Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Arabic language news update by Barry Webb September 16

The number one topic this past week in the Arabic media is the attack against the Abqaiq oil refinery installations in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Immediately after the attack the Shi’a Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility saying that they used ten drones to attack two separate refineries in Saudi Arabia’s eastern region. These claims […]

August 30-02 September Arabic language news intel summary By Barry Webb

ISRAEL-LEBANON Last week we reported that the Foreign Minister of Bahrain, Shaykh Khaled bin Ahmad bin Muhammad Aal Khalifa, tweeted that Israel has a right to defend itself, in response to the flap over the two Israeli drones that violated Lebanon’s airspace, one of which carried explosives and took out an Hizbollah office in south […]

WHY AN ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE By Barry Webb

(The Mesha Stele)   According to an article on www.aljazeera.net (Arabic version) of 28 July 2019, the Jordanian “artists union” demanded that all Jordanian actors and technicians working on a certain film set in the Petra region should withdraw from the project–even though the producer of the film is himself, an Arab. The reason given […]

China Trade War, Taiwan F-16 Sales, and Hong Kong by Brad Johnson for The Epoch Times

Protesters with umbrellas and protective gear face off with riot police at Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong on August 24, 2019. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images)   China remains largely inscrutable today, as its reputation from the past implies. Perhaps it’s worth making a point about how they view themselves. For example, something I have never heard […]

Epoch Times op-ed: Grateful for Resistance

Ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) speaks with Rep. Jim Jordan(L) R-OH as constitutional scholars testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) VIEWPOINTS Grateful for Resistance Brad Johnson CONTRIBUTOR December 4, 2019 Updated: December 4, […]