As I write this, Ukraine’s crisis continues to worsen, with the threat of serious violence rising, and today the justice minister hinted that martial law may be imminent. If the Yanukovych regime attempts such a decree, it will divide the...
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Ukraine’s Hidden Hand
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Klitschko: “I fear for the next few days”
As the long-festering political situation in Ukraine deteriorates, with something like an open rebellion taking hold in the Western part of the country, amid rumors that martial law may be declared imminently, the government in Kyiv announced today that beleaguered...
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Kremlin: Putin is the Leader of Global Conservatism
Back in mid-December, the right-wing gadfly Patrick J. Buchanan created a minor stir with an op-ed column positing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the new leader of transnational conservativism. Entitled “Is Putin One of Us?” this provocative piece noted...
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French Terrorism Expert: “Bin Laden Has Won”
In recent months, the counterterrorism scene in the United States has been riven by debates about what al-Qa’ida (AQ) actually constitutes today, over two-and-a-half years since the death of Osama bin Laden. This has been a politically charged matter as...
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How Snowden Empowered Russian Intelligence
As I noted this weekend, the Snowden Operation has entered a new phase and is approaching its end thanks to President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, and also because the ties between Edward Snowden and Russian intelligence, which I’ve been...
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The End of the Snowden Operation
For over half a year now, the world has been astounded by waves of leaked revelations of National Security Agency electronic espionage, provided by the former NSA IT contractor Edward Snowden, who stole something like 1.7 million classified documents before...
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New Intelligence: Al-Qa’ida was behind the Benghazi murders
Thanks to The New York Times recently giving us a re-treatment of the background to the 11 September 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that took the lives of four brave Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, this messy,...