The Office of Foreign Assets Control in the United States has taken explicit steps in the direction of sanctions and freezing assets of shipping companies that give in to pirate demands but the Contact Group must encourage other countries to do the same.

Few understand how the current administration's actions may affect the CIA as an institution at a time when it serves as the nation's eyes and ears and, sometimes, the sword and shield, during war against a shadowy, covert enemy.

With the threat of a veto hanging over its head, the National Defense Authorization bill heads to the House floor today for debate. Among the provisions are several dealing with the question of a nuclear weapons armed Iran, and what the United States should do to avert a crisis, prepare to handle the threat, or eliminate the threat altogether.

Our national security would be better served if the United States captured al-Asiri and kept him alive for questioning, so we can find out what he knows.

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Ben S. Bernanke has been nominated to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on February 1, 2006. Bernanke is widely expected to advocate that the Fed move away from a...

The South AfricanReserve Bank"s price stability objective should not be allowed to blind the Reserve Bank to the economic damage that can be wreaked by too volatile an exchange rate.

Numerous terrorist plots targeting the U.S., Western interests, and Pakistan have been planned in, launched from, or facilitated in North Waziristan.

One constant factor in the 14 contests with exit polls is that Mitt Romney has tended to run best among high-income and high-education voters. His leading opponents -- Newt Gingrich in South Carolina and Georgia, Ron Paul in Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia, and Rick Santorum everywhere else -- have run best among low-income and low-education voters.