What can Saudis buy for $350 billion?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Saudi Arabia signed a $109 billion dollar defense deal with the US over the weekend. It is part of a larger deal worth $350 billion over […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Photo essay: Peshmerga and the war on ISIS
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since August 2014 the Kurdish Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, fought a tough war against Islamic State along a 1,000 kilometers of […]
“It’s raw intelligence”: How Trump went to war with his own intelligence community
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN If you accept the narrative presented by most major media about US President Donald Trump “leaking” information to Russia at a meeting, you accept these basic […]
Tracing the sources of the “Trump gave Russia intel” story
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ABC news reports (May 17) that “The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. […]
Interview with Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On May 16th, 2017, I met Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymr Groysman at the David Citadel hotel in Jerusalem. In a short interview but interesting discussionfor The Jerusalem […]
When western media calls Syria war confusing “free for all” it’s a form of racism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was reading a major US media outlet about Turkey’s president visiting Washington and there was a link to the “free for all” in Syria. “The […]
Oped attacks “westerners fighting ISIS” as “no heroes”, but they are heroes
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since 2014 dozens of volunteers have joined the Kurdish YPG in the war against ISIS. They came from all walks of life and from all over […]
Orwellian term “moderates” must be replaced by “far right”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Qaeda terrorists were hiding within the Islamist ranks, and I’m not saying it would have been easy sifting out the moderates from the messianic killers,” writes […]
When the police bombed Philly: Why do people write articles like this?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’ve never heard of the “MOVE bombing,” but on May 13th and in the days that followed some people on Facebook posted about it. I didn’t […]
The Comey filter
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Sometimes media is like one of those songs that plays too much on the radio. Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, magnify stories and scandals, […]
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