The Senate Armed Services Committee has favorably reported S. 1197, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. And, you will be pleased to know (or maybe not), they have slipped into the bill a proposal for new export…
Indeed, what do former House Majority Leader Richard Armey and former Beatle Ringo Starr have in common? Other than, of course, immense artistic talent and devilish good looks. Well, they both are named Richard and they both were born on…
In its quest to keep the world safe from an Iranian nuclear bomb, the Office of Foreign Assets Control has focused its laser-like scrutiny on an Iranian tennis referee. Obviously, the same skills required to call a ball out or…
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Total, S.A., the French oil and gas company, agreed to pay $245.2 million to resolve charges that it paid bribes to an Iranian government official by way of purported consulting agreements from…
ABOVE: Destruction in Homs, Syria Just as the Assad government appears to be gaining ground back from the rebels, the White House announced certain measures loosening the sanctions on Syria. Yesterday, BIS issued a notice on its website that it would…