18/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Palestinian mirage
It was another critical moment in the life of the 63-year-old Jewish state. Egyptian mobs had breached the protective barrier around the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, shredded the national Star of David flag before stomping on it -- and the Israeli ambassador to Egypt and his staff fled town a few steps ahead of the mob.
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13/04/2011 | Frente Externo
The coming geopolitical upheaval
Erstwhile U.S. ally Egypt is moving toward Shariah law.
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09/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Al Qaeda oasis in Yemen
Poverty-stricken land a natural haven for jihadis
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24/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
De Borchgrave: Geopolitical psychiatry
Few know more about Afghanistan than Marin Strmecki. He has been involved with bloody events there for the last 20 years. He was a policy coordinator and special adviser on Afghanistan with the defense secretary and is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the defense secretary's think tank. Critically important, his recent congressional testimony was overlooked by mainstream media.
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09/04/2008 | Frente Externo
Commentary: 'Hey guys, let's be friends'
The United States is now fighting two wars with a long-term price tag estimated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office at $2.4 trillion, of which about $1.9 trillion would be spent on Iraq. Monthly costs are running at $12 billion a month. Pity President Bush's successor. He/she will be inheriting a mess on all fronts – national security, economy, defense, trade, health. Huge interest costs should also be factored in as combat is funded with borrowed money.
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25/11/2006 | Economia y Finanzas
Crystal ball on Sino-capitalism
China's capitalists are more rapacious than America's robber barons of the 19th century or Russia's bandit capitalists of the new Russia of the 1990s. More greedy than the multibillion-dollar fortunes accumulated on Wall Street's fast tracks that once took several generations to build and that are now made in a year or two? "More capitalist than the U.S. ever dreamed of becoming, and viciously so," said one Chinese expert at a closed meeting of the private sector and the intelligence community.
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25/11/2006 | Economia y Finanzas
Crystal ball on Sino-capitalism
China's capitalists are more rapacious than America's robber barons of the 19th century or Russia's bandit capitalists of the new Russia of the 1990s. More greedy than the multibillion-dollar fortunes accumulated on Wall Street's fast tracks that once took several generations to build and that are now made in a year or two? "More capitalist than the U.S. ever dreamed of becoming, and viciously so," said one Chinese expert at a closed meeting of the private sector and the intelligence community.
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06/11/2006 | Frente Externo
Analysis: Cakewalks and walks in the park?
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! began in 1918 as a comic strip featuring unusual, hard-to-believe facts from around the world. Today it is a website for a global community that combs cyberspace for events so strange and unusual that it is often hard to believe they are taking place. These days, you don't have to go further afield than Washington, D.C.
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15/10/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis: Gallic intifada
Turf conscious bloggers in Paris' rundown, mostly Muslim, suburban immigrant housing estates rival in violent messages that threaten to beat senseless and even kill any intruder caught in "our ghetto."
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27/09/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
DNI's danger zone
The director of National Intelligence's chief concerns about the future can be summed up with a word and a stat: petabytes and 15 percent.
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29/08/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gathering nuclear storm
Just days before the United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to cease and desist enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the West the Iranian bird.
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24/06/2006 | En Parrilla
Stop the world
The United States is a greater threat to global stability than Iran or China? Clearly a preposterous suggestion, you would say.
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24/06/2006 | En Parrilla
Stop the world
The United States is a greater threat to global stability than Iran or China? Clearly a preposterous suggestion, you would say.
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30/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Touching the third rail
A quarter of a million people marched in Manhattan. 100,000 squeezed into Madison Square Garden, many of them in uniform. More than 100,000 telegrams deluged the White House. All demanded immediate recognition of the about-to-be-born new state of Israel. Most of President Truman's Cabinet was against it. The most formidable naysayer was then-Secretary of State Gen. George Marshall.
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21/05/2006 | En Profundidad
The global roulette wheel
American gross domestic product is $10 trillion a year. A staggering amount when you realize that one trillion seconds ago was 29,000 years before Jesus Christ. A billion hours ago, human beings and their ancestors were in the Middle Paleolithic Age, or the Stone Age. And now there are supercomputers that can handle several trillion moves per second (e.g., Google's search engines).
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18/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
De Borchgrave: Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran
A U.S. and/or Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities before November conjures up a dead duck rather than a lame duck at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue and at the other, key congressional committees under the control of prominent liberals.
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18/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Target Russia?
Beating up on Russia's shrinking democracy has become a geopolitical blood sport from Vice President Dick Cheney down to unreconstructed cold warriors who gleefully say, "I told you so." They see no contradiction in berating Vladimir Putin's governing style and imprecatory Bush administration diplomatic efforts to enlist the Russian president's support to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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08/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nightmare or daymare?
A U.S. and/or Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities before November conjures up a dead duck rather than a lame one at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue and at the other, key Congressional committees under the control of prominent liberals.
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28/02/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rumsfeld's complaint
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cannot believe how a biased media has made the job of fighting the bad guys harder than ever. The media broke the stories about torture at the Abu Ghraib prison; the U.S. military paying for favorable articles in the Iraqi media; competing with America's extremist detractors in poisoning Muslim minds about the United States; criticizing the liberation of an Iraq enslaved by Saddam Hussein.
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07/02/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Later than we think
The man in charge of hoodwinking the Western powers about Iran's now 18-year-old secret nuclear program believes the apocalypse will happen in his own lifetime. He'll be 50 in October.
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28/09/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A ride on the wild side
More than a year of intermittent talks with Osama bin Laden's clandestine network in Pakistan led to a 750-mile journey through territory forbidden to foreigners and two of the country's four provinces.
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09/07/2005 | En Parrilla
Colombia's small giant
The race to succeed Enrique Iglesias as head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will be a new test of the Bush administration's influence in Latin America.
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02/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iraqi palmistry
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- An optimist in the Middle East is someone who's almost always wrong, while a pessimist is usually an optimist with experience. And those who live by the crystal ball in Araby usually wind up eating crunched glass.
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02/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iraqi palmistry
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- An optimist in the Middle East is someone who's almost always wrong, while a pessimist is usually an optimist with experience. And those who live by the crystal ball in Araby usually wind up eating crunched glass.
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02/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iraqi palmistry
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- An optimist in the Middle East is someone who's almost always wrong, while a pessimist is usually an optimist with experience. And those who live by the crystal ball in Araby usually wind up eating crunched glass.
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27/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Revolutionary idea . . . on bridge too far?
For three years, we have been reminded we are a country at war — first against al Qaeda and its global affiliates, then against Iraq's bloody tyranny that was an integral part of transnational terrorism.
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27/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Revolutionary idea . . . on bridge too far?
For three years, we have been reminded we are a country at war — first against al Qaeda and its global affiliates, then against Iraq's bloody tyranny that was an integral part of transnational terrorism.
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18/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Coming geopolitical quakes
The world can now count on one geopolitical earthquake every 10 years. Between 1985 and 1995, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union, the collapse of communist parties the world over, and America's emergence as the world's only superpower.
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18/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Coming geopolitical quakes
The world can now count on one geopolitical earthquake every 10 years. Between 1985 and 1995, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union, the collapse of communist parties the world over, and America's emergence as the world's only superpower.
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