Will the early elections change anything in Canada?

Canadians will go to polls on May 2nd. The opposition trails in the polls right now.

Libya and terrorism. Al-Qaeda and Gaddafi

Former leader of Libyan jihadists Noma Benotman tells CNN that al-Qaeda will seek to take advantage of chaos in Libya.

Red Dawn remake: Not Chinese, but North Korean are the main villains

How an invading army changes from Chinese to North Korean: See story from the L.A. Times here. It was usual for Hollywood to use in the past a prototype of the villains – Japanese, Russians, Arabs…

Fukushima: The worst case scenario

Few comments by Richard Tanter, Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

Berlusconi: I’m too old for so much sex

By Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy.

Karzai to NATO: End operations in Afghanistan. How serious is it?

I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land, Afghan President said. A spokesman for Karzai later sought to temper the remarks, saying the president meant to demand that NATO cease operations that harm civilians and that it halt its operations completely.

Japan: There is a risk of a second explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant

This scenario could be potentially very bad.

What if Gaddafi will stay?

It is not impossible. Kenneth Pollack from The Brookings Institution answered my questions on the Brookings ‘s web chat.

Changes in the Muslim world and women’s rights

Experts: The West should listen to the Muslim women.

The CIA-ISI relations

The ISI is the CIA’s most important partner against al Qaeda but also the most difficult.