European free-speech under attack: Austrian activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on Capitol Hill
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is an Austrian human rights and free speech activist. She has served as Assistant to the Vice Chancellor...
Iran
Why not the best?
For years, presidents of both parties have pledged to ensure that America fields a military second to none. A successful...
Underestimating China
On a recent visit to Australia, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus downplayed the threat posed by China's rapid modernization...
Sarah Palin’s friendship
US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health...
Flirting with disaster
Does Barack Obama really want to be the president who let Iran get the nuclear bomb? Outside the White House...
Mirandized security risks
Remember Greg Craig? Before his recently announced return to the private sector, Craig was White House counsel in the Obama...
Russia reset rebounds
The Obama administration has made a major attempt at renewing a cooperative relationship with Russia. At this point, it is...
Obama vs. the all-volunteer military
A battle of enormous portent is about to begin on Capitol Hill. When the fight to fulfill President Obama's oft-repeated...
Keeping Zionism’s promise
"Never again!" So declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he spoke at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of its...
The perils of presidential failure
US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency...
Morales in Bolivia: ‘If you are not with the Party, you are the opposition. There is no middle ground.’
Evo Morales won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with an overwhelming 54% of the vote with his Movement toward Socialism...
Dangerous accommodations
Scott Brown can't get to Washington soon enough. In his victory speech on Tuesday night, the newly elected Senator from...
Navigating new naval threats
Terrorist's threats against the U.S. Navy are nothing new. The latest threat declared on Dec. 31 that al Qaeda plans...
Code Red on Code Pink
Oh the shame of it all. Last month, 1,300 pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe came to the region...
On terrorism it’s time to know, to profile, and to discriminate
After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions. Over eight...
Death by 1000 cuts
Seasoned observers understand that, in official Washington, the so-called "death of a thousand cuts" technique is the preferred means of...