Speaking at the International Discussion Club, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the establishment of a new world order. The annual forum, held in Sochi, Russia, brings together experts from dozens of countries to debate the role of Russia in…

The United States has launched an air strike against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) group in northern Iraq. Two F/A-18s dropped 500 pound laser guided bombs on mobile artillery that was being used to shell Kurdish forces defending the…

Recently, Pope Francis, Shimon Perez and Mahmoud Abbas met at the Vatican to pray for peace and discuss peace in the Middle East. Here is the background of that meeting. Pope Francis may be the world’s best politician. During his…

There is a war being waged against the United States. It is a war of increment. Little by little the hegemony of United States is being challenged and gradually weakened by Russia and China, the two largest competitors of the…

If the United States and the Vatican see anything nearly eye to eye these days it would be the need to handle the gap between rich and poor. Both the White House and the Vatican believe that wealth must be…

The United States must embrace the Vatican, wrote Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See in a USA Today op ed. The “cordial but cooling relations” between the U.S. and the Vatican, he suggested, have not taken into…