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Talking With Iran’s Terror Regime

As Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Khomeini Revolution and the American hostage crisis, U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud...

William F. Jasper February 15, 2009

Baghdad-Tehran Axis Grows

William F. Jasper February 14, 2009

Less than two weeks after Iraq’s provincial elections, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki welcomed a large high-level delegation from Iran....

Iraq Elections No Victory for U.S.

William F. Jasper February 13, 2009

Provincial council elections in 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces on January 31 strengthened Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party, a militant Shia Islamic...

Change Comes to Bolivia

Alex Newman February 13, 2009

Change is being implemented throughout the month of February in the latest South American country to lurch leftward. Voters in Bolivia approved a...

Satellites Collide: First Traffic Accident in Space

February 12, 2009

Like most members of the Baby Boomer generation who grew up watching movies about space exploration and following our nation's quest to put...

Foreign Policy Insider Holbrooke Visits Pakistan

February 10, 2009

President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in Pakistan on February 9, met the next day with...

Biden: Global Cop Through “Alliances”

Thomas R. Eddlem February 9, 2009

Vice President Joseph Biden told attendees of the 45th annual Munich Security Conference that President Obama plans to have the United States continue...

Russia’s Puzzling Role in Afghan Theater

February 6, 2009

On February 5, we reported about the fate of the U.S. air base at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, which has played a key role in...

Fate of U.S. Base in Kyrgyzstan Uncertain

February 5, 2009

Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on February 3 that his government had decided to shut down the U.S. air base at Manas. Manas...

First Iranian-produced Satellite Launched

February 4, 2009

Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, announced on February 3 that on the previous day the Islamic nation had launched its first domestically produced...

Gaza Cease-fire Continues to Break

February 2, 2009

For the second time in two days, the cease-fire between the Hamas Palestinian terrorist faction that controls Gaza and neighboring Israel was broken...

Globalization Talk at Davos

Thomas R. Eddlem January 31, 2009

German Prime Minister Angela Merkel proposed a new “global financial architecture” at the Davos World Economic Forum on January 30. But press coverage...