Timmerman Offers Fresh Evidence That D.O.E.’s Front Office Needs to be Cleaned-Out, Not Just Rearranged
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson finally threw in the towel on his doomed effort to persuade bipartisan...
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A Job for C.F.I.U.S.: Proposed Chinese Buy of U.S. Telecommunications Assets Needs National Security Scrub
(Washington, D.C.): On 23 June, Hutchison USA announced its investment of $957 million into the combined telecommunications company of Voicestream...
Sen. Inhofe Documents Clinton’s Culpability in Chinagate
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most courageous and principled security policy practitioners in elected office today is Sen. Jim Inhofe...
Moscow Stiffs Western Bankers, While Paying Oligarchs And Eurobond Holders: A Sign of Things to Come in Russia?
(Washington, D.C.): According to the 5 June edition of The Economist magazine, Russia is seeking to delay by six months...
Cox Report Underscores Abiding Nuclear Dangers, Should Caution Against Efforts that Would Exacerbate Them
(Washington, D.C.): Today's release of the declassified version of the 900-page report, unanimously adopted last December by a select House...
Casey Institute’s Robinson Lays Bare China’s Most Serious Foreign Borrowing Operation: Penetrating the U.S. Bond Market
(Washington, D.C.): Even as relations between the U.S. and China have plummeted amidst revelations of Chinese espionage and attacks on...
Is Kosovo Clinton’s Most Dangerous Wag-the-Dog Exercise?
(Washington, D.C.): Friday's effort by Slobodan Milosevic to launch air attacks on NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the worsening genocide...
Russia’s Gazprom Implicated In New Bid to Expand Rogue State Energy Production, Provide Life Support To Saddam Hussein
(Washington, D.C.): Even by Persian Gulf standards, the deal that Saddam Hussein has reportedly reached with his longtime enemy, Syrian...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 38: A Debacle in Kosovo, A Shattered NATO ?
(Washington, D.C.): Two months from tomorrow, President Clinton is scheduled to host festive ceremonies intended to honor the fiftieth anniversary...
Clinton Legacy Watch # 37: An End to the U.S. Posture of ‘Assured Vulnerability’?
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past ten days, the Clinton Administration has signaled its intention to make the most significant sea-change...
Clinton, Stay Home! President’s Ill-Advised Trip to Mideast Will Contribute to Conflict — Not a Durable Peace
In Commentary Magazine, Center's Feith Says Policy is Leading to War (Washington, D.C.): On the eve of President Clinton's departure...
More taxpayer-subsidized IMF aid won’t help
As the International Monetary Fund's Michel Camdessus wrestles with how to squander still more taxpayer-subsidized financial assistance in Russia, the...
Will China’s latest Bond Offering Penetrate U.S. Markets, Institutional Portfolios Through A ‘Backdoor’?
(Washington, D.C.): Despite lingering investor anxieties regarding global emerging markets and the recent default of one of China's largest International...
How the 106th Congress Can Begin To Reestablish ‘Adult Supervision’ Over International Affairs: Kill the Kyoto Treaty
(Washington, D.C.): The next few weeks are likely to prove to be tough ones for U.S. foreign policy. No matter...
Restoration Watch # 10: Consolidation of Power by Primakov Marks the End of the Line for Reform in Russia
(Washington, D.C.): The elevation today of KGB alumnus Yevgeny Primakov to the post of Prime Minister of Russia means that...
Don’t Bail Out a Belligerent Russia
By ROGER W. ROBINSON JR. Wall Street Journal, 28 August 1998 In the flurry of discussion about Russia's failure to...