Any day now the U.S Department of State will announce whether or not it will remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from its Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. Well-funded and mostly unmonitored lobbying activities led to the group’s delisting in the EU… Continue Reading
I’m sure some readers of this blog saw Elliott Abram’s op-ed published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal August 2, entitled “Preventing Civil War in Syria.” As suggested by the title, the column was about how to overthrow the Assad regime… Continue Reading
To follow up on Ali’s thorough post detailing Jennifer Rubin’s continuing problems with the truth, it’s worth taking a step back from the concrete details of the story for a moment. Rubin’s latest fibs — in which she mistakenly blamed… Continue Reading
The neoconservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin came under fire recently (including from me) for jumping prematurely to blame Islamic extremists for the terror attacks in Norway. The Post’s ombudsperson wrote a less-than-compelling defense of Rubin which, in turn, provoked even… Continue Reading
Posted with the permission of Gary’s Choices By Gary Sick Michelle Moghtader of CNN has collected a set of reasons why Iran is not experiencing the same kind of turmoil as are other countries in the Middle East. The commentators… Continue Reading