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May 7, 2012 Dishonor and War I wonder what the Atrocities Board would say about the dreadful betrayal of freedom in China. Only... May 7, 2012 Assessing Interpretations of the New Bin Laden Documents The documents recovered from Abbottabad that were released on Thursday represent the largest new trove of i... May 7, 2012 Auf Wiedersehen, Mon Ami If the results of the latest elections are any indication, Europeans will elect anyone from communists to fascists if they promise to fight German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the financial aust... May 7, 2012 Nukes and a Fatwa In the same week that Iranian nuclear negotiators in Istanbul mentioned an alleged fatwa... May 6, 2012 مؤسسة الدفاع عن الديمقراطيات تصدر دراسة متطورة عن وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية السعودية بيان صحفي للنشر الفوري «&#1605... May 6, 2012 FDD Releases Cutting Edge Study of Saudi Social Media PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (FDD, May 7, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what... May 6, 2012 Obama’s Way of War Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold M... May 4, 2012 The Bin Laden Files West Point's Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) has released 17 declassified documents c... May 4, 2012 Bin Laden Told Shabaab to Hide al Qaeda Ties In August 2010, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden sent a letter instructing the leader of Shabaab, Mukhtar Abu al Zubayr, to hide the ties between the two terror groups so as not to draw internationa... May 4, 2012 Has America Given Up? Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the latest artful attempt at avoiding responsibility to prevent genocide. With his newly created "Atrocities Prevention Board," the president has b... May 4, 2012 Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media May 3, 2012 Damascus via Moscow Despite its admission that the UN-backed Kofi Annan plan in Syria was failing,... May 3, 2012 London Jews’ Labour Problem London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—whose political future will be determined in today’s election against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson—has a Jewish problem. He&rsqu... May 3, 2012 Obama vs. Romney: Cold War Revival Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been predictably ridiculed for his sta... May 3, 2012 Bin Laden Advised Relocation of Some Leaders to Afghan Provinces Due to Drone Strikes in Waziristan Seven months before his death in a US special operations raid at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden instructed some of al Qaeda's leaders to relocate to provi... May 2, 2012 A New United Church Report Shows How Israel-Haters Have Lost the Argument According to a new report from the United Church of Canada, “the deepest meaning of the Holocau... May 2, 2012 The Israel Lobby’s GOP Past The influence of the late Benzion Netanyahu over his son Benjamin, the prime minister of Israel, is perhaps the most over-discussed Oedipal theme in the psycho-history of international affairs. B... May 2, 2012 Chen Guangcheng, China’s One-Child Policy, and Abortion’s Slippery Slope The whole world now knows the name of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human-rights activist from Shandong province who briefly took protective shelter in the U.S. embassy — before being... May 2, 2012 Taliban Announce Start of Al Farooq Spring Offensive Today the Taliban announced the beginning of their yearly spring offensive, in an official statement released on their propaganda website, Voice of Jihad. The Taliban statement, which wa... May 2, 2012 The Foggiest War The “fog of war” is a concept derived from the writings of Carl von Clausewitz, the great 19th century Prussian military theorist who recognized that those leading troops into battle... May 1, 2012 Declassify Intelligence that Led to Bin Laden Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and National Clandestine Service, has made quite a splash in the past couple of days. Building on arguments in his new b... May 1, 2012 Oil Market Impact of Sanctions Against the Central Bank of Iran The report assesses the effect of sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran. It should help reduce the concerns of those who fear a slippery slope to a global economic crisis if central bank san... April 30, 2012 Terrorists or Fall Guys? The Treasury Department has issued subpoenas to the speakers’ agencies of 11 prominent former U.S. officials, including a governor of Pennsylvania, a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,... April 30, 2012 Triple Play! Obama Blows Off Congress, Funds Palestinians, Lies About PA Stance on Israel Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding aft... April 30, 2012 AQAP Confirms Commander Linked to Osama bin Laden Killed in Drone Strike Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula confirmed that a senior leader was killed in a recent US drone airstrike in Yemen. The commander had trained in Afghanistan and served as a member of Osama bin L... April 30, 2012 What’s Going On in Azerbaijan? On April 18, just days after a U.S.