Tag Archives: State Department

Dave Reaboi

Obama’s Friend Erdogan To Give Hamas $300 Million

Humanity Voice is reporting that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has recently promised Hamas a donation of $300 million. Turkish sources reported that Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, sent a confidential letter to Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, inviting him to visit Turkey, [...]
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Faith J. H. McDonnell

Dick Durbin May Block Religious Freedom Commission’s Renewal to Buy Prison He Wanted for Gitmo Detainees

For 13 years, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has shined light on situations of egregious religious persecution globally. With a mandate from the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, USCIRF has provided forthright policy recommendations to the President, State Department, and Congress on responding to regimes that persecute actively or tolerate the [...]
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Caroline  Glick

The Scourge of Clientitis

For many years, observers of the US State Department on both sides of the American political spectrum have agreed that State Department officials suffer from a malady referred to as “clientitis.” Clientitis is generally defined as a state of mind in which representatives of an organization confuse their roles. Rather than advance the cause of their [...]
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El Cid

US State Department Training Islamist Parties In Egypt?!

From Foreign Policy: U.S. assistance to Egypt is helping political parties of all ideologies prepare for the upcoming elections — even Islamic parties that may have anti-Western agendas. “We don’t do party support. What we do is party training…. And we do it to whoever comes,”William Taylor, the State Department’s director of its new office for Middle East Transitions, [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

The ‘First Fruits’ Of Our Support Of The Arab Spring Endeavor In Libya

"The American Politician's inexplicable love affair with the "downtrodden" Islamic citizens of Islamic regimes, around the world, will prove to be the worst foreign policy vision in the history of this nation - if not the world."
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Kerry Patton

2010 Country Reports On Terrorism Released

The U.S. State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism earlier this week. This Congressionally mandated report provides an assessment of trends and events in international terrorism that transpired from January 1 to December 31, 2010. Besides fulfilling a Congressional requirement, this publication is meant to enhance the public’s understanding and situational awareness of [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

29-Jul-11 World View — Libyan Rebel Military Command Killed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Killing of Libyan rebel military commander signals split among rebels Abdel Fatah Younis (Reuters) In an event that some are calling a disaster for Libya’s rebels, the commander of Libya’s rebel army was assassinated on Thursday. The assassination occurred several hours after the Transitional National Council (TNC) sought Younis for [...]
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Paul Hair

P.J. Crowley And The U.S. Army War College

P. J. Crowley resigned as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in March 2011 after he said that alleged Department of Defense mistreatment of Bradley Manning was, “ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid.” But Crowley didn’t have to wait long until he got another job. The U.S. Army War College announced that Crowley is the recipient [...]
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The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

Syria: Assad Will Fall; But Will The Muslim Brotherhood Follow?

The wave of unrest sweeping Syria will drive President Bashar Assad from power and severely weaken the Islamist regime in Tehran, a prominent dissident predicts. “It is a certainty the Assad regime will fall,” said Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of Syria (RPS). Ghadry, currently living in the United States, closely monitors the situation in his [...]
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Caroline  Glick

Is Obama Deliberately Harming Israeli Covert Ops in Iran?

One of the dirty secrets about Western trade with enemy states like Iran is that the Western companies trading with them may also wittingly or unwittingly serve as espionage assets for their home country or for other Western countries. Consider the Stuxnet computer virus which reportedly caused great harm to at least [...]
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