If electromagnetic pulse weapons pose a threat, it’s not from Iran or North Korea, as Newt Gingrich warns, but from the United States.
Newt Gingrich: Right About EMPs, Wrong About Who’d Use Them
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Middle East & North Africa
Obama Ad Condemns Israel Aid Opponents
An ad on my Facebook page from barackobama.com reads, “Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich say they would start foreign aid to Israel at zero. Reject their extreme plan now!”
This struck me as odd for two reasons.
The Amilcar Notes (Part 3): Tunisia’s Forgotten Socio-Economic Crisis
One year after Mohammed Bouazizi’s immolation — a catalyst for the Arab Spring — economic conditions in Tunisia haven’t improved much.
The New Chicken Littles
I decided to wait a couple weeks just to make sure. So far, so good. Citizens went to the polls in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. A plurality of voters threw their support behind Islamist parties. I take a look outside. The sky is still intact.
Still, there is no shortage of Chicken Littles. After Islamist parties won three elections in a row, columnists and pundits in the West threw up their hands in horror.
The Amilcar Notes (Part 2): Tunisia — Emerging Democracy or Just a Facade?
While Ennahdha talks unity, in fact it seems to be engaged in a power grab which it could win the battle but lose the war — the future of Tunisia.
MEK May Be a Terrorist Organization, But It Doesn’t Deserve to Be Butchered
The remnants of Iranian dissident group the MEK confined to an Iraqi refugee camp face a massacre when the United States leaves.
IT Systems Are Just as Important to Flow of Oil as Straits of Hormuz
Hackers may soon cause massive disruptions in the oil industry.
Does Israel Believe Downed Drone in Iran Contained Attack Coordinates?
Israel may believe that the downed drone in Iran contains data for an attack.
Bad Pizza . . . and Even Worse Intelligence
At least a dozen CIA sources were reportedly compromised through shocking operational deficiencies that made them easy pickings for Hezbollah’s counterespionage agents.
Israel May Be as Threatened by a Rational Iran as an Irrational Iran
Apparently the rationale that Israeli war hawks and the Americans who enable them have long harbored for attacking Iran is mutating.