Back before e-mail, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter...
With apologies to my readers, there is no column from me today. I've got to go to a Major Medical Appointment -- heart stress test, prostate stuff, etc. -- and there's just no way I can continue to avoid and/or delay it, in spite of my strenuous attempts to do so....
The talk in Washington of late has been Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars. The books are piled in the front of every bookstore in town, and people are whispering in the usual “inside baseball” way, about who in the Washington security bureaucracies dissed whom to...
COLOMBO - The Taj Samudra, the flagship property here of Taj Hotels India, sits on what is arguably the best location in Sri Lanka's capital. Overlooking the Indian Ocean, it is the only five-star hotel in this city from which guests can walk out straight into the...
U.S. Jews, who, next to African Americans, have constituted the minority most supportive of Barack Obama, are growing more skeptical of his performance and increasingly hawkish on Iran, according to a new poll released Tuesday by the American Jewish Committee (AJC)....
WASHINGTON - Joyce Wagner is one of those women who is supposed to be celebrated but instead has had to endure a unique hell seemingly reserved for women in the military. She was sexually assaulted in-theater by a fellow Marine who Wagner had trusted. She didn't say...
"No nation ever profited from a long war." - Sun Tzu Sun Tzu's immortal The Art of War translates into a shade over 10,000 words of American English, roughly 40 pages of aphoristic wisdom presented in language that probably 75 percent of public-school third-graders...
Failures in vetting, training, and supervising Defense Department private security contractors are putting U.S. and coalition troops as well as Afghan civilians at risk and unwittingly aiding Afghan militants by hiring security contractors provided by the Taliban and...
