Top scientists, in their most authoritative report yet, have sounded the alarm about certain unstoppable ramifications of climate gone wild, such as rising seas with potentially catastrophic consequences.
That stern warning from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coincides with the final weeks of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, when those who live in [...]

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, backed by military muscle, could ignite a wildfire of discontent and instability that sends him scurrying from power, some critics contend. Others cheer the weekend’s strong-arm move as overdue and decisive, in fact, the proper prescription for an epidemic of Islamic extremism. Of [...]

Will Turkey invade Iraq?
I hope not, although that question incessantly hovers over a deteriorating situation along the border between the two countries. In recent days, clashes involving Turkish troops and a Kurdish extremist group known as the PKK have killed dozens of Turks and militants. Several Turkish soldiers have wound up as hostages.
As bad as [...]

Is global terrorism about to worsen?
Many people appear to believe so, in part because of terrorism financier Osama bin Laden’s grab for publicity of late with menacing, back-to-back videotapes.
Unfortunately, their fears are well-founded. The moment is indeed ripe for a potential expansion of terrorist murder and mayhem.

Around the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda officials typically cannot resist invading the consciousness of decent people with reminders of their past misdeeds, along with the fact that they still lurk menacingly in the shadows. This year, though, for the first time in a long while, terrorism financier Osama bin Laden himself apparently has [...]

Natural acts of mass destruction – from Hurricane Dean’s rampage across the Caribbean to the surprisingly powerful earthquake that struck Peru’s southern coast last week – clearly have taken their places as inevitabilities of our time.
Although some would argue that the world has always experienced bouts of extreme weather and other devastating phenomena, the frequency [...]