Last Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Azerbaijan’s dictator Ilham Aliyev in Washington and called for “an ultimate resolution” of the decades-old conflict in the disputed province of Nagorno-Karabakh. On Friday, as the hereditary Azeri despot was on...
Iraqi lawmakers officially declared Anbar province a disaster zone. At least 150 were killed and 11 were wounded: At least four children died of starvation in occupied Falluja. Militants killed a woman in Tarmiya. A blast killed or wounded 13 militiamen. A civilian...
A new poll published by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, shows that a plurality of Americans misunderstand a fundamental fact about the Middle East. Specifically, a statistically representative sample of Americans and three other nationalities...
The biggest US military realignment in a generation may be underway in the Asia-Pacific. But most Americans know nothing about it. Unveiled in 2011, the “Pacific Pivot” aims to transition US military and diplomatic resources away from the Middle East and...
After the first phase of overt military regime changes in Latin America, the 1954 CIA overthrow of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz ushered in the era of covert coups. The list is well known: Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile. Much less well known is the 1964 coup that...
