Two years ago North Korea’s chief negotiator Kim Kye-Gwan announced “We are ready to declare all of our nuclear programs and will disable the existing facilities . . .”, America has tried to de-nuclear North Korea since 1970. A decade…
The March 4 announcement by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir marked a great advance in humanity’s gradual march toward a system of international…
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GENEVA
U.S. wants to ‘reset’ that ‘peregruzka’ buttonU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov with a red plastic button emblazoned with the word “reset” in English and the Russian word “peregruzka.”…
Early last year I was serving as President of a small organization of stamp collectors, The Christopher Columbus Philatelic Society. We are a small group interested in stamps and history related to Columbus. Our group has visited a number of…
Republicans like Z. Dwight Billingley are having great trouble understanding the world. Billingley is already mourning the loss of “American exceptionalism,” an arrogant and elitist idea. This seems like an early whiny complaint, since Obama is not yet president, but…
Voters have spoken. Just before midnight on November 4, 2008 I finally let myself believe it would happen. The polls were predictive as evidenced by a map that showed patches of blue over the country. Words failed to adequately express…
Your Thursday editorial on the U.S.’s response to countries that are unwilling or unable to thwart overt terrorist activities that pose a direct threat to our safety, to our sovereignty, to humanity, and to civil populations throughout the world actually…
“Russia Steps up SURGE”! C’mon. Is that supposed to infer that what Russia is doing to Georgia is equal to what we have done recently in Iraq? As the term is now commonly understood, a military “surge” is an increase…
In today’s paper, Gasprom, a Russian oil company, the biggest next to Rosneft, is predicting the cost of oil will be $250 a barrel by the year 2009. Gasprom is also trying to muscle into the Alaskan Pipe line deal…
