US secures deal on Philippines bases to complete arc around China ( Read more... )

Koror governor meets with Palau community on Saipan
13 Jul 2016 By Junhan B. Todiño - junhan@mvariety.com - Variety News Staff

KOROR Gov. Yositaka “Yosi” Adachi told the Palau community on Saipan that he would be a good vice president of the island nation because of his extensive experience in the executive branch and in the private sector. ( Read more... )

The Deafness Before the Storm ( Read more... )

"There is something seductively tempting about stopping there and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit ( Read more... )

"[We] have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. [We] have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information....Our unfortunate troops...under hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the willfully wrong policy of ( Read more... )

This is chilling. And it says nothing to contradict the daily experiences of ginmar 's LJ. But it says much to contradict the Bush-Cheney administration's portrait of Iraq ( Read more... )

If anyone was wondering the REAL reason for the invasion of Iraq . . . see below ( Read more... )

So here is what I am reading -- (true) Conservative George Will, Independent / Liberal Richard Cohen & Moderate E.J. Dionne, if you require labels. Credit to vaquera & davehogg. Unexpectedly, you can almost look at these columns to achieve a consensus of sorts -- that things are being mishandled in a major way in Iraq ( Read more... )

The game: Where were you and what were you doing when the following events occurred? I may have some interesting answers ( Read more... )

I have to sincerely question my sense of judgment. I already teach 4 classes for 20 hours per week at the University, still teach one more class at the public university, and I have taken on 2 sets of students for English lessons and agreed to write a chapter of an international relations book on Corruption. In the next two weeks. Yes, I want to ( Read more... )