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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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