Unplugged: Administration’s Energy Policies Don’t Match Its Own Rhetoric
On Wednesday in Brussels, Secretary of State John Kerry pledged American leadership in making it more difficult for energy to be used as a geopolitical weapon. However, the Obama Administration’s...
View ArticleSix Billion in Taxpayer Dollars Disappears from State Department Records
According to a recent report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), $6 billion worth of contracting money paid out by the department over the past six years cannot be...
View ArticleThe U.S. Needs a Long-Term Plan for Dealing with Russia
Photo: AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB/Newscom Last week, President Obama signed into law an aid package that will send $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine. While these loan guarantees will help stabilize...
View ArticleAuthor of Russian Reset Admits Policy Is Dead
Newscom President Obama’s former Ambassador to Russia and self-described author of the Russian reset policy Michael McFaul today admitted the obvious: the reset is dead. In a radio interview with the...
View ArticleKerry Offers Himself as a Martyr for the Administration's Failed Foreign Policy
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom During a recent Senate hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry said he would take the blame for any failures of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, all...
View ArticleUkraine Takes Action to Quell Russian-Provoked Unrest
Photo: Pochuyev Mikhail Itar-Tass Photos/Newscom Today, the Ukrainian military began “anti-terror” operations to wrest control of some eastern police stations and government buildings from pro-Russian...
View ArticleReal Numbers Leak: Only 15 Percent of People in Crimea Voted to Join Russia
Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV/POOL Contrary to what we heard from Moscow, support among Crimeans for joining Russia was less than overwhelming. According to a report in Forbes magazine, the president of...
View ArticleNATO Allies Actively Assisting Russian Military? Unacceptable
Photo: PIERRE CROM/LE JOURNAL/SIPA/Newscom Ukrainian soldiers and police remain willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to fend off Russia’s attempts to take over eastern Ukraine — last week, seven...
View ArticleEuropean Election Results Show Europeans Fed Up With European Union Integration
David Coburn, newly-elected MEP (one of six) for Scotland, shortly after the declaration for the European Elections at Edinburgh City Council. (Photo: James Glossop/Newscom) Voters sent a clear message...
View ArticleThe Four Biggest Delusions of Obama's West Point Speech
Photo: Future-Image/ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom President Obama’s speech last week to graduates of West Point was supposed to highlight the success of the administration’s foreign policy and lay out a vision...
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