Despite President Obama’s outreach to the new president of Iran, Islamic radicals walked over a U.S. flag and spat on Obama’s image on their way to prayers on Friday. Mashregh, the media outlet of the Revolutionary Guards, published a photo of the … [Read more...] about As U.S. Touts Thaw in Iran Relations, Iranians Spit on Obama Image, Prepare for ‘Death to America’ Day
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Political Correctness: Picasso, Stalin, and ObamaCare
One of the marvels this amateur historian has found musing over intellectual trends through a long life is how concepts float back and forth, as often as not taking on new meaning about which their contemporary utilizers haven't a clue. An … [Read more...] about Political Correctness: Picasso, Stalin, and ObamaCare
GAO: U.S. Cities Not Ready for Nuclear Terrorism
General Accountability Office NUCLEAR TERRORISM RESPONSE PLANS: Major Cities Could Benefit from Federal Guidance on Responding to Nuclear and Radiological Attacks, September 30, 2013 [Highlights] Many emergency managers from the 27 major cities … [Read more...] about GAO: U.S. Cities Not Ready for Nuclear Terrorism
Welcome to the Age of Space and Cyber Warfare
Below is Col. "Coyote" Smith's presentation from the American Center for Democracy's symposium on "Energy, Space and Cyber Security-Current and Future Threats," on September 30, 2013. Col. Smith's enlightening and sobering presentation highlights the … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Age of Space and Cyber Warfare
The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior
This important study by Harold Rhode was first published in Agusut 2010. Rhode, former Defense Department official and Middle East scholar put together a prescient analysis of Iranian negotiating strategies. Iran's new president Hassan Rohani, who … [Read more...] about The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior
Egypt’s Muslim Sisterhood
The perdurability of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) is explained by more than a half-century's effort to penetrate and control the professions (doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, etc.); the influence of Muslim clerics and their control … [Read more...] about Egypt’s Muslim Sisterhood
The Al-Nusra Front
The Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) is an Al-Qaeda Salafist-jihadi network, prominent in the rebel organizations in Syria. From the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center Overview Al-Qaeda Entrenchment in Syria 1. During the … [Read more...] about The Al-Nusra Front
No Executive Order Gun Control . . . Please!
Secretary of State John Kerry signed the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty against the clear wishes of the U.S. Senate-there were 51 votes against it last March. Now it will be important for the Senate to refuse to ratify this ill-advised treaty which … [Read more...] about No Executive Order Gun Control . . . Please!
Hassan Rouhani’s Offensive Charm
Like all delusional disorders, the U.S. administration's and the media's delusions regarding Iranian Hassan Rouhani's "reformist" agenda seem cureless. His snubbing of Obama at the U.N. General Assembly was excused as "too complicated" for Iran. His … [Read more...] about Hassan Rouhani’s Offensive Charm
The Shiite-Sunni Violent Rift Feared to Spill Over to US and Canada
The Islamic revolutions in the Arab world, known as the Arab Spring (or Islamic Winter), deepened furthermore the split between Shia and Sunnis, the two major and rival denominations of Islam. In Syria, the prolonged bloody conflict between the … [Read more...] about The Shiite-Sunni Violent Rift Feared to Spill Over to US and Canada