a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations.
With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]
According to MENAFN News, Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Al-Shahristani, has today announced plans to construct an oil and natural gas pipeline to both Iran and Syria – scheduled to begin construction in 2008.
Both neighboring countries have been long accused by the United States of meddling inside Iraq and are both accused of fueling the ongoing [...]
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 [...]
That folks may stumble across and actually read a blogger’s (not so daily) posts is an enjoyable feeling. To receive comments – positive or negative, that contribute to a discussion or slam and denounce – is a healthy much appreciated event and I’d like to thank those that do take the time to share their [...]
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 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 [...]
JC Watts exudes a quite intoxicating calm. True, my meeting with the man was only thirty minutes long but if you tried, quite unfairly, to give him one label; one stark quality; ‘calm’ would be mine.
Oscar Wilde suggested, more than once I believe, that ‘nothing is so aggravating as calmness!’ I’d extend that quote one [...]
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