Today, Crimeans “voted”. Given the barrage of media coverage of this event, I hardly feel it’s worthwhile to comment on it further: the “referendum” was illegal and will not be recognized by any country other than Russia; the result is a foregone conclusion. A more i...

The Malaysian Prime Minister has now come out and revealed that they believe that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has been subject to some variety of Hi-Jacking and been intentionally diverted. Radar tracking systems on-board the craft are assumed to have been intent...

Yesterday was officially “International Day Against Police Brutality”, according to an initiative that first began in 1997 by the secretive Montreal based “Collective Against Police Brutality” and a Swiss Anarchist Group named “Black Flags”. Every year on...

The strange disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 has the world baffled. Authorities now state that terrorism is the unlikely cause of its disappearance and so far a multi nation effort has had no success in locating its whereabouts. But a United States satellite imag...

The Russian invasion of Crimea has put the entire global security system at risk: states can no longer count on the validity of guarantees endorsed through international agreements (e.g. the Budapest Memorandum); the principle of inviolability of territorial borders ...

President Putin’s press conference seems to have taken some of the heat off Ukraine today. Although Russian troops continue to face off with Ukrainian military personnel in Crimea, tonight it seems unlikely that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will be extended to the eas...