Several years ago, the beginning of the "Energy Revolution" was proclaimed. The official media announced the immediate distribution of pressure cookers that, despite requiring electricity, would reduce the national consumption of petroleum. State industry began to produce the necessary rubber gaskets for...

Beijing, China - A certain excitement has lighted the streets of Beijing in anticipation of President Barack Obama's maiden visit here this week. Not only has the capital experienced two days of clear blue skies, a rarity in a city that is usually encased in a yellow, gritty smog during...

This past week I returned from a three day trip to Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa and one of the poorest in the world, with over half the population living under the poverty line. While there, I met with President Amadou Toumani Toure and other officials to discuss...

The decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) to prosecute self-proclaimed 9/11-mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York set off a major debate Friday over whether the move makes legal and practical sense.

Mohammed will face a jury trial in federal court in the Southern District of New...

"We shall never cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot

Sometimes returning to our roots inspires us to revisit ourselves within the concentric circles of shared destiny. In search...

As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.

His first stop, Japan, is acting more independently of America after the long reign of the relatively conservative Liberal Democratic Party.

His next stop, Singapore, host of the Asia...

On October 25th, inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were granted access to the secret and recently outed nuclear facility under construction in a secluded mountain inside an Iranian Revolutionary Guard base near the holy city of Qum.

We now have definitive confirmation from IAEA and European...

President Obama has finally made a decision on Afghanistan which can pretty much be summed up as: "I make no decision and reject all the options you have given me." He just wants to know which way the exit is. So basically the administration's decision on Afghanistan for now is...

Analysis of a potential adversary's intentions is hard -- particularly when that adversary chooses to behave like a belligerent hermit. Such is the case with North Korea. Having decided to eschew modernity by cleaving to a feudal version of socialism, Pyongyang has rendered assessment of North Korea's political intentions an...

When the Fox network staged a special Veterans' Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one interesting fact about Bagram: It's the site of America's other Gitmo, a prison where detainees have been kept for...

In his current Asian trip, President Obama visits Japan, then addresses a forum of leaders in Singapore, and eventually ends up in Seoul to discuss nukes and North Korea. But make no mistake, the axis of this week is the time Obama will spend in China, which has catapulted to...

It's been four months since I described Yemen as a powder keg ready to explode. At the time the entire world was riveted to the television, watching the unfolding events of the "Velvet Revolution" in Iran. The Yemeni keg has since exploded. It is currently on the verge of...

Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?

There is something very Captain Renault about it. We're shocked, shocked that the Afghans have sullied our morally immaculate occupation of their country with their dirty corruption. How ungrateful can they...

By Ann-Louise Colgan

Perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur--like anywhere else--are dependent on at least indirect support from other countries. The goods and services outside governments provide, including arms and ammunition, affect the ability of all parties to continue to engage in the conflict. But because their actions are one step...

This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island contest for Cuban blogs. Miriam writes from her home in Havana, Cuba. Miriam's blog is available in English translation here.

Ever since Slumdog Millionaire stole thousands of hearts and eight Oscars this past year, the interest in Indian cinema has been rekindled in the West, with mainstream media sitting up and taking notice. Aroon Shivdasani, founding member and executive director of the Indo-American Arts Council, has been laboring towards that...

Ten years ago, Susan* was admitted to a public hospital in Namibia for an emergency surgery. She was 20 years old and was unaware that she was pregnant. When she woke up from surgery, she was told by a nurse that they had "taken her womb because [she] had HIV."...