Understanding doesn’t mean liking

12 years ago

Meir Javedanfar, one of Israel's keenest Iran-watchers, advises wisely that we need to watch Iran’s domestic politics closely if we…

Ode to joy

12 years ago

Hard to beat this for Christmas morning, repeated from last year: My own morning thus far: za'atar on grilled bread,…

Jail time

12 years ago

The news is full of Russian President Vladimir Putin's release from jail of former rival Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of…

The handwriting on the wall

12 years ago

The European Council at the level of heads of state and government decided Friday that accession negotiations with Serbia will…

A decent Syrian election: result, not prelude

12 years ago

Jimmy Carter and Robert Pastor propose an election to resolve Syria's civil war.  They suggest three principles that would have…

The end is nigh, once again

12 years ago

2013 is ending with a lot of doom and gloom: South Sudan, the world's newest state, is suffering bloodletting between…

What could go wrong?

12 years ago

Tucked away in Fred Hof's latest post on Syria, is an extraordinary condemnation of the Obama adminsitration's ineptitude on Syria:…

Where do you find free cheese?

12 years ago

In what may be the biggest auction since Moscow and Washington vied for influence in various third world countries during…

The world according to CFR

12 years ago

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) survey of prevention priorities for 2014 is out today.  Crowdsourced, it is pretty much…

Unreasonable is a relative standard

12 years ago

Here is what I would regard as a vigorous and intelligent critique of the "surveillance state" from Mikko Hypponen, a…