Why Syria?
By Alan Caruba.
Conservatives are asking themselves why liberals, so opposed to Bush’s war against Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein, are so hell bent to get into a war in Syria and its dictator, Bashar al-Assad?
The President’s assertion [...]
The Arab Spring: A pact with the devil
By Reem Al-Jazi.
All my life, I had images of the devil in the back of my mind. He looked odd; he was a pure illustration of evil, and you can always spot him and know he is the bad guy …he probably had a red suit, horns and a pitchfork [...]
Military and Veteran Suicides Rise Despite Aggressive Prevention Efforts
By Catherine Haig.
In 2004 we sent our troops to invade Iraq and then after that escapade we went to Afghanistan. Since those assaults we tumbled Saddam Hussein’s empire killing him and his two crazy sons and “freeing [...]
The Incredible Shrinking President
By Alan Caruba.
In 1981 Lily Tomlin starred in a film, “The Incredible Shrinking Woman”, and it seems to me that Barack Obama is starring in the 2013 sequel, “The Incredible Shrinking President.”
A half hour late to his Rose Garden [...]
War in Syria: Geopolitics of the Conflict
By Milad Jokar.
What is happening in Syria is no longer about a democratic movement against a dictatorship, nor is it simply a civil war between two camps. Syria has become the theater of a proxy war which is spilling over to its neighbors. [...]
POTUS: Obama Contemplates A Solo Intervention In Syria
By Catherine Haig.
POTUS Obama is contemplating a solo intervention in Syria with one ALLY – FRANCE. With the exception of food FRANCE IS NOT KNOWN for an elite fighting squad; in fact in WW2 they were eating crow and speaking GERMAN [...]
Heroes of the digital age
By John Bruni.
What influences the political landscape of all nations more -human agency or geography?
Contemporary international relations abound with scholarly works that argue in favour of one over the other, with the ‘other’ acting [...]
Meir Javedanfar’s on France24: Assad, Chemical weapons and Iran
By Meir Javedanfar.
Last night I took part in the France24 debate, which looked at Syria, and the options which are available to the West.
My specific contribution was looking at the situation from the Iranian angle.
I addressed questions [...]
Why we must care
By Marc Medley.
A couple of days ago I posted on my various social media sites concerning how often I see people who are entering posts continuously confuse“your” with “you’re.” I even went as far as to [...]
Could Syria Spark WWIII?
By Alan Caruba.
Who recalls that one of the reasons Americans approved the invasions of Iraq was the fact that Saddam Hussein had used poison gas to kill Kurds?
Now we are told that Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s strongman, has used poison gas to [...]
The case for differentiated bank licenses
Posted by Ajay Shah.
by Harsh Vardhan.
The much hyped applications for new bank licenses are in – all 26 of them. Now, RBI will evaluate these applications which will require scrutinising mountains of documents that have been presented.A [...]
Islamist clash with society
By Azmi Ashour.
In mediaeval Europe, the clash between the Church and the Enlightenment was one between the religious establishment and the new ideas and perceptions espoused by philosophers and theologians. The conflict only assumed [...]
The Perils of Arming Syria’s ‘Freedom Fighters’
By Michael Hughes.
After sacrificing over 6,700 troops and spending over $2 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan to rid the world of Al Qaeda, the U.S. is seriously considering arming these very same elements to effect regime change in [...]
Egypt’s Islamic Chaos, America’s Islamic Threat
By Alan Caruba.
The President who, in 2009, said he thought it unseemly to “meddle” in the affairs of Iran when protesters against its regime were being shot dead in the streets of Tehran, announced to the world on August 15, 2013 that he [...]
America: Addicted to war
America: Addicted to War
by Stephen Lendman.
It’s been that way from inception. America’s history reflects violence. It’s blood-drenched. It glorifies war. It does so in the name of peace.
America believes war is peace. [...]
Egypt: coup, or a course correction
By Fadi Elhusseini.
During the past few weeks, I have been dismayed at the degree of intolerance and rigidity in the positions of quarreling parties in Egypt, with both taking defensive attitudes, unwilling to listen to the other. Hearts stiffened [...]
In France the cops are being targeted by those who ought to be targeted
By Marilyn Z. Tomlins, Paris, France.
The French have never liked their police.
It is said that this dislike dates from the Second World War when the police, France, having capitulated to the Germany enemy, had collaborated [...]
Abandoning the Middle East
By Alan Caruba.
A map of the U.S. embassies and consulates throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa tells you everything need to know about Barack Obama’s failed foreign policy. It is worth noting that Britain and France also choose [...]
The Basics Must Be Taught and Learned in School and At Home
By Marc Medley.
During this week, my wife and I shared similar experiences when making a purchase in two different parts of the country and with two different types of retailers. One was with an outdoor frozen dessert stand and the other [...]
The Letters: Double Standards, the ripple effect
By Remy Kerwin.
“Dear Mohammad,
Your definition of democracy is brilliant especially because it involves the fault of a country based on religiosity. Notice that I did not say “religious ” precepts but some [...]