Analysis: With the U.S. basically absent globally, new powers have emerged; China continues to strengthen its political and economic role in the Middle East, and would be happy to replace the US as new mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Analysis: Behind the collapse of the Tower-Intel deal lies nothing short of a digital cold war for the future of the global semiconductor industry throwing hundreds of employees into a most aggressive conflict

Opinion: The reservists who decline to serve until judicial reform legislation is frozen need to learn about the concept of contributory negligence, since they are the ones who have turned the nation's security into a political pawn