TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
According to the Independent, government sources say a British team is set to travel to Israel in the near future to learn Israeli counterterrorism enforcement strategies. The proposed move comes amid a spate of terrorist activity in the United Kingdom, as well as concerns about the British authorities’ response time and ability to counter terrorist attacks. However, Read More…
Israel has launched what might be the most controversial tourist attraction in recent history. According to Haaretz, Israel has established a half a dozen fantasy terror camps throughout the country, offering tourists from across the world the chance to pretend-kill terrorists in a make-believe environment for only $115 per person (or $85 per child). As Carbonated.tv notes, the target images Read More…
The pro-Israel information war has led many on the right, including Viktor Orban and Donald Trump to have different views about Israel than they do on every other similar subject. Meanwhile, the left has descended into civil war on the issue. Many people are feigning shock at the fact that Hungary’s center-right (some would say Read More…
Syrian Kurds claim to be fighting against terror as they strive for autonomy, a goal that they have yet to achieve even after decades of effort. But their efforts are being co-opted by Western powers that are using them to achieve their own ends in the Middle East. In Part I of independent analyst Sarah Abed’s Read More…
Despite the spits and spurts of World War Three, it seems the United States (at least part of the establishment) and Russia are beginning to move toward a cooling of their approaches to the Syrian crisis. While we have seen this many times in the past – the apparent mutual understanding of Russia and the Read More…
The United States’ decision to involve its military so heavily in the Middle East has been driven by the underlying motive of countering Iran since the U.S. lost complete control of the country following its 1979 revolution. Not long after the revolution, the U.S. backed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran in a brutal eight-year conflict that nearly killed off Read More…