The danger of Obama’s strategy of linking Iran and ISIS for Israel
By Barry Shaw.
In fifty days of Gaza conflict, Israel launched 5500 precision air strikes against terror targets. In 70+ days the US launched less than 400 strikes in Iraq and Syria against ISIS. Why?
It’s not lack [...]
Steep Mountain of US-Iran Relations
By Gary A. Grappo.
The negotiations between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, known as the P5+1, and Iran are currently scheduled to conclude in about six weeks. Prospects for a successful conclusion [...]
Myanmar reform towards progress
By Pramod Sedhain.
Almost five decades of military rule and isolated from the rest of the world, the Myanmar path to reforms is under way. Reform has been initiated since November 2010. As part of this effort, the Myanmar government [...]
A terrorist threat that would make a nuclear attack look childish
By Jaime Ortega.
3,318 miles away from New York City, a terrifying scenario silently awaits its awakening. More devastating than a nuclear bomb, an Island in the west coast of Spain, worries geologist trying to predict when a [...]
Is Kim Jong Un still in-charge of North Korea ?
By Pramod Raj Sedhain?
Speculations have dramatically raised among Pyongyang- watchers since the country’s core leader Kim Jong Un’s sudden disappearance from significant state functions as well [...]
Welcome to Whitehead’s Cannibal War Machine: 21st Century Hell
By John Stanton.
“At the same time the progressive evacuation in the 20th century of the nation-state as a means of class domination and the advent of a nomadic pirate class of financial capital, means that the practice of endemic [...]
Obama’s Flawed Anti-ISIS Strategy
Gary A. Grappo
Is President Obama dealing with cognitive dissonance? First, against all available information, he blames the intelligence community for underestimating the Islamic State. Then, he embarks on a strategy that [...]
Significance of broad coalition against terrorism
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
US-initiated campaign against Islamic State terrorist is now a meaningful broad-based coalition. Western and regional key military power countries’ pledge to participate against anti-terrorist operation [...]
It is wrong to say terrorism of the ISIS kind has ‘nothing’ to do with ‘religion’
By Alexander Athos.
Nazi Fanatic Joesph Goebbels (ideology is important)
OBL’s brother in law, Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, an Imam an ostensibly ‘religious’ man who sees himself as a ‘good Muslim’ [...]
Changing terrorist trend: Global to Local
Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Despite close-tracking of terrorist groups’ activities, assassination of leaders, drone strikes, military and technical superiority and other strategic pressures, several terrorist groups are on a rise. Effective [...]
The rise of the Islamic State: Who is to blame
By James M. Dorsey.
Behind the façade of a united front against the Islamic State the United States and its Gulf allies blame each other for the spectacular rise of the jihadist group that has overrun a swathe of Syria and Iraq. With [...]
Fixing our Veterans Crisis with Economic Revitalization
By Chad Pillai.
The song “Wrong Side of Heaven” by the Band Five Finger Death Punch is a great piece that highlights our ongoing crisis regarding our care for veterans after over a decade of combat – combat that will continue [...]
Why battle against Islamic State is a must?
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
After seizing a vast swath of territory in eastern Syria as well Iraq’s northern and western region, Islamic State (IS) has posed a real and serious threat to global security. Since June, Islamic State of Iraq [...]
U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence: A Fusion Center for United Against Nuclear Iran & Foundation for Defense of Democracies?
By John Stanton.
“The Justice department would like to the see the UANI lawsuit go away as it is aware that what is being described as “law enforcement” documents would include both privileged and classified Treasury Department [...]
South Africa’s call for UN Security Council reform: an explicit BRIC countries’ backing forthcoming?
By Tshepho Mokwele.
President Zuma of S. Africa. Image by the United Nations
Formed as a replacement for the beleaguered League of Nations, the United Nations (UN) celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2015. Since transition, [...]
Japanese Educators Learn From American Teachers and Schools
By Alan Singer.
The story the American public keeps hearing is that United States schools, students, and teachers are all failures and that massive change is needed. George Bush and the Republican Party contributed to the attack [...]
India-Nepal Military: Relation and Aid
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Amid series of defense-purchase negotiations, Nepal Army (NA) received huge military assistance from India. The tiny Himalayan nation received forty-five trucks loaded with bullets, bomb disposal items and explosive [...]
Why Ukraine is a strategic chessboard?
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
War-torn Ukraine has become a costly east-west superpower strategic chessboard. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, geo-strategic located Ukraine has been a cross-road between east and west, [...]
Islamic State: Ideological Challenge to Saudi Arabia
By James M. Dorsey.
Synopsis
With its control of a swath of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State represents a paradigm shift in jihadist strategy and tactics. It also poses an ideological challenge to Saudi Arabia as it fuels [...]