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 [...]
Just as an increasing number of nations around the world join the growing demand for a more multi-polar world [1,2,3,4] and the demise of an over-extended United States – seemingly power-drunk on global domination - along comes a wave of speculation on the possible instability and ultimate collapse of the next supposed Hyper-power, China!
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The coalition of ‘Evil-Do’ers’ and anti-American antagonists continue their strategy of under-mining the global dominance of the United States one nasty little paper cut at a time!
Just as the paper-tiger United Nations debates ever-tighter trade and security sanctions on Iran, and just in time for Putin’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’-esque visit to the Bush retreat in [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]