The aim of all the BRICS is to begin to reshape the Western dominated international financial system The BRICS seek to operate in the strategic space vacated by Europe and the United States.
The math is simple: individual with an idea plus a champion equals innovation.
The visit of the Japanese Prime Minister to Australia is an important event.
The ISIS are bent on the destruction of Iraqi Christians, and the Kurds are coming to their aide. Indeed, the Kurds have demonstrated a level of tolerance in Iraq not evident by other ethnic groups within Iraq itself.
Richard Weitz looks at recent progress in the evolving US and allied missile defense capabilities.
Protecting Kurdistan and saving Christians could be a brilliant military move.
The crisis in the Veterans Adminsitration can not be solved unless one returns to the basics. VA should be serving severely wounded and service-connected veterans and the needs-based pensioners who have nowhere else to go.
With events moving so quickly and unpredictably on the ground, neither time, nor history, is on the US side this time around. One thing is certain: The US and the West desperately needs a strategy and it needs one quickly.
