Syria pursues scorched earth policy, amid rumors of U.S. military intervention As thousands of families in northern Syria flee from their homes, many across the border into Turkey, army tanks widened the military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar
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
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
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
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his country will will accept the hundreds of refugees fleeing violence in Syria, according to AFP: Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday (AP) “At this point, it is out
In my most recent book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (completed July 4, 2010), I argued that civil societies in the Greater Middle East (GME) and Arab World had reached a “critical stage” in their
The wave of unrest sweeping Syria will drive President Bashar Assad from power and severely weaken the Islamist regime in Tehran, a prominent dissident predicts. “It is a certainty the Assad regime will fall,” said Farid Ghadry, president of the
Last year, on May 28, 2010 – the Friday before Memorial Day – Obama’s administration was forced to address the issue of its offering a job to Rep. Joe Sestak in return for the congressman dropping out of his senatorial
Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to my initial manifesto from my fellow Liberals, I’ve decided to expand it. In addition, it appears my first article was mistaken for satire of some kind. I can assure readers I am quite
There are very legitimate arguments being made that Barack Obama is in blatant violation of a law that was passed over Richard Nixon’s veto – the 1973 War Powers Act. By aligning himself with Nixon over an issue the most
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Bitter fights over Greece’s debt deepen Europe’s financial crisis Some analysts are comparing Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou to the mythical Sisyphus, because every time he does something to try to reduce Greece’s debt,
While the lovers and supporters of Israel both on the right and the left celebrate the diplomatic victory of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu over President Barack Obama, the prospects for Israel in regards to its security and standing in the
Call it “The Schakowsky Conundrum.” Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky finds herself in the unfortunate position of battling the very Progressive movement she has done so much to help shape. You see, she is a Progressive Zionist, and that puts her
Jack Stuef, the Wonkette writer behind the “Trig is retarded” piece which ended up costing Wonkette the entirety of its advertisers (Blogads remains because they have to: they co-own the turkey but can only get the Clintonista astroturf ads nowadays)
As the IMF gets ready to choose a successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned following his arrest on charges that he sexually assaulted and raped a hotel housekeeper, it would be a good thing to step back for a moment
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. EU official proposes ‘soft’ default of Greece’s debt Top level European officials have been studiously avoiding any suggestion of a default on Greece debt, for fear that stating the obvious would panic investors. Instead,
The warming relations between Turkey and Iran have been troubling to the West, but there is great potential for dispute between the two countries. Recep Tayyip Erdogan In fact, the basic interests of Ankara and Tehran collide, in some if
As the United States tries to deal with its own immigration problems on the border with Mexico, the growth of right-wing nationalism in Europe is creating a crisis that strikes at the very heart of the EU project. A highly
Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968), a serious and intellectually honest scholar of both Ottoman and Republican Turkey, described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization more than 40 years before today’s “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated
From Agence France-Presse: Turkey is demolishing a monument built to promote friendship with neighboring Armenia. For decades, relations between the two countries have been soured by the massacre of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Turkey braces for possible refugee influx from Syria Syrian tanks and armored vehicles (CNN) The Syrian military has arrested hundreds of protesters, and killed about 500. As it prepares for this week’s massive demonstrations
For those who wish, please watch this quick clip then read the article: [youtube 74_Vhqwz-lo nolink] —– Superman was created by the sons of Jewish immigrants – Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and they had a love for America. When
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. N. Ireland security forces find caches of bombmaking equipment Security forces in Northern Ireland have found three caches of weapons and bombmaking equipment in two days as police on both sides of the Irish
He joined in the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, enduring a beating from Hosni Mubarak’s forces while trying to topple a dictator. Mahmoud Salem’s hopes for Egypt’s future have everything to do with pluralism and economic growth and nothing to
A few days ago I met Minister Benny Begin and interviewed him for Giyus.org. In light of the swift turn of events in the Middle East, Minister Begin was able to crystallize the main issues with cutting clarity. From the
