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MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Tamarod: A Mild Rebellion

By Rana Muhammad Taha

In late April, a group of unknown young Egyptian men announced the formation of a campaign against former Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi and his regime. Today, that same group, Tamarod, or ‘Rebel,’ is one of the military-backed interim regime’s most ardent supporters.

North Africa

Trade in Action

Oct 1, 2013

USTR Froman Addresses Transatlantic Trade at GMF

By Garrett Workman

USTR Froman Addresses Transatlantic Trade at GMF in Brussels | German Marshall Fund During a major address on TTIP at GMF in Brussels, Ambassador Michael Froman emphasized the imperative role a bilateral agreement between the US and EU will play in helping both economies stimulate much-needed growth and job creation. Froman also underlined the need […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Oct 1, 2013

Al Shabab Mainly a Local Problem in Somalia

By Bronwyn Bruton

With Al Qaeda on the back foot in the Middle East, Africa is widely regarded as the next frontier in the war on terrorism and the next source of terrorism in the United States. But across Africa — in Addis Ababa, Kampala, Lagos and Nairobi — Christians and Muslims cheerfully rub shoulders. And Islamist militant […]

Britain Creating New Cyber Reserve Unit

NATOSource

Oct 1, 2013

Britain Plans to Recruit Hundreds of Computer Experts as Cyber Reservists

By UK Ministry of Defense

As part of MOD’s full-spectrum military capability, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, has announced that the department is set to recruit hundreds of computer experts as cyber reservists to help defend the UK’s national security

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Sept. 30, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 1, 2013

NATO Chief: Turkey Hasn’t Completed Chinese Missile-Defense Deal

By Doug Cameron, Wall Street Journal

Turkey had yet to complete a multibillion-dollar missile-defense deal with a Chinese military contractor that has raised concerns among some allies, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said in an interview on Monday.

China Missile Defense

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Top News: Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Leader Sentenced to Ten Years in Military Trial

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Suez military court sentenced on Monday Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mongey to ten years of imprisonment on charges of inciting violence and vandalizing military property in August.

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Not My Brotherhood’s Keeper: The Fallacy of Crushing Egypt’s Chief Islamist Group

By Amro Ali

By the time philosopher Hannah Arendt penned the words in her 1970 work On Violence: “The means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals,” a generation of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood transitioning into the Anwar Sadat era were reeling from the “means” […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 1, 2013

Iran: Speak Softly BUT…Mr President

By Julian Lindley-French

On 26 January, 1900 US President Theodore Roosevelt sent a letter to Henry L. Sprague of the Union Club of New York in which he wrote, “Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far.” The US press seized on the phrase and a new foreign policy doctrine was born – ‘Big […]

Iran

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Top News: Syrian Jihadists Wreak Havoc as Violence Spreads into Iraq

By MENASource

Militant groups fighting to establish an Islamic state in Syria are increasingly active in Iraq, dragging the wider region into conflict.

New Atlanticist

Oct 1, 2013

Italy: Back on the Brink

By Jordan Smith

Italy’s troubled coalition, a product of last February’s inconclusive elections, is on the brink of another collapse following the decision of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to pull his party out of the ruling coalition government. Italy’s chronic instability could lead to further downgrading of the country’s credit rating, raising its borrowing costs, adding to […]

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