Epstein Secrets

, deserves great credit for ensuring that when the Soviet empire did fall, as Eisenhower had much earlier worked to make happen, the transitions in Eastern Europe were peaceful. Where there could have been chaos Bush reached out to other world leaders and produced an orderly handover of power. He also waged a

n orderly handover of power. He also waged a war against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in which he made the wise decision not to continue on to Baghdad, avoiding a messy conflagration like that which would later consume his son's presidency. Both Eisenhower and Bush paid a price for their successes

on and subsequent expulsion of the bulk of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland at the hands of western- backed Jewish invaders from Eastern Europe. Indeed, referring toArab Jews — who were urged,terrorised and even bombed by Zionist agents inorder to make themleave their original homelands in

Sudanese Defense Minister or Hassan Nasrallah. We could also cite [Muhammad Saeed] al- Sahhaf on that famous day when American troops were attacking Baghdad by land, sea and air, and as an American tank was parked close by him, when he told reporters: "Look, we have surrounded the infidels". We could e

of the last century and into this one, many people assumed that history moves in only one direction. The tide of freedom had lifted East Asia and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. In an era of global trade and communications, the rest of the world surely would follow. Academics and thin

ef since 2010, covering Israel, the Palestine territories and nearby sovereignties. He worked 16 years at the Washington Post in Nairobi, Istanbul, Baghdad, Los Angeles and Rockville, MD. A,tklc 5. The Telegraph Inside Israel's nuclear wargames David Patrikarakos 4 Nov 2012 -- On the 24 September a

of the wartime generations. These days, Germany will no longer reach for its checkbook whenever Europe calls. Fourth, the once captive nations of Eastern Europe are no longer uniformly passionate about the European Union even though their citizens have more recent memories of dictatorship, hardship and war.

audi interests in maintaining an Iraqi buffer zone against Iran. The Saudis had asked the United States not to leave a Shia-dominated government in Baghdad that would threaten the northern frontier of the kingdom, only to have the last U.S. soldiers depart in December 2011. With revolution sweeping acr

cience from the University of Toronto and a bachelor's (honors) in history from McGill University. He is the author of Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1999) and Quiet Diplomacy in Action (2001), editor of Blood and Borders (2010), and has written several articles and chapters

Rick Hooper was my special assistant in Gaza. He died at age 40 on August 19, 2003, in the terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. Rick was one of the most, perhaps even the most, talented and creative individual I have known. He was a great expert of Middle East issues and a