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Stalemate Spring Syria

When is a provocation not a provocation? In the last hours, the IDF returned fire on the Golan Heights against a Syrian military post that I am told is now under "rebel" control. Am told that there are so many Al Qaeda black flags in the "Yarmuk Martyrs Brigade" region that sorting out the...
March 24, 2013 0

Darkness Visible Chapter 2

There is a crazy quilt of reports from the Darkness Visible of the Syrian civil war, including the above video from Bill Roggio's and Tom Joscelyn's "Long War Journal" on the battlespace characters who participate gleefully and murderously in the so-called Syrian Rebel Camp: this time, an American...
March 13, 2013 0

Rocket Room

Spoke Aaron Klein, WABC, about the threats in Lebanon’s Bekaa by Hizballah and on the Golan Heights by an alphabet soup of pirates and cutthroats calling themselves Syrian rebels. My information, meeting Aaron Klein’s reports, is that Bekaa is being prepared for a rocket exchange conflict --...
February 19, 2013 0

Grand Bargain Tehran, the Remake

Speaking again to colleague Reza Kahlili (nom de guerre) of the Fordow event of January 21, 2013 that we are reporting as a sabotage explosion 300 feet underground in a secretly build part of the Fordow complex outside Qom, Iran. Reza Kahlili continues to provide fresh details form his sources...
February 5, 2013 0

Fordo Underground Explosion Confirmed

What We Know. Fordow has become 'Iran's most heavily fortified facility', officials say. AP Reza Kahlili reported Friday 25 that there had been an underground explosion at the secret Fordo nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. The details included the closure of a major roadway nearby following...
January 28, 2013 0

Beau Geste Rides Again

Spoke last Tuesday to Larry Kudlow and Michael Rubin in re the Hagel nomination. My information is that the nomination will go to a vote in the Senate and will be successful; however there are plenty of turns ahead. As of the close of the week, the White House remained concerned enough to oblige...
January 20, 2013 0

Transparency Is the Thing This Century

Spoke to John Bolton, AEI, in re the Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Eric Schmidt of Google embassy to Pyongyang, North Korea, and we puzzled as to what to say about this scale of diplomatic stunt. The still photos and the video (above) are propaganda gems for the DPRK. John Bolton...
January 12, 2013 0

Ten Thousand Years from Now

Fundamental Adam Smith. Am spending time on the PERC site in order to explore the energy boom of the Bakken and its profound transformation of the American West, and came across this recommendation on the PERC twitter site, from the Zeitgeist confabs, a presentation by polymath and columnist...
January 6, 2013 0

Syrian Civil War, Year 3

The new year 2013 begins the third calendar year of the Syrian Civil War, and it is increasingly useful to compare the present chaos with the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, in order to see through the fog of war. Syria is a surrogate battlefield for the Great Powers as they compete for advantage...
January 1, 2013 0

Unclassified Benghazi, to Be Continued

Spoke to Joe Kernan, of CNBC "Kudlow Report," re the unclassified report on the Benghazi tragedy, and I aimed to be clear that the State Department is not at fault (about nine minutes into the lengthy segment). The Benghazi mission was and continues to be a national security operation for arming...
December 20, 2012 0