Donald Trump, for all his obnoxious demagoguery, is adding value to the presidential campaign by calling former President George W. Bush to account for 9/11 and the Iraq war, which set in motion the growth and spread of al-Qaeda and the rise of the Islamic State....
Helicopter Shot Down in Anbar; 79 Killed in Iraq
Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Syrian Deception
Secretary of State John Kerry insisted at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the agreement with Russia on a temporary halt in the war in Syria can only be carried out if Russia stops its airstrikes against what Kerry is now calling “legitimate...
A Lady With a Smile
It is not easy to be an Arab in Israel. It is not easy to be a woman in Arab society. It is not easy to be an Arab in Israeli politics. And even less easy to be an Arab woman in the Knesset. Haneen Zuabi is all these together. Perhaps because of this she wears a...
The Democrats’ Kabuki Primary
Yes, I know the Democratic presidential debate was held some time ago, but the GOP free-for-all was so entertaining – and newsworthy – compared to the Clinton-Sanders match that I neglected to cover it at all, which on reflection isn’t quite fair. But I have to say...
Mass Grave Found in Ramadi; 118 Killed in Iraq
Department of Justice Wears Many Hats in NUMEC Affair
As reported by Trib Total Media, the U.S. Department of Justice is secretly negotiating what share BWX Technologies of Lynchburg, Virginia must pay to clean up toxic NUMEC sites in Pennsylvania. Whatever portion BWXT doesn’t pay of the estimated $412 million cleanup...
Candidates for President: No Prior Foreign Policy Experience Preferred
The recent Democratic and Republican presidential debates have proven that anti-establishment candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, both of whom have little foreign policy experience, have better judgment on such issues than the supposed expert – former...
Israel & Syria: Plan B is to Balkanize
The U.S. and Russia are ostensibly trying to arrange a truce in Syria. As The Daily Mail reported, Israel recently voiced doubts about its success: …Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said he was “very pessimistic” about the truce’s prospects. “Unfortunately we are...