-led coalition wrapped up the first round of renewed nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan made an announcement. In a statement released on... April 30, 2012 Abbas’s Police State President Barack Obama's administration has loudly touted its efforts to protect peaceful activists across the globe from regimes that would oppress them. On April 26, the White House issued... April 29, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan Today the US launched its first drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in nearly a month. The strike in North Waziristan targeted an abandoned school that is known to be... April 27, 2012 Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par... April 27, 2012 Russia’s Strategic Clarity in Syria Russian foreign policy scored another victory last week with the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2043... April 26, 2012 ISAF Captures IMU Facilitator in Wardak Province Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator in the same district where 38 US and Afghan troops, including SEALs, were killed when their he... April 26, 2012 Egyptian Jihadist Killed in Recent US Predator Strike in Yemen An Egyptian jihadist who fought alongside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its political front, Ansar al Sharia, was killed in a recent US drone strike in the southern Yemeni province of Sha... April 26, 2012 DC Court: Iran Showed al Qaeda How to Bomb Embassies In a little-noticed ruling on Nov. 28, a Washington, DC district court found that both Iran and Sudan were culpable for al Qaeda's 1998 embassy bombings. As is typical in cases dealing with... April 26, 2012 The New McCarthyism THE MEDIA has been quick to lionize Mary McCarthy, the recently fired 61-year-old CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest. According to s... April 25, 2012 Iran’s Missing Nuclear Fatwa Has Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a fatwa prohibiting the manufacture and use of nuclear weapons? U.S. policymakers, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seem to think so. They... April 25, 2012 The Whole World Is Watching Yesterday, the White House’s Atrocities Prevention Board held its first meeting. Chaired by NSC staffer Samantha Power, author of... April 25, 2012 Mubarak’s Old Stalwarts Vie for Supremacy In late May, Egyptians will vote in the first free presidential election in their history. But despite parliamentary elections and other inklings of democracy, the forces of the old dictatorship... April 25, 2012 A Desperate ‘Longshot’ Some in the Obama administration are desperate to jumpstart peace negotiations with the Taliban in advance of NATO’s summit in Chicago next month. To date, those negotiations have... April 25, 2012 March on Syria The Assad dynasty is not content with slaughtering its own people in great numbers. It is also destroying Syria's rich archaeological past. Writing last month in the US Weekly Standard... April 25, 2012 Law Games Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is charged with organizing three al Qaeda attacks including the suicide bombing that killed 17 American servicemen aboard the USS Cole in 2000. Reed Brody, counsel with Hu... April 24, 2012 Gary Sick, Discredited but Honored The so-called "October Surprise" plot that briefly enthralled the American public twenty years ago is one of the most influential political conspiracy theories in U.S. history. As the story goes,... April 24, 2012 AQAP Commander Thought Killed in US Drone Strike A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who trained at a camp in Afghanistan more than a decade ago was killed in a recent airstrike in southern Yemen. The airstrike is one of two thoug... April 23, 2012 Selective Reporting on Guantanamo Transfers The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that two Guantanamo detainees had been transferred to El... April 23, 2012 Taxes, Real Cash Money, and Corruption We’re in Italy, where the new government — headed by the distinguished economist Mario Monti — has three big initiatives: make it easier to fire workers, raise taxes on everyone... April 23, 2012 Government was Right Not to Rush Omar Khadr Home This week, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced that Toronto-born terrorist Omar Khadr could be brought back to Canada. The government has been criticized for not moving faster to repatriat... April 23, 2012 The Islamist Road to Democracy For many on the American left and right, the "Arab Spring" has become the "Arab Winter" of triumphant fundamentalists. In Egypt, where Arab liberalism was once strong, religious parties overwhelm... April 23, 2012 2 Uighur Gitmo Detainees Transferred to El Salvador The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to El Salvador yesterday. The t... April 23, 2012 Banging the Tin Drum for Iran and Against Israel Germany’s most famous living writer has unleashed an international debate by branding Israel the greatest threat to world peace. Günter Grass, author of the 1959 novel "... April 23, 2012 Iran and Hamas’ Swiss Enablers I remember roughly two years ago in September of 2010 when Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and I uncovered the Swiss heavy ear... April 23, 2012 Have We Learned from the Holocaust? Earlier today, President Barack Obama delivered a Holocaust remembrance speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In remarks marked largely by the standard politically...

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