On Friday, before an audience of military officers from around the world, Russia’s top generals made a startling admission of weakness.
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Drugs: Why California’s Prop 19 Has Latin America Irked
What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Santos musing out loud — at a presidential summit, of all places — about the possibility of exporting bales of marijuana to California dopers.
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: To Beat the Blitz
The greatest battle of World War II may still be fought on English soil. If it is, one of many reasons that Hitler may be beaten will be the new and growing British People's Army opposing him: Brit ain's Home Guard
Crack Down
Presidents bedeviled by seemingly intractable problems tend to resort to symbolic gestures.
Syria’s Assad Bashes Heads, Hoping His Regime’s Strategic Importance Buys It a Pass
Location, in real estate and sometimes in politics, is everything.
THE RECESSION: Gloomy Holidays–and Worse Ahead
Not for many years has a Christmas season begun with so many tidings of spreading discomfort and lack of joy about the U.S. economy
Indicting Gaddafi for War Crimes: Will It Help or Hurt?
Muammar Gaddafi and his family could be hit with war-crimes indictments within the coming weeks for his brutal crackdown against unarmed protesters in eastern Libya last February, turning him and his top officials into international fugitives — and probably burying any hope of a ceasefire deal or an arrangement for quiet exile for Gaddafi and his family as a way of ending the war. As if to emphasize the regime’s defiance on Wednesday, Gaddafi loyalists shelled the rebel port of Misratah where an international aid ship had docked, reportedly killing four
Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE
IT passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh.
The Nation That Fell To Earth
It’s the year 2031–one generation removed from Sept.
Foreign News: THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE QUEEN
BRITISH royalty reigns but does not govern. According to a famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II “could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers .