Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is on a mission. He's trying to get an inquiry into Scientology begun in his country. So far he's been unsuccessful....
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While the European Union is urging the Palestinians not to seek U.N. recognition of an independent state, sitting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Roy Bennett, a deputy minister in the government of Zimbabwe and treasurer of the country's leading opposition party (The Movement for Democratic...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Thanks to intransigence from the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Election Commission is recommending to outgoing President Mahmoud...
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The ghost of Chairman Mao still haunts our world. Andrew E. Mathis Two items caught my eye reading the news today. First, there was the report of...
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Saudi Arabia has sent troops into Yemen to aid that country's government in fighting a Shia Muslim rebellion. Now the Saudis are warning the rebels to...
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Lebanese prime-minister–elect Saad al-Hariri has brought terrorist group Hezbollah into the Lebanese government, in the interest, he says, of...
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Less than a month after tensions rose between India and China over the latter's territorial claims in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, India has...
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There has not been an official announcement yet, but his aides say that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not run for a new term in...
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The Obama administration is guilty — again — of giving mixed message on the issue of Israel-Palestinian peace. Andrew E. Mathis Over...
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