Newsmax RSS FeedMon, 08 Apr 2013 14:06:33 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Karachi, Pakistan's only port city, is a mega-conglomerate of 20 million that is now under a reign of fear induced by a "Taliban mafia."Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:46:40 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: President Barack Obama last week waxed eloquent on the need for a Palestinian state that would coexist peacefully side by side with Israel.Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:33:21 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Once a year Forbes publishes "The Definitive Guide to the Richest People on Earth." This year it added 210 new billionaires, including 138 women.Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:10:09 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The United States fields 17 intelligence agencies with a combined annual budget of $100 billion. They employ 100,000 intelligence specialists. And we still got the genesis of two major trillion-dollar wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, back to front.Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:09:20 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: He's a composite of Perry Mason, Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes and Jules Maigret from the Golden Age of detective fiction. John F. Sopko is a formidable detective.Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:24:45 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: At age 92, he spoke and answered questions without a pause and with a blend of humor and statesmanship. The venue was the Council of Foreign Relations, where he belongs in the pantheon of living American statesmen with Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski.Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:10:36 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The continued occupation of the West Bank to block the creation of a Palestinian state wasn't even an issue in Israel's elections.Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:31:08 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: While President Obama and Afghan President Karzai reached a rough understanding last weekend on how to wind down the longest war in U.S. history, the Afghans have been fighting continuously since the Soviet Union invaded their country in 1979.Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:18:17 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The vicious campaign to smear Chuck Hagel with an anti-Israel brush and deter U.S. President Barack Obama from nominating him to become the next defense secretary got rolling over year-end holidays.Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:13:25 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The only democracy Egypt has known in 5,000 years of recorded history lasted six years — from 1946, when the World War II British protectorate came to an end, until 1952 when Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Free Officers movement dethroned and exiled King Farouk.Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:43:13 EDTA majority of Israelis recoil in horror at the very thought of emulating the regime of apartheid, a system of institutionalized racial segregation once practiced in South Africa, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:16:47 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Following his success in mediating a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s Palestinians, Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi lunged for absolute power as a new religious pharaoh.Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:17:06 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Polish-born nuclear physicist Marcin Jakubowski and his small band of acolytes are holed up in rural Missouri working on a "civilization starter kit."Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:05:33 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions.Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:23:14 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: It was a debate on foreign policy when the most urgent priorities are at home.Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:15:17 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The American Society of Civil Engineers issued a cry of alarm five years ago in the form of three separate report cards on the state of the nation's infrastructure in 15 major categories.Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:11:38 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: A shadowy hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking operations of some of the United States' largest financial institutions, The Seattle Times reported.Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:46:07 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: The round-the-clock killing of U.S. military advisers by Afghan soldiers coupled with some $200 million worth of jet fighters and attack helicopters destroyed are the latest reminders that 11 years of fighting have strengthened the Islamist enemy.Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:49:09 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective: Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, notoriously anti-American and arguably the most popular man among 200 million Pakistanis, is the head of a recently launched political party dedicated to boosting him to the presidency.Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:58:31 EDTArnaud de Borchgrave’s Perspective — When Barack Obama was elected president four years ago, he had the whole world on a string.