As if President Barack Obama did not have enough on his plate, he will shortly issue a Nuclear Posture Review -which is, in fact, a month overdue.

The blizzard that hit New York last week dumped 24 inches on the city and paralyzed almost all surface transport. But New York’s subways, which were begun in 1904, kept on zipping along, heedless of the tempest above.

In Greek mythology, the fifth epic labor of Hercules was to clean up the manure created by thousands of oxen over three decades from the stable of Augeas. Hercules cleaned the stable by diverting two rivers through it. Then, he went on to found the Olympics. Today, Greece’s public finances are another Augean Stable. In spite of being a small nation of only 10.7 million, Greece’s fina

To fete the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gleefully announced his nation will enrich uranium to 20%.

One of history’s most important lessons is that politicians should never be given a free hand to borrow money to cover the costs of wars, overseas adventures, or military spending.

Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train? Total confusion erupted last week as the US, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by bombarding Taliban with tens of millions in cash instead of precision bombs.

Here in normally arid southern California, we’ve just endured a week of torrential rains, tornados, flash floods, and mud slides. Some roads have even turned to rivers in the great western monsoon.

The scenes of horror and chaos that followed Haiti’s devastating earthquake were a stark reminder of that tormented nation’s gravest problem: it has no functioning government. Nor has it had one for the past decade.

To better understand why Osama bin Laden is so far winning his struggle to oust the western powers from the Muslim world, let us go back to 1986, when I was covering the anti-Soviet war in then almost unknown Afghanistan.

Yemen, the likely source of the failed Christmas Day airliner bombing at Detroit, has just rudely intruded into the West’s awareness. Militant sources there claim the attack by a young Nigerian was retaliation for extensive covert US military operations in Yemen. Welcome to the Afghanistan of Arabia