The editors complain that while Iran has made public its uranium enrichment facility, Israel, with the connivance of the West, continues to conceal its nuclear program. Western double standards are obvious when it comes to nuclear power. The allegations ...

Alhomayed notes that Israelis took an extreme view of Iranian intentions, contrary to many Western countries. Iran also took an extremist position. President Ahmadinejad has tied nuclear development to Iran's survival. If it wants Iran to give up nuclear ...

The discovery of Iran's nuclear plant in Qom has isolated the Iranian regime further. Only China now opposed sanctions, writes al-Rashed. He hopes Iran will change its ways and end the nuclear nightmare. We know very well that this nightmare does not ...

Although beauty pageants are being downgraded in American culture, they are getting bigger in the rest of the world. Pageants are seeing a revival in countries like China, where they've become a symbol of development. Meanwhile in Europe, pageants are ...

The author contends that the US Air Force is at a point where having a human in the cockpit for combat missions flown in our current wars can be more of a hindrance than a help. Humans have physical and mental limits, but a drone can fly as long as its ...

The failure to maintain law and order and the exploitation of the public sector have given way to a new private market in Pakistan. Private security companies and providers have already established their presence and are catching up with the enormous ...

Methane release from the not-so-permafrost is the most dangerous amplifying feedback in the entire carbon cycle, writes Romm. He says the permamelt contains about twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere, much of which would be released as ...

Yesterday a man shot two police officers near the Pentagon. Apparently he had extreme right-wing beliefs and thought the government was a tyranny that had to be resisted. Neiwert says this act should be classified as terrorism since it fits the FBI's ...

Robb analyzes today's cyberwarfare. He says the growing wave is mostly economic. It's a transfer of wealth from those that have it to those that have the technical chops to take it. It's also being done by individuals and small groups, not so much nation-states. ...

Cox headlines his blog with a tragic picture of a wounded soldier with half of his head blown off being comforted by his mother. The author blames the media and its viewers for not taking the consequences of war seriously. And then the media refuses to ...

Iraq held its second nationwide parliamentary elections yesterday. Rozen says turn-out was reported to be high despite multiple election day explosions, mortars, and car bombs that killed at least 25 people throughout the country. One Iraqi official describes ...

President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that the 9/11 planner Khalid Mohammed be prosecuted in a military tribunal as opposed to the civilian court system. The author points out that the military tribunal system now in use was created ...

As France goes ahead with its ban on the wearing of the burqa, a new poll shows majority support for doing the same in the UK, Italy, Spain, and Germany, but strong opposition in the US. Joyner says the European sentiment is a reaction to the symbol ...

Noonan analyzes the US military's new approach to war as a reposturing of its old mission during the Cold War. It's less an aggressive fighting force than it is a guardian of individual liberties and inalienable rights. Against the Soviets, the US needed ...

Pierre Picquart, an expert on China from the University of Paris, said China should give priority to economic growth and create more wealth in order to improve the people's living standards. Premier Wen Jiabao talked with netizens about many "livelihood ...