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The Mainstream Media (MSM) has circled the wagons around the Obama Administration Officials as the Middle East descents into chaos. Some members of the MSM are expressing concern on how the populist uprisings in the Middle East will directly and

Last evening on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow took a few moments on her show to jab at the Beltway press, suggesting that the press in DC is so annoyed at being “sidelined” by the Egypt story that it’s “clawing and scratching

Report: President Obama’s special envoy delivered a message to embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday about the need to prepare for an “orderly transition” of power in the country, a U.S. official said. Word of the meeting between retired

Over the next few days, here are 2 websites to compare – the Muslim Brotherhood’s English language and Arabic websites. First, the Muslim Brotherhood website in English – complete with the word “freedom” and a cute little girl, and no

Now that Hezbollah has brought down the government of Lebanon without firing a shot, will the Kuwaiti government fund Bassam Frangieh, a pro-Saddam Hussein, pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College? According to a

I had an e-mail exchange with an extremely reliable source of mine within the Palestinian Authority government who provided a unique window into how they plan to proceed. According to him, the PA has been going back and forth with

January 7, 1959, marks a milestone in U.S. diplomatic history. Never before had the State Department extended diplomatic recognition to a Latin American government as quickly as they bestowed this benediction on Fidel Castro’s that day. At the time, Castro

Germany’s Der Spiegel publishes an interview today with the Egyptian Ambassador to Germany about the massacre of Coptic Christians in his country. Clearly, denial and double-speak are official government policy. Listen to what Ambassador Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy says: SPIEGEL ONLINE:

As I reported reported earlier, four “Swedes” and a “Dane” were arrested yesterday for planning a massive attack on the Jyllands-Posten building in Copenhagen as revenge for the Mohammed cartoons. They intended to make their operation a reprise of Mumbai,

As I reported reported earlier, four “Swedes” and a “Dane” were arrested yesterday for planning a massive attack on the Jyllands-Posten building in Copenhagen as revenge for the Mohammed cartoons. They intended to make their operation a reprise of Mumbai,

President Obama has bypassed the US Senate and appointed an Ambassador to Syria. Why bypass the Senate? Because numerous senators objected to the appointment on the grounds that sending an Ambassador simply rewards Syria’s bad behavior. In addition to sponsoring

I’d like to share some thoughts sent to me by my friend, Chad Garland, President of the Illini Veterans Student Organization. Chad writes: A few weeks ago, Sandra Korn wrote a piece in the Harvard Crimson critical of Harvard President

Yemeni authorities in Sana’a prevented a bomb attack on a car carrying four U.S. Embassy personnel, the U.S. State Department reported Thursday. On Wednesday, police caught a Jordanian citizen as he attempted to plant explosives next to the car, which

This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries

According press reports, Bradley Manning the former US intelligence analyst who is believed to have supplied the confidential data Wikileaks may be loosing his cognitive abilities in prison. Manning, was arrested seven months ago and is being held at a

Wesley Snipes is in jail. That’s right, Blade is behind bars. Passenger 57 is now known as Inmate 224567. And this friends, is a travesty. It’s not just a travesty because we’re going to have to wait at least three

WASHINGTON (AP) – Richard Holbrooke, a brilliant and feisty U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, died

This week marked a milestone in our nation’s history – and the American people smell a rat. “Washington, D.C.,” is not only rotten to the core, it is now clear to all that the government establishment wants to destroy us.

Julian Assange Reckless transparency comes at a high price – Security. In an extensive update on the WikiLeaks’ torrential release of State Department cables (login required to read whole article), Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm providing geopolitical analysis of

News that Iran is placing medium-range missiles inside Venezuela that can reach the U.S. should come as no surprise. Last month, in a special episode of my show, Stakelbeck on Terror, a former high-ranking State Department official, Roger Noriega, shared

At Claremont McKenna College, one of America’s best conservative liberal arts college, Bassam Frangieh, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, teaches a senior seminar on “Trends and Movements in the Modern Middle East” about “the emergence of the Modern Middle

Breathless scoop from a terrified government source dug up by the intrepid news agency Reuters, virtue of their coveted Havana Bureau, Dec. 6th, 2010: “We estimate the total (visitors from the U.S. to Cuba) for the year will be more

AP: She found time for a little light turn about WikiLeaks during a reception she hosted Saturday night at the State Department for recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors — who include Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney. Clinton said

Widespread banking and economic sanctions against Iran are drying up investments and fomenting internal discord, two top government officials testified before a congressional committee Wednesday. But they acknowledge that, so far, the restrictions have not had the desired effect of

On the day of the biggest breach of national security in American history, when war, in effect, was declared on the United States, the President of the United States held a press conference to announce a pay freeze on federal

Folks, it’s not called WikiHacks. Nowhere in the news have I seen reports of hack attacks into CIA or State Department files. Last time WikiLeaks well, uh, leaked, it had lots of help from an insider -allegedly the low level

An accurate dramatization, per State Department cables published by Wikileaks, of how the Obama White House conducts its Middle East diplomacy. It’s not exactly like this, but it’s pretty much exactly like this, ya know? [youtube FhNOWVuSXGE nolink] You’ll be

This past Sunday, the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, made good on his dangerous threat to our national security and the security of all of our allies by illegally releasing and illegally obtained classified State Department communications. How did this

The latest Wikileaks dump – it’s a wonderful way to highlight some, um, issues with cyber-security, and allows the chattering classes to bloviate ponderously on topics they really don’t know that much about. I, for one, am not stunned by

On Sunday afternoon, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arranged for the release of some 250,000 classified State Department documents via newspapers including the treason-supporting New York Times. The revelations were stunning. The most stunning divulgences: the Saudi royal government asked the

Marc Thiessen argues in his Washington Post column today that the Obama administration has done nothing to stop WikiLeaks, even though Julian Assange and his cohorts are “in likely violation of the Espionage and arguably providing material support for terrorism.”

Just scanned the early stories on the Wikileaks document dump — which are themselves scans of the Wikileaks document dump, given that a colossal 251,287 State Department cables have been released in this Internet/media robbery/fencing information-operation. How to assess this

Let’s put down the legal pamphlets for a second and have an adult talk about the real world. At what point does one go from being a champion of free speech to a clear and present danger to the interests

So now, thanks to Wikileaks, we see the innards of American diplomacy displayed for the entire world to see: the entrails of secret conversations, the arteries of secret operations, and the guts of policy. With hundreds of thousands of cables

The October 20, 2010, decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (No. 09-10875) [1], involving what is reportedly the biggest terrorism funding criminal conviction in the

The ladies of “The View” discussed National Opt Out Day, which took place on November 24th, wherein passengers boycotted the – as O’Reilly once called them – “super naked scanners” to send a message about respecting our civil liberties to