WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Russia is emerging in the Mideast as the alternate peacemaker -- while questioning the goals of those who consider themselves “exceptional.”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The “Big Cairo Fire” destroyed 30 banks and major companies, 13 hotels, 310 stores, 92 bars, 40 movie theaters, eight automobile showrooms. Not last week but 61 years ago. And the arsonist was the same -- the Muslim Brotherhood.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The Syrian civil war has seen the re-emergence of al-Qaida as a revolutionary movement. Terrorism and the Internet are part of its weapons system.
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Detroit, once America’s wealthiest city, declared bankruptcy. “Anyone with half a brain and a calculator could see this coming years ago,” says Michael Snyder, author of “The Beginning of the End.”
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- “The Road to War -- Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed” is must reading to understand how the U.S. blew $2 trillion on two wars in the 21st century.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Network forensics is explained in dramatic detail by Juan C. Zarate, a former sleuth in the campaign to find and disrupt al-Qaida’s terrorist funding.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Surrounded by crises in all its Arab neighbors, Israeli leaders are not about to facilitate the birth of a Palestinian state.
WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- Where next for the United States? Foreign policy begins at home, says the head of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. has lost the media war in Pakistan. Popular talk show hosts have already made up their minds that America is preparing a war against their country.
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- On his quick trip to Israel and Jordan, President Obama repaired broken diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey in exchange for Iranian sanctions.
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- A former national security adviser says the United States faces its biggest threat since the fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union: Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare.
WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- The dark side of the financial moon is the U.S. Treasury that says financial institutions file more than 15 million “suspicious activity reports” every year.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Sequestration, or confiscating something of value, gave pause to reassess a U.S. defense budget that is now 46 percent of the entire world’s defense spending.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- “Why the U.S.-Pakistani Alliance Isn’t Worth the Trouble,” says former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush (C) points to the crowd as he stands on the first tee box at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 3, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey
