Posted by The Daily Journalist.  The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. We further assess that the regime [...]

By Pierre Antoine.  The Treaty of Lisbon reformed the previous rules applying to EU foreign policy, determining that the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (hereinafter ‘the High Representative’) [...]

    Djan Sauerborn by securityobserver. By Djan Sauerborn. In recent months several newspapers, blogs and academic outlets have highlighted the tumultuous domestic skirmish between Nasheed and Waheed in the Maldives as well as the [...]

  By Raphael Almagor. The most controversial part of the bill is the raising of the election threshold to four percent.   Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon voting at the Likud elections, June 30, 2013. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The [...]

    By Joseph Cerami – Special to the American-Statesman   The U.S. War in Iraq launched in 2003 gives us much to think about. Richard Haass, an experienced State Department, Defense Department and National Security Council [...]

    By Michael Silverstein. Having trouble following the strange doings in markets these days? Perhaps these few definitions. among the hundreds found in my Devil’s Dictionary Of Wall Street book, will help in your understanding: Bank [...]

By Steve Hach. stocks: PX, GTXI, SNTS, AMRI, WLP, HUM, VRX,TEVA, ALR, ACAD, TEAR, AVNR, DRTX, SRPT VALUATION WARNING: Our models find that overvaluation is at levels typically seen when market pullbacks occur. Overvalued stocks [...]

  By Jeong Lee. (This article was republished by permission of the United States Naval Institute Blog and appeared in its original form on August 12th here.) Five months after the much-dreaded sequestration went into effect, many [...]

  By Federico Schiavio. Is there a direct relationship between democracy and growth? No and the proof is in the lost decades that the West has spent providing aid to “allegedly” democratic African nations. I find myself in [...]

    Posted by Baron Baretzky.   WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – United Kingdom- According to the European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS),  corporate firms will face more cyber threats in the type 1 communications [...]

By Lisa Nielsen. Guest post by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko | Writer and blogger at Radio Free School. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged [...]

by Ronald Bleier. This essay looks at the manner in which President Obama has handled two  issues mostly affecting women —  abortion rights and sexual assaults in the military – raising questions about  the disparity between his  [...]

  By James M. Dorsey. Dear Ali, I feel compelled to respond to your beautifully written and well-argued epistle to Syed Farid Alatas. I understand your sense of disappointment and betrayal as a result of how events have unfolded in post-revolt [...]

  Posted by Tsvi Bisk. By Brendan Tripp.   There were a small handful of “can’t miss” talks (for the purpose of this blog, at least) at the World Future Conference, and “No Limits to Growth” by Tsvi Bisk, [...]

  By George Mapp.   The recent exponential growth in social media has made it an absolute necessity to use for anyone and everyone competing for any type of business worldwide. When watching CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and other major news [...]

    By Susan Modaress.   In one year on average, almost 100,000 people in America are shot or killed with a gun, these include murders, assaults, suicides, accidents, or by police intervention, according to the Brady Campaign, [...]

  By Ernest Chan. In my book I devoted considerable attention to the phenomenon of “Momentum Crashes” that professor Kent Daniel discovered. This refers to the fact that momentum strategies generally work very poorly in [...]