The outcry is global, the West made a strategic mistake by going to Libya. The humanitarian desire to protect civilians in Libya from their deadly dictator has shifted to a political desire of regime change. NATO and its allies are getting seriously bogged down in Libya raising several points. First, France is no longer the […]
Bin Ladin is dead. Again. In the last ten years he has been reported “killed” at least four times. The only difference this time was that the President of the United States announced the death of the number one terrorist in the world. Above all, this time he was killed not in Tora Bora, not […]
Germany and Austria opened their labor markets for the EU class of 2004 over the weekend, the last EU nations to do so. However, based on press reports from Germany and Poland, there appear to be divergent views regarding how much labor will actually transfer. The Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung believes that any Pole seeking work […]
The following piece was written by Reza Marashi, Director of Research at National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and a former Iran Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of State. The Iran Working Paper Series is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ploughshares Fund and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. Against a backdrop of international internet freedom […]
AFGHANISTAN: ALREADY AT UNEASE FOR POST-WAR Afghanistan may be one place, where its people have legitimate worries after the elimination of one of the strongest points of the U.S. war on terror. Now that the “terrorist” is gone, the war might be shortened, making the Afghan lands abandoned once again. No surprise that there were […]
The Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry announced Monday that the number of children under 15 in Japan has reached a record low of 16.93 million after the 30th straight year of decline. Children account for 13.2 percent of the population. On the other hand, seniors 65 and older account for a record high of 23.2 […]
Are Museveni’s sins less despicable than Mugabe’s or Kaddafi’s? Yoweri Museveni’s violent response to mass protests in Uganda – sparked by rising food and fuel prices –-is just one of many such traits found in most dictators in the world (if not in Africa). Media reports suggest that Museveni will stop at nothing but a […]
The death of the most wanted Islamic militant – a soft spoken, bearded man – came ten years after his most audacious and deadly terrorist act. His killing in a special forces operation placed a giant question mark over the future of the insurgency he had led, but lent an equally big boost to the President’s […]
President Barack Obama’s statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom haShoah) references the Adolf Eichmann trial, which were central to the Israeli psyche’s grappling in the afternoon of the systematic slaughter of six million Jews. Prior to the Eichmann trial in Israel, Jews who emigrated to Israel did not often speak about their experiences in […]
The location of Osama’s death underlines the work required on Pakistan After a decade of anxiety, fear and anticipation, the friends and families of the victims of 9/11 have finally received closure. Osama bin Laden was killed in his hideout in Abbottabad in Pakistan through a special operation by US forces in the wee hours […]
During this so-called Arab Spring, Middle Eastern dictators have attempted to suppress revolutions by murdering demonstrators, prompting the Obama administration to condemn those actions in the “strongest possible terms.” It appears that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority’s new governing partner, has reserved that kind of condemnation for the U.S. attack that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin […]
European leaders seem to ardent letter writers, after Sarkozy’s and Berlusconi’s co-missive to EU Commission President Barroso, the latter has now replied. In the case of the Franco-Italian letter dealing with a – supposed – immigration crisis caused by more than 20,000 recent arrivals from Tunisia, most observers focused on the proposal of a temporary […]
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