The Disaffected Lib

This week's murder of three international aid workers by the Taliban outside Kabul may make some wonder why the insurgents would resort ...

No amount of hypocrisy will stop Bush's main White House shill, Condoleeza Rice from throwing out one ridiculous statement after another...

From the Balkans to the Caucusus there are many scores just waiting to be settled. We saw that when Yugoslavia fell apart leading to massacr...

The crisis over South Ossetia is no laughing matter. It's believed that thousands have died in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia at th...

Well, at least they tried. Shell Oil (that's Royal Dutch Shell PLC to you) tried to put a heavy coat of lipstick on its Tar Sands pig in...

The essence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was mutual-defence. We were all pledged to come to the aid of each other in the even...

If John McCain becomes the next US president, he promises to show Russia some tough love. McCain has long championed booting Russia out of t...

Who will negotiate with Russian strongman Vlad Putin? It won't be Georgia's Saakashvili. He's finished. It will probably take so...

Western nations are keen to find some tangible role in unwinding the conflict between Russia and Georgia. One right-winger writing in The Ti...

When it comes to foreign policy, the Bush/Cheney regime has been an unmitigated disaster, the perfect storm of indifference, over-confidence...

We're getting accustomed to brief intervals where the Arctic Ocean is open for navigation, but the North Pole itself? Until recently t...

Poor Mikheil Saakashvili. The Georgian president truly opened a can of worms when he launched a military attack on South Ossetia earlier thi...

The 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, says Russia's days as peacekeeper in South Ossetia are over....

Look at George Bush and South Ossetia. See any connection? Too bad because it's there. One of the lasting scars we'll all have to de...

Georgian strongman president Mikhail Saakashvili is pleading for American intervention against the Russian incursion into South Ossetia. Saa...

This one sounds hard to believe. McClatchy news service reports that the Iraqi and American governments are nearing completion of a statu...

The Guardian reports that Russian forces have invaded Georgia in support of the breakaway Ossetia rebels. The situation is confused but Geo...

Seven years into the faltering war in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has a new idea - more of the same. Seven years. Washing...

It's true. An awful lot of the good ones, the best ones are gone. In fairness so are a lot of the bad ones although there always seem to...