apathy is a stain on society! there’s never been a more important time to be opinionated!
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 [...]
Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West.
The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range [...]
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 [...]
If only the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was obliged to give the Iranian parliament an annual ’state of the union’ address. That would certainly help us build a better understanding of what the hell he’s thinking. Unfortunately the current sources of information are somewhat skewed; the Western press or Israeli news sources. Not necessarily the [...]
Isn’t it wonderful how the mighty mainstream media in the U.S. aids and comforts the nation’s blissful ignorance of so many growing threats around the world?
Every once in a while a cable news network might fly up a scary graphic headline supported by old news footage, some scary sound effects and a dreadfully serious anchorperson [...]
Some fascinating news reports and opinion pieces have been published today in various rags about Iran’s faltering oil industry and the nation’s unsustainable demand for energy. A mixed bag of conclusions are made about the success (or lack) of trade sanctions against Iran, the nuclear standoff, and various fluffy next step assumptions.
This is fine and [...]
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