According to The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, The U.S. Government must suspend aid, particularly military aid, to any country suffering a military coup. (Sec. 508). SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Egypt -- the [Egyptian] military does get this $1.3 billion of [U.S.] aid,...
In Oslo, the world’s most important peace prize has been hijacked for war.In London, government authority has just fired a new shot at freedom of the press.And in Washington, the Obama administration continues to escalate its attacks on whistleblowers, journalism and...
Following up on Kelley Vlahos's brilliant post about the ongoing failure of the U.S.'s vaunted surge in Iraq, an important question arises as to why Iraq remains on the verge of civil war. It is not, as many seem to think, for mysterious and complex reasons that are...
Think back a couple weeks and recall the political narratives accompanying Obama's pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, the journalist and Harvard scholar at the forefront of the debate over humanitarian interventions for the past decade....
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy: With blood in Egypt's streets and a return to a state of emergency, it's time for Washington to stop pretending. Its efforts to maintain its lines of communication with the Egyptian military, quietly mediate the crisis, and help lay the...
As of July 1st, there have been 1,405 people killed in Iraq, mostly civilians. That number is likely to change by the time you read this -- just yesterday, 45 people died as a result of numerous terror attacks across the country. One bomb had been planted near a cafe,...
In a new report, the International Crisis Group suggests the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani does present a potential diplomatic opening, and that the U.S. should organize direct bilateral engagement with Iran (as opposed to the hollow P5+1). "Now is not...
Massive protests are planned for tomorrow, August 14, in Bahrain. The dictator and king of Bahrain, also a close friend and ally of the United States, issued this warning ahead of the planned demonstrations: "The government will forcefully confront suspect calls to...
Obama's Syria policy is fundamentally one of contradictions. Back in 2011, the president called for Bashar al-Assad to step down and proceeded to gradually support the armed rebellion. As Joshua Landis, professor at the University of Oklahoma and an expert on...
Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Fox Business to discuss the latest revelations about NSA spying on Americans. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
