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.
Read more...The Saudis appear to have bitten off more than they can chew.
Read more...In the realm of national security, election 2016 promises to be not just a missed opportunity but a complete bust.
Read more...Explaining the reasons for Europe’s gridlock on its migration crisis.
Read more...Why it is time for the US to stand down in the Middle East and let local actors take control.
Read more...Low and generally volatile oil prices are a prescription for more political instability in major oil producing nations.
Read more...This post describes how the US is running its Middle East policies by the seat of its pants, with not surprising bad results.
Read more...Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
Read more...An astute, high level reading of Russia and Turkey’s jousting.
Read more...In France, members of Arab and African communities languish in a spiral of poverty, relegated to second-class citizenship and physically separated through deliberate planning.
Read more...Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?
Read more...Apparently, if 15 countries vote to occupy Greece, it’s a done deal.
Read more...Does America have the wars it seeks and deserves? And what do Sanders and Clinton say about that?
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