The Russian Supreme Court today upheld former oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s conviction to a second prison term. Khodorkovsky, now Russia’s most prominent political prisoner, will return to his Siberian jail cell...
[Gov. Brown] has the opportunity to be either a savior and renaissance figure, or both the youngest and the oldest failed governor of a failed state...
by Daniel Pipesvia Corner (National Review Online)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
As someone opposed to Arab-Israeli negotiations while war is underway and to Obama’s presidency, I take solace in his making a hash of diplomacy and politics...
If only Twitter, Facebook, and social media had existed in 1957. Today the blogosphere is replete with hundreds of flowers blossoming and hundreds of schools of thought contending across a broad range of topics...
Many in the West have looked upon the “Arab Spring” with hopeful optimism. But for the rulers of Riyadh the Arab Spring’s primary result has been a shaking of the strategic foundation and alignments that have shaped Saudi regional policy since the 1979 Iranian Revolution...
Only time will tell if recent elections in the UK, the US, and Canada, together with next year's presidential election in France, signal a retreat from the growth of the welfare state or just a temporary respite...
