The Israeli paper, Haaretz, isn't pulling any punches in denouncing the despicable way the Netanyahu government cozies up to radical Christian evangelists of the ilk of Glenn Beck: In recent…
"The PLA seeks the capability to deter Taiwan independence and influence Taiwan to settle the dispute on Beijing’s terms. In pursuit of this objective, Beijing is developing capabilities intended to…
Just a few days ago, Australian PM. Julia Gillard declared the Vietnam War now a "page in history" and noted that the chief actors, US presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Aussie…
We call it the "southern oscillation," the Pacific Ocean current variation that gives us El Nino and his ugly stepsister, La Nina. People living on the Pacific Rim tend to…
This FOX News panel has stumbled upon a breathtaking discovery - apparently this anthropogenic global warming theory is true. Yep, the facts do seem to back it up. Why they've…
We got used to it after WWII, governments borrowing money to be repaid by taxpayers in the future. In an era of foreseeable, sustained growth that wasn't so bad. The…
It might just be the moment fossil fuelers dread most - their production tied to direct environmental consequences. The Queensland, Australia coal-mining giant, Xstrata is going to court today over…
It isn't often you find apocalyptic tomes in business publications warning of the imminent demise of global capitalism but that seems to be changing. Ten days ago the Wall Street…
Muammar Gaddafi has gone to ground and nobody seems to know where. He might be hunkered down inside his personal compound where a fierce firefight continues as rebels close in.…
The New York Times has thrown its full editorial weight against the Keystone XL pipeline proposal and the Athabasca Tar Sands that underlies it.We have two main concerns: the risk…
Lockheed Martin represents the bleeding edge of American military airpower. Lockheed produced the F-22 Raptor stealth super fighter and is struggling to churn out the F-35 Lightning II stealth bomb…
The extremely mediocre but profoundly radical Michelle Bachmann defeated her Republican presidential nomination rivals to win yesterday's Iowa straw poll.The unwittingly amusing Bachmann proclaimed her win sent a "big message…
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th.…
Federal FinMin Tiny Jim Flaherty seems to be breaking ranks with his American and European cousins and says that the federal government would consider another round of stimulus spending if…
Even the Wall Street Journal is starting to toss around the idea that Marx might have been right - capitalism will destroy itself. Economist Nouriel Roubini warns the self-destructive transfer…
British Conservative prime minister David Cameron made himself judge, jury and Lord High Executioner this week when he pronounced that anyone charged with rioting should be remanded in custody and…
It's like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house. Danger lurks behind every door.The haunted house is Pakistan. Danger lurks everywhere - along its…
To Conservative Brit prime minister, David Cameron, the masses of youth who took to Britain's streets this week for four consecutive nights of rioting are nothing more than common criminals.…
Non-believers are really nice people. In fact, studies are finding that secularists are often better educated, more tolerant and more knowledgeable about God than supposed true believers. This, according to…
How did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it? How did it all go so wrong?We're confronted by a bucketful of challenges today,…
