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WORLDVIEW: America in Decline?

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Q&A: Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, talks about the implications of the rise of China and what it means for the United States.

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WORLDVIEW: Titanic at 100: why we still care

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By James P. Delgado

A hundred years after its sinking, Titanic rests on a muddy plain, torn apart, scattered, slowly eroding into the eternal darkness of the sea.

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WORLDVIEW: Rotten standards for young kids

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By Richard Pound

As the 2012 Summer Games in London approach, the fight against doping continues.

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Memories of a baseball hero and man of charity

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 By Mark Scheinbaum*

AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Mets catcher Gary Carter in 1986 receiving $2.07 million a year for his baseball skills, was the highest paid baseball player to that date.

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Jailed Megaupload boss has female fan club

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WEIGHING a whopping 294 pounds, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom might seem an unlikely target for romantic advances. But the 6ft 4in ubergeek told a court on Friday  he has received a deluge of letters.

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Yankee's Rivera undergoes surgery

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Panama’s all star baseball player, New York  Yankees' closer, Mariano Rivera, has undergone surgery to remove a polyps in the vocal cords. 

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Sarah Palin’s goodbye kiss to presidential bid: advisers

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Sarah Palin faces divorce proceedings from 'First Dude' husband Todd and has been told by her advisers to "kiss goodbye" to her presidential ambitions says a US newspaper.

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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY: Gloom and doom in US politics

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Alexander Cockburn in The First Post August 9

ACROSS two evenings this week, we've been offered America's future in a couple of versions. Neither of them work.

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Fall of Canadian government could unravel Panama FTA

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The fall of the Canadian government  facing sleaze allegations, could dim the hopes of Panamanians hoping for an early ratification of the Panama-Canada Free Trade Agreement.(FTA)

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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY . Who will follow in the shoes of Mubarak?

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Alexander Cockburn is a respected writer, political analyst and  foreign affairs commentator living in the United States. 

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If you are a twitterer you won’t have time to read this

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From the Sidelines

When was the last time you sat down to dinner, and re read the menu from end to end while your companion fiddled with a Blackberry or Ipod? 

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