By Sheda Vasseghi The Islamic Republic’s two-prong strategy of chaos to remain in power involves destruction of Iranian heritage and culture while using Iranian people’s national funds to support projects in troubled countries beset by corrupt regimes or extreme poverty. Of course, buying followers and believers from among the most miserable parts of the world […]
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the Berlin Wall story, which I covered for the Associated Press 50 years ago, is its spiritual dimension. I did not realize this then, on Aug. 13, 1961, when the East Germans began building this monstrous structure to stop the mass exodus of its citizens to […]
As we watch the election results pour in from Wisconsin, where public sector unions have pushed through a recall vote against six Republicans, it is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans have retained control of the Wisconsin state legislature. This is a massive victory for smaller government. To review, public sector unions rammed through a recall […]
In his manifesto, Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norway massacre, wherein some 80 people were killed, mentioned the Crusades and aspects of it as an inspirational factor. Predictably, Western elites—especially through the MSM—have begun a new round of moral, cultural, and historical relativism, some even conflating the terrorist with former President Bush, who once […]
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland. He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what […]
By Jeffrey Kuhner America’s economy is in free-fall. Growth is anemic. The stock market is collapsing. Real unemployment — combining the high jobless rate with rampant underemployment — is higher than 16 percent. Manufacturing is dead. Deficits, debt and government spending are at record levels. Our credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. […]
TEL AVIV — Despite several major exercise, Israel still lacks interagency cooperation required to counter a missile attack, a report said. The Institute of National Security Studies asserted that civil defense exercises staged by Israel’s military highlighted the lack of coordination between civilian and defense agencies. In a report, the institute said the government has […]
ANKARA — Turkey appears to have significantly reduced the scope of plans to procure the Joint Strike Fighter from the United States. The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has scaled down plans that until 2009 called for the procurement of 120 F-35 fighter-jets. Under the latest proposal, Turkey’s Defense Industry Undersecretariat, or SSM, would […]
Iraq’s Hizbullah Brigades has relayed a warning against the construction of a port in southern Kuwait across from Iraq. On July 17, the brigades, trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the project’s prime contractor, based in South Korea, could be targeted. “We are warning the companies working on the Kuwaiti port against continuing […]