Since taking office in 2009, the Obama administration has made cybersecurity a major area of policy focus. The past year in particular has seen a dramatic expansion of governmental awareness of cyberspace as a new domain of conflict. In practice, however, this attention is still uneven. To date, it has focused largely on network protection … Continue reading »
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5 Secrets Anonymous Should Steal From China
Over the last few weeks, the hacker collective Anonymous has shifted its attention to China. On March 30, Anonymous China defaced the first five of what would soon be hundreds of business and a few minor official websites, warning the Chinese government that it is “not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be … Continue reading »
Pyongyang’s Skillful Deterrence
U.S.–North Korea relations recently enjoyed 16 optimistic days: between February 29, when Pyongyang signed the “Leap Day” arms control agreement with the United States, and March 16, when it announced plans to conduct the very kind of rocket launch that it had just forsworn. Reacting to the announcement of the satellite launch, which is … Continue reading »
Kim Jong-un’s first provocation—Why the U.S. should respond forcibly
In a less-than-shocking turn of events, North Korea has announced that it will launch a satellite into orbit next month. This launch, as with the last satellite launch, will amount to a ballistic missile test; United Nations Security Council resolutions have banned such launches. Better yet, Pyongyang has said it will launch the missile southward—potentially … Continue reading »
Total Iranian Regime Change
What this means is that the first time in 2013 when The Iranian Parliament is in full session with all 300 top leaders in attendance, we simply “surprise attack” the building and wipe the real cancer off the map. Now were getting somewhere… Though I would still demolish all the suspect sites, they can keep … Continue reading »
Iran’s Final Words: We’ll never suspend nuke activities
Iran‘s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed Thursday that his country “is ready to re-engage with IAEA,” amid growing pressure from world powers over its nuclear program, CNN reported. Nevertheless, the Iranian official stressed that the Islamic Republic “will never ever suspend our nuclear activities,” insisting that the program is exclusively for peaceful … Continue reading »
Cargo containers in transit: the Iranian threat
Iran has been transferring large quantities of armaments to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. In recent years, Iran has been transferring large quantities of armaments, by various means, to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. While United Nations Security Council resolutions 1835, 1803, 1747 and 1737 strictly forbid Iran to export or … Continue reading »
North Korea’s New ICBM, Progress on light-water reactor
Recent congressional testimony confirmed North Korea’s development of a new long-range, road-mobile missile that can reach American shores, increasing the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States. “There is development within North Korea of a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system that we’ve observed,” Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, … Continue reading »
The Obama Domino Doctrine
Obama has his own Domino Doctrine for the Muslim world. As a consequence of this doctrine, Obama’s Iranian Nuclear policy can be summed up as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” and Saudi Arabia is in even more danger than Israel.h/t Arutz Sheva Remember, for one second, in January 2011, before even a dozen … Continue reading »
Robert Spencer Interview at CPAC
Robert Spencer speaks with Faith in Public Life on Mitt Romney and Religious Freedom including Islam and it’s rise with the Muslim Brotherhood at CPAC Related articles At Geller-Spencer’s CPAC Panel, Anti-Muslim Activist Says He’s Proud of Attacks on Mosques (littlegreenfootballs.com) CPAC: Islamic Law in America (atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com) Live Video: Mitt Romney Speaks at CPAC, … Continue reading »
No Hotline to Tehran
It is neither premature nor defeatist for the United States to start preparing for the possibility that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons. It is not inevitable. But the longer Americans wait to engage in an honest and calm debate about a nuclear-armed Iran, the less prepared they will be should that fateful day arrive. … Continue reading »
Text of proposed UN resolution on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Text of the proposed U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed Saturday by Russia and China: List of Co-Sponsors: Morocco, France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Portugal, Colombia, Togo, Libya, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Turkey. The Security Council, Recalling its presidential statement of … Continue reading »
Did Iran bribe China to torpedo U.N. vote?
JERUSALEM – According to a senior Egyptian security official speaking to WND, Iran offered China a deal to purchase oil at a cheaper price in exchange for vetoing a U.N. resolution today that called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign. by Aaron Klein for WND: Assad’s regime has been facing a violent insurgency. The … Continue reading »
Time to End North Korea Genocide
Has North Korea violated the international norm known as the Responsibility to Protect to the point that intervention is warranted? I would argue the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Certainly, North Korea is believed to have committed acts that many would consider genocide, including executions and state-sanctioned murders, the systematic use of torture, state-induced mass … Continue reading »
How Iran could beat up on America’s superior military
America’s defense budget is roughly 90 times bigger than Iran’s. But Iran has a well-honed strategy of asymmetric warfare. Tehran has stepped up its bellicose warnings of conflict in the Persian Gulf as potentially crippling new European Union and American sanctions have been approved on Iran’s oil exports and central bank. The US defied … Continue reading »
EU sanctions against Iran
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Here is an outline of EU sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. New sanctions were imposed Monday. MONDAY’S STEPS A ban on the transport, purchase and import into Europe of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products and related finance and insurance. Contracts already concluded can be executed until July 1 and … Continue reading »
