Despite all the hoopla surrounding the position of Henry Kissinger and the disgraceful alacrity with which the supposed elder statesman kowtowed to the pressure from the McCain campaign to recant his own publicly available statements, Obama was right about him at the debate. I watched the CNN program called “The Next President” and Kissinger...
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Obama was right about Kissinger
Contradictions and Crisis of Failed States
The International Relations community has focused its attention in recent times on the growing cost of food and its impact on developing nations and the devastating effect the rising cost of food will have on the world’s poor which is currently estimated to be over one billion people. On top of this, most poor...
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Are we gearing up for another war?
The recent escalation of rhetoric between Israel and Iran makes one wonder if the Middle East is gearing up for another war. Western nations have been pressuring Iran for quite some time now to “give up its nuclear ambitions”. While Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, there does not seem...
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John McCain’s Middle-east Dilemma
Given the hot and heavy rhetoric of the McCain campaign in recent weeks over Senator Barack Obama’s policy of dialogue with friends and “enemies” of the United States, one has to wonder how the recent developments in the region is affecting their strategy. This past week alone, we have heard that Israel and Hamas...
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