Lockheed Claims Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough If this is true, we are on the verge of an energy revolution
WASHINGTON – I have observed in previous pieces that our long season of economic stagnation here in America (and...
Category: International
Is Wall Street Going To Crash? Are sharply lower stock prices just a "healthy correction"? Or is this the beginning of a serious downturn?
WASHINGTON – If you believe that US stocks are priced fairly, then the current sharp dip experienced by Wall...
Ebola: We Should Design Better Protective Clothing For Health Care Workers It is incredible that doctors and nurses have to get in and out of cumbersome "space suits"
WASHINGTON – Here we go. In America we are in the middle of a media-induced “Ebola scare”. Indeed, we have...
France And Italy Do Not Want Austerity – But They lack A Credible Growth Strategy Lack of competitiveness, combined with costly welfare, at the root of zero growth
WASHINGTON – France and Italy want less Brussels-imposed austerity, (spending cuts, higher taxes, fewer benefits for retirees), and more...
The Hong Kong Demonstrators Cannot Win Against Beijing Most of them know that China will never accept a political defeat
WASHINGTON – As I look at the developing story of the extremely large Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, my sense...
At The Root Of the Hong Kong Protests: Economic Prosperity Is Founded On Political Freedom Hong Kong people want real democracy. China wants to control Hong Kong politics
WASHINGTON – Will the Hong Kong protesters demanding true democratic elections for the special status territory win in the end?...
Bombing ISIL, One Vehicle At A Time – How Many Years To Achieve US Goals? Each air strike gets a small target. At this rate it will takes years to "degrade and destroy" this terrorist army
WASHINGTON – How is the air war against ISIL waged by the US and a coalition of European and...
With Luck, In A Few Years Spain’s Unemployment Rate Will Go Below 20% In the "New Normal" of the economic decline affecting Southern Europe, this is good news
WASHINGTON – Talk about beating low expectations. Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of the Economy and Competitiveness, recently reported that...
Obama’s “Ferguson Remarks” In His UN Speech Provide Ammunition To America-Haters Bad idea to place in the same sentence slaughter in the Middle East and one killing in America
WASHINGTON – In an otherwise good UN speech (September 24, 2014) focused on the need to fight for international law...
The Roots Of Islamic Fundamentalism Are In The Crisis Of the Arab World We can and should fight against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. But we cannot defeat radicalism through bombing campaigns
WASHINGTON – Denmark, a NATO country, just joined the fight against ISIL, (also ISIS or IS) in Iraq. We are...