The world today is like a giant network on the verge of a cataclysmic outage.

Legal scholar Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, argued in RealClearPolitics in February 2016 that Israel's possession of the Golan was “lawful and just” and should be supported by the United States and the international community.

Vice President Mike Pence’s remark that the US lays responsibility on implementation of the Minsk deal solely on Moscow and at the same time trying to find common ground with Russia indicates that Washington is still considering how it should deal with Moscow, former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told Sputnik.

Muslim apologist and ABC host Yassmin Abdel-Magied must have kept her eyes wide shut when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's department unaccountably sent her to tour hard-line Iran and Saudi Arabia.