Earlier this week, we were told that peace talks with the Taliban would resume in earnest on Thursday, after three years of fits, starts, and fiery clouds of shrapnel. Supposedly Mullah Omar authorized these talks, even though he’s been keeping a very low profile. How low? The rest of the Taliban was basically ready to […]Continue reading →
White House makes miraculous discovery to distract from domestic scandals Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria, is a fiction writer with zero educational background in government, diplomacy or national security who also played a key role in covering up the truth […]Continue reading →
President Obama’s decision to arm Syrian rebels for the first time follows an intense, nearly two-year debate within the White House in which the president and his closest advisers consistently expressed skepticism about U.S. intervention in a Middle East civil war, current and former officials said. The two deciding factors in the decision to change […]Continue reading →
Like most people who live in democratic countries, Americans believe elections matter. But elections alone don’t define democracy. Elections are simply the mechanism by which free people choose the leaders who will uphold the rule of law and protect basic human rights, including the rights of those who did not vote for them. This week’s […]Continue reading →
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net I have written on Samantha Power before and you can see our research on her here at KeyWiki.org. Power, who is married to Barack Obama’s long-time friend and ex-Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein, is an intense enemy to Israel as is her husband. She seeks constantly to apologize for America’s imagined transgressions […]Continue reading →
Barack Obama’s appointments of Susan Rice as national security adviser and Samantha Power as ambassador to the United Nations have naturally triggered speculation about changes in foreign policy. Rice and Power have been proponents of humanitarian military intervention, a course that Obama followed, gingerly, in Libya — “leading from behind,” as one of his aides […]Continue reading →
Arab Gulf states sought reassurances from Iran at a U.N. nuclear agency meeting this week over the safety of its only atomic energy plant, which is located in an earthquake-prone coastal area, diplomats said on Thursday. The Bushehr facility on Iran’s Gulf coast is a growing worry for nearby countries: if radiation ever does escape […]Continue reading →
Des Moines, IA — According to the Washington Post, 6,648 U.S. service personnel were killed in Iraq starting in April, 2003. The vast majority of those killed, 4,588 or 69 percent were young people under the age of thirty. I am not going to re-litigate the Iraq war today. Or, probably, ever. But I do […]Continue reading →
Jordanian officials say the U.S. will deploy anti-missile batteries and F-16 jet fighters in the kingdom to bolster its defense capabilities in the face of a Syrian attack. Two security officials involved in the deployment, expected in the coming days, said Wednesday that Washington is deploying one or two Patriot missile launchers on the northern […]Continue reading →
Georgy Gounev As far as President Obama’s policy with regard to the Syrian civil war is concerned, it has only one positive feature — at least the United States hasn’t so far got involved in a military conflict. At the same time however everything else went wrong from the point of view of American interests. […]Continue reading →
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Saturday that the conflict on the border between Syria and Turkey may spread to neighboring countries and create a regional war. video: http://bcove.me/j17gcxoo Turkish citizens oppose escalation. Turkey continued shelling of Syrian targets on Sunday in what Al Arabiya describes as immediate retaliation after a mortar round allegedly fired […]Continue reading →
The Extinction Protocol Turkey and Syria traded artillery fire for the fourth day in a row Saturday as rebels clashed with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces near the border, heightening fears that the crisis could erupt into a regional conflict. Also Saturday, Syrian Defence Minister Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij vowed to crush the rebellion […]Continue reading →
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli air force shot down a droneafter it crossed into southern Israel on Saturday, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from. The drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean in the area of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel, said military […]Continue reading →