Category: Foreign Countries & Policy

The Director of the Division of Public Information at UNESCO – Mr Neil Ford – has made it clear that UNESCO still refuses to approach the Imternational Court of Justice (ICJ) for an advisory opinion on the legality of …

The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, won 235 or 47.2 percent of the seats in the People’s Assembly (lower house of parliament), a senior party official said in a press statement on Saturday.

A small security barrack in the city was unable to confront the storming campaign of the well-armed groups and the police forces didn’t show any kind of resistance, according to a report in the Israeli media.

The chairman of Egypt’s new Freedom and Justice Party — a/k/a the Muslim Brotherhood — met last week with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

The stated purpose of the meeting was the ongoing Egyptian transition process and the recent elections.

UNESCO’s deficit has skyrocketed from an estimated $120 million to $167 million for 2012-2013 as a result of its decision to admit Palestine as its 195th member in breach of UNESCO’s own Constitution.

This past Christmas, the people of North Korea were without their messiah. That is, their self-anointed messiah.

For a sense of just how bad was Kim Jong-Il, I thought I’d share a few anecdotes reflecting the singularly pernicious nature of …

A major police department in Mexico has been completely dismantled by federal police and military forces as part of an anti-corruption plan to help in winning Mexico’s de facto war on drugs.

Speaking at a military ceremony in Baghdad on December 15th, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta officially ended the U.S. war in Iraq.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week discussed her concerns over the violence between protesters and police in Egypt. Most of the protesters are supporters of both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Party.

The Lebanon-base Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah this weekend complained that the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency is using the U.S. Embassy in Beirut as a de facto recruiting station for Lebanese informants to Hezbollah operations.

Critics have accused Obama of ending the war hastily to coincide with his re-election campaign. Many of them have warned that the pullout could embolden still-active insurgent fighters as well as Iraq’s neighbor Iran.

The Obama State Department called the rocket attacks from southern Lebanon into Israel this week a “provocative act,” but urged all parties to “exercise restraint. ” In response, critics of President Obama call his reaction “absurd.”

In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.”

I don’t think there has ever been any Arab propaganda slogan as powerful and successful as “End The Occupation”.

Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, released a bipartisan report entitled “Boko Haram – Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” detailing the rapid evolution …