Source: The Atlantic, 12/6/2011 Fellow Joshua Foust writes about the challenges faced by lobbyists in a democracy. “…But it’s easy to misdirect outrage. This lobbying firm appears to have been doing its job — and lobbying firms work for a lot of sketchy groups, not just reporters posing as Uzbek government agents. The real scandal…
Source: Free Speech Radio News, 05/12/2011 Excerpt: This weekend President Obama expressed condolences on the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers after a NATO airstrike along the Afghanistan border. According to the White House, Obama called the November 26 attack a “regrettable incident” and pledged a full investigation in a Sunday night phone call to Pakistani…
Source: Free Press Radio News, 12/5/2011 ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is interviewed. Summary: “This weekend President Obama expressed condolences on the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers after a NATO airstrike along the Afghanistan border. According to the White House, Obama called the November 26 attack a “regrettable incident” and pledged a full investigation in a…
Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Monsters and Critics, 12/4/2011 Excerpt: The officials have been touting achievements, saying enemy attacks are down and the years of downward spiral have been reversed. But this assessment only bears up ‘if you count attacks in a very specific way,’ political analyst Joshua Foust said. ‘In the latest ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] report,…
Source: The Atlantic, 12/2/2011 Fellow Joshua Foust writes about the future of Kyrgyzstan, including U.S. basing rights. Today Kyrgyzstan inaugurated Almazbek Atambaev as their new president. It was a momentous event, the first peaceful transition of power in Central Asia. Unfortunately, Atambaev is inheriting a country with a troubled recent past and an uncertain future, including how…
Source: AOL Energy, 11/30/2011 ASP CEO BGen Stephen Cheney is a featured author. Excerpt: “…Terrorist attacks on energy infrastructure have also been on the rise. Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility-where two-thirds of the country’s output is refined-was the target of a suicide bomb attack in February 2006. In early October 2010, the Pakistani Taliban…