By Alan Caruba “Egypt, the largest Arab state, the second largest recipient of U.S. military air, and our second most important ally in the Middle East, is now in the hands of a hostile regime—an elected one at that—which we continue to treat as a friendly one,” says Raymond Stock in a recent article published…
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Apologizing to Our Enemies
By Alan Caruba All Presidents are hostages to events. It is, however, the manner in which they respond that shapes their outcome. By the afternoon of September 11, the Obama administration scrambled to disavow a statement to the assault on the U.S. embassy in Cairo that had been issued by the embassy. The statement said,…
Egypt lite! Socialists Organize Students in Solidarity With Wisconsin Protests
Democratic Socialists of America and its captive union AFCSME have played a major role in the spreading labor protests begun in Wisconsin. Now a leader of D.S.A.’s even more radical youth wing is coordinating nationwide student protests in solidarity with protesters across the country. Chris Hicks is Coalitions Coordinator of Young Democratic Socialists and National Coordinator of…
Terrorism: How Much Trouble Are We In?…Quite a Bit
By Frank Salvato Almost from the beginning there has been a debate on whether the Obama Administration was inexperienced and naïve or agenda driven and calculating. We watched Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, behind closed doors and using every tool of political coercion available, ramrod health insurance reform down the throats of an unwilling American…
What Did Wade Rathke Know About Egypt that the CIA Didn’t and What Will Obama Do Now?
Rathke’s post made it clear that the Gamamiel Foundation supports the uprising in Egypt. Predictably President Obama is pushing hard for “community reorganizing” in Egypt (a development that pleases the Moslem Brotherhood and Iran, but not Israel). But…with re-election in 2012 his goal and trying to seem moderate in center-right America critical to that, how…
UPDATE: U.S. Marxists Conspiring with Muslim Brotherhood to Collapse the Middle East
A series of in depth studies by Cliff Kincaid at America’s Survival provide vivid detail to the assertions presented in last week’s article, We are witnessing the collapse of the Middle East. As usual, Cliff has really done his work. This series is not to be missed: U.S. Based Marxists Subvert Friendly Regimes and Support…
Allamon Cartoon: Bad News
There’s good news and there’s BAD news…Be sure to visit the Allamon Cartoon Blog. Wikio Wikio
Islam and the Prospect of World War Three
By Alan Caruba “I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin. I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors. All of us against the foreigner.” – Bedouin proverb Almost from its beginning, Islam has been a religion divided by warring camps. The tragedy of Islam is that Muslims are far more…
Waiting and Watching Egypt
By Alan Caruba It took several weeks for word of the British defeat at Yorktown to reach the king and parliament. Not long after the end of the American Revolution, the government led by George Washington dispatched diplomats to London to negotiate a trade treaty. Today we watch events unfold in far off places often…
The Mistake of Global Democratization
We are hearing a great deal about a budding “Democracy movement” spreading throughout the Middle East. Many are calling it an “Arab Spring.” The belief is that after centuries of totalitarian oppression, the Arab street is suddenly pining for more freedom; rebelling against the elitist ruling class of kings, emirs, despots and tyrants. This is…
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