Putin’s Grand Bargain to Israel: Can Israel Digest It?

Putin’s Grand Bargain to Israel: Can Israel Digest It?

“Israel is climbing up a high horse,” Alex Fishman (the veteran Israeli Defence Correspondent) wrote in the Hebrew daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, last month, “and is approaching with giant steps a ‘war of choice’: Without mincing words, it’s an initiated war in Lebanon.” In Fishman’s article, he notes: “Classical deterrence is when you threaten an enemy not to…

America: A Military Nation

America: A Military Nation

Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA that have run…

Syria Strikes Back as Israel Discovers Its Warplanes Aren’t Invincible

Syria Strikes Back as Israel Discovers Its Warplanes Aren’t Invincible

Israel has long been the unchallenged bully in the Middle East, but now Tel Aviv will face consequences for its temper tantrums. That was the message from Damascus last weekend when the Syrian army shot down an Israeli F-16. The dramatic escalation happened as Israel claimed one of its warplanes was in Syrian airspace to…

English: The Language of Deception or The Language of Truth?

English: The Language of Deception or The Language of Truth?

In January of this year, Iran moved to cancel the teaching of English in primary schools in order to protect Iranian children from exposure to western originated English language propaganda designed to undermine the security, dignity and unity of the Islamic Republic. The move came after local protests in late 2017 were infiltrated by sleeper…

Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service

Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service

Onavo Protect, the VPN client from the data-security app maker acquired by Facebook back in 2013, has now popped up in the Facebook iOS app itself, under the banner “Protect” in the navigation menu. Clicking through on “Protect” will redirect Facebook users to the “Onavo Protect – VPN Security” app’s listing on the App Store….