The most extreme diagnosis of Italy's problem was offered by journalist Peter Popham in a February 26 commentary published in the Independent. He blamed it all on the Vatican: "...
Many people listen to the White House these days and conclude that a U.S. attack on Iran is imminent: “To be quite honest, I'm a little concerned that it's Iraq again,” Senator...
If good fences make good neighbours, then the world is experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of neighbourliness. They used to wall cities. Now they wall whole countries.
The...
For more than two years, all the big western powers have insisted that Iran’s nuclear-power program is secretly intended to produce nuclear weapons, and that the minute it gets...
“The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed,” Japanese health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa explained in a speech in Matsue City last Friday. “Because the number of birth-...
Angela Merkel has a very different attitude toward Russia than the last three or four German chancellors, perhaps because she grew up in former East Germany, under Russian control...
Repeat after me: there is no new U.S. strategy in Iraq. The allies are the same, the enemies are the same, the tactics are the same, even the new American force strength lies...
It was not the Iraqi government but its American masters that chose to execute Saddam Hussein in a great rush as soon as the first sentence was confirmed, thus cancelling all the...
Saying “I told you so” usually just annoys people, so I try to avoid it. But in this case I just have to say: I told you so.
Omar Nasiri, a Moroccan who spent seven years...
The scene is a bit like one of those ones in the back yard where the hapless dad lights the enormous firecracker and retires—and after a long wait, it just goes fzzzt. The full...
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