Category: Blogs

Top News: Execution Brigade Claims Responsibility for Tahoun’s Assassination, Warns Other Police Officers

By EgyptSource

An obscure terrorist group identifying itself as the Execution Brigade has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Wael Tahoun, the chief investigation officer of the Matariya Police Station. The group said the attack was meant to avenge lawyer Karim Hamdy, who was found dead in his cell at the Matariya police station on February 24. 

EconSource: Rebel Seizure of Syrian Border Post Hits Exporters Across Region

By EconSource

Syrian rebels’ seizure of the main frontier crossing with Jordan has dealt a heavy blow to the Damascus government’s efforts to revive a once thriving export trade crippled by civil war, hurting businesses across the region.

TTIP Action | April 23

By Global Business & Economics Program

Secretary of State John Kerry at the Atlantic Council Speeches & Official Announcements Trade and National Security: Renewing US Leadership Through Economic Strength “2015 is simply not the time for us to decide that trade negotiations are too hard, or somehow vacate the field and let seventy years of lessons from the Great Depression and […]

Burundi’s President Set to Defy Term Limits, Upset Delicate Peace

The ruling party of the tiny, Great Lakes nation of Burundi will make arguably the most momentous decision in the young country’s history when it chooses a candidate for June’s presidential elections this Saturday. Despite an apparent constitutional limit of two five-year terms, current President Pierre Nkurunziza, in power since 2005, is angling for a […]

The Pentagon’s New Cyber Strategy

By Department of Defense

The increased use of cyberattacks as a political instrument reflects a dangerous trend in international relations.

Is Putin’s Russia Fascist?

By Alexander J. Motyl

A growing number of Russian analysts, in Russia and abroad, have taken to calling Vladimir Putin’s regime “fascist.” And they don’t use the term casually or as a form of opprobrium. They mean that Putin’s Russia genuinely resembles Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany.

Kerry Goes to Bat for Free Trade

In Atlantic Council address, Secretary of State says case for TPP, TTIP ‘overwhelming’ US Secretary of State John F. Kerry delivered a strong pitch for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) April 23, saying the economic case for both deals is “overwhelming.” A day earlier, the Senate Finance Committee […]

A ‘Window of Opportunity’ for TPP, TTIP

By Ashish Kumar Sen

White House official makes pitch for free-trade deals as Senate panel backs Trade Promotion Authority Two free-trade agreements currently being negotiated by the Obama administration will ensure a level playing field and benefit American workers, a senior White House official said April 23 at the Atlantic Council. “If we do not do this … the […]

Defining US Strategy for a World in Transition

By Larry Luxner

With war tearing apart eastern Ukraine, ethnic strife claiming lives from Libya to Yemen, and record numbers of African refugees drowning in the Mediterranean, it’s easy to conclude that the once-familiar world order is falling apart. Whether or not that’s true, few scholars would dispute that the United States is no longer in charge as […]

Top News: United States Concerned Iranian Ships May Carry Arms to Yemen

By MENASource

The United States is concerned a group of Iranian cargo ships may be carrying advanced weapons to Yemen, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday, as he called on Iran to avoid “fanning the flames” of the conflict with arms deliveries.