Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was run down last week by a vehicle targeting him as he walked along a London street. He was then repeatedly stabbed with knives and eventually decapitated with a meat cleaver….
Beijing’s leadership expertly follows a tricky path of maintaining close financial and commercial relations with Washington while simultaneously strutting about militarily. American businessmen and visiting politicians are wined and dined by well-connected Chinese counterparts in the luxurious restaurants and clubs…
Just as the American international security establishment — DoD, CIA, State — maintains continuing assessments of nations considered potential or actual adversaries, these countries do the same in respect to the United States. The DPRK (North Korea) openly states it…
Cyprus caused more interest in its financial state in late March than it had since the rumor spread in the mid-nineties that a group of favored Russian oligarchs were wanting to turn the Greek sector of that ancient Mediterranean isle…
It was as close an election as one might expect in Venezuela. Nicolas Maduro, his predecessor’s hand-picked candidate, edged out the popular Henrique Capriles, definitely no friend of the late Simon Bolivar wannabe, Hugo Chavez. No one questioned the strong…
When an individual or group sets out to perform violent acts that have a high social impact, they do not necessarily characterize themselves as terrorists or what they intend to do as terrorism. In most instances people who consciously plan…
Miraculously the border between Mexico and Arizona has suddenly been declared substantially free of illegal crossers. Having announced last year that more illegal entrants had been caught and deported, the Department of Homeland Security recently has noted that the illegal…
While the Pentagon, State Department, and White House give backgrounder briefings on how it is expected that China shortly will rein in the DPRK’s belligerency, it is worthwhile to review at least one of the many non-nuclear scenarios that have…
There was a time not too many years ago when Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was written about as the don-of-dons of multi-millionaire manipulators that made up the Russian exile community living in the UK protected by former Soviet security officers. Boris…