Epstein Secrets

will our Sunni friends — the Saudis, for instance — think of that? Or maybe we should just wash our hands of the whole thing and turn over a hunk of the Middle East with its oil to a terrorist organization — one that boasts of committing massacres. Oh, what dreams it must have in the desert night. William Goldm

hing approaching warmth. Nobody should bet against an independent Kurdish state within the next decade. Syria and Iraq are in a state of implosion; Middle Eastern borders are up for grabs. Qaeda affiliates have already done their grabbing. They control wide swathes of Syria and Iraq 13 years (and trillions of

reports "exaggerated the death toll by a factor of 10, citing `more than 2,000 deaths' in Benghazi during the initial days of the uprising, whereas Human Rights Watch (HRW) later documented only 233 deaths across all of Libya in that period." Furthermore, when the United States and a few other NATO nations interv

d with potentially cataclysmic consequences nobody dares imagine. This Friday, the shock came in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad runs one of the Middle East's most repressive regimes. Across the country, protesters have grown ever more emboldened in recent weeks, and on Friday they poured into the street

t Ford referred to in justifying his own decision to pardon Nixon. Otherwise, Mubarak's fate could become just one more chapter in the long saga of Middle Eastern leaders who rise and fall because of the whims of fortune. Nikolas K Gvosdev is the former editor of the National Interest, and a frequent foreign

by the fact that there have been no terrorist attacks for more than six months. It has also been ruthless. To judge by my own interviews, a recent Human Rights Watch report on extrajudicial executions in the district was accurate, and these are still continuing, albeit at a diminished rate. Casualties among the

nt Jimmy Carter and in every administration since (except George W. Bush's), Dennis Ross has played a bigger role in setting American policy toward the Middle East than perhaps any other official who didn't occupy the Oval Office. Most recently, Ross was special assistant to President Obama and the National Se

he National Security Council and State Department during the Clinton administration, Malinowski today is responsible for delivering the messages of Human Rights Watch -- an international NGO that spends some $50 million annually -- to policymakers and EFTA00712794 government officials in Washington. He also has

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tory.html> (10/21, Hudson, 14.2M) reports the Administration is considering labeling prominent human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, "as 'anti-Semitic,' according to two people familiar with the discussions." According to the people, the State Department could issue a d

intended to sterilize young Muslim girls. This decision led to a global outbreak accounting for the spread of polio into 20 countries across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, causing 80 percent of the worlds' cases of paralytic poliomyelitis. In addition to effectively ending any hopes of eradicating polio by t

tional. In fact, since 2011, there have been 51 Andrew Walker, "Special Report: What is Boko Haramr United States Institute of Peace, June 2012. 52 Human Rights Watch, "Nigeria: Massive Destruction, Deaths From Military Raid' 1 May 2013. 53 Amnesty International, "Nigeria: Deaths of hundreds of Boko Haram supsects

speaking in Cairo, no less—that "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East—and we achieved neither." The U.S. was now committed to pushing for change, though not at the expense of sacrificing key American security interest

nuary 2011, that they have the upper hand, and they do not need to fear public accountability or questioning," said Heba Morayef, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. In the more than seven weeks since Mr. Morsi's ouster, security EFTA_R1_00441178 EFTA01964430 forces have carried out at least three mass shoot

power to civilians. As for human rights, though, just what do Egyptians have to celebrate? Not all that much — a sad commentary on the uprising in the Middle East's most populous country, one that is a reference point for regional politics despite its poverty and EFTA_R1_00234086 EFTA01845140 stagnation. Yes

illed by anti-riot forces during unrest in and around Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protest. Police routinely beat demonstrators, women included. Human Rights Watch has documented torture and abuse of detainees by soldiers. Military personnel carried out abusive "virginity tests" on women in detention. Servile

China, India, Pakistan, Israel and Nor=h Korea. More will likely emerge. The author presents detailed case studies on East Asia, South Asia and the =iddle East to bolster his argument that the multipolar nuclear world is al=eady changing the military strategies of regional powers in significant wa=s and to

ne people of one country." But inside Syria those =hanting "Christians to Beirut, Alawites to their graves!" have become =ore than a fringe element. Human Rights Watch and other groups have docume=ted cases of rebels executing Syrian soldiers and Alawites regarded as gov=rnment collaborators. Growing numbers of fo

ce of interests between the two states. Unfortunately at that time, Afghanistan was becoming less important, for the Bush administration, than Iraq. Middle Eastern geopolitics was already more important to deal with than the Afghan issue, which seemed to have been dealt with successfully, at least from an Ameri

nistan at the very 4 On the weapons given and the work done by the Iranians to make sure the Hizb-i-Wandat received its 'fair amount' of arms, see Human Rights Watch, Afghanistan: Crisis of Impunity. The Role of Pakistan, Russia and Iran in fueling the civil war, July 2001, pp.35 to 39. http://www.hnv.org/report.