Article in Time.com from Saturday August 18 by Robert Baer.
Entitled, “Prelude to an attack on Iran.”
Begins:
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk […]
The 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls gathered this evening in the constantly-under-construction city of Chicago and the always-charming Soldier Field – home of the Chicago Bears. The insanely hot and humid weather a provided stark contrast to the frigid relations between front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton (D - N.Y.) and second-place Sen. Barack Obama (D. […]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates trip to the Middle East and the subsequent and substantial $63 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and a handful of smaller Arab states has drawn considerable criticism back home from Presidential hopefuls (Edwards | Obama) and other media-starlets as an act of incompetent […]
Recent stock market declines, an ever-weaker Dollar, and an increasingly loud chest beating by nations beyond the U.S.’s rapidly shrinking sphere of influence suggests one disheartening but rapidly apparent reality. We are witnessing the rapid decline in global dominance - the unipolar / hyper-power world - of the United States of America and the emergence […]
Just as Reuters reports a third aircraft carrier group is being sent to join the Fifth Fleet parked off the coast of Iran, … the National Review (a surprisingly right-wing but critical voice against the Bush incompetency) says succinctly what many well-placed people remain stubbornly mute about: The ridiculous inability of the Bush administration to […]
The Financial Times today posted a gloriously titled article, “World will face oil crunch ‘in five years’” yesterday afternoon that predicts ever rising oil prices and economic gloom. But who is to blame?
The FT continues, “The world is facing an oil supply “crunch” within five years that will force up prices to record levels and […]
You know the war in Iraq is so far beyond recovery and success when the Bush Administration’s cable news mouthpiece, Fox News, shuns any mention of said war in favor of:
- Paris Hilton
- immigration reform so out of whack with reality as to emphasize the absurdity of Bush’s “Conversative” values and the far-left’s betrayal […]
The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is literally running out of time - politically, militarily, and rather frighteningly, spiritually! Iran is teasingly close to an all-out war with the United States and the consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the world are enormous and potentially cataclysmic.
Politically:
Conservative Ahmadinejad was swept into power in August 2005 on a […]
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, deputy and vice-chairman of the State Duma (the Russian parliament), and a lawyer. Zhirinovsky is (also) the founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the third largest party in the Duma. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council […]