On Thursday, Libyan authorities sent a Chinese oil tanker back to China without its intended cargo of 2 million barrels of oil, according to Reuters. The ship will go to Algeria instead, to purchase oil there. South China Sea, with
The horrific disaster in Japan is no excuse for horrible reporting. In fact, we need accurate reporting now more than ever to tell us exactly what is going on in the wake of this awful disaster. There seems to be
UPDATE: 11 hours after this story was posted, The People’s Daily has posted a story about plane that is bringing relief supplies from China to Japan. Let’s hope there will be plenty more. The catastrophe that has befallen Japan is
As Congressman Peter King ended hearings on a pertinent subject, danger signs are everywhere. Like Europe in the 1930s, America is sleepwalking towards world war. Our leaders and most of the mainstream press overlook or excuse them, or admonish those
The positions that different Latin American countries have taken towards Colonel Qaddafi and the crisis in Libya present some interesting connections worth exploring. It is not surprising that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have supported Qaddafi’s regime despite the severe crisis
I’m generally pessimistic about the Middle East—and the region never disappoints. I imagine that the situation there will get worse before it gets better. And the stakes will only get bigger for the west as time moves on. As Praveen
I’m sitting in my campaign office working on a policy statement (I’m running for U.S. Senate in Virginia as a Republican Tea Party candidate) when the following headline from the Washington Times comes across my computer, “Government posts biggest monthly
Wake up America. We are heading head long into a brick wall and we are ignoring it. While our elected officials debate spending cuts in the range of $50 billion to $100 billion, our nation is facing trillion dollar deficits
Amnesty International, an organization lauded for promoting human rights worldwide, has a strong and consistent track record of calling for UN arms embargoes on governments that violate human rights abuse. As protector of human rights, Amnesty understand the merits of
As the Chinese government has become more assertive in economic affairs, it is continuing to expand it’s military base. The Chinese government has announced that they are increasing defense spending by 12.7% this year. These “official statistics” are assumed by
You don’t have to be an art critic to see something tasteless going on at Pratt Institute. Since 1887, this venerable New York institution has been dedicated to educating “artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.” Yet
You don’t have to be an art critic to see something tasteless going on at Pratt Institute. Since 1887, this venerable New York institution has been dedicated to educating “artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.” Yet
Last summer, a Chinese telecommunications giant founded by a former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engineer was rebuffed in its effort to sell vast quantities of equipment to Sprint Nextel – an American company that provides communication services to the U.S.
While our own president and his administration chose to remain quiet during almost all of the Libyan protests, giving little in direction other than to give the usual diplomatic language of strongly condemning government violence, Fidel Castro, on the other
Sometimes it starts in small waves. There is evidence that anti-government activities are starting to increase in North Korea of all places, as well as China. South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reports on tremors. When soldiers are complaining about a lack
It’s fashionable these days for anyone to compare his political enemies to Hitler. But as I watched Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi give his 75 minute speech on Tuesday on Al-Jazeera, all I could think was that Hitler had been resurrected. Gaddafi
The Federal Reserve’s QE2 stimulus has stoked a fire storm of global of inflation. What began in the Middle East and North Africa as a rebellion against rising food and basic essentials for some of the poorest people on earth
News reports indicate (even if they often try to bury) that President Obama’s supposed austerity moves include massive increases over already-inflated spending levels for ‘green energy’ boondoggles. These are very economically harmful. To support this move, the Senate Environment and
The United States and Pakistan are becoming increasingly divided over the fight against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. There are strong elements in Pakistani intelligence (ISI) who openly back the Taliban. And there is deep resentment against the United States
Today the economic stats are official: China has surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Predictions are that if current trends continue, China will pass the United States in 2030 to become #1. But what does this
Egypt is in chaos today, after Egyptian officials first signaled president Hosni Mubarak’s intention to “meet all the protesters’ demands” (i.e., step down), but then did not step down. In his speech, he said he’d stay on until the September
Sometimes the greatest threats to an organization (or even a nation) are internal dangers from within, not external threats from enemies. The internal threat of ever-growing budget deficits and our massive national debt may very well outweigh any nefarious intentions
Governments throughout the world – Egypt, Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and on and on – block or dramatically control their peoples’ access to the Internet. We in America have enjoyed a government-free Web. Which has led to
For the last two months, North Korea has been frantically begging for food around the world, according to South Korea’s JoongAng Daily. The request has extended to dozens of countries, including China, the U.S., EU, and countries in southeast Asia.
President Obama’s proposed $53-billion more for “high-speed rail” (on top of a previous $10-billion) is a testimony to the power of adjectives. If it were labeled “plain old rail travel” it would lack the pizzazz but would be far more
