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Lebanon in Advance of Elections

Written by Amir Kulick

May 6, 2009
by Amir Kulick
INSS Insight No. 104,

From its inception, Lebanon has been a mosaic of diverse communities: Sunnis, Shiites, Christians (with all their sects), Druze, and Alawites. The ability of these groups to exist as a state in the area between Jebel Amal in the south and Tripoli ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 May 2009 02:49

Clinton Says Ideology 'So Yesterday' -- Marxists Disagree

Written by Toby Westerman

May 6, 2009

International News Analysis Today
By Toby Westerman

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently declared that "...ideology...is so yesterday."Several days after Clinton made her statement, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, publically described himself as a ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 18:32

'Al-Hayat' Interview With U.S. Ambassador To The U.N. Susan Rice

Written by Memri

May 5, 2009
Memri.org
Special Dispatch
No. 2339
In an interview with the London daily Al-Hayat, published May 1, 2009, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Dr. Susan Rice answered questions regarding the Obama administration's positions on Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and Sudan. Following are excerpts from ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 16:39

The Geopolitics of Pandemics

Written by George Friedman

May 5, 2009
by George Friedman
Stratfor.com
Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of ...

Playing politics with national security

Written by Bob Steinburg

April 30, 2009
By: Bob Steinburg
A Conservative's Viewpoint

There are those abroad who hate or resent America. The reasons are varied but generally it evolves around the disparity of national wealth, prosperity and influence we have over the rest of the world. America continues to be a ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:54

Somali Government Condemns Insurgent Moves to Annex Parts of Kenya

Written by VOA

April 28, 2009
By Peter Clottey
Washington, D.C
Voice of America
The new Somali government has sharply condemned threats of fresh attacks on neighboring Kenya by hard-line Islamic insurgent group al-Shabab. The group, which has refused to recognize President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:51

The Obama Doctrine And Global Tyranny

Written by Toby Westerman

April 20, 2009
By Toby Westerman
International News Analysis Today

Enduring the rants of a petty tyrant for almost an hour and giving the "brotherhood" handshake to a Marxist dictator bent on destroying the United States have jointed the presidential bow before an Islamic monarch as expressions ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 April 2009 14:09

The Annual Arab Summit Meeting: A Show of No Unity

Written by om, Shlomo

April 7, 2009
Brom, Shlomo
INSS Insight No. 99.

On March 30, 2009, at the end of a fruitless day of discussions in Doha, Qatar, the annual Arab summit, normally attended every year by all members of the Arab League, came to a close. The summit ended earlier than planned because of the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 April 2009 16:49

Obama's Strategy and the Summits

Written by George Friedman

April 6, 2009
By George Friedman
Stratfor.com
The weeklong extravaganza of G-20, NATO, EU, U.S. and Turkey meetingshas almost ended. The spin emerging from the meetings, echoed in most of the media, sought to portray the meetings as a success and as reflecting a re-emergence of trans-Atlantic ...

Last Updated on Monday, 06 April 2009 15:31

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