The British Royal Navy’s helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is deployed to the Mediterranean, on August 25, 2013. Western and Arab military leaders have reached a “consensus” on military intervention in Syria over accusations that…
Category: Politics
On Monday morning, Saudi Arabian Prince Saud al-Faisal, who is also the world’s longest-serving foreign minister, announced that certain Arab states would be willing to replace any cut in Western aid to Egypt. For a few billion…
Representative democracies and autocratic dictatorships respond to profound internal crises in very distinctive ways: the former attempts to reason with citizens, explaining the causes, consequences and alternatives; dictatorships attempt to terrorize, intimidate and distract the…
Kerry isn’t on the Palestinian side. He’s going all out for ‘peace’ on Israeli government terms Has John Kerry no shame? First he cuddles up to both Palestinians and Israelis and announces the renewal of…
Spymaster Clapper to Lead Investigation into Spying When Obama announced last Friday that he’d reform NSA spying, we documented that it wasn’t wise to trust him. Friday, Obama promised an independent group or experts would investigate…
Whatever is behind the timing of the current scare, Obama’s rebrand of the ‘war on terror’ has been, not just an abject failure, but as deeply counter-productive and almost as brutal as the original. High…
Red flag: China unnerved by Japan’s bid to reclaim imperial past Less than a year after Japan nationalized the disputed Diaoyutai (Diaoyu or Senkaku) islands in the East China Sea, the country’s leadership…
After two days of intercourse in Washington between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry emerged like a benevolent matchmaker satisfied that his efforts at brokering a marriage of sorts had at…
Al-Qaeda Backers Found With U.S. Contracts in Afghanistan Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to…
Many years ago, Henry Kissinger said that Israel doesn’t have foreign policy. Everything is decided upon inner and personal issues. In the third week of July 2013, an extraordinary example of this truth emerged after Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed to have heard of the European Union guidelines banning EU funding of projects in territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war only after they were approved and published. “You are wrong! He is a wise Jew hiding the truth for political reasons,” some Zionists would exclaim at this point and then add: “Shhh! You are harming the cause!”