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The Middle East Peace Talks: Preordained To Fail

The latest efforts to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians are hanging by a thread, which should be no surprise. Perhaps, based on the 2000 Camp David peace talks, sponsored by President Clinton, when the Palestinians walked away, essentially,

NPR: Not Particularly Relevant on Energy 'Subsidies'

Few fiscal-policy terms these days seem as elastic as the word “subsidy.” In a strict sense, it means a direct payment from government (i.e., taxpayers) to influence economic behavior. So it was with great interest that I read Robert H.

Stop START

Two weeks ago U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, cruised down the Potomac River on a U.S. Navy barge. Gates’ goal: find common ground on issues critically important to free nations such as preventing Iran

Russia Sells Syria High Tech Missiles

In yet another sign that the Russians are looking to stir the pot in the Middle East, they’ve decided to sell P-800 Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria. The sale is worth at least $300 million and will have the Russians

STARTing a fad: Europe Following Obama's Moscow Missile Misstep

While his influence on domestic politics is waning, President Obama’s latest foreign policy blunder–the dangerous new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia–may have opened the floodgates to similar capitulation to Moscow in Europe by putting America’s imprimatur on

End of Cuba's Communist Economy: Global Implications

It was a dry bureaucratic announcement appearing in the official Granma web site (Translation). It signaled the end of Cuba’s Communist economy. Fidel Castro Here are some excerpts (sometimes paraphrased): “After 52 years, the Cuban Revolution is a living and

A True 'Reset' in Russia, from the Ground Up

One of the most famous words regarding the Obama presidency thus far is “reset”–the administration’s term for a fresh start with Russia’s governing tandem of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The strategy behind the “reset” has been

Armageddon or Peace?

The Iranian Ahmadinejad regime repeated announced goal is the destruction of the State of Israel. The goal of the State of Israel is survival. Israel feels it has the absolute right to defend itself against a potential nuclear attack. Iran

Never Forget: The Day the World Changed

Only a few days before September 11, 2001, my girlfriend Tanya had come to the US for the first time on a visa from Russia. We were to be married that year. The economy had been rough that year due

Pakistan's Double (or More) Game

I don’t think it would be news to anyone here that Pakistan’s intel service ISI plays both sides or more in dealing with us, the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Afghans, plus they are always paranoid about India. The NY

Looks Like the Fix Is In: Russia's Polish Crash Investigation

It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, cabinet ministers, military service chiefs, intelligence officials,

The Sorosian New World Order

With Dr. Evil: …and his Mini-Me’s: …plus their Russian Wolfhound: George Soros now rules over half of the Earth: Eurasia, North America and, with his foot in Brazil, a large hunk of South America. With a Sorosian Barack Obama running

There Is No Such Thing as a Pre-1967 Israeli Border

The word is that Palestinian President Abbas is refusing to have face to face talks with Israel unless those talks are based on Israel returning to the pre-1967 borders. What Abbas knows but won’t admit is that there is no

More Trouble for New START

Just when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Team Obama’s other boosters for the New START Treaty thought the time ripe to press the U.S. Senate to consent to the ratification of that accord, legislators were given two powerful new