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World studies Tampa for U.S. policy clues

By: Melissa Griffin 08/29/12 6:19 PM
The Tampa Convention Center ballrooms have been converted into a series of stalls for the news outfits in attendance. Each is separated by makeshift walls of fabric through which you can make out tables, computers, food and phones. Walking through the labyrinth of media pens, I was struck by how many other nations have outposts at this convention. Read More

Egypt's military tries to discredit protesters

By: The Associated Press 12/19/11 10:06 AM
Egypt's ruling military questioned the morals of a female detainee, accused a prominent publisher of incitement and bashed the media for allegedly working to destabilize the country in a new effort to crush the pro-democracy movement trying to oust the generals. Read More

Al-Qaida’s new heartland

By: James Carafano 08/08/11 10:58 PM
When al-Qaida was just a startup terrorist enterprise, the Sudanese government offered the group safe harbor. But after a few years, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United States began to take notice of what was going on in that little incubator. They turned up the heat.By 1996, Osama bin Laden was looking to relocate. No longer feeling safe in Sudan, he moved al-Qaida headquarters to Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Read More

President Obama's pointless Middle East speech

By: Philip Klein 05/19/11 10:26 AM
President Obama's just concluded his long, blathering, Middle East speech in which he tried hard not to offend anybody. But by the end, he sounded a lot like President George W. Bush, talking about the need for the U.S. to stand up for democracy and self-determination abroad. Read More

Morning Examiner: Billions for Egypt’s unemployed, but what about ours?

By: Conn Carroll 05/19/11 4:47 AM
Middle East: President Obama will give an address on the Middle East from the State Department this morning. The venue is designed to underscore a policy shift in the region away from the military, and towards diplomacy. Read More

The Sharpshooter

By: Nate Beeler 05/07/11 9:34 PM
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Al Qaeda’s wanna-be Arab Spring

By: James Jay Carafano 04/20/11 11:45 AM
 Will the uprising in Libya turn the country into the terrorist Disneyland? Let’s consider some musings from think tanks in the U.S. and Europe. Read More

A look at Egypt a month after the revolution

By: The Examiner 03/17/11 7:45 AM
Though American media and their citizenry pored over reports of the Egyptian revolution's violent phase, the largest nation in the Arab world is getting little attention now. The intersection of a media that is constantly looking for the next big thing and Americans' short attention span, and massive events unfolding elsewhere means that Egypt has been largely forgotten here in the U.S. Read More

New Politizoid: Raiders of the Lost Mubarak

By: Mark Tapscott 03/01/11 4:02 PM
Remember the great scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Harrison Ford is being chased by a rolling boulder let loose by his theft of the priceless artifact? Gotta be among the most gripping movie openings ever, right? Turns out President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had their own harrowing experience recently in Egypt and you can see it all unfold below with the latest edition of Politzoid, entitled "Raiders of the Lost Mubarak." Read More

Amid Mideast turmoil, UN chastises Israel

By: Clifford D. May 02/24/11 11:40 PM
Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen are in turmoil. In Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is using mercenaries to slaughter peaceful protestors. Hezbollah is staging a slow-motion coup in Lebanon. Iran’s rulers are executing dissidents daily, developing nuclear weapons and sending warships through Suez. The response of the United Nations to these many threats to global peace and security? Condemn Israel! Is there anything else the U.N. Read More
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