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 Muslim Brotherhood’s mask is slipping in Egypt. Small “d” democrats there and elsewhere are alarmed by top Brotherhood officials who now aver openly what has been utterly predictable: Once in power they will impose shariah – the totalitarian, supremacist
Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld
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From Defense News: WASHINGTON – NATO is running short of precision bombs and other munitions in its Libyan operation against the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, The Washington Post reported April 15. Citing unnamed senior NATO and U.S. officials,
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Pravda reports: France on Sunday temporarily closed its southern borders to trains carrying hundreds of North African immigrants from Italy, evoking a strong response from Rome. The French government’s move to block the trains from entering France through Menton had
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pakistan and India release each other’s fishing prisoners On Monday, India released 39 Pakistani prisoners who had allegedly been fishing in India’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. Pakistan released 89 Indian prisoners who
Exactly what kind of foreign policy are we getting from the Obama Administration? Some say its a repeat of the Carter Administration. Others say Obama’s a neocon at heart. Still others think he’s an anti-colonialist. I contend they are all
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The U.S. could have decisively obliterated all of Afghanistan within the last few months of 2001 if the nation still fought wars the way they should be fought. But the country doesn’t do that any longer because political correctness has
After one month of atrocities and bloody suppression of protests under his orders, killing over 200 people, President Bashar al-Assad took a more conciliatory tone in a televised speech to the nation on Saturday, according to CNN. Bashar al-Assad in
Britain’s Telegraph reports: “The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said that not covering the face is a “shortcoming” and suggested that any Muslims who advocate being uncovered could be guilty of rejecting Islam. In a statement published on its website
Today’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Nato is running short of precision bombs in Libya A month ago, when the Libya campaign began, it was expected to end quickly, and the United States, which was already involved in two wars in
I have no idea why U.S. Armed Forces are in Libya, or why anyone would think that such a thing is a good idea. I want Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi dead but the U.S. could have accomplished that long ago
Last Friday (April 1st) Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival held a press conference in the First Amendment room of the National Press Club titled “Al-Jazeera, Global Jihad, and the Suicide of the West“. This conference was held to highlight the
My son was programmed and trained to kill by radical Islam.” Jihadists “stole my son. They raped his mind. They changed his thoughts, they changed his behavior…and they manipulated him. He is no longer Carlos; he is Abdulhakim. I ask
It was an honor for the Bergen County (NJ) Tea Party (http://www.njteapartycoalition.org/) to ask me to deliver a speech at the Tax Day Event on the Green at the Hackensack Courthouse. What a great event. Great speakers like Barbara from
Fresh on the heels of the Burka ban, the French Parliament is considering a bill that would ban the display of any foreign flag. Connexion France reports: “WAVING or displaying foreign flags in France could become an offence if an
A few weeks ago, ThinkProgess’ blogger Matt Duss collaborated with someone named Wajahat Ali, a Huffington Post writer, to produce a white paper, “Understanding Sharia Law: Conservatives’ Skewed Interpretation Needs Debunking.” The paper was a response to the success of
The United States has spilled blood and treasure in Afghanistan. But Iran has apparently bought more leverage by going straight to the top: giving cash to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. The Washington Times has a report, based on an interview
Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian pro-Palestinian activist who has been living in Gaza for three years, was abducted and killed on Thursday. A Salafist militant group called Al-Tawhid and Al-Jihad took credit, according to VOA. They offered to spare Arrigoni’s life
In early April (PIT/TIP) Policia International Transfonteriza and The Transborder International Police had their 5th annual Training Conference in Houston, Texas. Few Americans have a full appreciation for the degree of Drug violence along the US Mexican border. The mission
041211 NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION BREAKFAST FORUM WITH SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ), ON “SENATE PERSPECTIVES ON IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE.” (For additional information on NDUF/NDIA forums contact Peter Huessy at huessyp@nduf.org) [This is
Editor’s Note: John Xenakis will be writing a regular column titled “Word View” to keep you up to date on the news headlines around the world. You can visit his website here. Gaddafi using cluster bombs on residential areas in
Mark F. Giuliano assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, painted a troubling portrait of the jihadist threat in a Thursday afternoon address. Speaking to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Giuliano focused on two particular dangers: al-Qaida and
