On Eve of Foreign Policy Debate, Voters Sour on Arab Spring

via IPS News On the eve of Monday’s foreign policy debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the electorate appears increasingly disillusioned with the so-called Arab Spring, according to a new survey released by the Pew Research… Continue Reading

Radical Salafis Overrunning the Syrian Revolution

via IPS News The recent visit by Abd al-Halim Murad, head of the Bahraini Salafi al-Asalah movement, to Syria to meet with Syrian rebels is an attempt by him and other Gulf Salafis to hijack the Syrian revolution. Sadly, the… Continue Reading

Expert Q&A: US Should Encourage NATO/Turkey-led Assistance to Syrian Opposition Forces

Emile Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico and a National Intelligence Council associate. Since retiring from the United States Government in 2006, he has been consulting with different US… Continue Reading