World News & Opinion
The Word from Brazil
By Alan Caruba | February 26, 2015
Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, has been caught up in a huge scandal that will lead to criminal proceedings
Time to sever fiscally irresponsible Greece from its EU lifeline
By Guest Column -- William F. Shughart II | February 26, 2015
Key questions: Whether Greeks want it enough to pay the piper. Whether Greece's socialist PM has the courage to forgo his campaign promises, become a free-market reformer
Islamic State: Egypt wakes up—when will America and Russia?
By David Singer | February 24, 2015
America and Russia must both be brain dead in ignoring Islamic State's increasing threat to their vital respective interests in the Middle East
Second-hand economy in Canada worth $30 billion annually, report finds
By News on the Net | February 24, 2015
Inaugural Kijiji Second-Hand Economy Index Measures Impact on GDP, Jobs and Money in Your Pocket
Col. Richard Kemp urges the UNHRC Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict
By Barry Shaw | February 23, 2015
Have the courage not to be anti-Israel.
Self-inflicting Arm-twisting
By Alexander Maistrovoy | February 21, 2015
Obama: A deadhead for Middle Eastern rulers, a source of deep frustration in Israel. He twisted arms in his own country. Not surprising, that Putin was welcomed in Cairo
Netanyahu’s true electoral rival
By Caroline Glick | February 20, 2015
If Netanyahu’s speech is a success, Obama’s foreign policy will be indefensible.
The Obama administration should be thanking the Egyptian government as well as Jordan and the United Arab Emirates for their military actions, not leveling snide criticisms
‘We Love This Land’: Iraqi Christian Men Fight to Keep ISIS Away From Homes
By Heritage Foundation Josh Siegel | February 19, 2015
”This is our right as human beings and as indigenous people: to protect our people and ourselves,”
European Union Causes Peace Process And Quartet Meltdown
By David Singer | February 16, 2015
Quartet has been totally compromised--the peace process and its intricate negotiating structure irretrievably ended. Back to the drawing board for yet another new proposal
Unless unrelenting and overwhelming force is used to wipe this scourge from the face of the earth – something that the Security Council would never authorize – nothing the Security Council can say or do will make any difference.
Overnight deal achieves ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
By Dan Calabrese | February 12, 2015
But we're a long way from getting the Russians out of there.
US-Funded News Station Wants to Bring Free Press to Cuba. But Raúl Castro Wants to Shut It Down
By Heritage Foundation Josh Siegel | February 10, 2015
“It’s a badge of honor” that Cuban leadership wants to shut the Martís down, says Carlos García-Pérez.
Secretary General told the Saudi leaders what they wanted to hear about their own commitment to human rights and counter-terrorism, rather than the cold hard truth about their abysmal record.
United Nations Security Council Abandons Humanity
By David Singer | February 9, 2015
What has to happen before the United Nations Security Council comes to its senses and gets really serious about degrading and destroying Islamic State?
Muslims Think They Should Be Allowed to Ban ‘Others’ From Public Cemetery
By Warner Todd Huston | February 9, 2015
Yet another example of the arrogance, hate, and incivility of Islam
The British Press Continues Down the Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship
By Al Kaltman | February 9, 2015
When fear of reprisal is the reason why British news outlets censor themselves, then the nation is no longer free, the battle against Islamic fanaticism has already been lost
Bowl Cut Jr. launches Norks’ new ‘capable’ missile
By Dan Calabrese | February 9, 2015
It's a "new type of cutting-edge anti-ship rocket" and it sure looks Russian.
The Arab Armies
By Alan Caruba | February 8, 2015
Coalition is “adamantly opposed to Obama’s policy…and loath to lend their air strength for its support”
Our Nagging North Korea Problem
By Claudia Rosett | February 7, 2015
Desperately seeking a strategy: North Korea will continue to pose a grave and growing danger to U.S. interests
Scandal Rocks the U.N.
By Anne Bayefsky | February 6, 2015
A Report on Human-Rights Violations Has Been Compromised Not Once But Twice
How the UN Mixes Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israeli War Crimes
By Anne Bayefsky | February 6, 2015
A Soviet-Arab cabal succeeded in deleting “anti-Semitism” from the draft of the 1965 convention on all forms of racial discrimination as a trade-off for omitting Zionism from the treaty’s list of racist offences.
We can only hope that ISIS’s brutality will backfire, creating a wedge within the Sunni community and increasing support for the U.S. led coalition
The Ghosts of Auschwitz in the Middle East
By Daniel Greenfield | February 5, 2015
Eichmann found support for Auschwitz in the "surahs of your Koran." So did the Jihadis who murdered Jews in Paris. If we forget that, then we forget the real lesson of Auschwitz.
William Schabas Disgraced, But His Disgraceful UN Handiwork Remains
By Anne Bayefsky | February 4, 2015
It is no accident that a Council notorious for applying double-standards to Israel embraced Schabas, or that a lawyer like Schabas embraced the Council
Jordan hangs two jihadists in response to burning death of pilot
By Robert Laurie | February 4, 2015
This is what they understand
Ban Ki-moon must investigate tainted Gaza probe
By UN Watch | February 3, 2015
"The truth is that Schabas made clear in his resignation letter that he 'devoted several months of work' to the project,"
Meddling at the Pond
By Ari Bussel | February 2, 2015
The upcoming election in Israel is indeed a most fascinating one. The Prime Minister is going to America to act as a tool in the hands of the Republican-controlled Congress
Activist Blames Cuban Government for Her Father’s Death
By Heritage Foundation Josh Siegel | February 2, 2015
Now, She Wants to Make the Island Free in His Memory.
“Nigeria Elections Put Christians in Danger of More Muslim Attacks”
By Raymond Ibrahim | January 30, 2015
Washington Times Interviews Raymond Ibrahim on Muslim Persecution of Christians

