While the war in the Levant continues apace, Americans ought to focus for a moment on the near-pathetic ignorance of the bipartisan governing elite that directs their nation's foreign policy. This vacuity was again highlighted last week by Sen. Charles Schumer...
US to Supply Food With One Hand, Arms With Other
As Israel's bombing of Lebanon continues unabated into its fourth consecutive week, the United States says it stands ready to provide food, medicine, and humanitarian assistance to the thousands of internally displaced Lebanese caught in the crossfire. But Washington...
Thailand’s Malay-Muslim Insurgency Gaining Ground
BANGKOK - Their identities may still be a mystery, but suspected Malay-Muslim militants in southern Thailand are removing any doubts about what they have in mind when they come calling. They want to prove that the Thai government is losing control of that troubled...
Rights Group Accuses Israel of War Crimes
In systematically failing to distinguish between Hezbollah fighters and civilian population in its three-and-a-half-week-old military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have committed war crimes, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch...
The Lebanon Conundrum
co·nun·drum: A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma A conundrum is exactly what the United States finds itself in as a result of Israel's incursion into Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and firing Katyusha rockets...
Castro’s Brother at the Helm, but No Change in US Policy for Now
Uncertain about the condition of longtime U.S. nemesis Cuban President Fidel Castro, the administration of President George W. Bush said Tuesday it would not alter its policy toward the Caribbean nation with which it has had no regular diplomatic communications for...
Serbia’s Choices
Pressure to Surrender Kosovo Grows The ongoing farcical "talks" between Serbia and the rebel Albanians from Kosovo reached the heights of absurdity last Monday, when the Serbian president and prime minister were brought to the same table as the...
‘Dual Covenant’ Christians
The major internal conflict for the strangest alliance in history is about what will happen to Jews who don't convert to evangelical Christianity. The Armageddonites, those 30 million Americans who happily see Mideast chaos as hastening their one-way trip to paradise,...
The US Can’t Run the Show in the Middle East
It feels like déjà vu all over again. A U.S. official leaves for a conference in East Asia where he or she is supposed to discuss issues that affect the interests of the governments and economies in the region. Instead, the American representative ends up investing...
Israel and ‘Moral Equivalence’
The Qana massacre was the occasion for a full-court propaganda campaign by Israels amen corner, and one has to say they rose to the occasion like real pros. First, of course, they expressed remorse then, naturally enough, they blamed it all on ...


