Kenneth R. Timmerman is an investigative reporter and war correspondent who has published 11 works of non-fiction. His latest is Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary & Obama Blamed for Benghazi (PostHill Press/Simon & Schuster). He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Learn more at: http://kentimmerman.com
As week one of the war with Iran draws to a close, a few observations. First, the US and Israel achieved strategic surprise on the morning of February 28 when they launched the successful decapitation strike against Iran’s Supreme Leader. It now appears that this was aided by deliberate misdirection, with President Trump appearing at midnight on […]
Ataturk abolished the Islamic Caliphate led by Turkey in 1924. Just four years later, Egyptian Muslims created the Muslim Brotherhood, with the goal of re-establishing the Caliphate in Muslim lands. The idea, of course, was to channel the energies of Muslims across the Middle East who rejected Ataturk’s move. But in the post World War […]
By the time you read this, the bombs could already be in the air. President Trump said on Wednesday he was “fed up” with Iran’s negotiating tactics, and on Thursday he gave them a deadline: make a deal to end their nuclear program and ballistic missile programs within ten to fifteen days, or “it’s going […]
While President Trump was talking big strategic issues with Bibi Netanyahu in the White House this week, Europe’s lilliputian leaders gathered for a leadership retreat in a snug Flemish castle, far from prying eyes. Trump and Bibi were of course talking War and Peace. The future of the Middle East. What to do about the […]
As I write this, the latest round of US-Iranian talks has come to an end in Oman without any apparent conclusions. The Iranians have said that the US wants to continue talking, but the US side — so far — has said nothing. That in itself is telling. Had they actually come to an agreement […]
It only took the Euros 47 years to understand that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the IRGC, is a terrorist organization. Perhaps the IRGC bank accounts in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg, have gone dry. That’s the only explanation I can find for why the EU finally put the IRGC on their list of international terrorist […]
President Trump traveled to Davos, Switzerland, this week to lay down the law to the world’s effete elites. We’re taking Greenland, he thundered, whether you like it or not. And in a nearly two-hour speech, he explained in great detail why the Greenland icecap is of tremendous strategic importance — not just to the United […]
The Iranian regime likes to kill in darkness. And that’s what they did this past week. When the Iranian people heeded the call of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to “make noise” at 8 PM last Thursday and Friday (Jan. 8-9), the regime unplugged the Internet, jammed satellite television, and sent in the goons. It […]
The Domino Theory was a strategic concept popular in the 1950s and 1960s, which asserted that once one country succumbed to Communism, its neighbors would soon follow. Because it was widely cited to justify the unpopular U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, it fell out of favor by the 1970s. That didn’t mean it […]
Who said there is never news over New Year’s? President Trump loves to surprise the pundits. Remember the killing of Qassem Suleymani on Jan. 3, 2020? I’m not saying we have something quite as dramatic this year (and you can read about my contribution to the Suleymani killing in my latest book, The Iran House. But […]
On Christmas Day, President Trump announced that U.S. warships off the coast of Africa had launched air strikes against ISIS targets in northern Nigeria. That certainly took the world by surprise. Two months ago, President Trump threatened to conduct military operations in Nigeria to protect Christians facing an “existential threat” and nobody believed him. And […]
The movement to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and its front organizations here in the United States is finally coming to a head, after years of false steps and misinformation about the Brotherhood and its goals. The late Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Brotherhood’s leading strategists, made it very clear in a speech he gave in […]
They’re calling it the “Trump Doctrine.” It’s the national security “pivot” from regions far-far away, to taking care of business right here in our own backyard. As I mention in my podcast with Prophecy Today, this document setting out America’s national securities priorities and how to accomplish them is written in Trump’s own very distinctive […]
If you thought Putin had been marginalized by the US and Europe because of the Ukraine war, think again. The Europeans have done a lot of huffing and puffing. And President Trump has sent Ukraine powerful offensive missiles. But we haven’t succeeded in blowing Putin’s house down. Far from it. This week, Putin once again […]
It’s a bit amusing to listen to the fake news media speculate that Trump is somehow “losing it” and in “cognitive decline.” Here is a president who not only masters all the tools of our national government, but has deployed them to achieve his policy goals in ways no president in modern history has ever done. […]