At a time when democracy seems to be losing ground around the globe, even in the United States, one of the saddest losses is Hong…

Amid the doom and gloom on the climate change front, we are occasionally treated to some good news. That was the case this week with…

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the U.S. and Canadian governments were assuring us that free trade would be the answer to everything from…

The decision of Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel has caused predictable…

This month the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 75th. And any individual would consider themselves fortunate it they were in as good shape. NATO…

The U.S. departed almost radically from an habitual practice on a resolution at a United Nations Security Council meeting Monday. It didn’t vote in Israel’s…

In 1953, Iran’s democratic government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq was toppled by a military coup backed by the CIA and the British Secret…

A seemingly eccentric question, one that shouldn’t have to be asked, yet it does because that is the bizarre situation the Palestinians find themselves in.…

On September 11th, 2001, the Islamist extremist group al-Qaeda carried out one of the most dramatic terrorist attacks in history on the United States. It…

It’s all up and down with democracy these days as right-wing populists, some bordering on fascism, come and go. The most prominent case, of course,…

Maybe it took an oilman to do it. When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates was appointed President of the UN Climate…

I have long been intrigued at how men who inflict torture and murder on their fellow human beings can consider themselves moral leaders. History is…