World government may be the only way to overcome international impasses and deadlocks on political crises and environmental catastrophes.
Has Iran’s President Ahmadinejad Become a Sympathetic Figure?
Is Supreme Leader Khameini’s assertion of his will over President Ahmadinejad the step back that it seems for Iran?
Since When Haven’t the Democrats Been a War Party?
Accusations of soft on defense to the contrary, Democratic leadership has seldom met a war it didn’t like.
India “Soft”? Not After It Launches Its Own Kill-bin-Laden Attacks on Pakistan
Some in India see the U.S. attack on the Bin Laden compound as a chance to address their inferiority complex about their country being “soft.”
“Blasted and Blasted and Blasted”: The Military Traumatic Brain Injury Epidemic
The United States is not facing up to the massive health-care and mental-health problems caused by traumatic brain injuries in our recent wars.
Even Their Beloved Nukes Don’t Escape Republican Infatuation With Cost-Cutting
Between House and Senate Republicans, and those gung-ho for defense and those for cost-cutting, Republicans are diverging on nuclear weapons.
The Only Cargo on the Next Gaza Flotilla Is Our Letters
The author will shortly be setting sail on the Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human and hopes to arrive in Gaza bearing letters from the American people.
Assad-Erdogan Bromance on the Rocks?
Syrian President Assad’s brutality, which has driven refugees into Turkey, has ruined his relationship with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan.
Gen. Kayani’s Tenure as Most Powerful Man in Pakistan Coming to Premature End?
In order to keep his job, Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani may read the riot act to the United States about its drone program.
Israel’s 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for Attacking Iran
Ineffective in halting Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program, Israel’s attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor can’t be used as a precedent for a military strike to halt Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program.