National Security

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced that he has scheduled a committee vote Tuesday on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the post of Secretary of Defense. Sen. John

The bipartisan comity of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has served the country well for several decades, is in danger as Democrats vow to push through Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on party lines. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ),

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the

In a rather unsettling situation, an Iranian-American is functioning as an interlocutor between Iran’s leaders and the U.S. Defense Department. Amir Mohammad Estakhri, who lives in Southern California, has been an interpreter for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for interviews Ahmadinejad

Reports indicate that Iran and Hezbollah are “building a network of militias inside Syria to protect their interests” should Syrian President Bashar al-Assad capitulate or have his government overrun. The militias are currently fighting side-by-side with Assad’s forces–trying to ensure

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Surprise rebel attack in Gao signals resurgence of Mali violence Iran and Hizbollah build militia networks in Syria Ethnic tensions grow in Kenya as March 4 elections approach Surprise rebel attack in Gao signals

Obama is gearing up to sign off “on an internal review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy” that contains a directive cutting our nuclear arsenal by a third.  The directive was created last year, and reports indicate that political advisers in

Amid reports that former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) may be withdrawing his name from consideration for Secretary of Defense, one of Hagel’s aides has issued a clear statement: “There is absolutely no truth to the notion that Senator Hagel might

New footage of a speech by Chuck Hagel in 2008 has surfaced, in which the former Senator mocked the idea of continuing the U.S. policy of confronting Iran and supporting Israel. “When I hear the talk about–well you can’t talk

(AP) Tunisia: Pressure grows on Islamists to end crisisTUNIS, TunisiaCalm is returning to the streets of Tunisia’s capital, even as pressure is growing on the governing Islamists to find a solution to the country’s biggest crisis since it set off

(AP) New US commander takes the helm in AfghanistanBy PATRICK QUINNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanMarine Gen. Joseph Dunford took over Sunday as the new and probably last commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. The American-led NATO coalition is entering

Four Chinese ships were spotted on Sunday in disputed East China Sea waters, Japanese officials said, as Tokyo considered disclosing video footage and pictures as evidence of a Chinese frigate’s alleged radar-lock incident. For the first time after Tokyo made

Armed men killed three Chinese doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in Nigeria’s volatile northeastern town of Potiskum, police said. Residents said the Chinese were employees of the state ministry of health and had been in the volatile city for

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Tunisia’s government crisis grows with pro-government rally Growing tensions in Tunisia reflect the fault line across the ‘Arab Spring’ Food fraud surges in America and Europe Tunisia’s government crisis grows with pro-government rally Ennahda

A well-known Egyptian Salafi preacher, Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam,” posted an online video on Wednesday on his private television channel in which he said the women protesters who were raped and sexually harassed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square

(AP) – Syrian troops backed by warplanes battled rebels for control of a key highway in Damascus Saturday, a day after opposition forces cut the strategic artery as part of what they say are efforts to lay the groundwork for

The growing scandal surrounding Sen. Bob Menendez began with allegations of visits to the Dominican Republic to cavort with prostitutes. If the allegations are true, then Sen. Menendez is just the highest profile sex tourist. It isn’t uncommon for adults

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in his Senate testimony Thursday that he and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey supported arming Syria’s rebels, but President Obama rejected the idea.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former

Throughout the weeks between Sept. 11 and election day in Nov. 2012, President Obama claimed he acted the minute he found out the attack on the Benghazi consulate was taking place.  However, in his Thursday testimony before the Senate, Secretary

(AFP) – A 7.0 magnitude quake shook southern Colombia Saturday and was felt as far away as Quito, Ecuador, authorities said. The quake, occurring at a depth of 129 kilometers (80 miles) at 1416 GMT, was located 11 kilometers (7

(AP) – A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the YouTube website for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world, but the ruling can be appealed and based

(AP) – Assailants fired rockets and mortar rounds at a refugee camp for Iranian exiles outside Baghdad on Saturday, killing six people and wounding dozens, police and a camp spokesman said. Nearly three dozen rockets and mortar shells struck the

(AP) – Germany’s education minister resigned Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis — an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as it prepares for elections later this year. Merkel

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Hong Kong’s poor people live in metal cages Panetta: A cyber attack may be the next Pearl Harbor Comments and questions on the Libor-rigging scandal Generation-Xers versus Boomers Egypt’s PM warns women to clean

The revelations that came out of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week in regards to the Benghazi attack will be a turning point in this investigation.   Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified that he was not in contact with President