Reading the UNGA tea leaves
America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions
Kafkaesque
Turkey is Collateral Damage in Erdoğan’s Hostage Diplomacy
His erratic policies scare away tourists and foreign capital.
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Why Israel erupted
Distorted narratives about Arab evictions have become a proxy for the entire conflict
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Guantanamo’s Hunger Artists
Would shutting Gitmo satisfy them -- or whet their appetites?
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Where Is Karfan?
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testified today on Syria. It seems that a large part of the administration’s thinking concerning milita...
Op-eds
The Arab Spring: “Why Exactly at this Time?”
By Sadek J. al-Azm, Emeritus, University of Damascus Translated from Arabic by Steve Miller, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies “Why exa...
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The Times Swings Its Hatchet at Bush…and Hits Mukasey
Even by low Gray Lady standards, a journalistic abomination.
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Untangling Ghailani
In Manhattan on Tuesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan gave al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani a sentence of life imprisonment after his conviction on a single count of conspiring to bomb American embassies...
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Jamil al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown
The criminal complaint against Luqman Abdullah and his associates states that when al-Ummah succeeds in establishing a "separate, sovereign Islamic state," they intend for it to be led by Jamil a...
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Avoiding ‘CSI Kandahar’
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Peacekeepers with No Peace to Keep
Somewhere along the crooked path that runs from the collapse of the Soviet Union that signaled the emergence of the United States as the world's lone superpower to the seemingly intractable...