Category: Blogs

Panetta and Polish Defense Minister working to establish ‘missile interceptor site in Poland by 2018’

By the Department of Defense

Why Reinhold Niebuhr Matters for Transatlantic Relations Today

By William Inboden, German Marshall Fund of the United States

From William Inboden, German Marshall Fund of the United States:   [Reinhold] Niebuhr grounded his Atlanticism on three principles that still resonate today: shared values, shared interests, and shared obligations.

Why is There No New EU Security Strategy?

By Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe

 From Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe:  [W]hy hasn’t the EU come up with a trenchant security strategy instead of tinkering, as it did once before in 2008, with the first-ever strategy that was published back in 2003?

Russian spy ring penetrated U.S. consulting firm

By Devlin Barrett, the Wall Street Journal

From Devlin Barrett, the Wall Street Journal:  A Russian spy ring busted in the U.S. two years ago planned to recruit members’ children to become agents, and one had already agreed to his parents’ request, according to current and former U.S. officials. When the suspects were arrested in 2010 with much fanfare, official accounts suggested […]

Top News: SCAF Holds Urgent Meeting

By Tarek Radwan

SCAF is currently holding an urgent meeting to discuss the country’s latest developments according to Ahram and Al Masry Al Youm. The meeting came as a surprise to many activists who said that they thought that SCAF’s role in Egyptian politics was over when they handed in authority to President-Elect Mohamed Morsy. 

Where are the Kingston Trio when you need them?

By Harlan Ullman

Where is the Kingston Trio when needed? For those who may not recall or weren’t born then, the group was a singing sensation of the late 1950s and early 1960s, so much so that the Trio achieved cult status. Their 1959 hit, “They’re Rioting in Africa (The Merry Minuet)” was eerily prescient of today in […]

The People’s Revolution: A Struggle of Labels Between 1952 and 2011 / من يكسب صراع “الشرعية” بين ثورتي الجيش والشعب؟

By Haitham Tabei

It would seem that the struggle for power and legitimacy between the political forces, the revolutionary youth movements and the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) in Egypt has shifted from the squares and streets of the capital city, to events in history. The conflict has multiplied, moving from an attempt not only to control […]

Cyber war on Iran may continue

By AFP

Czechs pressure Sweden on extending jet fighter lease

By Jan Lopatka, Reuters

From Jan Lopatka, Reuters:  The Czech government will start looking for a new provider of fighter jets unless Sweden improves its offer to extend a lease of its Gripen fighters now used by the air force, the Czech prime minister said on Wednesday.

Alleged Canadian spy caused ‘massive security breach’ of shared Western intelligence

By Philip Dorling, the Sydney Morning Herald

From Philip Dorling, the Sydney Morning Herald:  An alleged Canadian spy compromised Australian intelligence information in an espionage case that has sent shock waves through Western security agencies.