Bogdan Kipling

U.S. alliance with Pakistan — a flawed, unloving union — remains useful and necessary

Washington — Osama bin Laden is dead, long live the American-Pakistani alliance! Mine may not be the flavor of the week opinion in liberal circles, let alone among those Republicans and Democrats looking to Fortress America as the only reliable shelter for a nation straining under the load of its hegemony.

Poland should heed the lesson: Security and transparency vital to foreign investors

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It isn’t every day that a Halifax company and its Scranton, Pa., partner get attention on the world stage. But that is what happened in Washington a week ago and in Warsaw on Tuesday during panel discussions presented by the Council for European Investment Security.

Uncertainty of Mideast oil supplies boosts value of Alberta’s vast oil sands to U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A tweet that gave Hosni Mubarak the heave-ho decided Egypt’s immediate future. The Middle East — the Arab world — is in convulsions and vital oil supplies suddenly look more uncertain than ever.

Media elite’s rush to blame the right for a mad man’s slaughter borders on the despicable

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Like lemmings plunging over a Norwegian cliff, much of the Washington press corps blindly committed ethical collapse by rushing to blame the tragedy in Tucson on the "climate of hate" fostered by right-wing Republicans.

Airport pat downs make Thanksgiving pilgrimage a trip through hell

WASHINGTON, D.C. — "Don’t touch my junk" seems destined to become the shriek of protest as millions of Americans start crisscrossing the country to be home for Thanksgiving.

GOP’s big House win should mean big free trade gains for Canada

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama’s and his Democrats’ loss in Tuesday’s congressional elections is Canada’s gain. This may be heresy from Halifax to Vancouver — with white-hot flashpoints in Ottawa and Toronto — but it happens to be reality.

Trying to keep investment afloat in Poland

The New York Times ran a revealing story on Poland last Sunday after Times correspondent Judy Dempsey got the ear of Aleksander Grad, minister of the Treasury, and Krzysztof Walenczak, his chief economic adviser.

Gop wins likely mean obama cant hand europe

WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are speeding towards climate "catastrophe," United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned the World Climate Conference in Geneva two months ago.

Obama must go for a knockout in Afghanistan to thwart major al Qaeda attacks on U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are many reasons for hunkering down in Afghanistan and adopting a tougher military strategy so Americans and their NATO allies can finally leave behind a more stable — though barely democratic —Middle East. New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, Springfield, Il, and the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia are high among those reasons.

Is Obama high-handed with European friends?

Vladimir Putin, prime minister of Russia, was in Gdansk on Tuesday, making friends and influencing people. He was in Poland to attend ceremonies that marked the time and place where the Second World War started on Sept. 1, 1939.

Hillary’s call for global warming action is summarily rejected by a skeptical India

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hillary Rodham Clinton displayed the naïvete of a 19th-century Bible Society lecturer recently when she badgered India to embrace the Gospel of Global Warming by curtailing its sinful output of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) — commonly known as greenhouse gases.

Iranian events caught U.S. totally unprepared as Obama rigidly pursued ‘charm diplomacy’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When a nation of 67 million starts waving its fist in protest, its rulers start living on borrowed time. Iran is such a nation right now and its junta of theocrats and RoboCops is on notice.