Blog

Looks like President Obama may have taken to heart some of the criticism he has received for putting Sudan on the back burner. In the opinion piece I’ve linked to in the previous sentence, veteran human rights reporter and columnist...

Commentator Dick Morris was on rhetorical fire at last week’s National Security & New Media Conference, where he received the Mightier Pen Award. Granted by the Center for Security Policy, a Washington D.C.-based national...

Pictures released yesterday of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death for adultery in Iran, at home with her son sparked rumors she was free. But sadly, the photos were actually part of a state...

Just received notice from the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS), a human rights organization that has spearheaded the international campaign to free a 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death in Iran for adultery, that...

Is anyone actually surprised by anything released by Wikileaks? Apparently, one of the site’s revelations is that leaders and diplomats from Gulf Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have approached the U.S. and asked ...

Last Monday, Stop the Bomb, a coalition of German activists and intellectuals who protest the German government’s and German corporations’ cooperation with the Iranian regime, held a protest outside a Courtyard Marriott Hotel in...

Thanksgiving Day update: Disappointing news from Washington D.C., as Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is “on hold.” Kerry’s office did not share the...

At last weekend’s Foreign Policy Initiative conference in Washington D.C.: I asked Senator John McCain a two-part question. First, I asked if he was concerned about corruption in Iraq’s government.

Second, I asked him if he was...

Senator John McCain forcefully criticized President Barack Obama’s governance at this year’s forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative, a Washington-based think tank.

McCain, appearing at Sunday’s forum, specifically...

Bill O’Reilly interviewed former President George W. Bush today to coincide with the release of “Decision Points,” Bush’s memoir of his years in office. Most interesting were Bush’s comments about Iraq and...