Are subs, not the planes, the best way for Israel to counter Iran?
The air force can’t destroy Iran’s nuclear capability, a former navy commander warns, so Israel…
Monthly Archives: June, 2011
The Kingdom and the Towers (from Vanity Fair)
Was there a foreign government behind the 9/11 attacks? A decade later, Americans still haven’t…
My Syria, Awake Again After 40 Years (by Mohammad Ali Atassi)
Beirut, Lebanon IN 2009, National Geographic published an article on Syria by a special correspondent,…
Iran and Syria (Mehdi Khalaji)
The Islamic Republic of Iran benefited from the Arab Spring until it reached Syria, which…
LCC Statement: Hundred days of the revolution and we are getting closer to freedom
Statement issued by the Local Coordinating Committees One hundred days have passed since the beginning…
Saluting the Syrian Local Coordinating Committees
This post is designed to salute the Syrian Local Coordinating Committees (LCC) and to describe…
Iran and Syria: Next Steps (Robert Satloff)
Featuring Robert Satloff June 23, 2011 U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs Four…
Why is the world silent? Syrian refugees speak
By Neil Sammonds, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher on the Turkish-Syrian border Little is known of…
Don’t Bank on Beirut (Wall Street Journal)
By BRET STEPHENS The Lebanese are a people who famously can’t agree about anything. So…
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF The Obama administration is leading a global effort to…
SAUDI ARABIA’S NO GOOD, VERY BAD YEAR
Saudi Arabia — the spiritual center of the Islamic world, the world’s leading oil exporter,…
Jisr Al-Shoghour:They cleaned the streets of the blood after each massacre, but who can clean the smell of death?
Eyewitness from Jisr Al-Shoghour: They cleaned the streets of the blood after each massacre they…
Statement by Syria’s Local Coordination Committees: We are all Syrians and Syria is for all
Statement issued by the local coordinating committees It has been three months since our revolution…
LEARNING FROM LEBANON’S CABINET
This week, Lebanon served up a reminder for the United States and the partisans of…
In Search of Leverage with Syria
During his May 19 speech on the Middle East, President Obama defined America’s policy objective…
A Historical Document: Vision of the Local Coordination Committees (LCC) for a political solution in Syria
Three months have passed since the revolution in Syria sparked. Syrians are showing extraordinary bravery…
TURKEY’S SHIFT ON SYRIA GIVES WEST ROOM TO GET TOUGHER ON ASSAD
For the better part of last century, Turkish-Syrian relations were marred by a nasty territorial…
Rami Makhlouf threats anger Assad, Assef Shawkat and Ghazale sidelined
Metransparent Exclusive Syrian credible sources claim billionaire Rami Makhlouf has incurred the wrath of President…
Iranian snipers captured in Syria, transferred to Turkey
Metransparent Exclusive Credible Syrian sources revealed that stirn warnings by Syrian minister of interior Ibrahim…
For Arab despots, the skies are limited
Imagine, for a thrilling moment, that you are an Arab autocrat. Your regime has just…
The Ayatollah Will Overwhelm Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the mistake that all Iranian presidents make: he has challenged…
EGYPT AND THE ARAB FALL
The chairman of Egypt’s stock exchange undertook an urgent mission last month to the Persian…