Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading

Another Round of Pro-Morsi Protest Planned on Friday Ariel Ben Solomon / The Jerusalem Post Muslim Brotherhood supporters are calling for protests of Egypt’s Interim Government   Iraq: Wave of car, suicide blasts kills at least 46 Adam Schreck / Chron Violence...

What We Are Reading

Iran Staggers as Sanctions Hit Economy Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times Iran’s economy has been severely hurting from the sanctions that have been imposed by the United States. The country is hurting so badly that the leaders of the country, specifically President...

Syria: Factoring in the Russian Factor

By Patricia H Kushlis Recent events have demonstrated yet again that Russians are Russians whether in charge of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation.  Whether the Obama administration inadvertently stumbled onto this fact of life or not, Americans and others who...

Obama, Assad and Putin: No easy answer

By Patricia H. Kushlis For such a small country, international concern over the civil war in Syria is outsized.  As they say in real estate, however, location is everything and Syria borders on any number of countries in the Middle East from Turkey to the north to...

What We Are Reading

Is the Shale Forecast Curve Hyperbolic, or Exponential? Kate Mackenzie / Financial Times Alpha The US shale gas production boom took everyone by surprise — apparently that includes George Mitchell himself, who was credited for sparking the shale gas production surge...