Making examples of whistle-blowers
Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the US Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow for more than two weeks, while the United Stat
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Egypt: end of the Arab Spring?
Tolerance the key to a working democracy
Egypt and Turkey have the same basic political problem.
Rival canal bid: in the end China will decide
Population data hides cruel truth
The news on the population front sounds bad: birth rates are not dropping as fast as expected, and we are likely to end up with an even bigger world population by the end of the century.
Poison gas proof: Obama trapped by own words
Fool me once, shame on you (the Taliban regime in Afghanistan helped al Qaeda to plan 9/11. We must invade).
Rowhani: new broom or another disappointment?
Much reason to be grateful to Mandela
As I write this, Nelson Mandela is still with us.
Drums starting to beat along Nile
All students of geopolitics are familiar with the legend that Egypt has privately warned all the governments upstream on the Nile that it will start bombing if they build dams on the river without
Diplomacy decoded
Sometimes, in diplomacy, a translator is not enough. You need a code-breaker.