A vision for the Israeli/Palestinian regions. The author has proclaimed to have researched the economic dimensions of the Middle East conflict since 1985 and says, “Who really believes that the moment Israel withdraws its military forces from the entire West Bank that peace and prosperity will be the result?”
Despite the fact that economic considerations are [...]

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A group of European readers of this column recently wrote to me, arguing that from an economic point of view, dictatorships have been outperforming democracies for many years and that if the trend continues, there will be very little incentive to replace autocrats with the rule of law. This is an old discussion that resurfaces [...]

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Britain’s latest brush with terrorism once again throws a spotlight on the island’s Muslim community and on the wider debate over the ability of growing Muslim communities in Europe and North America to coexist with liberal western societies.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin had dismissed talk of him going for a third term in office, but that might not the only way to stay in the Kremlin. There is now speculation that he could simply extend his current term by three years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to stand down in May of next [...]

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Israel is not prepared to handle threats from Iran [missiles and potentially nuclear weapons] because the government headed by Ehud Olmert is holding back form its armed forces the requisite funding. He maintained that international economic sanctions have failed to deflect Iran from its quest for the ultimate threat – a failure which has put [...]

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The United States may have the most generating power in the world, but as it deliberates how to make nuclear power a bigger part of the country’s energy future, Eastern Europe and Asia are racing ahead.
Of the 30 plants being built worldwide, seven are in Russia, six in India, four in China and two in [...]

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HELSINKI (Reuters) – General Electric Co. (GE.N: Quote, Profile , Research) sees opportunities in nuclear investments in Europe and China, but a nuclear boom in the United States would require some form of carbon emission pricing, GE’s Chief Executive said.
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told Finnish financial daily Kauppalehti GE believes it could win [...]

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FSM Contributing Editor David J. Jonsson continues his discussion of the perils of ignoring alliances composed of hostile groups that may accumulate the power and materièl with which to destroy Western civilization. Do we understand the goal of the Muslim culture as we should?
There are massive piles of wealth growing in the GCC. The report [...]

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In a similar vein, historian (20 books) Walter Laqueur’s “The Last Days of Europe” writes the “Epitaph for an Old Continent.” European churches are empty, mosques are jammed and the blind liberal belief in multiculturalism is a leaky lifeboat in the realpolitik ocean. Islamist extremists, spurning multicultural stratagems for integration, were allowed to proselytize their [...]

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