Netanyahu's bungling has shot Israel in both feet. To paraphrase Tallyrand, worse than crime, it was an error, and now the world is demanding Israel end its brutal siege of hungry Gaza.
As this column keeps reporting, China has massive over-capacity in industry, producing a huge, dangerous bubble. China's property market is another giant bubble. When they pop, the globe will tremble.
Glory, tragedy, disaster. An army of ghosts haunt this great naval base that commands the Crimea and surrounding Black Sea. It is the site of two of history's greatest sieges.
