Zakaria is the host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” a Sunday CNN news offering. He was happily — proudly — acknowledging that he counsels the president. Neither CNN nor Zakaria found this admission compromised its self-image of neutrality for an instant.
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Guatemala Declares ‘State of Siege’ After Massacre of Field Workers
The government has blamed Mexico’s Zetas drug gang for the massacre, which has been described as one of Guatemala’s worst mass killings in a generation.
Death Squad Dictator and Obama bud
As for Chavez, he not only makes a mockery of democracy. He aligns with terrorists, drug dealers and rogue states. The latest is that he runs a death squad regime, yet the U.S. response is dead silence.
Can Liberty Thrive in an Illiberal Culture?
Religious tolerance and civil liberty are taken for granted in the United States. It is therefore difficult for Americans to accept that the blessings of liberty are not universally available.
Pakistani Taliban retaliate
Twin bomb attacks on a paramilitary force academy in north-west Pakistan have killed 80 people, police say. The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier this month. – BBC
Claudia Rosett: the North Korea/Iran Axis – video
Forbes columnist Claudia Rosett, journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, addressed the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill. She discussed the nexus between North Korea and Iran, and their partnership in military technology and other anti-American pursuits.
The Pakistani Pit of Deception
If it were an individual, Pakistan would be diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, subject to raging fears that India intends to invade on a moment’s notice and antagonistic to Afghanistan as it harbors those who attack it.
It’s Not Over Till It’s Over
As omnipresent and as faceless as the internet and as private and personal as family relations the tenuous filaments of the interlocking terror networks will prove more resilient than expected and more tenuous than imagined.
Condi schools O’Donnell with reality
Former National Security adviser to Bush, Condi Rice stands up to MSNBC O’Donnell’s lies about Iraq and the reality of security threats.
Panetta admits Bush’s “enhanced interrogation” worked
CIA director Leon Panetta admitted that waterboarding of GITMO detainees helped the US find and kill Osama bin Laden. Labeling waterboarding as “torture”, Democrats and the left attacked George W. Bush and gave fuel to enemy propaganda about the treatment of prisoners.