the opinionist

Posted on January 5th, 2010 under Churchill, FDR, Hitler, Obama, President, Putin, WWII, War, War on Terror. Comments: None

Posted on December 29th, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Apocolypse, Armageddon, Axis of Evil, Beijing, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Jingoism, Korea, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Oval Office, President Hu, Putin, Russia, john mccain. Comments: None

Posted on December 17th, 2009 under China, Deficit, Depression, Federal Reserve, Obama, President Hu, Putin, Spending, fiction!?. Comments: None

Posted on December 16th, 2009 under 12th Imam, Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Christian, Christmas, Chávez, Fidel Castro, Putin, israel. Comments: None

Texas Governor Rick Perry stirred the stick of popularism yesterday with his war-cry of secession from the Union during the Texan-chapter of the not-so-great Tea Party rallies. Alas a firebrand pitchfork and torch march on Capitol Hill was not the reality hoped for by hundreds and the mainstream media added just the right measure of [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2009 under Americans, CNN, Cold War, Conspiracy, Democrats, Depression, Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Igor Panarin, Jingoism, KGB, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, National Debt, NeoCons, Obama, Oval Office, Patriotism, Putin, Recession, Republicans, Russia, State Department, State of the Union, Stock Market, Taxation, Tea Party, Texas, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, WSJ, Washington, World Trade, congress. Comments: 1

Following Vlad Putin’s lovely ‘ditch the Dollar‘ remarks earlier this week .. the United Nations is jumping on the ‘Bash the U.S. Express’ and a panel of ‘experts’ on U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform.
The Reuters Story here.
Highlights:
Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 under Bernanke, Deficit, Democrats, Federal Reserve, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Putin, Russia, Stock Market, UN, US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, United Nations, WTO, Washington, World Trade. Comments: None

The scent of blood is in the water. The U.S. is on its knees and its enemies are taking bite-sized chunks out of the perception of the invincibility, stability, and confidence that has been the United States of America circa 20th Century.
In the nine years that have passed since the millennium, the ‘beloved’ Bush administration [...]

Posted on March 18th, 2009 under 9/11, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Americans, Apocolypse, Axis of Evil, BRIC, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Crazy Ivan, Defense Security Service, Dmitry Medvedev, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Great Depression, Homeland Security, Hugo Chávez, Jingoism, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, NeoCons, Nuclear Weapons, OPEC, Obama, Oval Office, Pentagon, Politics, President Hu, Putin, Recession, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Thatcher, U.S., WTO, War on Terror, Washington, World Trade, Zhirinovsky, climate change, gorbachev. Comments: 1

This week the U.S. Department of State released the annual Human Rights Report. The Russian chapter is a scary read, especially if you are a journalist – an advocate of free press.
In a 40,000+ word report – 47 separate reports of journalist intimidation, state-pressed agendas, suppression of the press, and downright murder suggest Russia is [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2009 under Chechnya, Groznyy, Hell, Human Rights Watch, Medvedev, Moscow, Putin, Russia, freedom, journalism. Comments: None

Based on President Obama’s rocking speech last night … an economic, social and foreign policy home-run… it is very easy to understand why foreign states – allies and adversaries – continue to celebrate the departure of Bush 43. Obama’s candid and unabashedly open-mindedness for talks with former Axis-of-Evil nations (Iran, Syria and North Korea [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2009 under Cold War, F-35, Iran, Iran Attack, Iraq, Lockheed, Medvedev, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Pentagon, Putin, Rosoboronexport, Russia, S-300, israel, nuclear. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on August 2nd, 2007 under Bush, Condi Rice, Edwards, House of Saud, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, NeoCons, Obama, Putin, Russia, SNSC, Shia, Sunni, Syria, israel, saudi arabia. Comments: 1

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 [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Putin, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, israel. Comments: 3

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 [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2007 under BRIC, Bush, China, Chávez, Global Policeman, India, London, Middle East, Multipolar, New York City, Putin, Russia, UN, US Dollar, Unipolar, Venezuela. Comments: 1

Quick NewsBite Article.
Excellent article by John Metzler on the World Tribune, dated Thursday June 7, 2007.
Entitled, “Putin going retro? ‘This is the language of Khrushchev’”
Begins … “UNITED NATIONS — Launching cyber warfare against a tiny neighbor Estonia, testing new inter-mediate range missiles, and making steely threats about re-targeting Russian missiles on Western European cities, are [...]

Posted on June 13th, 2007 under Khrushchev, NewsBite, Putin, Russia. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on March 29th, 2007 under Bush, Iran, Iraq, Putin, Russia, Zhirinovsky. Comments: 1

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 [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Bill Clinton, CIA, Hillary Clinton, Iran, McConnell, Project Merlin, Putin, Russia, Wesley Clark, israel. Comments: 2

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 [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2007 under Bush, China, David Frum, EU, Iran, Natural Gas, Putin, Russia, Syria, nuclear, oil. Comments: None

Tensions between Russia and the U.S. are at their highest since the demise of the Cold War. Where to begin? Diplomatic saber rattling with the U.S., macabre though unproven murders of Kremlin critics, Russian alliances and military weapon sales to rogue nations and labeled ‘evil doers’, ratcheted threats to former soviet states seeking NATO membership, [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2007 under Chechnya, Putin, Rice, Russia. Comments: 4

The term ‘Crazy Ivan‘ was made famous by Tom Clancy’s first novel – ‘The Hunt for Red October‘ – published in 1984 and the subsequent blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
The term, as called out by Sonar Operator Seaman Jones [Courtney B. Vance], is (or was) used by the U.S. Navy to describe [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2007 under Anti-Missile Shield, Crazy Ivan, Czech Republic, NATO, Poland, Putin, Russia, Sergei Ivanov. Comments: 5

Last week (at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy) Russian President Vladimir Putin rolled up his sleeves and gave his apparently honest opinion of the United States’ hegemonic ambitions and flawed foreign policy actions which, Putin suggests, have undermined world stability and encouraged nuclear proliferation.

U.S. Secretary of Defense – Robert Gates – tried to [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2007 under Iraq, Munich, Putin, Russia, U.S., gates. Comments: None