Commentary There are times when we are thoughtful but it's easy to be forgetful as the attention shifts ...

There are many half-truths (or even “false truths” truths) at play in the Iran imbroglio. One of these ...

When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled African proverb And there is no doubt in today’s world who ...

One suspects on a purely impressionist basis that not 10 percent of United States citizens could identify the ...

Since 1979 the United States and Iran have been at loggerheads.  The seizure of the United States embassy ...

Ukraine was on the verge of slipping into the “too hard” box for foreign observers and crisis managers. ...

“Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover” from “A Shropshire Lad,” A.E. Housman We are all migrants. From ...

The ongoing Liberal Party self-evisceration has the secondary level fascination for a U.S. observer of watching a slow-motion ...

The annual Department of State Human Rights Report (HRR) is a somewhat erratic harbinger of spring.  Officially designated ...

Ya gotta know when to hold ‘em  Ya gotta know when to fold ‘em And when to walk ...

Keep your friends close and your enemies far away Canada thinks that it has a two-dimensional Huawei Corporation ...

Canada’s pure-as-the-driven-snow self-image regarding bribery and corruption is getting a “comedownance.”

Commentary The United States, South America, and the rest of the globe face acceleration of a “slow-motion train ...

For over five years, David T. Jones (retired U.S. diplomat) and David Kilgour (retired Canadian Member of Parliament)—aka ...

Commentary “Peace, order, and good government.” Sounds familiar to Canadians, eh? Indeed, such language is embedded in the ...

There is an old saw that the Opposition doesn’t defeat governments; governments defeat themselves. The Canadian Liberal Party ...

QUESTION: What are the prospects for “peace on earth” in 2019? ANSWER: Excellent—as soon as Satan learns to ...

Ukraine is back. Back to plague the United States, NATO, and Europe generally with the conundrum of how ...

No, Yemen isn’t Disney World. It is one of those “s…hole” countries like “Carjackistan” somewhere near the end ...

Seventy years ago, when I was a child, what then was designated “Armistice Day” for the memory of ...

“The United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced ...

President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 21 that the United States would withdraw from the INF treaty (full ...

There is a French phrase, "sauve les meubles" (save the furniture), that implies there has been a disaster ...

If Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been hearing a flapping sound recently, it would be from a ...

Hero: A person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character, or (traditional) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability. If you are a reader of history, “heroes” play prominent roles: —Leonidas ...

When a house cat starts a fight with a wild cat, the results are unlikely to favor the ...

“Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel” credited to former Indiana Congressman Charles Bruce Brownson ...