I’ve received some emails from irate subscribers demanding their money back (to steal a joke from Jim Bartlett) due to the paucity of postings lately. Kinder, gentler readers have expressed concern as to whether I have been kidnapped. To the…
ABOVE: Avi Jorisch Avi Jorisch, who used to be a policy advisor at the Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How Iran Skirts Sanctions: Could a U.N. agency be…
Last week several readers brought to my attention a Bloomberg story that announced in its headline “U.S. Wants Microsoft to End Message Ban in Iran, Cuba.” This created a bit of a hubbub at the world headquarters of Export Law…
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday approved proposed legislation, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, which would, if adopted, further tighten sanctions on Iran. In an appropriations measure sent to the President earlier this month, companies that…
An article in Defense Industry Daily today highlighted a previous report by a watchdog group on Triple Canopy’s activities in Iraq. Triple Canopy is one of the major private military contractors in Iraq and has taken over many of the…