By Robert Kelly. As part of a now lengthy chain (one, two, three, four) on US allies and the likelihood of US retrenchment (hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan for referencing this chain of posts yet again), I argued that American hegemony, despite [...]

  Assassinated: Marwan Arafat (Source: SANA) By James M. Dorsey Unknown gunmen shot and killed Wednesday the former head of the Syrian Football Association (SFA), Marwan Arafat, and critically wounded his wife in an attack Syria’s national [...]

  by KrisAnne Hall http://www.KrisAnneHall.com June 11, 2012 Power to create treaties is established in Article 2 Section 2 Clause 2 of the Constitution.  The power to create a treaty is delegated by the people to the President with [...]

By Jaime Ortega Simo. Post-modern media problems! Congratulations! We live in the 21st century. Technology has overcome all our problems. … Right? There are more news agencies than ever before as well as independent writers and bloggers, [...]

    By James M. Dorsey Iranian women soccer fans have set their hopes on the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to return them to the terraces after having been banned from stadiums for years to prevent them from looking at men’s [...]

By James M. Dorsey   It took Egypt’s military brass less than six months to first isolate street-battle hardened soccer fans, the country’s most militant opponents of military rule, and then restore their waning popularity amid [...]

By Ehab Alkindi. Project engineer of Saudi Aramco.                    Saudi Arabia enhances new economic future.   A new era has started in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since the arrival of the custodian of the two [...]

By Jaime Ortega Simo   Mayday, Mayhem … Spain! Mayday is the expression pilot’s scream in the midst of an emergency crashing situation when the airplane runs totally out of control. In the European Union airport, Greece, Ireland, Portugal [...]