Europe s Attack on Greek Democracy

It was like in one verbal swoop he had channeled my thoughts on life and medicine and Confucius.

Will Bush order an air and Special Forces attack on Iran?

The next war, terrorist attack, or failed peace initiative may lurk just around the corner.

In 2000, there were 79 shark attacks reported worldwide, 11 of them fatal.

Nonetheless, in an unexpected attack of hubris a couple of years ago, I decided I would try and do that.

The intensification and expansion of the security measures pose a direct attack on Palestinian male image and identity.

The Syrians might be tempted to launch an offensive against Israel with the objective of breaking the deadlock over the future of the Golan Heights.

Google is now crying foul over a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China.

Should the damage inflicted by a terrorist attack also be small, there would be no problem.

Today, one might ask the same question about the global economy s vulnerability to cyber attack.

In one particularly notorious case, 40 maliks (tribal leaders) holding a jirga (tribal assembly) were burned in an indiscriminate attack.

After the September 11 attack in Benghazi, frustrated Libyans poured into the streets shouting anti militia slogans.

The NSA claims that communications surveillance has prevented more than 50 terrorist attacks since 2001.

But the claim that only deeper EU integration can save the European social model from the onslaught of emerging markets is not true.

In December 1776, Pluggy was killed in an Attack on McClellan's Station, which was located on the site of present Georgetown, Kentucky.

A majority of Israelis would probably back a preventive attack on Iran and satisfy themselves with the preservation of the status quo in relations with the Palestinians.

One of the best female writers in Yemen, Samia AL agbhari is facing a media propaganda attack and threatened for her brave stance.

Indeed, recall the terrorism in Beslan in September 2004, in which a single attack on a school killed over 330 people.

The blanket suspicion that was widely seen as falling on all Muslims after every terrorist attack was also strongly resented.

At least 375 strikes on medical facilities have been documented since the start of the Syrian Revolution, according to Physicians for Human Rights.

In 2005 and 2006 this number decreased to 61 and 62 respectively, while the number of fatalities dropped to only four per year.

Similarly, an American citizen carried out the worst terrorist attack in the United States before September 11, 2001.

Indeed, there were nearly 60 suicide attacks in Pakistan in 2009, compared to only two in 2002.

America, by contrast, has witnessed a massive assault on those rights, including that of habeas corpus the right to challenge one s detention before an independent judge.

Already, even without a major speculative attack, the exchange rate and interest rate arbitrage facilitated by renminbi internationalization have imposed significant losses on China.

In the early 1980 s, after a particularly bloody terrorist attack on French and American forces in Lebanon, France s tolerance for military casualties seemed much higher than that of the United States.

Whether it is an attack in New York, Madrid, Bali, Belsan, London, Cairo or Madi in Nepal, its targets have been innocent civilians.

The extremists have been able to block peace because any attack from one side has systematically provoked a violent counterattack from the other.

Forces built to defend the European heartland from a Soviet attack are unsuitable for the kinds of operations that define today s post Cold War environment.

Some scenarios, including an electronic Pearl Harbor, sound alarmist, but they illustrate the diffusion of power from central governments to individuals.

But the damage inflicted by an attack might be tremendous, because ports are thought to be one of the few ways terrorists might smuggle nuclear weapons into the US.

At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel s parliament) that the possibility of a pre emptive attack on Iran s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.

Meanwhile, President George W. Bush has said that if another September 11 style attack is being planned, it probably is being plotted in Pakistan and not Afghanistan.

Most people accept the need for security services to respond to terror, particularly in the aftermath of an attack. Achieving lasting change, however, requires addressing not just the consequences of extremism but also its root causes.

Russia continues to place hurdles before American proposals for sanctions on Iran, has signed with it lavish energy contracts, and is about to sell it advanced aerial systems aimed at thwarting a possible Israeli or American attack.

Today, Iraq is both a witness to and a victim of the cruel, vicious and merciless attacks of international terrorists, who began their global campaign on 11 September 2001.

As a byproduct of globalization, crises that once burned locally and then quickly flamed out now risk sparking international conflagrations. A pandemic, flood, or cyber attack in the City of London or Wall Street could send the entire world into a financial tailspin.

Sometimes this involves a terrorist attack by radical Palestinians against Israeli civilians, in the hope of provoking an exaggerated violent response from Israel that breaks the process of trust building among moderates on both sides.

An American war against Iran is plausible only as a response to a blatant and immediate Iranian challenge to vital US interests, such as a major terrorist attack, an invasion of an ally in the Gulf, or disruption of the free flow of Middle East oil to the West.

Without a doubt, Israel will be a major obstacle to reaching an agreement. At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel s parliament) that the possibility of a pre emptive attack on Iran s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.

The next war, terrorist attack, or failed peace initiative may lurk just around the corner. Compared to the politics of this region, a rollercoaster ride is downright calming.

Whereas Israel notoriously exacts grim retribution for every attack on its soil, India has endured with numbing stoicism an endless series of bomb blasts, including at least six major assaults in different locations in 2008 alone.