UncategorizedOne of South Africa’s most notorious unsolved political murders revistedJames Myburgh investigates the 1977 murders of Afrikaner politician Robert Smit and his wife, Jeanne-Cora, including suspicions...
WorldBloodshed at sea, and a wave of global angerIsrael’s flotilla strike may mark the end of its relationship with Turkey
UncategorizedIsrael’s secret and cozy relationship with apartheid South AfricaThis book will make a splash. Glenn Frankel, former Southern Africa and Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post, discusses...
UncategorizedThe British approach to counter-insurgencyA British colonel studying at the U.S. Army War College has written about British counter-insurgency since 1945: "Since 1945 the...
UncategorizedWhat I’m readingFor pleasure, Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson (gripping; occasionally jarring) and Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk, an elegant and book...
UncategorizedYes, Mr. Sarkozy, that’s the kind of man I think you areLast September, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was asked if he would release an Iranian agent convicted of murdering a former...
UncategorizedFive hanged in TehranI was out of the office when this atrocity took place. I’d be remiss, however, not to bring it to your attention even a week...
UncategorizedTerrorism watch in North AfricaThe long-running dispute between Morocco and the Polisario Front over sovereignty of Western Sahara is usually ignored by the rest...