Today (May 4th) is Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust was committed by a nation whose church attendance was then...

A woman for the next secretary-general of the United Nations? Well, it’s a lot more complicated than that. There are...

President Barack Obama has observed, “ISIL is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our...

If worst comes to worst and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is deposed and her widely beloved predecessor, Luiz “Lula” da...

The Brazilians have an elected president. They must keep her. If Dilma Rosseff is pushed to resign democracy has failed....

In the 1970s there was a cult film, “Midnight Express”, directed by the young Oliver Stone. It was based on...

If there is one man in Africa who combin­es kindness, authoritarianism of right a­nd rationed proportions with nevertheless a deep...

Was the cultured and sophisticated Itali­an writer, Oriani Fallaci, speaking for ­the large numbers of working class peopl­e who end...

ISIS in Syria and Iraq­. In Pakistan, there is Lashkar-e-Taiba ­and the attempted murder of the school­girl, Malala Yousafzai. Immigrant...

The British have a problem. A referendum­ continuing membership of the Europe­an Union scheduled for June may lead to ­Brexit-...