Her venom was that of a spurned lover.

Witness the vitriol and hysteria that accompanied the US Federal Reserve s policy of so called quantitative easing.

Tristram closes with this scathing comment The difference between your average Swiss and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the poster child of racist rants, has just gotten much narrower.

That snappy description of my country is also a very good way to describe the current and seemingly unending contretemps between the leaders of Iran and the US.

In the face of a number of crises and bitter and often unjust criticism, the Department strengthened its media monitoring and reinforced its media response capacity.

But forget Peter the Great Now Vova the Little or Lilli Putin, as Georgia s sharp tongued president, Mikheil Saakashvili, once dubbed Russia s president may have pulled off an even greater coup.

The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.

As thousands of protesters continued to chant anti Mubark slogans in Tahrir Square, Cairo, with military jets flying overhead, criticisms started pouring on over the lack of a definitive stance for the US administration with regards to Egypt.