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Previewing the EU-Ukraine November 2010 Summit

The Union Leadership Needs to Find a Middle Road between More Effective Critique of, and Continuing Cooperation with, Kyiv's New Leadership…

Who Was Actually Using David Headley?

Who Was Actually Using David Headley?

With such a large numbers of players involved in varying degrees and with too many overlapping internal and external interests, the truth behind the Mumbai saga will perhaps never come…

Children Learning Languages faster than Adults: The Argument Continues in Vietnam

In conclusion, my theory is if an adult and a child attend the same number of hours of classes, the adult will learn faster.…

On Foreign Affairs – Remaking the Middle East

The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite a few decades now as it gradually took over the role of the British and French as the…

Is the American public about to toss Israel?

Ever so slowly over the past two decades, American attitudes toward Israel appear to be changing, according to some public opinion analysts.…

Native Tongue and Learning Vietnamese Language

Although an argument could be made that a student with a given native tongue may have an advantage in area of learning a second language, he or she may have…

The Russian Extreme Right and Its Researchers

The Russian Extreme Right and Its Researchers

Over the last 20 years, the small community of researchers of post-Soviet Russian ultra-nationalism has repeatedly become the target of verbal and non-verbal attacks, by their objects of research --…

Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home

Every group of Iraqis has faced terrible devastation as a result of this war, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be discovered.…

America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship

The Justice Department argued in Federal Court on November 8 that the US government, if approved by the president, could murder anyone it wishes, citizens or noncitizens, at will. …

Spelling Words with Words

For all students, regardless of their native tongue, it is clear to me is that it is impossible to use words to write other words. So, we need to find…

Canada Stands By Israel…

Harper’s comments express an ignorance and conceit -- and dishonesty -- placing him alongside the best hubris and rhetoric offered by his U.S. and Israeli compatriots. …

Afghanistan: Mapping the Insurgency

Afghanistan: Mapping the Insurgency

The armed conflict with Taliban insurgents and the Karzai government with its international backers for control of the Afghan state is a ‘hybrid[1] internationalized instrastate struggle’[2] playing out on various…

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as Congressional Candidates

Many veterans already hold office at the state and local level, some of whom will be ready to try to move up the political ladder while others will make their…

The Parcel Bomb Plot – Al-Qaeda’s Latest Christmas Gift to Israel

While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to…

Big Lies, Little Lies

The American working class has been destroyed. The American middle class is in its final stages of destruction. Soon the bottom rungs of the rich themselves will be destroyed.…

New Zealand Returns to the Fatal Embrace

New Zealand Returns to the Fatal Embrace

Since 1840, the year of the signing of New Zealand’s “founding document,” the Treaty of Waitangi,[1] New Zealand has seldom pursued an independent foreign policy.…

Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’

Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by…

The Impotence of Elections

In his historical novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa writes that things have to change in order to remain the same.  That is what happened in the US congressional elections…

The United States’ Annual Self-Imposed Humiliation

The United States’ Annual Self-Imposed Humiliation

Each fall, however, the UN vote is a welcome reminder that the world has not completely lost its senses and that the American empire does not completely control the opinion…

Anti-Communism 101: Hijacking History

It is remarkable the number of people who make fun of conspiracy theories but who accept without question the existence of an International Communist Conspiracy.…