Outside the Beltway

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?

The diplomatic ramifications of the latest Wikileaks leaks are just starting to emerge and may place some countries in very embarrassing positions.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

McCain brings up “regime change” in re: the DKRP and China apparently isn’t doing enough.

There is at least one simple reason why dealing with the North is so difficult.

Tensions are on the rise again on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea shelled a South Korean island.

Israelis and Palestinians don’t agree on much these days, but they do agree that Barack Obama hasn’t helped the peace process at all since coming to office.

North Korea has unveiled to the world a new nuclear processing facility that puts back on the table the question of just what we should, or can, do about the fact that a rogue state possesses nuclear weapons and wants to build more.

Would troops to Mexico help in the drug war?

The long awaited new strategic concept, launching what has been termed “NATO 3.0,” has been published under the banner “Active Engagement, Modern Defense.”

Afghans in two crucial southern provinces are almost completely unaware of the September 11 attacks on the United States and don’t know they precipitated the foreign intervention now in its 10th year, a new report showed on Friday.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ends with the Defendant being acquitted on all but one charge, and shows us why the entire process is little more than a show trial.

Terrorism risk assessment: Russia at “Extreme Risk”, Greece at “High Risk”, U. S. at “Medium Risk”, Canada and Germany at “Low Risk”.

Hamid Karazi says that the United States needs to reduce it’s military presence in his country. Perhaps we should listen to him.