This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Suicide bombers target Egypt’s police after massive street riots on Sunday Turkey builds a wall along the border with Syria Russia’s divine sense of exceptionalism Suicide bombers target Egypt’s police after massive street riots
Comments on Monday by Secretary of State John Kerry crediting the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad with initial cooperation with international chemical weapons monitors leave no doubt that the United States now has a stake in shoring up the Assad
(AP) Al-Qaida claims rare attacks in northern IraqBAGHDADAl-Qaida’s local branch in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a spate of suicide attacks last month in the northern, relatively peaceful self-ruled Kurdish region. The Sept. 29 bombings killed at least six security
In an interview with Spiegel magazine Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he has yet to decide to whether he will run for re-election in 2014. He said he was not “in a position” to make that call at the moment.
In response to The NPS Government Shutdown Contingency Plan: No doubt Obama’s loyal followers will soon be pushing the Empty Chair defense. They’ll tell us Obama is as surprised as the rest of us by these outrages. He’ll probably say
Al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups in Syria attacked Saidnaya, an ancient Christian city in Syria. The men come from the Yabroud and Lebanese mountains and one raid killed a Catholic man. The city is positioned in the mountains just north of
One fun thing about watching electoral politics is that it soon becomes clear who has won and who has lost. Elections are completely binary; one party enjoys the thrill of victory, the other suffers the agony of defeat. You’re either
Members of Kofi Annan’s 2012 diplomatic team to Syria claim President Obama had as much momentum for meaningful action in Syria during June 2012 as “[Secretary of State John] Kerry achieved a year later on chemical weapons.” That opportunity was
A new report by an Israeli security research institute warns that Al Qaeda is in the process of constructing its main regional Middle East base in Syria, from which it plans to export terrorism and Islamic radicalism to nearby states
Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sacked a Melkite Greek-Catholic Church in the Syrian town of al-Raqqa. The Melkites follow the Roman Catholic pope but use the rituals of the Greek Orthodox. They have remained
On Sept. 7, Pope Francis declared a day of prayer and fasting to urge national leaders to come to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Syria. The Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church spoke passionately in his homily
White House: President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speak to the press after a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office to discuss the progress on final status negotiations with the Palestinians, and developments in Iran, Syria, and elsewhere in
A patriotic Russian group on Tuesday called for President Vladimir Putin to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his Syria diplomacy, claiming he was more deserving of the award than laureate US President Barack Obama. A group that lists
Speaking at the United Nations on the subject of Iranian nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu altered Ronald Reagan’s famous statement on Soviet militarism, “trust but verify.” Instead, Netanyahu said, the world should “distrust, dismantle, and verify.” He stated:
President Barack Obama told National Public Radio recently: “I shouldn’t have to offer anything.” That sounds tough, but those are words the president and his party may live to regret. As Republicans scrambled to find a way to pass funding
(AP) BEIRUTAn al-Qaida spokesman is accusing Western-backed rebels fighting to topple the Syrian government of “stealing” credit for battlefield victories from his group. Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, a spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, says commanders of the
(AP) MOSCOW Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists during a press conference that the West should help encourage those rebels who don’t harbor “extremist or terrorist views” to join the talks to settle the 2 1/2-year conflict. The U.N. Security Council,
Though the media and the Democrats are describing the hours-old partial federal government shutdown as if Republicans can be expected to cave on their positions at any moment, it is far more likely that the shutdown will continue through the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Terrorist attack in northwest Pakistan 3rd Sunday in a row Venezuela blames disastrous economy on U.S. economic ‘sabotage’ I know that this is hard to believe, but there’s actually been news inother places around
The al-Qaeda affiliated group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) told the girls in a Syrian village they control that they cannot attend school unless they wear Islamic clothing. The boys were told to wear traditional Islamic clothing
President Barack Obama’s telephone call with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani took place on the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s appeal to Adolf Hitler for peace in Europe. Roosevelt urged that “negotiations [between Germany and Czechoslovakia] be continued until
The End is Nigh. So say the media, counting down the seconds to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government. Certainly Americans will miss some federal functions, and the media will focus eagerly on victims–real and imaginary–of the impasse (though,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Algeria cracks down on jihadists headed for Syria In a major shift, Mali becomes the new jihadist training ground Top 50 tools to safeguard your personal information Algeria cracks down on jihadists headed for
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama today, he will do so against the backdrop of vastly changed circumstances. President Obama’s bungling of the Syria crisis has established that the U.S. is no longer a deterrent force
Former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm says she finds it “mind-blowing” that Tea Party House Republican are acting less “rationally” than Iran and Syria on ABC’s “This Week.”
