Bashar Assad

Sanctions Hurting Assad, but Iran is Stepping In

Syrian President Bashar Assad is quickly spending through his cash reserves as sanctions choke off many sources of funding, but the regime is getting help from Iran in bolstering finances, CNN has reported. According to intelligence assessment shared with the news network, Assad likely had about $30 billion in cash reserves to spend when unrest […]

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U.N. World Tourism Organization: Confirming Embarrassing U.N. Clichés

Robert Mugabe The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), created in 1970 and based in Madrid, identifies itself as the “United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.” It announced last year that Zambia and Zimbabwe jointly “won the bid” to host the 20th session of the UNWTO General […]

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Mavi Marmara

Turkey Indicts 4 Former IDF Commanders Over Mavi Marmara

Turkey has issued an indictment in absentia against four Israeli military commanders over a 2010 Gaza flotilla incident in which nine terror activists were killed on a Turkish-sponsored vessel. According to a report published Wednesday in the Turkish newspaper Sabah, the 144-page indictment seeks life imprisonment for the four commanders. It was prepared following alleged […]

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American Restoration: The Role of Private Equity

Making something busted luster again. That’s the basic premise of an innovative television show called American Restoration featured on the History Channel. On the show, people bring their worn, rusted, creaky old stuff from America’s past—stuff like an old Dodge pickup truck, an old Chicago police phone box, or an old slot machine, to Rick […]

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Heritage Interns Bring Conservative Principles to Life: Jesse M. Crosson on Entrepreneurship

Each semester, we bring together more than 60 young leaders from across the country to participate in our internship program in DC. They are given the opportunity of practical experience working on policy research, marketing, and business, to training on marketing, blogging, and public speaking.  Combine trips to the Pentagon, National Archives, and Mount Vernon with […]

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Ignoring the Jewish “Nakba”

Ignoring the Jewish “Nakba” May 21, 2012 12:24 by GuestPost This guest post was written exclusively for HonestReporting by Lyn Julius, the co-founder of Harif, a UK group representing Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. This year, as every year, the international media noted Nakba Day, the day when Palestinians mark the anniversary […]

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Pakistan Restores Twitter After Block Over Blasphemous Cartoons

Pakistan restored access to Twitter on Sunday after briefly blocking the site over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, AFP reported. The website was blocked by the telecom authority on the orders of the IT ministry, after authorities accused Twitter of refusing to remove the posts. Mohammad […]

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