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REVIEW: ‘The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature’ by Charlie English
Prague
Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s
Memos
‘Morally and Politically Distorted’: EU Commission Formally Proposes Sanctions, Partial Trade Suspension Against Israel
Tariffs, Partial Trade Suspension, and Sanctions: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen formally proposed punitive economic measures against Israel as the IDF continued...
Flash Briefs
EU Chief Proposes New Sanctions on Israeli Ministers, Suspension of ‘Trade-Related Matters’
EU Mulls New Israel Sanctions: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed new sanctions on September 10 against Israeli ministers, along with the partial suspension...
Flash Briefs
Advance U.S. Interests by Giving Ukraine the Weapons It Needs Now
Memos
Russia’s Hybrid War Against Montenegro
Irked by Montenegro’s accession to NATO, Russia and its traditional ally Serbia are trying to undermine democracy throughout the Balkans in their general strategy of dividing Europe.
Op-eds
The Real Architects of “Russophobia”
How Russia continues to use the idea of "Russophobia" as a political weapon.
Op-eds
Landmark Iran Sanctions Ruling Against Turkish Public Lender Builds U.S. Deterrence
A U.S. appeals court ruled on October 22 that Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund, cannot claim sovereign immunity under U.S. law to scuttle a federal criminal case...
Insights
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late April
Late April Trends
Policy Tracker
Iran’s Turkey-Based Sanctions-Evasion Scheme More Extensive Than Previously Reported
Iran’s sanctions-evasion schemes involving Turkey “started earlier, lasted longer, extended further, and involved more people and countries” than previously known, according to a series of deeply...
Policy Briefs
Erdogan Continues to Reward Iran Sanctions Evaders
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced yesterday that it will sell its 10 percent stake in the Istanbul stock exchange after Turkey named as its CEO a Turkish banker convicted...
Policy Briefs
Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
Western Nationals in Turkish Prisons
Monographs
It’s Time for the Justice Department to Hold Hezbollah Accountable
Last month, a Politico investigation ignited a firestorm by chargi...
Op-eds
How Iran Is Skirting Sanctions in the Southern Caucasus
Proxies and agents, merchants and middlemen, peddlers and enablers of the Iranian regime have been scouring the globe for years in search of ways to evade U.S. sanctions and help Iran acquire nuc...
Op-eds
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Guardians of the Revolution and Violators of Human Rights
Honorable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a vast system of domestic repres...
Congressional Testimonies
Dark Past Haunts Czech Election
It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...
Op-eds
The CIA Goes Back to the Movies
Well, it sure beats talking about Benghazi. A few days after the (acting) chief spook wrote his review of Zero Dark Thirty, the Agency itself has returned to its new favorite subje...
Op-eds
Return of the Czech Communists
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
Op-eds
Sinister Trend in Publishing
Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?
Op-eds
Gad Beck, the Last Gay Holocaust Survivor, is Dead
Gad Beck, widely believed to be the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, passed away on June 24 in a hospital in Berlin, his city of birth. He died just six days before his 89th birthday....