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.
Aug 2nd 2006 a day that forever changed my life, our family, the SEAL community, those who knew Marc Alan Lee and all who would come to know him through his heroic sacrifice and final challenge left in his “Glory
Syrian President Bashar Assad has been straddling the fence since his regime and long time family rule came under threat in March. First, he sought to quell the public dissenters with good old fashioned Arab force. When the protesters proved
Just this week, approximately 100 Syrians have been killed. In Afghanistan, Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Helmand province. Kirkuk, Iraq experienced a vehicle born IED detonating in front of a Christian church killing more than twenty. And
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syrian tanks move into center of Hama Tanks in Hama, Syria, after heavy shelling in the city (Reuters) The Syrian regime’s massacre of the city of Hama that began on Sunday continued on Wednesday
Mainstream economists and analysts expected the stock market to rise on Tuesday, after the uncertainty about raising the debt ceiling was resolved by a bill passed by Congress. Instead, stocks on Wall Street fell 2%. As usual, mainstream economists were
The socialist People’s Republic of China is expanding its influence by refurbishing the Varyag, a Soviet era aircraft carrier, renaming it the Shi Lang. The carrier is expected to start sea trials later this year. An aircraft carrier is a
It takes a lot to offend me but Vice President Biden has come pretty close. According to Politico, Biden railed against the Tea Party, “We have negotiated with terrorists” and “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to
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BEIJING: China warned Wednesday that tortured efforts to raise the US debt ceiling had failed to defuse Washington’s “debt bomb”, and that it would further diversify its currency holdings away from the dollar. US President Barack Obama finally signed an
The bad drives out the good. Or what little there was of it in the first place. WSJ, Middle East News, August 2, 2011 Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters By Yaroslav Trofimov CAIRO–Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to
Last Monday Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz gave an interview to Channel 2’s news anchor Yonit Levy during the prime-time news broadcast. Levy began the interview with a revealing “question.” Oozing professional probity, Levy said, “I assume you came here armed
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Ethnic and political violence kills 34 in two days in Karachi, Pakistan Burned out vehicles in Karachi (EPA) Ethnic violence and politically-motivated targeted killings have left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan’s southern
The International Islamic News Agency (never heard of it before; get used to it a la “Gallup Abu Dhabi”) reported on August 1, which, as the dateline notes, is also Ramadan 1 (or vice versa): JEDDAH, Ramadan 1/Aug 1 (IINA)-During
No sooner does Obama of Arabia throw Mubarak under the camel and Egypt’s Sinai is in play. According to this report from Israel’s Hayom newspaper, “Egyptian security sources [say] the new government in Cairo is losing control over part of
Battle lines are being drawn across the Middle East. On one side sit the forces of stability, with Saudi Arabia at the helm. On the other sit the forces of revolution, with Iran prominent in leadership. The alliances they lead
Things would not look so bleak if the federal government allowed more freedom in the development of American energy resources. Energy freedom would boost economic growth and lower oil prices. The fiscal crisis would be eased as more revenues flowed
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ThinkProgress is a site that specializes in weird, petty hackish attacks on conservatives. Of course, that alone doesn’t distinguish it from other Soros-funded outfits; what makes ThinkProgress ‘special’ is the shockingly low quality of its propagandists. They’re young and dumb,
The latest New Yorker fills in a lot of the blanks from the May 1 Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden. Nicholas Schmidle’s 8,400-word report starts with a call for more intelligence on bin Laden’s possible
In a massive survey of 22,630 soldiers, the Army has discovered that a whopping 1 in 5 see their superior as “toxic and unethical.” Only 27% believe that their organization allows the frank and free flow of ideas. Army Chief
On Sunday July 31, 2011, the front page of the New York Times featured a lengthy article– “The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement”– that recounted the Center for Security Policy‘s successful four-year educational campaign to educate the public on the
Germany’s left-leaning Der Spiegel has a long report on the recent murders of Iran nuclear scientists. When asked about the killing of Darioush Rezaei on July 23, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “Israel is not responding.” Not what you
Photo: Sgt. Derrick Miller, 27, of Hagerstown, MD, who was convicted this past week of the premeditated murder of an Afghan man in 2010. The husband and father of two was assigned to a Connecticut National Guard unit and attached
Foreign Policy has an important piece about the attempts to dissect what Anders Behring Breivik, Norway’s mass murderer, really thinks. It’s written by Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, who finds himself quoted by Breivik in his
Take my advice, I know about money The Russian President had some strong words for the United States when he spoke from a summer camp in Lake Seliger, Russia. Americans are “like a parasite” on the global economy he declared.
