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Reports: Syrian Prime Minister Defects
As fighting continues in Aleppo, with 20,000 Syrian regime troops preparing a final assault, a confusing set of reports indicates that the Prime Minister has defected to Jordan. A statement read on the...
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Morsi Makes Bold Move Against Military in Egypt
Egypt’s President, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohammed Morsi, sacked Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and set in motion a series of other orders expanding the power of the Presidency and curbing the...
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Panetta Downplays Imminent Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Facilities
Rumors about a possible Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities forced US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to comment on the reports, but not in the most reassuring way, saying that Israel has not...
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Syrian Regime Floats Resignation of Assad as Possibility
I heard LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the chair of the Democratic National Convention, speak last night in Burbank, and among a fairly mainstream liberal speech that focused heavily on the DREAM Act...
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Romney Doubles Down on Criticism of Libya Tragedy
We can discuss why protesters decided to kill four American diplomatic personnel in Benghazi, Libya. The stated impetus concerns a badly produced movie displaying insensitivity toward Mohammed and...
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Benghazi Attacks May Have Been Pre-Planned
To pull back from focusing on the Romney campaign, relative to the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, we’re starting to learn more about the attacks themselves, and their significance...
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US Embassy in Yemen Site of Unrest, Joining Libya, Egypt
Given the mysteries of the Benghazi attacks on the US consulate (not an embassy, and not an entity that was guarded by Marines, apparently), I’m going to step lightly before attributing any Middle East...
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Embassy Protests in Arab Nations Continue, as New Information Emerges on...
Protests and attacks continued at Western embassies across the Middle East and North Africa today, and at this point they have little relationship to the anti-Muslim film “The Innocence of Muslims.” A...
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US Sends Drones, Military, Intelligence Personnel to Libya, Amid Chaotic Time...
As we learn more about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the probability that the militants involved were retaliating for a drone strike...
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Syria, Turkey Trade Border Attacks
Meanwhile, we had cross-border acts of war administered yesterday between a NATO ally and their neighbor. Turkey struck with artillery strikes on Syria yesterday, after one of their border towns was...
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Labor Secretary Solis: Obama Will Do “Whatever It Takes” On Jobs
At an event in Los Angeles today, US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis promised that President Obama would do “whatever it takes” to create more jobs, particularly in urban areas, though she stopped short...
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Lawmakers Debate Debt Limit, Jobs Agenda Lags
Lori Montgomery reports that the White House is “speeding up” debt limit talks, with an outline of spending cuts and deficit triggers in exchange for a debt limit increase. Montgomery breaks some news...
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Hundreds of Latinos Protest Record Deportations and Secure Communities...
Hundreds of immigrants rights advocates in Los Angeles staged a walkout during a federal task force field hearing about the Secure Communities program, blamed for the deportations of tens of thousands...
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