With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will...
Beyond the sound and fury of the Iran nuclear talks lies a big follow-up question: What, if anything, does President Obama propose to do during his final stretch in office about the growing nucle...
In late November 2014, cyber-warfare burst into the American public consciousness when Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyber-attack. Hackers leaked Sony’s corporate...
North Korea has denied any involvement in the massive hacking attack last month on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and absent evidence c...
Negotiations with Iran are set to conclude on Nov. 24th. What are the odds they will end with Iran’s rulers agreeing to verifiably dismantle their illicit nuclear weapons program...
With the Iran nuclear talks nearing a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal, U.S. chief negotiator Wendy Sherman is under pressure to bring almost a year of bargaining to fruition. While U.S. ...
The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...
It’s been a landmark year for North Korea’s third-generation tyrant, Kim Jong Un, who inherited power two years ago with the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. Young Kim kicked off 201...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...
Kick out North Korean diplos
Since conducting a third nuclear test in February, North Korea has been escalating its rhetoric and actions ever closer to the brink. Suddenly, the possibility of a second Korean war appears real...
The Far East is as inscrutable as the Middle East.
Kim Jong Un is teaching Khamenei that the West can be beaten — repeatedly.
Both Iran and North Korea are subject to a growing stack of sanctions with which the United Nations, since 2006, has been...
As if there isn’t enough trouble in the world, the executive chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, has taken it into his head to visit North Korea. Schmidt is touring the world’s lea...
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
Even before it hit theaters, Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" - a gross-out parody of autocrats and the Western leftists who romanticize them - was met with cries that it's...
In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...
To release news of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea’s government stuck a woman newsreader in front of a TV camera,...
The AFP reports that North Korea’s government has warned South Korea it will retaliate with “unexpected consequences,” should the South display Christmas lights near the DMZ tha...