Category: Blogs

Ten Years After 9/11 – What Have We Learned?

By Kurt Volker

After a decade defined by the terrorist attacks on the United States, and the reactions and events that followed, one thing is clear:  the global advance of core values –  freedom, democracy, economic opportunity, human rights and the rule of law – remains the best hope for the future of all people.

Ukraine discusses cooperation with NATO’s missile defense system

By Interfax-Ukraine

An EU military HQ would undermine NATO

By Geoffrey Van Orden, the Telegraph

France: NATO could give Russia missile defence guarantees

By DPA

From DPA:  Brussels and NATO could lay to rest Kremlin fears about a planned European missile defence system by giving guarantees it was not aimed at Russia, a senior French government official said Wednesday. ‘I hope … we can give Russia the guarantees,’ said French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. ‘It is not directed against Russia, […]

NATO suspends transfers to some Afghan prisons

By Quentin Sommerville, the BBC

From Quentin Sommerville, the BBC:  The Nato-led mission in Afghanistan has suspended the transfer of detainees to several Afghan jails, following torture allegations, the BBC has learned. The accusations come in an as-yet unpublished UN report, which describes how prisoners were beaten and in some cases given electric shocks. The jails are run by the […]

American Dream or Americans Dreaming?

By Harlan Ullman

Sometimes, delusion, self-deception and outright denial can dominate the public’s psyche. As the U.S. economy stutters, unemployment refuses to budge and the 10th anniversary of September 11th looms, many Americans question or challenge the notion of the American Dream. For too many, that vision is, today, elusive or unobtainable. In compensation perhaps, America’s past successes […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on September 6

By NATO

Iran warns over NATO’s anti-missile radar in Turkey

By Reuters