Secretary Of State Clinton In El Salvador And Honduras: Defining Obama’s Latin American Policy
By Ray Walser, Ph.D.Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton specified the three guiding "D's" of U.S. foreign policy: defense, development, and diplomacy. When she heads south for the inauguration of El Salvador's new president and the May 31-June 2 annual high-level meeting of the Organiza...
Read MorePoland: U.S. Moves First Missiles, Troops Near Russian Border
On May 26 Polish news media announced that the first American Patriot interceptor missile battery and 100 U.S. troops were officially welcomed by Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, U.S. Ambassador Lee Feinstein and Brigadier General Mark Bellini of U.S. Army Europe at a ceremony in Poland.American t...
Read MoreMoscow Building ‘Our Lady Of The Microphones’ In Paris, French Say
During Soviet times, US diplomats at the American embassy in Moscow often referred to a nearby Russian Orthodox Church as “Our Lady of the Microphones,” a reference to their assumption that the church served not a religious purpose but rather was an intelligence collection point.Now, in an echo ...
Read MoreInsurgent (Maoist?) Attack On Passenger Train
At least 76 railway passengers are reported to have been killed in an incident attributed to the Maoists in the West Midnapore District of West Bengal on the morning of May 28,2010. The incident took place at around 1-30 AM at a place about 150 KMs from Kolkata.The incident occurred when 13 coa...
Read MoreNorth Korea Sinking Of South Korean Frigate Raises Arab Fear Of Nuclear Iran
Many analysts plus Arab as well as Western officials have traditionally drawn a comparison between the approach used by North Korea to build its nuclear capabilities and the one adopted now by Iran.By Riad Kahwaji, CEO, INEGMAThe sinking of the South Korean frigate Cheonan last March 26 by...
Read MoreFSB New Style In Espionage Cases: It Is Necessary To Cooperate
Light Sentence in Espionage Trial Shows New Tactic to Reward CooperationBy Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan(Argentura) -- The surprisingly lenient sentence -- four years in prison -- in the case of Gennadiy Sipachev, the amateur cartographer from Yekaterinburg who was accused of handing...
Read MoreMuslim Miss USA: Progress Or Immodesty?
By Omar Sacirbey
Europe's burqa debate and a steady stream of media images showing veiled women have led to a widespread impression that all Muslims are obsessed with covering the female body.
It might be a surprise, then, that many Muslim Americans are toasting Rima Fakih, who made history on...
Read MoreRussia’s Muslims And Buddhists Want Public Holidays For Their Faiths Too
Now that the Russian Duma has approved the Day of the Baptism of Rus’ as a public holiday, leaders of Russia’s Islamic and Buddhist communities say they want their faiths to be recognized in the same way, yet another example of the way in which Moscow’s efforts to use Orthodoxy to unite the country ...
Read MoreIntelligence: No More Co-Ordination Czar?
The Times of India has reported (May 28,2010) that the Government of India is contemplating the setting up under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of a coordination committee on all matters concerning security and intelligence. This committee will initially comprise the National Security Adviser (...
Read MoreThe Black Hole of Bagram
On Friday, the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., delivered a genuinely disturbing ruling (PDF) regarding prisoners in the U.S. prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which has turned the clock back to the darkest days of the Bush administration, before prisoners seized in the "war on terror" h...
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