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New Face, Old Raiment
Vatican Spring? Don’t bet the basilica on it. The Arabs, I was once informed by an orotund Christian Zionist, belong[Read More]
Hagel’s Trial By Fire
If nothing else, last week’s Senate hearings on Chuck Hagel’s fitness to run the US Defense Department exposed the[Read More]
The Merchant’s Plight
The Majalla 2012-28-12 Mazen Kalab arrives an hour late for his interview with me, a Western journalist. He twitches nervously[Read More]
The Syria Report Survives as Independent Publication
International Herald Tribune 2012-19-12 ISTANBUL — Jihad Yazigi concedes that he owes a debt to Bashar al Assad. Without the[Read More]
Gas Field Off Cyprus Stokes Tensions With Turkey
International Herald Tribune 2012-12-12 NICOSIA, CYPRUS — In October, the government of Cyprus announced it was negotiating possible licensing deals[Read More]
War Drives Businesses of Aleppo Into Exile
International Herald Tribune 2012-12-5 ISTANBUL — In an unheated apartment in Istanbul, Mohammed Sahsoun, a businessman who fled the fighting[Read More]
Empire Watch – What Next for Obama?
Barak Obama may have earned another four years after stabilizing an economy on life-support and winding down unpopular wars abroad,[Read More]
Empire Watch – NATO of the Living Dead
Like the living dead, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refuses to expire despite chronic neglect of its security commitments
Difference in Degree, but not in Kind
The final debate between America’s two presidential rivals made one thing painfully clear: U.S. foreign policy under President Barak Obama’s[Read More]
Austerity vs. Growth: A Prescription for The Path Less Traveled
By admin on November 6, 2012
Wealth Management Frontier, Fall 2012 “The public is an idiot,” declared French General, the Marquis de Galliffet, as he stared[Read More]
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