Articles by CCNS Members

From US perspective, Pervez Musharraf gets a well-earned sentence

Since independence, there has been no more accurate barometer of the malfeasance of Pakistan’s government or the volatility of its political system than the frequent fate of the country’s leaders – assassination, execution, prison or disgrace. Such is the fate of Pakistan’s former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, who was…

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Ukraine was the Origin of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax

December 2015 was a pivotal month in many respects. During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial lead over his Republican primary opponents. Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Ukraine to announce, on December 7th, a $190 million program to “fight corruption in law enforcement and reform the…

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A Weekend with American Muslims for Palestine: Awad Says CAIR Fights Zionism “On a Daily Basis”

Its leaders won’t condemn terrorist groups like Hamas or Hizballah, but the founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says his organization deals with “Zionism on [a] daily basis.” Nihad Awad, who co-founded CAIR in 1994 and is the only person to run it, cast Zionism as inherently…

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Exit Wounds

Without appropriate planning,the departure of US troops from Syria and Afghanistan could, warns Lawrence Sellin, have unintended and disturbing geopolitical consequences. Any major geopolitical withdrawal has the potential to produce a power vacuum. A successful outcome achieves burden shifting while securing US national interests and ensuring that America’s adversaries do not…

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