Saad Hariri never mastered the complicated Lebanese political game, and as long as MbS rules Saudi Arabia, Hariri will be banned from Lebanese politics, write As’ad AbuKhalil.
How MbS Ended Saad Hariri’s Political Career in Lebanon
Category: Column
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Propaganda and Evidence
The wall of propaganda that towers over us, resting on an insidious culture of irrationality that has come to suffuse the American polity, is weakening.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Sending a Hacktivist to SuperMax
Unless dramatic reforms are undertaken, prisoners such as Marty Gottesfeld will continue to be abused.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Arafat, Nasrallah & Nasser
They are incomparable in many ways, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. But each, within the era that he shaped, dominated the Arab stance toward Israel.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Russia’s Red Line
It is absolutely necessary that Moscow holds the line for the sake of a new security order in Europe and a sustainably stable world order in our time.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Scandal of US Prisons
The head of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was forced to step down last week as scandals swept through the vast U.S. prison system.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of Protest
If the Jan. 6 demonstrators defaced the Capitol in the name of one thing a year ago, Pelosi and all the other clowns rendering “commemorative” performances last week defaced it in the name of something else.
The Propaganda Engulfing Jamal Khashoggi
As’ad AbuKhalil writes this “friend” of Western journalists was close to the ruthless regime, even to the commander of his own eventual assassination squad. He’ll be remembered as the servant of Saudi princes and an early champion of bin Laden.
THE ANGRY ARAB: How Mossad Helps Arab Despots
Since its inception, the Israeli intelligence agency has been a terrorist organization, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic.