Daily Interlude

The Most Accurate Prediction in History

In August 1977, the British journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin had predicted what eventually happened. He was right about why it would happen, how it would happen, and he said when it would happen almost exactly to the day. This is the article he wrote for the Times London ... more >>

The Year the World Really Changed

Forget the fall of the iron curtain: the events of '79 matter ... more >>

Defending the Arsenal

The United States government is negotiating with Pakistan's military, attempting to allow the U.S. to help secure Pakistan's nuclear bombs in the case of a national crisis, Seymour Hersh reports in this week's New Yorker ... more >>

Obama Fails to Reset Foreign Policy

Beset by a Washington Establishment still dominated by neoconservative policymakers and opinion leaders, President Barack Obama is stumbling in his efforts to change the direction of U.S. strategies on foreign affairs and national security ... more >>

Igor Panarin's Doomsday Tea Party

One ex-KGB analyst has been warning for years that the US will collapse in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something ... more >>

Gorbachev on His Legacy, and Obama's Chance to Lead an American Perestroika

The former Soviet leader on his push for a peaceful dissolution of the Russian empire, and his idea that the US should follow suit ... more >> 

High-Tech Companies Face Shortages as China Hoards Metals

Germany is pinning its economic hopes on future-oriented industries such as solar panel manufacturing. But high-tech companies are facing shortages of essential metals as China, which dominates the world market in so-called rare earths, begins stockpiling the highly sought-after resources ... more >>

The Fruits of Intervention

If we had it to do over, would we send an army into Afghanistan to build a nation? Would we invade Iraq? Pat Buchanan ponders the question ... more >>

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

When Israel sent its bulldozers into Um al-Kheir, Ezra Nawi stood in the way. Now he may go to jail for his peaceful protest ... more >>

Hillary’s ill will tour

In what the Los Angeles Times described as "a fence-mending trip" to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to tear down more fence posts than she repaired. During her trip, she fired a series of verbal RPG volleys that nearly demolished what remained of good relations between the U.S. and its principal ally in the region.  Justin Raimondo comments on this situation ... more >>