Ryan Mauro’s latest article at Pajamas Media.
Ha’aretz has revived the mystery surrounding the inability to find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq, the most commonly cited justification for Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the most embarrassing episodes for the United States. Satellite photos of a suspicious site in Syria are providing new support for [...]
Satellite Photos Support Claims of Iraqi WMD in Syria
NewsReal Sunday Book Club: Ryan Mauro Recommends Titles on Religion and Foreign Policy
Ryan Mauro is a foreign policy analyst who contributes regularly to both FrontPage Magazine and Pajamas Media. He also blogs here at NRB about The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
In addition to his interests in foreign policy Ryan is deeply spiritual and particularly appreciates Christian apologetics. His book recommendations today reflect these subjects:
1) [...]
Jospeh Stalin Exposed: A.K.A. Why I’ll Never Understand Men (Feminist Hawk Meets Ryan Mauro)
Editor’s Note: See Ryan Mauro’s post on Rielle Hunter here.
Devouring Remembering a Dissident, FrontPage Editor Jamie Glazov’s long-awaited tribute to his father, I came face to face with the insane thirst for power that drove Joseph Stalin and I began to understand something about male psychology. It also explains why I have stayed married to [...]
Opposition: Iran Planning to Kill Secular Iraqi Forces
Yesterday, Pajamas Media published my article (click here) about the March 7 national elections in Iraq and how Iran is positioning itself to be “king maker.” A coalition will certainly have to be formed and so Iran is assisting its allies in the Iraqi National Alliance which includes the Sadrists and the Islamic Supreme Council [...]
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Sanctions on Iran
Jonathan Schanzer and Mark Dubowitz of The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies argue in the New York Post that sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector will cause the regime some very substantial pain. Material and political support for the opposition is necessary as well, but the impact of tough sanctions could cause the regime to [...]
Keep the Fringe on the Fringe, Not at CPAC
Back in December, NewsReal’s own Ryan Mauro took the Conservative Political Action Conference to task for accepting the crackpot John Birch Society as a sponsor of CPAC 2010, calling it a “monumentally stupid decision” that would give the Left plenty of ammo for their current “conservatives are extreme!” narrative.
With CPAC set to begin tomorrow, The [...]
Iran: We’re Enriching Uranium to 20%. How Ya Like Them Apples?
Following the West’s dismissal of Iran’s latest “acceptance” of a theoretical deal to enrich some of its uranium outside of the country, the Iranian government has announced it is enriching its current stockpile to 20 percent purity. Well, the regime needs to enrich it to 90 percent to become bomb-grade so we’ve still got plenty [...]
























Jihad Tactics From Elementary School
No one ever said that jihadists have to be mature. According to The Jerusalem Post, the police in Judea and Samaria are receiving 30-40,000 prank phone calls from Palestinians per month, forcing them to install screening software and to train their staff on how to distinguish fake calls from real ones. The police say that [...]