The Iconoclast

Nuclear Deterrence is a Deadly Game

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Louis René Beres (March 2015) Traditionally, successful national strategies of deterrence require enemy rationality. In the absence of such rationality – that is, in those more-or-less residual circumstances where […]

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Israel Facing a Perfect Storm

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates with Dan Diker and Shoshana Bryen (March 2015) A perfect storm is threatening Israel. While the world’s attention is focused on the rise of the […]

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And Death Shall Have His Dominion

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2015) There are many ways of dividing humanity into two other than those who divide humanity into two and those who don’t. For example, there are […]

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The Historical, Legal, and Political Contexts of the Russian Annexation of Crimea

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Lawrence A. Howard (March 2015) An Introduction to Current Events The legislative action was nothing new in the short, modern history of independent Ukraine. It had been proposed as […]

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Bearing the Cross: A Letter to ISIS

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Mark Durie (March 2015)   The Islamic State sent me a letter last month. This letter was in the form of a short film produced by the Islamic State’s Al-Hayat […]

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The Middle East is Now a More Flammable Tinderbox Than Ever

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Conrad Black (March 2015) The world has been largely anesthetized by the endless, fruitless negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The regime of Non-Proliferation in nuclear affairs has been dying […]

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A Battle of Algiers

February 28, 2015
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Joel Hirst

by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2015) When asked about the effects of the French Revolution, the late Chou En-Lai, as charming and sophisticated as he was without scruple, is alleged to […]

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Surprising Admissions By At Least One Western News Outlet About Those Non-Existent Israeli Dams

February 28, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. The crazed charges by the Arabs — that Israel was deliberately opening dams to flood Gaza — do not surprise. Those familiar with Arab and Muslim culture know that […]

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More Emerges on Obama’s Phased Nuclear Deal with Iran

February 27, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director, Washington Office of NCRI, National Press Club, Feb. 24, 2015 When we posted late Monday night, February 23, 2015, on breaking news about the phased deal […]

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Mullah Krekar Arrested Again, For Praising The Charlie-Hebdo Killers

February 27, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. Mullah Krekar is a Kurd, a Kurd who wants to out-Arab the Arabs in the ferocity of his Islam. He managed to end up in Norway. He needs to […]

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Boris Nemtsov Murdered In Moscow

February 27, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

His Wikipedia entry, with the verb “is” now “was,” here.

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Love in the Good Old USA

February 27, 2015
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Richard Butrick

Given the Zinn-Chomsky version of the Good Old USA promulgated throughout academe, who wouldn’t be ashamed to be an American. The Good Old USA is the cause of it all. […]

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Nabila Ramdani’s Article InThe Guardian Is Idiotic, But Read The Comments

February 27, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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A Musical Interlude: The Varsity Drag (George Olsen Orch.)

February 27, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Listen here.

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Beware The Ides Of March, Or, One Day U

February 27, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. Speed reading encouraged.

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Saudi Journalist: "Anyone who kills animals ends up killing people"

February 27, 2015
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Rebecca Bynum
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