Two Brazilian companies are making a bid for the American-held Chiquita banana corporation. If they succeed, Brazil will come that much closer to backing and enriching the system of global capitalism.

As oligarchs burrow further into the body politic across the former Warsaw Pact nations, fighting corrupt Russian influence across the EU needs to be a focus of Western strategy.

Ukraine 2014 isn’t the Balkans 1914. The true historical parallels of Putinism aren’t to be found in the the Great War, but from World War II and the Cold War. The war in Ukraine is about the fundamentals of the post-Cold War order in Europe.

According to an Israeli security official, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have committed to financing Gaza’s reconstruction, shutting out Qatar. If true, the Sunni states may have gained ground in their standoff with Iran, but they aren’t the only ones who’d profit from this arrangement.

As pot use continues to climb in Colorado this summer, previous reports on the demographic breakdown of buyers suggests that heavy users are likely behind the spike in sales.

As India aims to beef up its military might, the U.S. is seeking a closer defense relationship with it in order to increase pressure on China.

Americans are more skeptical of both big business and the federal government than ever. But this does not mean that some sort of libertarian turn is right around the corner.

A new study suggests that Keystone may have quadruple the effect on global emissions that the State Department reported it would have earlier this year. Unfortunately, these researchers fail to grasp a simple truth: that oil is coming out of the ground, Keystone or not.

The failure to anticipate Maliki’s coup is only the latest in a long line of US intelligence problems, which also include the failure to take ISIS’ true measure.

In the wake of a controversy over a Australian jihadi’s son posing with a severed head, it’s more clear than ever that Muslims communities must loudly and visibly condemn jihadism. If they don’t, tensions between Muslims and other religious groups could grow worse in the West.