I do recall speaking once with a wise American, probably the only one that I would like to call wise anyway, an ex CIA project manager that I had the pleasure of working with many years ago, who described to me his own country in the following terms. 'America is the only nation on earth, that has gone from infancy to senility, with no period of maturity'.   more »

The storming of an Iranian consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq by American forces has not only irked both the Iranian and the Iraqi government, with both governments claiming that it was sovereign territory, but it has crossed an Internationally agreed boundary.   more »

A Pacific-wide alert has been issued for the Australian international conman Peter Foster, who is under house arrest in Fiji, has not been seen for two days and may have fled several days earlier to the Pacific island of Vanuatu on a drug-trafficking boat.   more »