In a discussion in 1988 during the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty negotiations, Ronald Reagan famously said to Mikhail Gorbachev the Russian expression doveray, no proveray, meaning trust but verify. That phrase eventually led to the completion of the INF negotiations and the treaty was subsequently signed in Moscow (July, 1988) banning an entire class of weapons. The treaty endured for several decades but is no longer in effect as both the US and Russia have

A man is walking in the street on his way to work. He is minding his own business, not disturbing or bothering anyone. Unbeknownst to him he is being stalked. Twenty feet behind him is an armed man who has never met him and is determined to kill him. The stalker proceeds to shoot the victim in the back and flees to another state. Surveillance cameras have taped the entire cold blooded murder. Five days later, the suspected murderer is arrested in a fast food restaurant eatin

As the hudna (cease-fire) continues in the Iran-US-Israel war, one can legitimately ask what is the end game? What are the objectives of the various parties to this conflict? As far as we know, no face to face negotiations are occurring at this time. Is there anything the parties can possibly negotiate on and agree on? These questions are not easy to answer. What we do know is that various other nations object in varying degrees to this war: human rights, democracy and just

As the hudna (cease-fire) comes to an end, what can the world expect to happen next in the current war between the United States, Israel and Iran? The Islamic republic has been doing all it can to draw other nations into this war and has been attacking Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates among others, with ballistic missiles and drones, attackng military, commercial and civilian targets. Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to deprive Eur