Al Gore warned of heat stress while visiting Dubai last week, drawing admiration for speaking truth to power at a climate conference, COP28. The fearless filmmaker (An Inconvenient Truth) and scion of a famous political family, the Tennessee Gores, assailed…
Since the onset of the 1979 Revolution, Iran has adopted a strategy to engage and neutralize external threats far from its borders in tacit acknowledgment that their military has a minute chance of surviving a conventional force-on-force encounter with technologically…
At about the time President Joe Biden left for his trip to the Middle East, rapper Snoop Dogg advertised his new brand of cannabis called “Sleepy Joe OG,” which features a picture of a befuddled Biden on the label. It…
Friday marked the first anniversary since Israel and the United Arab Emirates issued a joint statement supporting normalized relations in the Abraham Accords. Since then, the Trump administration brokered three more normalization accords between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan….
To the untrained eye, it may appear that the Biden administration is beginning to get smart in the Middle East. The administration has recently condemned the attack on the Israeli-managed Mercer Street ship in the Gulf of Oman, stating that it was…
In the wake of a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza, the Biden administration made several blunders last week that undermine the prospects for Middle East peace. By undercutting Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, pursuing payment schemes to the Palestinians that embolden terror,…
Space exploration is a lot about hurry up and wait. Years and years of concept design and planning for launch vehicles and payloads, years and years of hopeful lobbying to acquire and then protect funding, patient pauses waiting for favorable…
Mars is getting to be a busy place. The United Arab Emirates Mars Mission Al Amal (Hope) drops into orbit February 9. China’s Tianwen-1 (Quest for Heavenly Truth 1) arrives the next day, and NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, with the…
It has been seven decades since the founding of Israel, more than a century since the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, and about fourteen hundred years since the death of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed led to the split between Sunni and…