Rebecca Gordon’s piece today triggered a little repressed memory of mine of a trip I took in 2003. Arriving at the airport, I turned my suitcase over to the ticket agent, only to be told that it had been singled out for special inspection. I was already running...
Poisoned Militants Among 87 Killed in Iraq
Cholera Outbreak Worsens; 122 Killed in Iraq Bloodshed
ISIS Leader Omar al-Shishani Fought Under US Umbrella as Late as 2013
Abu Omar al-Shishani, the red-bearded face of ISIS terror lately described in such headlines as ‘Star pupil’: Pied piper of ISIS recruits was trained by U.S. for the fact that he received American military training as part of an elite Georgian army unit in 2006 and...
68 Killed across Iraq as Turkey Resumes Airstrikes
The GOP Debate: Outsiders Versus Warmongers
That the second Republican presidential debate resembled an episode of the Jerry Springer Show was, in part, due to the insufferable Jake Tapper, whose behavior resembled that kid in high school who was always passing poison pen notes around math class. Indeed, the...
Putin: Friend or Foe in Syria?
What Vladimir Putin is up to in Syria makes far more sense than what Barack Obama and John Kerry appear to be up to in Syria. The Russians are flying transports bringing tanks and troops to an air base near the coastal city of Latakia to create a supply chain to...
Are We Getting Somewhere on Tech Privacy?
On September 16, The Washington Post reported that the Obama administration may be looking for a détente in the encryption wars. For proof, they offered a leaked draft of a National Security Council paper which said that Obama should not support a law mandating...
64 Killed, 119 Wounded across Iraq; Bombs Blast Baghdad
How Yarmouk Came About: Israel’s Unabashed Role in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
When Zionist Haganah militias carried out Operation Yiftach on 19 May, 1948, the aim was to drive Palestinians in the northern Safad District outside the border of Israel, which had declared its independence a mere five days earlier. The ethnic cleansing of Safad and...


