The USG Open Source Center transcribes the call by the number two man in al-Qaeda for the Pakistani public to support the Pakistani Taliban. (They […]

The tactic of congressional conservatives, of portraying Sonia Sotomayor as a reverse racist for her ‘wise Latina’ comment, has so many holes in it that […]

Signs are appearing in Europe that the Israeli hawks are finding it more difficult to operate with impunity. Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military attack […]

Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will deliver a Friday prayers address in Tehran this week. A behind the scenes backer of the opposition candidate for […]

It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in […]

Jonathan Lyons writes in a guest editorial for IC: The Western world knows the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a political radical, the militant revolutionary […]

Update: Guerrillas set off bombs outside churches in Baghdad on Sunday, wounding 7 persons. Attacks on Christians are a hallmark of the extremist Salafi groups […]

I can tell by various web metrics that you guys are not interested in the Afghanistan story. You should be and I am going to […]

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases articles in the Afghan press during June on that country’s economy. I take away the impression that […]