The Middle East - and Iran issue specifically - lies at the center of so many foreign policy hurdles for the United States. The pursuit of peace in the Middle East and the reestablishment of a legitimate U.N. entity...
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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...
Our beloved mainstream media reported today on China's plans to increase its defense spending by a whopping 15%. Quote, "China is to increase official military spending by almost 15 per cent this year as it...
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...
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When U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, concluded her East Asian tour with a highly visible visit to China she demonstrated how times have truly changed. For a 'Hyper-power' like the U.S. is forced to bring...
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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...
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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...
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Yesterday the Persian Journal published a very succinct but insightful article on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, who helped to end it and how.
You can understand the not wholly misplaced distrust the Iranians hold...
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By Richard Buchanan | The Opinionist Blog Domestic surveillance of citizens and residents within the United States has and will always remain an uncomfortable and highly controversial practice. Outsourcing...
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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...
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On March 23 2007, Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of U.N. Watch in Geneva, Switzerland launched a long-overdue criticism of the hypocrisy that is the United Nation’s Human Rights Council. As a consequence, an...
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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...
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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...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a thinly veiled threat to Iran over the 15 sailors snatched by Iran last Friday. AP reports Tony Blair as saying Britain is prepared to move to a “different phase”...
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When the American mainstream media throws a quick glance at it paints such an abstract simpleton’s view of the problem as to be completely void of merit. Now is not the time for jingoistic bravado and...
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