[OPINION] Middle East Explodes Again with Hamas Terrorism

KENOSHA --The massive, deadly Hamas attacks on Israel are rightly condemned by the United States and many nations in the world, though unfortunately not all. Beyond the shocking s

October 18, 2023

[OPINION] House Speaker McCarthy's Fall Underscores Intense Partisanship

KENOSHA -- Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) fall as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has been especially sudden and dramatic but is only the latest example of intense, in

October 11, 2023

[OPINION] American politics: A house divided, leadership in flux

KARACHI -- In the wake of the recent impasse, the tumultuous spectacle of the dramatic ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the American political landscape appears to be fast descending into an abyss. This latest upheaval, M

October 10, 2023

[OPINION] Vietnam is a Battleground – for Commerce and Investment

KENOSHA -- Last month after the G20 (Group of 20) meeting in India, President Joe Biden stopped in Hanoi to sign a historic agreement making the United States a top-level strategic

October 4, 2023

[OPINION] "The Complex French Connection"

KENOSHA -- On September 21, in a magnificent military ceremony, General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of the Defense Staff of France, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in W

September 27, 2023

[OPINION] ​Ukraine and the growing weariness in the Western support

KARACHI -- Ukrainian President Zelensky's recent visit to the United States, the United Nations, and Canada yielded positive results, as he successfully secured crucial military and financial support for Ukraine. Yet, amid thi

September 25, 2023

[OPINION] The G20 Gathers Again

KENOSHA -- The Group of Twenty (G20), a forum of nineteen industrialized nations plus the European Union, has met this month at the Bahrat Mandapam conference center in New Delhi

September 20, 2023

[OPINION] September 11, 2001

KENOSHA -- The anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in the skies o

September 13, 2023

[COLUMN] Can North Korea give us a reason to live?

SEOUL -- At dinner once with two journalists and two diplomats, I had a bet on when Korea might re-unify. That was back in 1990. Before that time, reunification seemed like a fantasy. The energy in South Korea did not go into thinking about unification, let alone preparing for, but rather into criticizing communism. But when the Berlin Wall fell, Germany reunited, and th

September 12, 2023

[OPINION] The G20 summit finds a mixed note

Karachi -- In the realm of cold, hard facts, the G20 summit, while not without its merits such as the inclusion of the African Union (AU), has, regrettably, left much to be desired. This gathering, when assessed in the context o

September 12, 2023