News Bolivia is the latest of the Latin American countries that has declared the so-called "Israel" to be a "terrorist state" and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Jewish entity's military offense in Gaza which has already killed more than 1,300 and left over 7,000 wounded. Canceling the 1972 agreement which allowed "Israelis" to travel freely to Bolivia "means, in other words, we…

"We view the current period as a turning point, just like 1918 and 1945 ..."--- Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe With Iraq's rapid descent into chaos and Maliki's inability to retake territory lost to both ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, there is growing posturing amongst Kurdish leaders and their supporters to declare independence. During an interview with CNN's Christine Amanpour, the president of the northern Iraqi Kurdish Administrated Region, Massoud…

Earlier this month, the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced a series of measures aimed at stimulating euro zone's beleaguered economy. The measures include: lowering the bench mark interest rate from 0.25% to 0.15%, as well as capping long-term loans (till 2018) to banks at 7%. The ECB also considered quantitative easing but stopped short of its re-introduction. None of these measures are new and all have been tried before in…

It was a crime that horrified the world. On May 27th, in the Pakistani city of Lahore, 25-year-old Farzana Parveen was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight with batons and bricks by her father, brothers and other family members, allegedly for marrying a man against their wishes. She was 3 months pregnant and on her way to contest an abduction case her family had filed against her husband. The father…