Just days after NATO made the decision at the summit in Chicago to proceed, over Russian objections, with placement of its ABM system in Europe, Russia has staged the first successful test-launch of a new intercontinental missile designed to penetrate the NATO defense system.

The flight-forward mentality, that the principle of the sovereign nation state is a thing of a past, was made abundantly clear at a forum at Brookings Institute, "Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities." The praise for President Obama's Atrocity Prevention Board (APB) and Tony Blair's anti-nation-state doctrine — the responsibility to protect R2P — was on everyone's lips in private and public dis

A satire published on TheModerateVoice.com, by columnist Michael Silverstein, tells the story of how "Mr. B." [Blankfein] enounters the Goldman Sachs washroom attendant, Selig Cartwright, who remarks that Mr. B. is "white as a sheet," and asks why. "They did it again, Selig," Mr. B. replies. "They spray painted those nine horrible words on our front entrance.

In the last 24 hours, violence in Lebanon has been escalating hourly into a full-scale emergency.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, announced his having reached an agreement with Iran on inspection of its nuclear energy program. The announcement was made upon his return to Vienna after an official trip to Tehran. He said that he hoped the agreement would "be signed quite soon."

On May 30, the London-based Henry Jackson Society is sponsoring a forum on "Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: What's Next?" featuring Michael Ignatieff, former leader of Liberal Party of Canada. Their description of the event, to be held at Westminster, expresses quite well their hatred for the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states:

During a bilateral meeting May 18 with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made incisive remarks about the insanity of the current, collapsing global financial system, which is based on the idea that money is worth something. Her words for sure didn't escape the attention of the City of London.

British Monarchy hatchetman Tony Blair, the outspoken champion of eliminating national sovereignty and the Westphalian System, and who, according to his own cabinet officials, lied to force through the Iraq War, is running Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.

Northern Lebanon, especially Tripoli, has become not only the logistics center for the Salafi terrorist groups fighting the Syrian government, but also part of the sectarian war in Southwest Asia. Northern Lebanon was set on fire last Sunday, May 20, when a Sunni cleric was shot dead by soldiers at a checkpoint of the Lebanese army.

In response to a briefing on Glass-Steagall today, reform Greek SYRIZA Party leader Alexis Tsipras responded by saying it "sounds like a good idea." According to Bueso TV's on-the-spot camera crew, led by Stefan Tolksdof, it was the most intelligent question at a press conference held by Tsipras in Berlin following his meetings with leaders of the German Die Linke party.