American Middle East interventionists chide President Barack Obama for not doing more. Why is the US running away from Yemen, why didn’t the US go into Syria and depose President Bashar Assad, why did Obama pull troops out of Iraq prematurely, why isn’t he putting &l

It has been said that “Brazil has a future and always will”. The same can also be said about Nigeria.

Where do Iran’s grand ideas about itself come from? From the history of its once great empire, but also from the fact that the US encouraged Iran at the time of the shah to both build a nuclear industry and to become the regional power in the Gulf. Where does all the misl

On Saturday President Barack Obama was at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma March led by Martin Luther King, which gave the push for legislation that secured the right to vote for black people. Obama’s speech was breathtaking oratory — sure

Can anyone see an end to the upheavals in the Middle East and what can be done to end them? My answer to the first question is “no” and my second is: “Wind the clock back to the days of the Ottoman Empire when vast stretches of the Middle East lived in relative

If there is such a thing as a “frozen conflict”, the best place to look is not in Eastern Europe but in Korea, where after years of merciless war that ended in 1953, there was an armistice, a line was drawn across the Korean Peninsula and its two halves went their sep

I question the judgement of those who support giving lethal arms to the Ukrainian army; supported the US going to war with Iraq in 2003 and with Libya in 2011, the former which unbalanced much of the Middle East and the latter which has left a country almost destroyed, semi-ruled

The beheading of a Japanese journalist does not represent Islam. Saddam Hussein did not represent Islam. Bashar Assad does not represent Islam.

It looks like the recent slaying of 130 schoolchildren by rabid Islamic extremists finally has brought a halt to the long time policy of Pakistan facing both ways. Pakistan, because of policies developed over decades by its all-powerful army and its intelligence service, the ISI