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Satellites Collide: First Traffic Accident in Space

Like most members of the Baby Boomer generation who grew up watching movies about space exploration and following our nation's quest to put...

February 12, 2009

Foreign Policy Insider Holbrooke Visits Pakistan

February 10, 2009

President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in Pakistan on February 9, met the next day with...

Biden: Global Cop Through “Alliances”

Thomas R. Eddlem February 9, 2009

Vice President Joseph Biden told attendees of the 45th annual Munich Security Conference that President Obama plans to have the United States continue...

Russia’s Puzzling Role in Afghan Theater

February 6, 2009

On February 5, we reported about the fate of the U.S. air base at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, which has played a key role in...

Fate of U.S. Base in Kyrgyzstan Uncertain

February 5, 2009

Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on February 3 that his government had decided to shut down the U.S. air base at Manas. Manas...

First Iranian-produced Satellite Launched

February 4, 2009

Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, announced on February 3 that on the previous day the Islamic nation had launched its first domestically produced...

Gaza Cease-fire Continues to Break

February 2, 2009

For the second time in two days, the cease-fire between the Hamas Palestinian terrorist faction that controls Gaza and neighboring Israel was broken...

Globalization Talk at Davos

Thomas R. Eddlem January 31, 2009

German Prime Minister Angela Merkel proposed a new “global financial architecture” at the Davos World Economic Forum on January 30. But press coverage...

Raul Castro’s Visit to Russia

January 30, 2009

Cuban President Raul Castro began an eight-day visit in Russia on January 29, when he met informally with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at...

Mitchell Discusses Gaza in Israel, West bank

January 29, 2009

George J. Mitchell, the Obama administration's special Middle East envoy, traveled to Israel from Cairo on January 28 for a meeting with Israel's...

The Expanding War in Afghanistan

January 28, 2009

In an announcement made to reporters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on January 20, General David Petraeus, the U.S. Central Command chief,...

A Sinking Island

Alex Newman January 28, 2009

Iceland’s government has become the first state casualty to collapse from the economic crisis currently engulfing the globe. A new election is scheduled...

Another Busy Week in the Middle East

January 27, 2009

The world's attention remained focused on the Middle East during the week of January 25, as President Barack Obama met with his special...

British Pound, Banks Sinking

Alex Newman January 26, 2009

As the British pound continues downward relative to foreign currencies and the nation’s banks continue sucking up taxpayer money, nationalization seems to be...