Feb 20, 2012
Arnaud de Borchgrave reports — From Tunis to Tripoli to Cairo to Damascus, what seems real one day is no longer the next.
Feb 13, 2012
Arnaud de Borchgrave reports — From dust to dust, global power is no more. So says Zbigniew Brzezinski, the only rival to Henry Kissinger in America's contemporary geopolitical hall of fame.
Jan 20, 2012
The prime minister stood before the Supreme Court and explained that while he accepted the majesty of the law and the majesty of the Supreme Court, he couldn't arrest the president of the country on charges of bribery as he enjoys immunity under the constitution....
Jan 17, 2012
Finlandization is back in vogue in the geopolitical handbook.
In Cold War jargon, Finlandization meant the danger of some NATO allies, cowered by mounting Soviet military power, shifting to the art of fence-sitting. Plucky Finland should never have been a pejorative.
In...
Jan 10, 2012
Capitalism in Crisis, the front-page banner headline shouted.
The code that forms a bar to harmony was the inside-page headline, suggesting a secret code that concealed a sinister plot to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The enrichment of bankers, corporate...
Jan 9, 2012
U.S. democracy-building organizations one Republican, one Democrat, both funded by the U.S. taxpayer that have been telling Egyptians how to be good democrats, how to demonstrate peacefully and have truly free elections didn't sit too well with the Egyptian military,...
Dec 23, 2011
Qatar is bidding to become the negotiating venue for an end to the 10-year war in Afghanistan.
A small peninsular nation the size of Connecticut that juts out of Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf, Qatar keeps punching above its weight on the international scene.
With a per...
Dec 14, 2011
To those who hail the Arab Spring and the first free elections in Egypt in 60 years, a prominent Israeli responded, Remember Mussolini, remember Hitler. Two years after seizing power in 1922 with a march on Rome, one-time socialist Benito Mussolini's fascist party won 64...