Surely the bedrock responsibility of any state is to protect its citizens in the case of natural disaster. The bungling and incompetence shown in New Orleans was the lever for Bush’s free fall in the opinion polls. Far graver is the appalling regime in Burma, which has never shown any interest in doing so, and which held an absurd constitutional referendum to entrench itself in power and ban Aung San Suu Kyi from ever holding office even as many of its citizens were being devastated and killed by Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath. Read more »

Thanks to Hillary Clinton's divisive campaign the Democrats will continue to splinter along class and racial lines, with real opportunities for John McCain.

Many agree that a two-state solution based on Israel and Palestine as neighbours is the desired solution.

It is foolish to suggest that Josef Fritzl’s crime makes Austria more of a look-away society than other Western nations.

In this US election cycle, the shadows of three past presidents - Reagan, Clinton and Bush - loom large.