First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Fairfax and Huffington Post have broken a monster story on bribery by Unaoil in Iraq that implicates major multinational corporations and officials all over the Middle East. So why the media blackout?
Read more...How should we view Zero Dark Thirty versus other technically esteemed films with unsavory content like Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will?
Read more...A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...Russia has already secured important aims in Syria.
Read more...Please sign a petition against persecution of academics in Turkey.
Read more...Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
Read more...Civilian control of the military? Time to disabuse yourself of that quaint notion.
Read more...What looked like a masterstroke by the Saudis has turned out to be the energy industry version of trench warfare.
Read more...The inexorable political decline of Angela Merkel as well as her traditional opponents, the Social Democrats, is gathering pace.
Read more...Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...Governments are combining aggressive, ambitious talk with a curious helplessness in warning banks they really should be Doing Something about terrorist risk.
Read more...US Billionaire Naguib Sawiris and his Contrack Watts, a major US defence contractor, turn out to have ties to North Korea, via an amazingly profitable mobile phone company
Read more...There are obvious similarities between the US misadventures in the Middle East and our failed intervention in Vietnam. Yet the comparison is seldom made.
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