The Commander of the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has joined his predecessor, Gen. David Petraeus, in endorsing the concept of linkage. The notion of linkage contends that a festering Arab-Israeli conflict takes a strategic toll on the U.S. in… Continue Reading
The Collapse of the Old Oil Order How the Petroleum Age Will End By Michael T. Klare Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the… Continue Reading
Lee Smith, the Weekly Standard writer and Hudson fellow, had some difficult truths to tell the hardline Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). In a phone briefing, he talked about the developing situation in Egypt and across the Arab world. He was not, as is his wont,… Continue Reading
President Barack Obama’s National Security Council adviser Dennis Ross, who holds a broad portfolio that ranges from Iran to the Arab-Israeli conflict, addressed the liberal Israel lobby group J Street over the weekend. Ross closed his remarks, mostly about Arab-Israeli… Continue Reading
Recent op-eds and columns by prominent neoconservatives have sought to portray Washington’s hawks as close allies of Iran’s Green Movement. Jack Ross addresses this neoconservative tenet in an article for “Right Web” in which he writes: During the recent upheavals… Continue Reading