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Rethinking Afghanistan after a Decade

Reading what I wrote about Afghanistan a decade ago reminded me of how much my understanding of the role of war and hard power in upholding security for the nation…

Moral Bankruptcy: Will U.S. Veto Palestine?

This week at the UN—if the U.S. push to disable the process does not succeed—a vote will be taken on Palestinian statehood. The U.S. has already stated that it will…

Cyber Attacks on South Korea

Globalization has united the world.  But it has also made it vulnerable to cross-border crimes such as cyber attacks at the hands of the hackers without having them to cross…

Hanoi, Quy Nhon and My Bargaining Curse

From the moment I arrived at Hanoi’s main bus depot late at night after a 27 hour bus ride, I had a bad feeling about what would transpire. The only…

History and its Victims: The Fate of Palestinians

At the end of the Second World War, the colonial age in modern history had come to a close.  The colonial period is a blemish on the nations of Europe,…

Geopolitical Realignments: USA-Israel-China versus Russia-Europe-Arabia

Despite the focus of the mass media on (mostly theoretical) rivalry between the USA and China, and the rapport in recent years between China and Russia through a Central Asian…

Paul Krugman vs. Ron Paul and Friedrich Hayek

Paul Krugman tried to slam Ron Paul in his most recent column by writing: Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman…

29 years after the Massacre at Sabra Shatila…

SABHA, Libya — “The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind” was the general consensus following a discussion between this observer and a gathering of Palestinian refugees in Sabha,…