Outside the Beltway

The last thing that Haiti needed was for a former dictator to return, but that’s exactly what has happened.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

America’s foremost tax foe has weighed in on the Afghanistan War debate.

What happens if Southern Sudan’s independence referendum succeeds?

Moqtada al-Sadr is back in Iraq, and it’s a good thing we’re on our way out.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Diplomacy means having to be nice.

A capsule look at the world situation as 2010 draws to a close.

Now that the US has ratified New Start, it’s Russia’s turn.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

Is the West’s string of luck about to end?

If the Soviets had put Jews into gas chambers, it would have been a pity.

Joe Ratzinger, the future pope, lobbied hard against Turkey’s membership in the EU.

Americans who think our politics couldn’t get more polarized need only look across the Pond, where our European cousins have been routinely dealing with rioting in the streets over measures to rein in unsustainable social programs.

WikiLeaks’ reveals that DynCorp, a government contractor, provided drugs and child sex slaves to Afghan police–and the State Department helped cover it up.

Julian Assange is a loathsome human being. Is he also a rapist? Under Swedish law, maybe.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant.

The latest Wikileaks leak is a list of foreign infrastructure sites deemed vital to U. S. security.

Let’s keep our eye on the ball, people.

A top Saudi cleric says nothing in the Koran forbids women from driving cars.

Mike Bloomberg says we’re electing people to Congress who “can’t read” and “don’t have passports.”

The latest wrong of documents from Wikileaks show that American diplomats are as worried about Pakistan as the rest of us, and not quite sure how to deal with the situation.

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

A crippling, and technologically advanced, computer virus and attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists lead to only one conclusion; someone is doing everything they can short of military action to make sure Iran doesn’t develop nuclear weapons.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Another FBI sting operation results in the arrest of a “terrorist,” or did it create a crime where none existed before?