Intifada Palestine

by Philip Giraldi
While it would seem that international conferencing and seeking to overthrow two regimes would make for a busy weekend for even the most peripathetic secretary of state, Hillary also decided to whack her host, Turkey.

by Dr. Franklin Lamb
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in Paris that it was time for Qaddafi loyalists, which France acknowledges have been rapidly increasing in number, and Libyan rebels “to sit around a table to reach a political compromise” because, he said, “there was no solution with force.”

by Joe Catron
Barack Obama wants it both ways. Like every United States president since Bill Clinton, who partially brokered the now-defunct Oslo Accords in 1993, he aspires to act as a trusted intermediary in the 63-year old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, while simultaneously pandering to America’s massive pro-Israel lobby.

Share Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks with Alec Ross and Jared Cohen of the U.S. Department of State at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Alec and Jared have spent the past five years advocating for improved access to the web and other digital resources in war-torn and underdeveloped areas of the globe, including the Middle East, [...]

Maidhc Ó Cathail
Let’s hope that the Egyptian activists who put their faith in Glassman’s “public diplomacy” haven’t a similar rude awakening in store.