New era for Sino-Russian ties

Joint declaration pledges mutual support on key security issues MOSCOW – China and Russia deepened their strategic relationship on Thursday by vowing to support each other on core security issues. In a joint declaration, signed…

Turkey and the Arab spring: Learning to walk again

Turkey’s vibrant democracy is an inspiration to Arab countries throwing off their autocratic yoke and their Western patrons, says Eric Walberg Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) renewed mandate puts the electoral seal of…

Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet

Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The river–which had taken…

Losing the war in Afghanistan (TLAXCALA)

By Rizwan Asghar:  A series of events over the past few months have further reinforced the view that the war in Afghanistan has taken an unwelcome course and Obama’s Afghan strategy is in tatters. In…