In recent months we have seen the departure of two East European presidents. One was elected in broadly free and fair elections, one rigged his and every other election, as evidence as long as your arm demonstrates...

I just realized that I am a conservative, a true conservative, each time there is a revolution somewhere in the world, I am critical of it and plainly against it. Seth Ferris is an American conservative...

Mission Accomplished, but this time the battle is only just beginning. The removal of the Yanukovych government in Ukraine and the running street battles in Kiev have provided a convenient distraction to the debacle in Syria and America’s continuing inability to get its actions...

The much-hyped Geneva 2 Conference on Syria, which concluded at the end of January, delivered absolutely nothing, as it was ultimately intended to. No agreement was reached on anything of substance, and holding the talks did nothing to stop...

Are we witnessing the outbreak of a new Cold War, in which the West is pitted against Russia and various other countries? Patrick J. Buchanan, a conservative American political commentator, author and syndicated columnist, almost hit the nail on the head...

Now some kind of mutual understanding has been achieved between the ruling military council and the Islamists in Egypt, with the help of the US, a new narrative of that country’s recent past is being written in the State and Islamist media.

In an attempt to "settle" the Syrian crisis Washington and Riyadh has put forward a negotiator - the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Ahmad Jarba. But it seems that today there's a few people who do remember...

Most Americans don’t look up unless the “Goodyear Blimp” is hovering overhead, storm clouds are gathering on the horizon or an actor says on the radio that the Martians have landed. Until the current conflicts in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen broke out, and the so-called...

Back in 2006 then-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the politics of energy was “warping” diplomacy around the world. The very next week she opened a function attended by President Theodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo...

Not since the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan in 1979 has there been so much recrimination and fanfare over the holding of the Olympics. Led, once again, by the United States, cries are being heard to boycott the Sochi Winter Games, whether over Russia’s policy towards the distribution...

So Syria, meaning the government of Bashar al-Assad, has “systematically tortured and executed about 11,000 detainees since the start of the uprising in 2011.” So says a new report, commissioned by Qatar, the US ally which supports the opposition. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the two of...

Syria is a bone of contention for many, a lost opportunity for others – and now all eyes are on the upcoming international conference to find a political solution to the Syrian conflict, which is to commence in Switzerland on 22 January. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is quoted...