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 […]