Professor Ozolina, thank you very much indeed for those kind words of welcome. Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, governor Dukakis in absentia, the Dukakis Institute, President Levitz the president of Latvia, ambassador Makarova, fellow...
Dear chairs of the Boston Global Forum, Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, dear fellow councils general and distinguished member of the audience, as the french consul general in Boston, let me express my deep appreciation for the initiative taken by the Boston Global Forum and the...
(June 21st, 2016) Bloomberg News reported on June 17 that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said, in Bloomberg's paraphrase, that "there’s no sign that hackers have broken into its computer systems, but it’s well aware that Russian cyber operatives may be...
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said that the United States will maintain its military presence in the Black Sea despite, in Reuters's words, "a Russian warning that a U.S. destroyer patrolling there undermined regional security.'' The USS Porter entered the...
The Guardian looks at the "gun-control terror gap'' in the United States, which the news organization defines as "the notion of a legislative hole whereby U.S. citizens can purchase deadly firearms even if they are under investigation for suspected terrorist...
51 U.S. mid- to high-level diplomats have signed an internal memo critical of U.S. policy in Syria. They call for military strikes against President/Dictator Bashar Assad's government to stop its persistent violations of a civil war ceasefire. The memo calls...
Reynoldo Gonzalez, whose daughter Nohemi was among the 130 people murdered by Islamist terrorists in Paris last November, is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, saying that the companies gave "material support" to extremists in violation of the law. Mr....
JTB Corp., Japan’s largest travel agency, has suffered a huge hack, perhaps by Chinese and/or North Korean government hackers. The government-backed company says that the hackers might have gotten the passport details and other personal information of almost 8...