Truth
Close Down UNRWA
Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State
An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....
Op-eds
Catching Up with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Iranian election in June was in many ways a referendum on the policies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. By campaigning against the status quo, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, sought to pro...
Policy Briefs
Radioactive Regime
The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...
Op-eds
Unlikely Peacemakers
Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.
Op-eds
Communications Blackout in Syria
Two technology firms that monitor global Internet traffic report that Syria has been cut off from the Inte...
Op-eds
Perceptions of the “Arab Spring” Within the Salafi-Jihadi Movement
Co-authored by Tara Vassefi “The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken the foundation of the authoritarian order in the...
Op-eds
Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...
Op-eds
How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions
By reflagging and renaming its ships, Tehran keeps one step ahead of the law.
Op-eds
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...
Op-eds
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’
In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...
Op-eds
Fallible
In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made...
Op-eds
Belarus, the Land of No Applause
Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...
Op-eds
Bin Laden’s Death: Conspiracy Theories Edition
Last night a student journalist sent me an inquiry about Osama bin Laden’s death — inquiring whether I “really believe Osama Bin Laden is dead.” Blake Hounshell...
Op-eds
In Defense of Biofuels
On the world markets, the cost of a barrel of oil is, at this writing, over $120. In the United States, a gallon of gasoline now costs, on average, roughly $3.50. Even when adjusted for inflation...
Op-eds
Graduate School of Hard Knocks
How to create experts in counterinsurgency.
Op-eds
Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet
The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...
Op-eds
Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...