Outside the Beltway

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

European leaders continue to kick the can down the road on a crisis that could bring down the global economy.

Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.

Barack Obama wrote two bestselling memoirs before becoming president. Both of them are hot items at Foggy Bottom.

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

Our good friend Hamid Karzai, contemplating a war between the United States and our good allies Pakistan, says that he would of course fight with Pakistan.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

President Obama is set to announce that all American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

The post-Gaddafi era has been made permanent. What comes next?

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.

In Scotland, posting stupid things on Facebook is a “hate crime” punishable by serious jail time.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

This is looking less crazy, less sudden, and less an exercise in presidential whimsy than it seemed.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

One thing is clear: anyone who tries to make cheap political hay over the LRA is a fool.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

After a lengthy wait, free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea have been approved by Congress.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.

The British government has worked out a deal to block pornographic websites unless households specifically request them.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

Are the worries about China overtaking the United States realistic?

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”