Dan Ehrlich

The tragic killing of 17-year-old Florida youth Trayvon Martin has captured America's heart and reignited the debate on racial discrimination, but it hasn't created another push for gun control.

Yet, almost drowned out by rhetoric of civil rights leaders such as Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson has been the plight...

The tragedy in Afghanistan of a US soldier murdering 16 civilians has given President Obama a greater urgency in getting American troops out of that country. Yet, he finds himself in a similar situation as President Nixon during the latter days of the Vietnam War...Securing Peace (leaving) with honour.

With...

An attack by Israel against Iran is not a certainty, by a long shot, which such an action would be. Yet, doing nothing might have serious regional effects, too.

Saudi Arabia is just as worried about a nuclear-armed Iran as Israel, with some high-ranking Saudi officials saying it will seek...

It appears the phone hacking scandal occupying the UK's news pages for the past few months may have been merely the preliminary act. The main event could well be the graft and corruption probe that now seems to be linking the Sun newspaper to numbers of Metropolitan Police officers and...

It seems the UK film industry, despite good box office takings, is still in such bad shape it's apparently pushing for a revival of silent movies as a way of minimizing costs.

The stylish French silent film The Artist just about swept every major award Sunday at London's annual BAFTA...

Forget the Arab Spring, we now seem to be in a serious winter of discontent with Israel warning of possible Iranian attacks on Jewish facilities worldwide. This comes as speculation continues to mount that Israel will go it alone in attacking Iran's nuclear plants. However, such speculation has been surfacing...

News reports claiming the Taliban will attempt to retake control of Afghanistan once NATO troops leave in two years restates the questions: Why did we get involved there in the first place and why are we leaving given this threat?

From an American, and even a Euro perspective,...

China is providing two ultimate ironies, the first debunking America's victory over communism and second, the possibility that China's current domestic economic and social model may be a blueprint for a future western world with mass unemployment.

For 45 years America and Western Europe fought a Cold War against communism...

Gun deaths last year in the UK at 51 were down by 18 percent , yet private gun ownership continues to grow with 1.8 million legally held. Obviously there's no way of telling how many illegal guns are in circulation. But, before you begin yelling for even tighter gun laws,...

Racism, by definition, is advocating or teaching the superiority of one race over another. When talking about this we usually bring up the example of Nazi Germany, which made racism a state practice.

But is discussing race or bringing race up when talking about certain issues also racism?

Labour...

Israel is considering building another wall, this one to keep illegal aliens, not terrorists from getting into the relatively small nation.

The new wall will run along its border with Jordan and be an addition to fortifications it has already been building along its desert border with Egypt. These...

Goodbye 2011. Once again America has closed a military adventure, one which eight years ago President GW Bush proudly declared to be a "mission accomplished." But it was a campaign whose purpose was vague and success in doubt since there were no weapons of mass destruction and socio-political breakdown is...

Currently being knocked off the Euro front pages by the Greek economic fiasco, is a possible game changer of enormous proportions. Will Israel attack Iran's nuclear plants with more than just computer software?

Up until now it's been a poker game that Iran has been playing very well, refusing to...

Some pundits are claiming Herman Cain's infant political career is over. But it's not because of his lack of experience or even his singing at a press conference. Instead because years-ago he may have said some politically incorrect things to women, which today count as sexual harassment.

In the current...

Turkey's strong support for a Palestinian state is a hypocritical irony that may come back to haunt it in the distant future.

On one hand it's responsible for the seedlings that grew into modern-day Israel and on the other it's doing all it can to repress the national aspirations...

India and the United States are the world's largest democracies with one other main thing in common: In the end they aren't very democratic...with governments plagued by inefficiency, factional fighting, waste, corruption, and most of all being out of touch with everyday people. The reality is democracy is best suited...

Norwegian massacre suspect Anders Breivik, 32, doesn't look like a genocidal maniac. In fact, his clean and handsome appearance resembles a cross between the Nazi Aryan super hero and the blond blue eyed image of Christ that still adorn many protestant churches.

But, as often is the case, looks are...

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is not, as many liberal politicians and commentators would have you believe "the devil incarnate." As a businessman without equal in the media, it's pure fantasy to even imagine he would be involved in everything illegal from ordering phone hacking to blackmail.

The most surprising aspect of the UK phone hacking scandal is that so far it has been limited to the News of the World. In possibly the world's most competitive press system one might have assumed all the tabloids would have been eavesdropping on phone calls. But, who knows, in...