NEED TO KNOW ‘The Return of Correct Thinking’ It’s a heady time for China’s thought leaders. As WikiLeaks – via Russian hackers, […]

NEED TO KNOW Filipino Frenemy First a colony of the United States and then one of America’s most reliable allies in Asia, […]

NEED TO KNOW Rinse and Repeat Turkish leaders on Wednesday extended a state of emergency declared after an attempted coup that rocked […]

NEED TO KNOW A Shaky, Remote Front A sparsely populated country covering a vast stretch of the Sahara Desert, Mauritania doesn’t receive […]

NEED TO KNOW Mosul, and Iraq, in the Balance It has begun. More than two years after Islamic State militants sent the […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Heartbreak and Poodles The go-go bars and sex trade in the Soi Cowboy red-light district of Bangkok were […]

NEED TO KNOW Known Unknowns To explain the ongoing confusion over the United Kingdom’s plans to exit the European Union – a.k.a. […]

NEED TO KNOW The Running of Maduro To say that 2016 has been a rocky year for Venezuela would be an understatement. […]

NEED TO KNOW Cops for Hire Mexico is taking lawlessness to whole new levels. Gangs and drug money suffuse the Mexican police, […]

NEED TO KNOW Disappointment in Plain Sight Morocco’s King Mohammed VI asked Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to form a new government on […]

NEED TO KNOW A Shot in the Arm When US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize in 2009 – nine months […]

NEED TO KNOW The New Solidarity Poland’s fight for freedom may have started with a labor movement. But like many other countries […]

NEED TO KNOW Not Over It Yet Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, recently delivered a pleasant message to the people of […]

NEED TO KNOW Maintaining Distances The vote in Colombia to reject a long-negotiated peace deal was one of a handful of recent […]

NEED TO KNOW Back to Square One International donors meeting in Belgium starting Tuesday were preparing to open their checkbooks for the […]

NEED TO KNOW A Fumbled Hexit Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered an embarrassment in his duel with Brussels. In a […]

NEED TO KNOW India’s Forever War Since the bloody Partition of India in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought four full-fledged wars […]

NEED TO KNOW A Duplicitous Doppelgänger Europe is often seen as a stalwart of democratic principles, far-reaching liberal values and human rights. […]

NEED TO KNOW A Tinderbox Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo need to work faster. The sprawling, mineral-rich Central African […]

NEED TO KNOW China’s Problem to Solve At the first head-to-head presidential debate on Monday night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said […]

NEED TO KNOW Learning Peace Week-long celebrations concluded Friday in the Yari Plains of the southern Colombian savannah as fighters from the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Bouncing Bozo Remember when Oliver North was on TV every day to discuss US chicanery in Nicaragua? No? […]

NEED TO KNOW Resentment and Tulips At first, Ethiopians protested for minority rights. Now it’s tulips. Protests in the country started in […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Balconies and Airstrikes Early on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry was insisting that the ceasefire in […]