Irresponsible fearmongering at the NSB As if the build-up to the presidential election next year were not chaotic enough, National Security ...

The NSB wasn't at fault over '101gate' Although security at Taipei 101 may have been put to shame by Austrian base jumper Felix ...

The many whys behind the ‘Kitty Hawk’ incident In “The method in Beijing’s madness,” an article I published today in the Taipei Times , I ex...

“A blow below the belt” The issuance on Monday of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a consensus document involving the 16 intelligence...

On condition of anonymity In an article published in the Taipei Times today, I look at the factors behind the growing presence of "ano...

Language and the Middle East 'peace' talks Readers of this Web site are by now aware that an issue I keep revisiting is that of the ...

‘Brothers so sorely tired’ The Red Cross and the Red Crescent estimate that 900,000 Bangladeshi families are in immediate need of humanitari...

Our moral nakedness: a response Adar Primor’s piece in the Nov. 6 edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz does a good job analyzing the un...

To war, one step at a time The timing of the Interpol general assembly voting on whether to put five Iranians and a Lebanese on “red” notice...

Foreign nationals threatened In a short opinion piece published today in the Taipei Times , I argue that China's insistence that health-...

The turn of the screw The Israeli government (readers will notice that I do not refer to Jerusalem to designate the state, as one would use ...

KMT shows its true allegiance If anyone had doubts about the true allegiance of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), those should have been ...

A parade not for all Last week on Oct. 10, the Republic of China (ROC) celebrated its National Day with the biggest military parade in 16 ye...

Whose parliament is it? Anyone who, against all reason, had managed to retain a strand of belief that the UN Security Council — and the UN i...

Ahmadinejad at Columbia Like him or hate him, there is no denying the fact that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a master at making ...

Slanted Time reporting on Taiwan's UN bid Kathleen Kingsbury’s piece “Taiwan’s War of Words with the U.S.” published in the Sept. 17 is...

Letter to the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations Readers who agree with the contents of the following letter, sent today to t...

For once, Tehran's response to the US may be right In an article published today in the Taipei Times , I turn to a US court decision las...

Bias and mythmaking in the news Though accusations of bias in the news, or of government censorship, since Washington launched its campaign ...

It won’t be spooks, but it’s coming As the presidential election in Taiwan approaches, the US will likely increase pressure on the Democrati...