An Article that gives an Amazing Insight into Radical Islamism, its Western Coddlers and its Cures
written by: Barry Rubin
Dec 10, 2009

This is perhaps the best newspaper article I've ever read on the phenomenon of radical Islamists in Europe, written from the point of view of those who have left the movement and now discuss how they felt and what they did. Well worth reading. It is by Johann Hari and entitled, "Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again."

Nobel Geopolitics
written by: George Friedman
Oct 13, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prize, which was to be awarded to the person who has accomplished "the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and ...more

Global Economic Forum to Expand Permanently
written by: Edmund Andrews
Sep 25, 2009

PITTSBURGH - President Obama will announce Friday that the once elite club of rich industrial nations known as the Group of 7 will be permanently replaced as a global forum for economic policy by the much broader Group of 20 that includes China, Brazil, India and other fast-growing developing countries, ...more