The Awami League government has rounded up all the usual suspects, pushed and pulled away from their seats of power and carnage. Its almost as if it were spring, just so and Sheikh Hasina thought it was time to clean house. In the first instance and most recently, the paramilitary group Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) […]
Max Boot , Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and most importantly a Petraeus advisor, had a chat with Charlie Rose. I invite you, my reader, to watch the whole interview here. There are a few takeaways that you might want to keep in mind as you watch Boot […]
Just days after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and Syria’s President Bashar Assad traveled to Beirut to quell the fears that another regional war was just around the corner, fighting broke out between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in Southern Lebanon. The trouble started when an Israeli battalion commander was killed […]
Seems like one Chechen rebel leader should’ve thought twice before clicking “Upload” on his you-tube resignation video! Two days after his original clip appeared to announce his resignation in favour of Aslambek Vadalov, indecisive Doku Umarov says he changed his mind. “In connection with the situation shaping up in the Caucasus, I consider it impossible […]
Ten years ago the crash of the Concorde marked the end of the first generation of European cooperation in the Aerospace industry that has lead to numerous military and commercial cooperative projects. The creation of Airbus and their growing domination of the commercial aircraft industry started in the 1970s when BAC from the UK and […]
Let’s play a game! How many pernicious African stereotypes can you find in this Leigh Montville article from Sports Illustrated a few weeks ago on the death of Sudanese basketball player Manute Bol? (Hint: The number is alarmingly high for a quite short piece.)
President Barack Obama and the Department of State are hosting 115 young African leaders from 46 sub-Saharan African nations at the President’s Forum with Young African Leaders underway in Washington, DC. The forum, which started on Tuesday, August 3-5, aims to broaden and deepen the U.S. Government’s understanding of Africa as well as to reflect […]
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) apparently exchanged fire today in Southern Lebanon. One high-ranking officer was killed on the Israeli side, and at least two soldiers and one journalist, were killed on the Lebanese side. It may be too early for analysis, but it looks like the violence has […]
Tomorrow (Wednesday) Kenya will face a huge test of its fragile democratic systems as the country will go to the polls for a referendum on the country’s proposed new constitution. Political, religious, and civil society leaders have been calling for calm in the run-up to the voting. The violence that followed Kenya’s December 2007 elections […]
The Washington Post yesterday and a few other sources pointed out that, interestingly, Fidel Castro has not appeared publicly alongside his brother Raúl since he stepped down from the presidency four years ago. And so the seed was planted, and everything begins to look like evidence. Raúl’s recent agreements to release Cuban prisoners and Fidel’s […]
Totally moderate! That’s what Akhmed Zakayev, another former rebel leader now living in London, says. And naturally, that’s what’s been obediently parroted by the English language press (the Russian press has been (UN)surprisingly silent on the matter, believe it or not!). Reuters printed unchallenged Zakayev’s comments that the new leader, Aslambek Vadalov, represents a moderate […]
A day after India celebrates the 141st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who led a non-violent struggle against the British rule, India will showcase her continued nominal ties with the British Empire by hosting the Commonwealth Games (CWG). However, the 2010 CWG have become more an arena of political wrangling and administrative corruption […]
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