apathy is a stain on society! there’s never been a more important time to be opinionated!
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 [...]
Russian News & Information Agency (RIA Novosti) - a state run media outlet - published a report last week in which retired Russian General [Leonid] Ivashov proposes a detailed report on U.S. plans to strike Iran on Friday April 6.
General Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces during the September 11, [...]
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a thinly veiled threat to Iran over the 15 sailors snatched by Iran last Friday. AP reports Tony Blair as saying Britain is prepared to move to a “different phase” if diplomacy fails to deliver the British sailors.
Blair is expected to resign as Prime Minister in May after [...]
Have the stars sufficiently lined up for a U.S. attack on Iran’s insidious nuclear program? Iran’s continued disregard for the United Nations; increased domestic civil and political within Iran; a moderate Arab world united against a growing Shia sphere of influence; and renewed efforts for a Saudi-backed peace accord with Israel. These perfect storm conditions [...]
When the American mainstream media does throw a quick glance at Iran it paints such an abstract simpleton’s view of the problem as to be completely void of merit. Now is not the time for jingoistic bravado and bull-headed pride. The Iranian ‘problem’ impacts the stability of the middle east and pretty much everything wrong [...]
David Frum, the former speechwriter for President George W Bush normally pounds the Kool-Aid a tad too excessively for my liking - BUT this article (entitled, “Russian Democracy is Dying“) is right on the money. Succinct, non-partisan and well-thought out - if you can spare five minutes, I’d highly recommend.
- We do know … over [...]
If it wasn’t for the disgusting scale of destruction, death, and general chaotic carnage that is Iraq (circa 2007) it would be almost a pleasant and welcome distraction to be glib about the Iraq Oil Law.
To put it succinctly, the Iraqi Government’s approval of the ‘Iraq Oil Law‘ has opened the door to a dismantled [...]
The blogosphere has picked up a rumor - I think started by wack-job conspiracy site ‘What Does it Mean?‘ - that reports (thus far unsubstantiated) Russian President Putin has ordered Russian ‘Spetsnaz’ (Special Forces) into Iran to “protect ‘vital’ Russian assets, including the Bushehr Nuclear power plant.”
As with all blog rumors - this is starting [...]