p>Max Weber must be smiling today, as his much-contested thesis on the Protestant Work Ethic is proved once again in the arguments of those who support a generalized American war against the Islamic world – as opposed to a careful, ongoing hunt for Al-Qaeda...
Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime. Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War. But for others in...
The latest Bush administration spin on the war is that they got the intelligence "wrong." The administration is passing the blame on to the CIA and the rest of the nation’s intelligence apparatus for supposedly feeding them bad information about the WMD threat....
Can China Keep Up the Pace? It's funny, but your "Can China keep up the pace?" can apply word by word to the US. The question in NOT whether can China keep up the pace, the REAL question for the 21 century is can the US keep up the pace of spending, spending...
A pair of suicide bombings in the Kurdish area of Iraq and repeated demonstrations by supporters of a revered Shiite leader throughout the country has raised two nagging questions in the minds of many in the war-torn nation. Is the threat of terrorism beyond control...
While critics and supporters of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine have described it as unprecedented in U.S. diplomacy, the release of a 34-year-old memo advocating "regime change" in Chile shows the policy has been around for quite some time. The...
After spending some time virtually unnoticed, the Balkans is creeping back into the limelight. Events in the peninsula continue to develop along the policy lines drawn with blood and iron over the past decade, demonstrating that the forces intent on establishing an...
Cui Bono was the Latin legal term in old Rome for investigating a crime. Who benefited from 9/11 is the question? No one would accuse Bush of the strategy used by Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor to get America into the Second World War. But for others in...
The Church in Africa is concerned about the U.S. pressure on African countries to introduce anti-terror legislation on pretext of fighting terrorism. The church is cautioning African governments against enacting such laws blindly, which it warns infringe on human...
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, saw his opportunity. With the United States sundered and convulsed in civil war, he would seize Mexico, impose a Catholic monarchy and block further expansion of the American republic. In 1863, a French army marched into Mexico City....
