Obama’s Giveaway: Oil-Rich Islands to Russia

Exclusive: Joe Miller sounds alarm over deal to put land in hands of Putin’s Kremlin By Joe Miller The Obama administration, despite the nation’s economic woes, effectively killed the job-producing Keystone Pipeline last month. The Arab Spring is turning the oil production of Libya and other Arab nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iraq is […]

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Israelis Suspect Obama Media Leaks to Prevent Strike on Iran

By Alexander Marquardt JERUSALEM – Two reports today about Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike have analysts in Israel accusing the Obama administration leaking information to pressure Israel not to bomb Iran and for Iran to reach a compromise in upcoming nuclear talks. The first report in Foreign Policy quotes […]

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Resettling the Mujahedeen-e Khalq of Iraq

by Daniel Pipes February 28, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Tragedy looms as Iraqi authorities threaten by April 30 forcibly to expel 3,400 Iranians, members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq. MeK members rightly fear for their lives if pushed across the border for the Iranian regime criminalizes membership in the MeK and abominates […]

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Embassy Baghdad in Decline

by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Ever since the U.S. government announced in March 2004 plans to build “the largest embassy ever run by any country,” I have been on the case, poking fun at its over-wrought size (21 acres), excessive expense (US$750 million), and gargantuan personnel (16,000) […]

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Iran Poised to Target U.S. Homeland

Latest Intelligence Assessment: Iran Poised to Target U.S. Homeland

Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 31, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper warned that the “2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. shows that some Iranian officials—probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in […]

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L’Institut d’Égypte – In Memoriam

by Daniel Pipes December 26, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Founded in 1798 by the scientists accompanying Napoleon on his invasion of Egypt and author of the monumental 20-volume Description de l’Égypte (1809-28), L’Institut d’ Égypte was burned down on Dec. 17 by crowds rampaging in the vicinity of the National Assembly building. Remarkably […]

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Obama Hails ‘New Iraq,’ But Ignores Persecution of Christians and Other Religious Minorities

(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki standing at his side, hailed a “new Iraq” on Monday, but he failed to acknowledge persecution of religious minorities in the country that the United States helped to liberate. “People throughout the region will see a new Iraq that’s determining its own destiny — […]

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Muslim Refugees, Yes – Persecuted Christian Refugees, No

Christians are in imminent danger across the world, and yet they are being refused refugee status, while Muslim refugee immigration goes on unimpeded. U.S. policy regarding refugee resettlement would shock most Americans if they only knew. The United Nations picks who gets to come to the U.S. as a refugee. The mandate of the U.N. High Commissioner […]

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Obama’s Leftist Conundrum

by Daniel Pipes November 27, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Barack Obama suffers from an inherent policy contradiction, especially in foreign affairs. On the one hand, as a Leftist he despises the United States and sees it as a force for ill in the world. On the other, as president, is judged by how […]

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Obama Given Crocodile-Attack Insurance as Safety Precaution Upon Arrival in Northern Australia

(CNSNews.com)– Addressing Australian troops on Thursday, President Obama told them he had on his arrival in the rugged Northern Territory received “the most unique gift I’ve ever received as president” — insurance against crocodile attack. “My wife, Michelle, will be relieved,” he told the military personnel gathered in a hangar at a Royal Australian Air […]

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