A planned decrease by the Obama administration in funding for democracy promotion and election support in the Middle East is prompting alarm among activists. They say cuts are likely to be more severe than first realized and that the White House appears to be giving up on democracy in the region and downgrading its advancement as a policy priority.
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Issue brief author Faysal Itani, a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, argues that King Abdullah ought to move forward transforming Jordan’s institutions and reimagining its relationship with its citizens, despite the associated political risks.
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Investigative journalist, Seymour M. Hersh, is writing an alternative history of the war on terror. In this thorough article in the London Review of Books, he argues about Barack Obama's attempt to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August.
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