The situation in and around Syria is still one of the most important issues being in focus of international events. This is the case when diplomacy equals military operations in importance. The failure of the…
Category: Regions
Polarization No Extremism Yes Since the time of DeTocqueville’s Democracy in America, if not earlier, Americans have been aware of the tendency of their two-party system to restrain ideological polarization through an automatic process. In a…
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has assembled as the core of his national security and foreign policy advisory team some of the most right-wing and militaristic members of the Bush-Cheney administration. In many ways,…
Is Saudi Arabia on the Edge? By appointing Prince Bandar bin Sultan as its new intelligence chief, Saudi Arabia has installed what looks like a war cabinet at a time of rising tensions with Iran…
Invariably, propaganda fails. It may take a long time—ask former denizens of the USSR—but eventually, most of the truth is discovered by the People. Sometimes it is enough to look at the speaker to spot…
Secretary of State responds negatively to continent’s needs for greater independence: : More Militarism to Ensure Profits Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured eight African countries over an 11-day period where the United States top diplomat…
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Days that will live in Infamy At the beginning at the 20th century, two world-wide military conflicts of previously unheard of brutality, suffering and destruction shook the world. The first world war…
As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang members had real guns and…
India still maintaining double standard toward exiled Tibetans After the 1959 rebellion, tens of thousands of Tibetans went into exile, following the Dalai Lama, and lived as refugees in India, Nepal, and…
The man who fatally shot six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was identified today as Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, who washed out of the military in 1998 after a six-year hitch….