War as Industry: The Top 5 Arms Producing Companies in America
The United States aerospace and defense industry is by far the most powerful in the world employing hundreds of thousands of people and raking in billions in profit every year. American companies make up seven of the top ten arms-producing and military services companies in the world (excluding China) as the infographic I created below illustrates.
Pakistan Elections: Where Patronage Ruled – Inter Press Service
Inter Press Service – This last weekend saw re-polling in constituencies throughout Pakistan in response to hundreds of complaints of vote rigging. Complaints ranged from the documentation of over 100 percent voter turnout in some polling stations to stories of polling staff being kidnapped and released after votes had been submitted. But vote rigging was not the only way in …
A New Game of Shared Interests: the US, Russia and the Middle East
With Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security advisor to President Jimmy Carter), Fyodor Lukyanov (columnist for Al-Monitor editor of Russia in Global Affairs), Seyed Hossein Mousavian (spokesman for Iran in its nuclear negotiations with the European Union), Vali Nasr (Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution), …
At a Fork in the Road: The Iran Nuclear Talks post-Istanbul – Link TV
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From Baghdad to Moscow: Assessing the Iran Nuclear Talks – Link TV
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Derailing Diplomacy: MEK Weighs in on Iran Nuke Talks & Tom Ridge Interview
Last week while the outlines of a historic interim deal were being hashed out between the P5+1 nations and Iran, a last ditch effort to derail diplomacy and garner support for regime change in the Islamic Republic took place on Capitol Hill organized by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, also known as the the MEK. I attended the event, and …
“US-Iran Talks in Geneva and the Roles of Israel & Saudi Arabia” by NIAC: Highlights Reel
With Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former director general of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah, Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency; Yossi Alpher, former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; Shireen Hunter, former Iranian diplomat under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; and Aaron David Miller, an American analyst and negotiator who has advised six U.S. secretaries of state.