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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... April 23, 2012 Negotiations That Matter Since we don’t know what Saeed Jalili, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, said at the recent confab in Istanbul, we can’t be sure that Israeli prime minister Bibi Netan... April 20, 2012 Taliban Release Photos, Videos of Kabul Suicide Teams The Afghan Taliban have released photos and videos of members of the suicide assault teams that attacked Kabul and the provincial capitals of Paktia, Logar, and Nangarhar earlier this week. The p... April 19, 2012 From Sri Lankan Youth, a Model for Reconciliation Like Israel and Rwanda, Sri Lanka serves, for many world-watchers, as a byword for ethno-religious conflict. For almost three decades, the country’s largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority enga... April 19, 2012 Ex-Gitmo Detainee Delivers Ransom Demands for Kidnapped Saudi On March 28, a Saudi diplomat named Abdullah al Khalidi was kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the port city of Aden, Yemen. AQAP's gunmen captured al Khalidi, who serv... April 19, 2012 Washington Washes Its Hands of Syria Following the fiasco of peace envoy Kofi Annan’s plan and the monitor mission to Syria, all eyes are on the White House to see what its response will be. After a meetin... April 18, 2012 Iranian Doublespeak A key feature of the negotiations with the Iranians over their nuclear program is doublespeak. To be more precise, you’ll notice that Iranian officials offer different accounts of what they... April 18, 2012 Christians for Palestine For most American Jews and Israelis, evangelical Christians are synonymous with zealous, biblically inspired support of the Jewish state—so zealous, in fact, that it makes some Jews uneasy.... April 18, 2012 Sudanese al Qaeda Fighter Killed in Yemen A well-known jihadist Internet forum has announced that a Sudanese fighter who fought with a top al Qaeda military commander in Pakistan was killed during recent fighting in southern Yemen.... April 18, 2012 Liberate ‘Zones of Electronic Repression’! “The fax shall make you free.” Albert Wohlstetter, the great Cold War strategist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said that back in 1990. He was right:... April 17, 2012 US Predators Strike Again in Southern Yemen US drones killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike today in an area that is currently under the terror group's control. The unmanned and heavily armed Pred... April 17, 2012 The Khamenei Fatwa Is a Ruse Speaking to reporters about Iran’s nuclear program before the weekend talks in Istanbul, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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