On December 27, an Israeli missile hit a home in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, killing brothers Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim’s wife. Within hours, Al Manar, Hezbollah’s official media...
A trio of Spanish language media networks controlled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela push out propaganda and disinformation to demonize the West.
A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America
U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons
In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
The Gulf Cooperation Council comprises six nations, all of them Arab, Muslim, ruled by royals, and fabulously wealthy thanks to vast reserves of petroleum. With so much in common, you might expec...
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What...
One day in the mid-sixties I was on a Pan Am 747 from London to Chicago, sitting next to my then-employer, Omar Sharif. I was a member of the “Omar Sharif Bridge Circus,” an unl...
Al Jazeera America launched last week. The new television station features such broadcast luminaries as Soledad O’Brien, Joie Chen, Sheila MacVicar, John Seigentha...
If Pakistan fails it, there must be consequences.
Viewing the Occupy Wall Street movement from post-Communist Europe, I can’t stop thinking of October 1917. This date, when the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional...
"How could you possibly think Islamists and Leftists would work together?" As I think I mentioned to K-Lo when she interviewed me about...
To: The Interim Government of Honduras, Attention Interim President Roberto Micheletti From: The Hope and Change Global Consulting Service, Washington,...
About six months ago, writing in the lead-up to the second round of the presidential election in the rather ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo, I used this column space to note: ...
The Serail is one of the most beautiful buildings in Beirut. Its stately arches and imposing mass convey both authority and permanence — the Serail was built centuries ago to serve as the s...
On July 31, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1696, which invoked Chapter VII of the world body's charter to demand that Iran to suspend all activities related to its pur...
Jalal Talabani doesn't look much like Che Guevara. With his ample girth, white moustache and bemused smile, he more resembles a favorite uncle who can be counted on to buy ice cream and disp...