The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
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Peter Van Buren: Five Questions You Probably Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates
The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...The Rationale Behind Russia’s Withdrawal From Syria
Russia has already secured important aims in Syria.
Read more...Oppose Turkish Persecution of Academics for Peace
Please sign a petition against persecution of academics in Turkey.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
Read more...Civilian Control of the Military is Over, Welcome to Civilian Subjugation
Civilian control of the military? Time to disabuse yourself of that quaint notion.
Read more...Energy Wars of Attrition
What looked like a masterstroke by the Saudis has turned out to be the energy industry version of trench warfare.
Read more...Merkel in Jeopardy: Germany’s European Hegemony, Refugees and Upcoming Elections
The inexorable political decline of Angela Merkel as well as her traditional opponents, the Social Democrats, is gathering pace.
Read more...John Helmer: FireEye – A Case Study in How the Financial Times Weaponizes Its Middle East Reporting
Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...Cyber Security and the Financial System – What Do Governments Want from the Banks?
Governments are combining aggressive, ambitious talk with a curious helplessness in warning banks they really should be Doing Something about terrorist risk.
Read more...The North Korean Connections of US Billionaire Naguib Sawiris and US Defence Company Contrack Watts
US Billionaire Naguib Sawiris and his Contrack Watts, a major US defence contractor, turn out to have ties to North Korea, via an amazingly profitable mobile phone company
Read more...The Middle East as America’s New Vietnam
There are obvious similarities between the US misadventures in the Middle East and our failed intervention in Vietnam. Yet the comparison is seldom made.
Read more...Is the Saudi Market Share Strategy Backfiring?
The Saudis appear to have bitten off more than they can chew.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: Six National Security Questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, etc., Don’t Want to Answer and Won’t Even Be Asked
In the realm of national security, election 2016 promises to be not just a missed opportunity but a complete bust.
Read more...How Europe Will Fail to Address the Migration Crisis in Early 2016
Explaining the reasons for Europe’s gridlock on its migration crisis.
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