Panzer auf der Landebahn
Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo...
Government
Cracking Down on Human-Rights Violators
Federal election campaigns are often characterized by negativity, but they are also a unique platform to present new policy ideas. Two recent Conservative pledges are worthy of consideration. For...
Op-eds
Cracking Down on Human-Rights Violators
Federal election campaigns are often characterized by negativity, but they are also a unique platform to present new policy ideas. Two recent Conservative pledges are worthy of consideration. For...
Op-eds
Amid Violence and Chaos, Turkey Grapples With Turmoil From Within and Without
Turkey marked the 93rd anniversary of Victory Day in its 1922 War of Independence against Greece on Sunday. While many commercial and residential buildings were blanketed with the Turkish red fla...
Op-eds
Turkey Risks Relapse into ’90s Violence
A specter is haunting Turkey. Suicide bombers, assassins and an alphabet soup of terrorist organizations seem to have brought back the carnage of the 1990s. The rapid ...
Op-eds
Argentina is Still Helping Iran Cover Up its Role in the Bombing of a Jewish Community Center
July 18th marks 21 years since the largest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history: the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 individuals and wounded...
Op-eds
Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt
Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Secret Proxy War in Libya?
Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni accused...
Op-eds
Doomed Diplomacy
Not long after his inauguration in January 2009, President Barack Obama penned a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. As a presidential candidate, Obama had promised...
Op-eds
Egypt’s Revolution Comes Full Circle
It all looks so familiar. Nearly four years after toppling Hosni Mubarak, crowds returned to Cairo on Saturday to protest the ex-president’s acquittal over causing 239 protesters’ dea...
Op-eds
No Fun in the Caliphate. Just the End of the World
It’s a tyrannical theocracy, crucifixions and decapitations are routine, women are shrouded and intimidated, the grim religious police are all over the place. It’s your Islamic...
Op-eds
Mahmoud Abbas and the Holocaust
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, responding to a question posed by a Rabbi, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud A...
Policy Briefs
The Disinformation Age
Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...
Op-eds
Anas Al-Liby’s Pakistan Qaeda Connection
The recent counterterrorism raids in Libya and Somalia highlight a fundamental flaw in the U.S. Government’s analysis of al Qaeda. A common misconception is that there is a distinct, fixed...
Op-eds
Iran’s Leader Reduces Posts of Military Elite
Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani, moved to significantly reduce the presence of the country's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Tehran's next govern...
Op-eds
Egypt and the African Union
By Zachary Elkaim Following the ouster of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi earlier this month, the Afric...
Policy Briefs
Cyber Threats and Security Solutions
Watch the hearing here. This hearing is about cyber threats and solutions. But I am going to...
Congressional Testimonies
Our Italian Future
Atop a political volcano.
Op-eds
Will Egyptians Put an End to Morsi’s Power Grab?
Last week, Egypt’s elected president Mohamed Morsi gave himself more power than even deposed president Hosni Mubarak had under decades of military dictatorship. Morsi, a form...
Op-eds
Canada’s Boat for Gaza Movement Still Lives in an Anti-Israel Svend Robinson-Era Time Warp
In 2010, militant activists on board a flotilla to Gaza provoked a violent confrontation with Israeli commandos. In the confusion, the Israelis shot and killed nine of the activists, who did not...