So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind of nuclear thinking top American officials engaged in during the Cold War. In secret National Security Council documents of the early 1950s, for instance, the country’s top strategists descended...
Remember when President Obama decided it was time to bomb Syria and was only stopped by a wave of widespread grassroots protest? After announcing his intent to bomb, Obama decided to seek congressional approval and go through the motions of asking permission –...
Terror struck twice in Israel this Thursday. First, an ultra-Orthodox zealot went on a slashing rampage at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, stabbing six, and fatally wounding a 16-year-old girl. Then, extremist Jewish settlers firebombed the house of a Palestinian Arab...
The United States and Turkey have reached an agreement, long sought by the Turks, to establish a safe zone in Syria to insulate Turkey from the multi-sided civil war in Syria and to provide a sanctuary to which many of the two million Syrian refugees now in Turkey can...
A six-month investigation into alleged civilian and ‘friendly fire’ deaths from Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria has identified more than 120 incidents of concern to June 30th according to an Airwars report published today – three times more problem events than...
"People compare my style with that of J.F.K., but in terms of substance, I feel much closer to Ataturk or Ben-Gurion or General de Gaulle – people who had to build nation states." ~ Mikheil Saakashvili If you had to use one word to sum up newly minted Odessa...
The Intercept has an article on the "U.S. Institute of Peace," a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting "nonviolent resolution of conflicts": author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national...
At least 132 were killed and 25 were killed in the violence: A Yazidi woman who escaped her militant captor told the media that her three children were poisoned after being taken to Syria. In Baghdad, a bomb killed three people and wounded 11 more. Mortars killed...
