By Gideon Rachman “This is what you have to do, if you want the people to build statues of you on horseback.” Valéry Giscard…
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security analyst, and Jennifer Rowland, Special to CNN October 1, 2012 Washington (CNN) — A decade ago, the United…
By Philip Stephens Britain has spent more than half a century wrestling with the fact of shrinking global influence. It has not got any…
After a marathon session which began yesterday at 2 pm, the Mfoundi High court finally gave its verdict early this morning in the case…
By HARI KUNZRU Illustrated. 356 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. In 2011, the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei exhibited 12 bronze animal heads…
By Lewis E. Lehrman from the October 2012 issue The case for a modernized gold standard. Gold, a fundamental, metallic element of the earth’s…
By John Pilger Global Research, September 20, 2012 The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the…
18 September 2012 LONDON – US President Barack Obama has vowed to avenge the murder of J. Christopher Stevens, America’s former ambassador to Libya.…
Pepe Escobar MENA (Middle East/North Africa) is on fire. The diffuse rage – even if manifested by a tiny minority – is distinctly anti-American.…
By Peter Lee It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the…