Monthly Archives: May, 2012

But despite its peerless military technology and offensive capabilities, the US still feels insecure and is constantly haunted by the threats it imagines surround it on all sides.

In the forthcoming election, Obama will face the cameras and remind the American public that it was a Republican president who got the nation messed up in two foreign countries, while a Democratic president got it out of them.

In the first move of its kind, a U.N. working group recently concluded that Pyongyang has forcibly detained the wife and two daughters left behind by a South Korean man who escaped North Korea in 1986 a year after defecting there with his family.

Indonesia may have lost a lot more than the opportunity to see Lady Gaga when she canceled her June 3 concert in Jakarta last weekend. The episode could mark the beginning of the end for Indonesia’s civil liberties as radical groups continue unabated in their assault on the nation’s freedoms.

North Korea has declared its status as a nuclear weapons state in its Constitution. That translates into a brazen nullification of the grand principle of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea’s stubborn and wayward pursuit of nuclear weapons, which has continued over the past decades, disregarding international calls to halt the weapons program, is deplorable enough and now the denuclearization talks are as good as dead.

"... There is undoubtedly a political force at work here, one that has always criticized the Confucius Institute and has sought to blacken its name and educational activities."

While the organized criminals seem synchronized and united with the purpose of maximizing their profits, governments haven’t been able to unite toward forming a common front against transnational crime.