By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- If Edward Snowden had surfaced first in Brussels rather than in Hong Kong, maybe everything would have been different. He could have applied for asylum at the European Parliament.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 22 (UPI) -- The United States doesn't enjoy the preponderance of assets needed to go everywhere and settle every dispute.
By JAVIER PALOMAREZ, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Let's talk about good news. It's called broadband and, as a June 2013 White House report makes clear, there's a lot to celebrate.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Mass., July 18 (UPI) -- Much like a drug addict, the U.S. economy is hooked on the Federal Reserve's easy money policies.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- A specter is haunting the United States. That specter is one of American decline. But this specter isn't merely exaggerated. It is poppycock.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 16 (UPI) -- Leadership in Iran and North Korea leave their countries in a science fiction-type nightmare.
By Alizah Salario
(WOMENSENEWS)-- Connie Larson is taking time off so her feet can heal, which means no pay and paying out of pocket. Beyond her own problems, she worries about the sales and commission quotas she is supposed to enforce. "It's a fear-based situation," she says.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The German export machine is slowing, with imports rising and massive trade imbalances that have been the prime cause of the euro crisis closing fast.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 15 (UPI) -- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has convinced financial markets easy money policies will continue as long as needed. That may be forever and those policies place U.S. prosperity and sovereignty at grave risk.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, July 12 (UPI) -- How easily the West allows itself to be repeatedly duped by the religious fascist rulers of Iran.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Wars, revolutions, assassinations, betrayals covered by Arnaud de Borchgrave in the Middle East since 1952
By Sharon Johnson
(WOMENSENEWS)-- Older women are losing Meals on Wheels, single mothers are losing Head Start and domestic-violence victims are going back to perpetrators out of desperation. Service providers say the cuts hit people who don't show up to lobby legislators.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Regional crises abound. Massive protests in Egypt that ended the flailing Morsi government to continued bloodshed from Afghanistan to Syria are representative of these crises.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 10 (UPI) -- In Egypt, the United States is once again confronted with a tough choice between backing the champions of the status quo ante -- a military-endorsed regime that resembles that of deposed President Hosni Mubarak -- or accepting an Islamic state.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 9 (UPI) -- The tragedy in Egypt is a warning to Americans -- imperious executive power is a threat to liberty everywhere.