Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
The Palestinians’ decision to place the issue of the establishment of a Palestinian state before the United Nations for a vote next month repudiates of the principles of the 1993 Oslo peace framework, through which the Palestinian Authority was formed
The recent “deal” to end the debt ceiling impasse came with some untenable strings for the nation’s defense. If the super committee of 12 lawmakers fails to reach agreement on some $1T+ in spending cuts, then an automatic cut of
From the Associated Press: Sleep well, soldier ST. LOUIS — A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn’t expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II
National Journal In one of the deadliest days in Iraq so far this year, nearly 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a period of relative respite from violence there during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The
This is frightening. Little kids parroting the charges of Islamists. The chanting reminds me of something from Lord of the Flies. [youtube gR6iSrXru6k nolink]
The U.S. State Dept. has called “abhorrent and repulsive” the massive new military assault by the army and navy of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad on the port city of Latikia, according VOA. Latakia’s Ramleh district is pummeled with tank, gunboat
The Christini dirt bike: not your typical motocross… According to the Kit Up! blog over at military.com, this dirt bike is getting high praise from special operators in Afghanistan. Apparently its blazing fast, rugged, and easy to repair in difficult
Al-Awlaki: The CIA thinks studying his case is not “current” or “comprehensive” enough — Last week, the CIA didn’t hold a scheduled, three-day conference on “homegrown radicalization.” This was due in some significant part, I am hearing, to pressure from
How much are we really spending on fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Based on this interesting analysis, no one really knows. Consider some numbers. In FY 2011 Congress has authorized $113 billion for the war in Afghanistan and $46
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Korea stirs nationalism over Dokdo/Takeshima islands on Liberation Day Lee Myung-bak and first lady, Kim Yoon-ok (center) wave Korean flags on Liberation Day (Yonhap) South Korea’s president Lee Myung-bak was harshly critical of Japan
The White House engaged in two puerile and quickly-exposed gambits last week that exposed the Obama administration’s amateurish and deceitful Middle East-Islamic policies in a painfully obvious manner. The first case concerned the thorny issue of Jerusalem’s legal status in
The recent appointment of Islamic Revolutionary Guards veteran Rostam Ghasemi as Iran’s new petroleum minister is not only the Islamic Republic’s latest poke in America’s eye but it is also harbinger of things to come with respect to Iran’s petro-politics.
The Star newspaper in Malaysia was the subject of protests by a group called Perkasa, which condemned the pork dishes as an attack on Islam. [youtube qToyntnwe-s]
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, one of our favorite Senators, Jim Demint, author of The Great American Awakening: Two Years that Changed America, Washington and Me, gives a behind the scenes look at the Senate in a time
A British center-left think tank has done an analysis of the words used by left-of-center and conservative analysts in determining the roots causes behind the UK riots. They looked at more than 200 articles from leading blogs on the left
Avian Cloaca: Bousquet’s Sharia Metaphor Foxman: Avian-Brained on Sharia Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers,” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman
“With no end to the Second World War in sight, British spies came up with a plan to lace Adolf Hitler’s food with female sex hormones to curb his aggressive impulses. Agents planned to smuggle doses of oestrogen into his
Osama Bin Laden was a wanted man well before the 9/11 attacks, before the attack on the USS Cole and before the US Embassy bombings in east Africa. Bin Laden was first named a wanted man in 1998 by no
Straw polls are notoriously overrated. This observation applies especially to the over-hyped one held most recently in Ames, Iowa over the weekend. That said, for Americans concerned about national security and seized with the necessity of electing as our next
Several of us at Big Peace have reported in the past about the noticeable warming relationship between China and Pakistan. This has concerned the US because of the amount of cooperation and assistance – worth billions of dollars — given
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Dark and dirty? The U.S. has apologised after a diplomat told Indian school children that she looked like them when her ‘skin became dirty and dark’ after a long train journey. During a speech in
The conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, long ago expelled from the conservative movement by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr., is abuzz over Congressman Ron Paul’s “Blame America First” performance at Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate. Oddly, it was Paul’s
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria’s regime shells Latakia civilians by land and by sea Syria Now that Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has turned to the port city of Latakia as a target, he’s massacring unarmed civilians by land
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