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Recent samples from the Internet where factoids, misinformation and disinformation move at the speed of light among 1.8 billion people 26 percent of the world population now online: Saudi Arabia has made a secret deal with Israel for overflight rights for fighter...
The Endless Game cartoon in the Financial Times showed President Barack Obama and a Taliban insurgent batting back and forth a coffin-shaped projectile over the smoking ruin of a building. Another in the International Herald Tribune has U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal...
Geopolitical tectonic plates began grinding menacingly five years ago when Turkey embarked on negotiations for membership in the European Union but it didn't take long for Ankara to conclude that EU was play acting. There was little appetite for adding 70 million Turkish...
He speaks nine languages, taught himself Icelandic in a week and invented his own language he calls Manti. The 31-year-old autistic savant does complex celestial computations in seconds, sees hundreds of numbers on a blackboard once and can recite them in the correct...
North Korea can target, attack, and sink a South Korean warship, and kill 46 of the South Korean crew but South Korea cannot retaliate without triggering a barrage of shells from North Korea's 11,000 artillery tubes that can lay waste Seoul, a capital city of 11 million....
The Pakistani army showed no hesitation about pursuing and killing Taliban insurgents everywhere except in North Waziristan, one of the seven tribal areas where different terrorist groups have long enjoyed a privileged sanctuary. When Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq...
A gaffe in Washington is when someone inadvertently blurts out the truth. There is a reluctance in the nation's capital, bordering on paralysis, to be politically incorrect. After six decades as a journalist, I have no hesitation in casting political correctness aside if...
Even the world's most savvy stock-market giants (e.g., Warren E. Buffett) have warned over the past decade that derivatives are the fiscal equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) potentially lethal. And the consequences of such an explosion would make the...
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