While Israeli leaders historically have enjoyed significant influence with their U.S. counterparts, Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu will likely arrive at the White House next week with a little extra boost in his efforts to get President Barack...
Iraq To Tighten Syria Border in Bid To Stop Sunni Insurgents
Who Was Behind the Delhi Bombing?
The magnet bomb that exploded on an Israeli Embassy diplomat's car in Delhi on February 13 seemed on the surface to be consistent with an Iranian-sponsored action. It was carried out with same method by which Israel's Iranian proxy, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, had...
Iraq: Kurds Flee Jalawla in Fear of New Attacks
How Empires Fall (Including the American One)
Netanyahu’s War
Will Bibi Break Obama?
Iraqi President’s Grandnephew Killed His American Teacher
America’s Image Problem
The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based...
Corruption and the Citizen, American-Style
I have long nurtured this thoroughly depressing conviction that the United States, far from being a shining city on the hill, has become one of the most corrupt of nations. Why does America have more lawyers than the rest of the world combined? It is because the...


