The Obama Admniistration has for months been railing against Russian "interference" because the Russian Federation has been advocating a federal system in Ukraine as a way of increasing regional autonomy in the face of secessionist rebellions. Never let it be said...
Somewhat lost in the first-hand account of last week's helicopter crash by NY Times reporter Alissa Rubin, who was injured in the incident, was a potentially important revelation about the attacks on the Iraqi Yazidi minority. The pilot really made a big impression....
Early today we reported, on the basis of reports from other media outlets and a confirmation by Nineveh Governor Atheel Nujaifi, that the Mosul Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in Iraq, was seized by ISIS from Kurdish forces. The following image appears to have been...
Over the weekend, Professor David Bernstein penned an article for the Washington Post accusing the media of "journalistic malpractice" for using Gaza Health Ministry figures on civilian deaths in the Israeli onslaught, insisting they were inflated. And I quote...
Orchestrating a military coup against a demcoratically elected government, leading a junta that killed thousands of protesters and has sentenced many more to death for organizing those protests, Egypt's incoming president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is worried people think...
Speaking Thursday at a State Department dinner, Secretary of State John Kerry said of Nigeria that "only the United States is there offering the assistance to help find those young woman," adding "other countries, not only aren't they invited, but they did not even...
With an eye on the New Cold War, NATO officials have been examining existing defense plans and are finding, much to the delight of those advocating more spending, a stark reality: the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are not prepared to fight off a...
Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R - NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and former Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin 51% to 45%. A Congressman since 1995, Rep. Jones was challenged almost...
Determined not to let a good piece of rhetoric go to waste just because it was untrue and discredited nearly 24 hours ago, Western media outlets are running frenzied stories about Jews in the protester-held Eastern Ukraine cities being forced to register, providing a...
I love a good argument too, but I think the Crimea situation is less about race, nationalism and the East-West divide than it is economics. Crimea is dirt poor, even by Ukranian standards, and was intensely dependent on government aid. The regime change brought about...
