"Russian warships have set off for Venezuela for joint exercises unprecedented since the Cold War." ... "The ships are due to take part in joint manoeuvres with Venezuela in November. The move is seen as a rebuff to the United States, which is facing inc...

While I don't agree with every position President Clinton takes, he does have one of the most balanced & complete understandings of the challenges humanity is currently facing.  He is one of the only politicans out there that doesn't just spit out t...

"For the first time in 100 years, and contrary to a long-standing legal prohibition, an active duty military unit is permanently assigned inside the U.S." "For more than 100 years -- since the end of the Civil War -- deployment of the U.S. military in...

My political science teacher once claimed that no capitalistic / democratic countries who were trading partners have ever gone to war with each other.  His rational for this was that once countries become interdependent financially, for them to go t...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered his military to move 10 battalions to the country's border with Colombia and ordered the closure of the Venezuelan Embassy on Bogota.

(120 minutes) 9/11 and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, WMD and the Insurgency, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, and the Surge. For six years FRONTLINE has been revealing those stories in meticulous detail, and the political dramas played out at the high...

From the Sept 2007 hearings

I was a bit skeptical when I heard that things were improving in Iraq, but things really do seem to be taking a small turn for the better.  But "the larger story is more complex that it may seem".  Washington Post correspondent Thomas Ricks giv...

"In many ways the country that has benefited most from 9-11 is China. The attacks on New York and Washington had an enormous, positive effect for it. They moved the country off Washington's enemies list." -- Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek September 11...

'Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian soil first, military officials say. The deputy commander of Iran's air force said that in the "unlikely event" of an Israeli attack, Tehran could respond with air and missile ...