colombia: the FARC be with you
Uribe is succesfully battling the Chavez-backed FARC. (AP Photo) In the ongoing saga between Venezuelan despot President Hugo Chavez and...
Breaching conventions in statesmanship
Winston Churchill once said, " When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack...
Chvez to Colombia: the FARC be with you
In the ongoing saga between despot Hugo Chavez and Colombian democratic President Alvaro Uribe over the hostage crisis due to...
The audacity of truth
It is hard to believe, but in just two weeks, American voters will all but determine the identities of the...
Washington’s Pakistan debacle
by Alex Alexiev Musharraf - troublesome ally at best, a danger at worst. Three weeks after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto...
Front-gate
It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the...