http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518604576013192211666586.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By JOSé MARIA AZNAR Spain faces a critical economic situation. Along with Portugal, it is now at the center of Europe’s financial turmoil. Investors are assigning higher default risks to the Spanish government’s debt than at any point since Spain entered the euro zone. In the social sphere, the situation is distressing. The unemployment […]
The Plame Affair, Hollywood Style An antiwar State Department official leaked the spy’s name. You won’t find that in the plot of ‘Fair Game.’ By JUDITH MILLER I went to jail in the summer of 2005 to protect the identity of a confidential source who spoke to me about Valerie Plame, the former CIA spy […]
By RONEN BERGMAN http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704457604576011643624083766.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion “The bottom line is this: Having a common foe—or even more than one—is not enough to turn long-term enemies into friends. History teaches us that it is impossible to run an effective campaign against rogue states without a wall-to-wall coalition of responsible partners who are aware of their role in preserving […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009322838245628.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop RYAN IS THE REAL STAR IN THE GOP GALAXY….NOT PALIN…..RSK By SARAH PALIN The publication of the findings of the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was indeed, as the report was titled, “A Moment of Truth.” The report shows we’re much closer to the budgetary breaking point than previously assumed. The […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704679204575646730061039638.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us By JONATHAN WEISMAN And LAURA MECKLER President Barack Obama on Tuesday gained significant Republican support for his top foreign-policy priority, a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia that in recent days had appeared all but dead for the year in the Senate. Separately, in their long-awaited first meeting since the election, the president and Republican leaders […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704648604575620440116413922.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion By GARRY KASPAROV Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Yukos oil company and once Russia’s richest man, is in the eighth year of a jail sentence. His crime? Wanting to forge partnerships with Western firms to modernize the industry. The Putin regime wanted to keep natural resources under strict control. When Mr. Khodorkovsky […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575644760960672700.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop By FOUAD AJAMI The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is no Daniel Ellsberg. Say what you will about the man who put out the secret history of the Vietnam War, he had skin in the game. He had been a hawk and had grown disillusioned with the war before leaking in 1971 the classified […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572404575635053157718986.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_lifeStyle By JUDITH MILLER And DAVID SAMUELS The November special issue of Inspire, a slick new English-language Web magazine produced by Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, aims to do more than report the news. It wants to make news, by inspiring young American Muslims to kill their neighbors. View Full Image Associated PressAnwar Al-Awlaki […]
By STEPHEN MILLER Shortly after German troops invaded Belgium in 1940, Gaston Vandermeerssche, a Belgian university student, bicycled 800 miles to the south of France and became a spy. View Full Image Vandermeerssche’s familyGaston Vandermeerssche at the electron microscope in Ghent, Belgium. Mr. Vandermeerssche, who died Nov. 1 at age 89 in Milwaukee, joined the […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592783814697048.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Remembering JFK in an Age of Terror He offered no apology for our strength, declaring we have both the ‘will and weapons’ to defend freedom. By WARREN KOZAK For many Americans over the age of 55, Nov. 22 rarely passes without a wistful sense of sadness and the thought: What if? But today, 47 […]
