Nova Scotia Scott

Carla Del Ponte is one fearless prosecutor. Her investigations of Sicilian mafia, Slobodan Milosevic, and Rwandan genocide earned her powerful enemies and death threats. Her memoir Madame Prosecutor is proving extremely controversial—so much so that she has been forbidden to talk about it. She alleges that the United Nations and NATO failed adequately to investigate [...]

Turkey has once again been found guilty of violating property rights of ethnic Greek citizens.  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey €105,000 for refusing to allow a Greek Orthodox foundation to register its land.  Turkish authorities had ordered the land seized. Judges said Turkey had breached the European Convention on Human [...]

One reason why the stock market is nose-diving, says economist and foreign policy expert Phil Levy, is that investors are realising that Obamanomics could bankrupt the United States. The idea of a U.S. government default has recently gone from “unthinkable” to close to 10 percent over the next five years. […] [T]he United States has [...]

Prostitution is still commonly viewed as a “victimless crime” even though prostitutes are often enslaved. Kristen Powers writes at the New York Post: Hollywood glamorizes the “happy hooker” and the media deceive by portraying the exception (the woman who is enjoying the “high life” as a prostitute) as the rule. The reality is much more [...]

Why are Republican responses to President Obama’s economic plan so anemic? Because Republicans are unwilling to address the root cause of the financial crisis, says Asia Times columnist Spengler. Writing at First Things blog, he cites a recent economic analysis arguing that a significant portion of the US housing market will never recover because baby-boomer [...]