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…in our efforts in region. Feinstein: You guys underestimate activities and missions being executed by Qud Forces and Republican Guards. Proxies are going to become major players. Dov: If Syria goes Sunni, that’s bad for NAM. Podesta: What role of AQI in Syria? Kahl: Ris...

…er two days of talks with President Bush at his summer home in Maine. Rabin was naturally more comfortable dealing with Republicans. Almost all his experience in public life – as a military officer, ambassador to Washington, Defense Minister and Prime Minister – had coincided wit...

…is for obtaining subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign state and its instrumentalities in federal court. Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp., 488 U.S. 428, 439, 109 S.Ct. 683, 102 L.Ed.2d 818 (1989); Robinson v. Gov’t of Malaysia, 269 F.3d 133, 138 (2d Cir.2001...

…elvet revolution" scenario, in which more normal ties with the West threaten the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic. Confrontation with America is in this regime's DNA. Meantime, the pretense of negotiations has allowed Tehran to play for time to advance its programs...

…e governor. Instead he will get a divorce in New York. But you know what that means. Dirty, dirty. Some deserving Young Republican girl will get the assignment. This is known as political patronage. The governor has a horny dilemma, though. Either he commits scandal or he commits...

…“capitaved” by the details of what he has seen. 43 A few days before Christmas: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826, (New York: Norton, 1995) Vol 1. pp, 457-459 44 Jefferson was then...

…both democracy and peace in a vital part of the world. Plans for the Third Year Some have argued that the significant Republican gains in the mid-term elections in November 2010 will make it harder for Obama to govern. On the domestic front this is doubtless so. But Congress is...

 29 May, 2011 Article 1. NYT Pay Attention Thomas L. Friedman Article 2. NY Daily News President Obama has right goals on Israeli-Palestinian peace, but strategy already backfiring Alan Dershowitz Article 3. Al-Ahram Weekly Who will win in September? Abdel-Moneim Said Article 4...

… several times as President Bush prepared for his re-election in 2004 because he was afraid of becoming a burden on the Republican ticket. After a few days, however, Mr. Cheney said that Mr. Bush said he wanted him to stay. But in the Bush administration’s second term, Mr. Chene...

…e Free Officers Movement. 18 June 1953 The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) abolishes the monarchy and proclaims the Republic of Egypt. 23 June 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez C...

 22 June, 2011 Article 1. The Washington Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Article 2. Project Syndicate The Middle East’s Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Article 4. Agence Global A De...

…cy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence and both Democrat and Republican members of the Congressional oversight committees. It further derided claims that there was evidence that Snowden’s theft of NSA secrets went beyond...

…asingly large protests. Iran soon rattled its own sabers. Iranian parliamentarian Ruhollah Hosseinian urged the Islamic Republic to put its military forces on high alert, reported the website for Press TV, the state-run English-language news agency. "I believe that the Iranian go...

24 Article 5. Wall Street Journal It's in America's Interest to Stay in Iraq Max Boot April 18, 2011 -- Secretary of Defense Bob Gates was in Iraq early this month urging Iraqi leaders to decide whether they want U.S. forces to stay beyond Dec. 31. "If there is to be a prese...

…rsuit of a regional peace agreement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made little secret of his preference for Republican Mitt Romney in last year's U.S. presidential campaign. Netanyahu and Obama have at times disagreed bitterly over issues relating to HOUSE OVERSIGHT 0...