By MICHAEL WILNER, Fund to address turmoil in region; criticized by some members of Congress for being too high given lack of political plan. NEW YORK – Built in to President Obama’s budget proposal for 2014 is a $580 million contingency fund to address the turmoil roiling the Middle East and North Africa, to … Continue reading »
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NO to Senator Chuck Hagel
Consider this: – In August 2006, Hagel was one of only 12 Senators who refused to write the EU asking them to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization. – In October 2000, Hagel was one of only 4 Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel. – In November 2001, Hagel was one … Continue reading »
#Senate Democrats Hold Up Human Rights Legislation Wheres #Obama?
By Faith J. H. McDonnell Recently, U.S. Representative Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urging the State Department not to block legislation on the creationof a special envoy to focus on persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East and South Central Asia. Introduced by Wolf and U.S. Rep. Anna … Continue reading »
Obama’s Muslim adviser criticizes Assad for not being able to deliver “resistance to Israel”
Obama selected Dalia Mogahed as an adviser on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is an open advocate of Sharia, so it’s no surprise that she supports the Syrian revolutionaries, who are the same as the other “Arab Spring” revolutionaries: pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists. But for her to characterize Assad as not … 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 »
Iranian general urges Afghanistan to fight U.S.
Mullah’s are starting to really push their luck… (AP) TEHRAN: A senior Iranian military commander urged Afghans on Saturday to use force to kick American troops out of their country, hinting that “new resistance groups” could launch attacks on U.S. interests in Afghanistan. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, a senior figure in the powerful Revolutionary Guard … Continue reading »
What if moment: A nuclear detonation over Washington DC
It is perhaps unsurprising that a nuclear bomb set off in the nation’s capital would cause devastating and widespread damage. Yet the simple conclusion did not put the government off, and they commissioned a report to assess the impact of a potential terror attack on Washington, D.C. The results are far from comforting: the half-mile … Continue reading »
Iran cut off from global financial system
BRUSSELS (AP) — Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. The action is meant to enforce European Unionsanctions, as global financial transactions are … Continue reading »
Khamenei’s Strength Could Be a Vulnerability
At a time when the international community’s attention is focused on Tehran‘s nuclear program, Iranian politicians are more preoccupied by the country’s increasingly dysfunctional politics. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appears to undercutting many government institutions, including the presidency, leaving him more directly in charge. An important indicator of how far this process will go is … Continue reading »
If Egypt doesnt want peace,Time to retake the Sinai
If Egypt doesn’t want peace,Time to retake the Sinai..The clean out Gaza with targeted hits on all the top 10 leadership of every little gang of thugs all the way up to Hamas, then when you examine whats left, if they have a record deport them to Egypt. Knock the population down to around 500,000 … Continue reading »
Options for military intervention in Syria
Since the outset of the Syria crisis in March 2011 there has been little appetite for outside military intervention. This has been based on two assessments. By Jonathan Marcus BBC diplomatic correspondent Firstly, that the situation on the ground in Syria is in many ways very different from that in Libya – the opposition is … Continue reading »
Iran Senses Western Weakness
As the clock ticks closer to a nuclear-armed Iran, the Western powers are girding their loins for––more talks. Actually, they’re getting ready to talk to Iran about the conditions for talking some more. EU foreign policy head Catherine Ashton announced that the “P5 + 1” powers (the permanent Security Council membersplus Germany) hoped to persuade … Continue reading »
Assad revives father’s extreme torture methods in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assadhas taken out the torture toolkit his father once employed as he engages in the most widespread and appalling abuses his country has suffered in decades in an effort to put down a year-old rebellion. “In terms of the number of people being tortured, and the level of torture and the type, … Continue reading »
Russia told to warn Iran of last chance to avoid military strikes
The United States has asked Russia to warn Iranit has a last chance in negotiations expected in April to avoid military strikes against its nuclear program, a report said on Wednesday. Russia’s Kommersant daily said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the talks between Iran and world … Continue reading »
Obama Has Surrendered to Iran.. Already
It’s vital for Americans to realize that Obama has already surrendered the defense of the civilized world. We know that, because the critical window of opportunity to prevent Iranian nukes has been closing, closing, closing. The risk of preventive action is getting greater by the day, which means that the optimal time for intervention is … Continue reading »
The New York Times shows it’s unprofessionalism… Again
In between bashing everything Israeli and/or Jewish the New York Times(NYT) has showed that they are only in it for the money, because they surely have zero journalistic integrity anymore..From Pam over at Atlas Shrugs: Did you see the virulently anti-Catholic ad that ran in the New York Times last week? That ad inspired AFDI/SIOA, … Continue reading »
