Russia retires the Kalashnikov, but the killing won’t stop

The Russian army’s decision to replace the famed Kalashnikov as its standard infantry assault weapon is so shocking that its…

A revolution in 1972 where Palestinians first lost their way

Despite what you read, this year’s Arab Spring is not the first Arab revolution of the modern era. There have…

The Libyans are lucky that Muammar Gaddafi did not hold out longer. If he had, there might not be much…

Lebanon survived 15 years of civil war. It endured military occupation by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (forced on it by…

I should have sent President Obama a present for his fiftieth birthday last week, but I didn’t. A lot of…

Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least…

The first email came on May 31 from London’s Pluto Press, saying that one of their authors was missing and…

They say no money was paid and no prisoners were exchanged. I’m not talking about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but about the…

When the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005, at least one million citizens massed…

Obama is pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. Or at least he says he is. He also said that American…