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.
At The Corner this morning, Andy McCarthy points out the LA Times‘ “mainstreaming of the Muslim Brotherhood” by providing a forum for Mousa Abu Marzook–at one time the most senior Hamas operative living in the US: This was akin to
From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD — The suggestion by a U.S. congressman that Iraq repay the United States for the money it has spent in the country has stirred anger, with an Iraqi lawmaker ridiculing the idea as “stupid” and
From Ynet news: In an interview published in Britain’s Observer Sunday, former Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to explain why he reads the Quran on a daily basis. The politician who became the Quartet’s envoy to the Middle East said
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pro-Assad crowd attacks Turkey’s embassy in Damascus Syrian refugees living in tents in refugee camp in Yayladagi, Turkey (Reuters) Some 2,000 supporters of the Assad regime in Syria ralliedon Sunday near Turkey’s embassy in
From the New York Times: The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications
The move to ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders is being questioned within the Palestinian Authority itself. Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Hillary Clinton (from last year). In the back is a picture
It’s called the Future Attribute Screening Technology Mobile Module (FAST) project, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. And it sounds more than just a little creepy. The hope is to develop a technology for screening at airports and elsewhere
[youtube tssBq4jCWtw] After Egyptian Shaykh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni’s controversial comments about jihad and slavery (see here) were published on YouTube, Facebook, and also in Egyptian press, he was given the opportunity to respond in a telephone interview aired on the Islamic
How are you spending your summer vacation? From the UK’s Daily Mail: Some may have thought we would never discover the Titanic, but this is an even more ambitious search. Treasure-hunter Bill Warren, of California, is reportedly launching an underwater
News Flash: Since the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration has engaged in a trust-building effort with Pakistan…. I’m trying to be calm. What this means after the US zeroed in on OBL living in plain Pakistani sight,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Military assault on north Syrian town begins Syrian army approaches Jish al-Shughour (AP) The anticipated Syrian military assault on the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, near Turkey’s border, began on Saturday. Although much of
At a Nato meeting in Brussels on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, in effect, that the Truman Doctrine that’s guided American foreign policy since it was formulated by President Harry Truman in 1947 has ended. President Harry
Egypt’s main Islamist group has long denied official links to the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, but public statements and actions by its senior leaders have often gone a long way to undercut the credibility of such denials. On Friday, Muslim
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently performed two studies evaluating fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies–one in April and one in May. From those studies, in 2009: Renewable energy subsidies were 49 times greater than fossil fuel subsidies when evaluated
Thirty-six hours after Big Peace brought you first-hand accounts of the new carnage in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains the mainstream media is starting to show some interest, though these stories remain safely buried far away from the front pages. The UN
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Border patrol officials exchanged up to 300 rounds of gunfire with drug runners from Mexico but just six came from the suspects, authorities admitted. In a show of power which appears to have been massively
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Turkey’s PM Erdogan reverses position on Syria Map of Jisr al-Shughour in Syria and Yayladagi in Turkey Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now condemned, in the harshest terms, the man he used
BigPeace.com contributor Charles C. Johnson has won the Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award for a series of articles uncovering the radical views of Claremont McKenna College professor Bassam Frangieh. Johnson exposed Frangieh’s support for the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah,
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Sounding like a board member for Greenpeace, Iran’s nuclear-war threatening President explained at a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) that all environmental problems are caused by capitalism. “The main factor behind the destruction of the environment is the
Vietnam has reported that China on Thursday of intentionally rammed and damaged a Vietnamese research ship operating within Vietnamese waters, in a “premeditated” incident, according to Bloomberg. The attacked ship was a survey ship operated by Vietnam Oil & Gas
This is pretty chilling stuff. It is well documented proof that the Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, has meted out retribution against those who are fighting against his regime. He’s employed conventional arms such as tanks, jets, and attack helicopters against
Two troubling stories, both from Pennsylvania via the Associated Press, that should make our blood boil. They may give their lives for their country, but they can’t wear their uniforms to graduation. WEXFORD, Pa. — A 17-year-old Marine is upset
In Moscow officials are looking to deploy public toilets that can, well, withstand a bomb blast. (After all, no one wants their last minutes on earth to be, well…) The new system will also automatically alert Emergency Services if the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Nato says that air campaign will now directly target Gaddafi in Libya The U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the humanitarian mission in Libya says that “all necessary measures” could be used to protect civilians.
