Everyone needs a hobby. For most reporters, it seems to be freaking out about anything even vaguely ISIS-seeming. That's where CaliphateBook comes in, which is supposed Facebook, but for ISIS. Cute, right? The site itself started as an incomplete CMS site, then...
The original idea of the CIA was to have independent-minded experts assessing both short- and longer-term threats to U.S. national security. Mixing with operations and politics was always a danger, which is now highlighted by CIA Director Brennan’s reorganization,...
When Benjamin Netanyahu looked out over the joint session of Congress that had assembled to hear him speak on March 3, the Israeli prime minister almost caught a glimpse of something unusual: empty seats.That would’ve been a rarity in Washington, where bipartisan...
After weeks of buildup, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally delivered his long-planned speech to a joint meeting of Congress, attacking President Obama’s deal with Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. Asserting that the agreement would only empower...
The leniency shown former CIA Director (and retired General) David Petraeus by the Justice Department in sparing him prison time for the serious crimes that he has committed puts him in the same preferential, immune-from-incarceration category as those running the...
Western media are constantly reporting a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine as an undisputed fact. That no one ever sees these troops is just one of life's little mysteries, as seemingly ever article just shows a couple of pictures of single unidentified camouflage...
This video should go viral. It is from the Israeli media. Watch, laugh – and cry. (It is preceded by a 15-second commercial in Hebrew.) Now let’s be serious. First, the Congress is completely humiliated, dancing to the tune of Netanyahu who is the representative of a...
As a supine Congress sitting inside a scaffolded dome applauded Benjamin Netanyahu calling to reject a peace deal with Iran, DOJ quietly announced it had reached a plea deal with former CIA Director David Petraeus for leaking Top Secret/Secure Compartmented...
When was the last time you heard of a major speech to Congress taking place in the morning? It rarely happens. Why is Netanyahu speaking so early? The answer is that the speech is mostly aimed at the Israeli public, who are headed to the polls in two weeks to elect a...
Do the creatures of the Warfare State feel shame, regret, remorse, guilt, or penitence? I have a hard time believing they can, but if they can leverage those same feelings among the population into supporting endless foreign intervention, they will make vigorous use...
