10 Things to Know About the Houthis
The Houthis are an Iran-backed, Shiite Islamist movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital in 2014 and instigated civil war. Driven by an explicitly antisemitic and anti-American ethos, the Houthis...
The Bahamas
Houthis Continue Threats Despite New U.S.-Led Multilateral Red Sea Operation
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen vowed on December 19 to continue threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. “No matter how many alliances America mobilizes, our military...
Flash Briefs
What would a maritime security force mean for the Red Sea?
The Iran-backed Houthi attacks have only escalated in the past week by firing on Eilat, having begun in October to match the Hamas massacre.
Op-eds
U.S. Weighs Re-Designating Yemen’s Houthis as Terrorist Group
The Biden administration is considering re-designating the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters...
Flash Briefs
Israel SitRep: Nov. 20, 2023
Today’s Issue: Houthis Seize Commercial Vessel in the Red Sea | Shifa Hospital: IDF Releases Footage of Hostages and Tunnels, States Hostage Was Murdered There | Hezbollah Launches Projectiles Toward...
Israel at War Situation Report
Iranian-Backed Houthis Hijack Ship in Red Sea
The Iranian-backed Houthis hijacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea hours after they threatened to attack Israeli shipping on November 19. “The hijacking of a cargo ship by the Houthis...
Flash Briefs
How Politics Has Poisoned the United Nations
At its core, the UN Human Rights Council is a political body, and no one should expect the Universal Periodic Review process to be immune.
Op-eds
An Inconvenient Flag
Liberia's Ship Registry in the Age of Global Terrorism
Op-eds
Israeli Envoys Slam German Pols for Joining Flotilla
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yoram Ben-Zeev and Emmanuel Nahshon, the chargé d'affaires at the embassy, took the unusual step last week of publicly criticizing Left Party members of...
Op-eds
The U.N.’s Man of Mystery
Is the godfather of the Kyoto treaty a public servant or a profiteer?
Op-eds
The Ripple Effect of High Oil Prices
The global economy depends on a superinfrastructure of air, land, and sea transportation networks to move basic goods, primary energy, and people across borders. The global manufacturing industry, particularly in Asia, has thrived due to the massive profits gleaned from items with a high price to weight ratio, such as food, clothing and information technology, that were transported cheaply all over the world. However, the volatile nature of oil prices has shaken the foundation of the transportation-oriented global economy, and sent ripple effects throughout numerous sectors.
Op-eds
Oil for Enron
Since the Oil for Food program came to an end in 2003, it has been described--accurately enough--as oil for palaces, oil for terror and oil for fraud. Now it turns out the U.N. relief program in...
Op-eds
Oil-For-Terror
It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that th...
Op-eds
Oil-for-Terror? There Appears to be Much Worse News to Uncover in the Oil-for-Food Scandal
Beyond the billions in graft, smuggling, and lavish living for Saddam Hussein that were the hallmarks of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, there is one more penny yet to drop....