Washington is notoriously a one-crisis town. And it may well be that the growing concern over Russian aggression in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s threats to other former Soviet-occupied areas in Central and Eastern Europe will soak up all the … [Read more...] about Why “Benghazi”?*
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Rewriting Cuban History
Left: Maureen O'Hara, Fidel Castro, and Alec Guinness in 1959 Review of The Longest Romance, The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro by Humberto Fontova. New York: Encounter Books, 2013. 259 p., $25.99 Humberto Fontova has written another book on … [Read more...] about Rewriting Cuban History
The Transformation of American Intelligence*
Review of 'The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth' by Mark Mazzetti. New York: Penguin Press, 2013, 381 p. $29.95 After twelve years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s difficult to remember how it … [Read more...] about The Transformation of American Intelligence*
The Cyber Threat Industry: Into the Darknet*
Deep in shadowy chat rooms, where normal users never visit, there’s an entirely different world. Its denizens conduct their business secretly, keeping their distance from journalists and information security experts who try to meddle in their … [Read more...] about The Cyber Threat Industry: Into the Darknet*
Leadership as a Last Resort*
The United States has been punching well below its weight for five years, and that’s got to stop. It is hardly surprising that in its second term the Obama Administration lacks a coherent international strategy. There was none in the first term … [Read more...] about Leadership as a Last Resort*
Al Qaeda’s Expanding Caliphate *
The successors to Mohammed as leaders of the Muslim religion bore the title of "Caliph". The Caliphate has undergone numerous historical transformations and was never recognized by the Shiites, who claim that the legitimate line was cut short by … [Read more...] about Al Qaeda’s Expanding Caliphate *
Anti-Semitism and Alternative History – Weapons in the War Against the Jews
Hatred of Judaism and the Jews is an intellectual creation. Its foundations were laid in ancient times by historians, writers, poets, philosophers and artists long before Christianity added the theological dimension. Since then it has been the one … [Read more...] about Anti-Semitism and Alternative History – Weapons in the War Against the Jews
American Internationalists and the Real World
Americans’ contemporary thinking about the international political mess has the tendency to group the elites in the West as right or left, and ignore the distinction within political and religious blocs. And despite the evidence, many in the West, … [Read more...] about American Internationalists and the Real World
American LNG to the Rescue! Not Exactly.*
When Secretary of State John Kerry tried to lead an LNG posse to rescue the Europeans, blackmailed in the Ukraine affair by their heavy dependence on Russian natural gas, his bluff was soon called. True, the U.S. has a growing natural gas surplus. … [Read more...] about American LNG to the Rescue! Not Exactly.*
Will Korea Be the Next Ukraine?
Washington’s eyes may be on the latest developments in the Keystone pipeline dispute and the Crimean Peninsula crisis, but a bigger story is unfolding, involving an entirely different pipeline and an entirely different peninsula. In a swift move to … [Read more...] about Will Korea Be the Next Ukraine?