WORLD: MATIAS E. RUIZ
Disecting Volodya Putin

'This is your president, the one responsible for everything in this country. He is not afraid of anything. He flies...

UNITED STATES: EMILY GOFF & STEVEN BUCCI
Defense Sequestration: Spending Cuts Needed, but Get the Policies Right

Tonight’s presidential debate is a good opportunity for President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to tell the nation what they would do about our spending crisis and the looming fiscal cliff—in particular, the problem of the automatic defense budget cuts.

WORLD: MATIAS E. RUIZ
Syria: Fall of the Regime with Risk of Libanization

Damascus -according to agencies reports- keeps making use of a dissordered offensive against the forces of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), without reaching acceptable results in the military field. While the government of al-Assad peers over the cliff, the geopolitical reconfiguration of the region seems quite far from a 'happy ending'.

UNITED STATES: ERICKA ANDERSEN
Obama Faces the Music of His Unsuccessful Policies

President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) this weekend was another rallying cry to pass his new jobs bill. Meanwhile, the country is losing faith in the “hope and change” people voted for less than four years ago.