The risk of the regional bloodbath through Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East turning into a global bloodbath is high and getting higher by the day. 

America's Middle East gambit has become considerably more dangerous since the Russians have defiantly announced that they will be sending S-300 anti-aircraft weapons to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad....

Ya’ir Lapid, the freshman parliamentarian and Treasury Minister, has declared that from now on he will deliver all his important speeches outside the Knesset, confining his Knesset appearances to the legal minimum.

The reason: members from the opposition interrupt him. He cannot marshal his thoughts when interrupted. Since he is used to making his speeches with the...

The reality of and the outward toll inflicted by greenhouse gas engendered Climate Change is clearly evident (to all but the corrupt and devoutly ignorant)

The issue facing the U.S. Government at this stage is not one of whether or not to intervene, but to what extent, with what objectives, and with what likely effects.

Today is Revisionist History Day, what others call Memorial Day. Americans are supposed to remember the country's war dead while being thankful that they protected our freedom and served our country.

by Belen Fernandez

In November 2012, a subcommittee of the US House Committee on Homeland Security produced a report titled "A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border", an updated version of a similarly named 2006 report.

It's scheduled for June 14. Eight candidates will participate. More on them below. If none achieve a 50% or more majority, a June 21 runoff will follow.

On the same day, local city and village elections will be held. Thousands of aspirants registered to participate. In 2012, parliamentary elections were held.

by Camille Elhassani

On Monday, US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning faces a general court martial on 21 charges related to leaking US government information to Wikileaks.

Manning has admitted to leaking the material, but his defence team will argue that he’s a whistleblower who exposed the moral failure of US foreign policy.

by Adam Keller

In the first decades of statehood, Abba Eban was Israel’s outstanding  diplomat. No one could match the excellent Oxford English of his speeches in the UN General Assembly. He was well able to explain Israeli government policies and find convincing excuses for the acts of IDF soldiers in the field - even when privately he had some reservations.

by Alan Fisher

Famously, God told her to run for president. Unfortunately he apparently didn't share that she was going to lose.

Michelle Bachmann was at one point the favourite to be the Republican nominee for president. She won the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa six months before the state's caucus. She marshaled the support of the Tea Party faction, and was seen...

by John McNamer

Although the Harper government seems to believe it has successfully buried the mountain of evidence demonstrating Canada’s long-term, large-scale systemic complicity in illegal Afghan detainee torture and the CIA’s horrific worldwide “extraordinary rendition” scheme, this ghost may soon rise again to haunt all of Canada in a big way.

Israel gives chutzpah new meaning. War on humanity defines its agenda. It's partnered with Washington's war on Syria.

It's heading perhaps toward greater intervention. It warned Russia about supplying Syria with sophisticated defensive anti-aircraft missiles. It said Israel will react in response.