A Military in Decline
By Alan Caruba.
Wars are often unpredictable. The outcome of such conflicts is also unpredictable, but defeat in future conflicts is now being “baked into the cake” and I suspect most Americans are totally unaware of how serious this threat [...]
The Balance of Incompetents
By Julian French.
The European Federation Benelux Region. 31 July, 2063. The Berlin-based European Government orders the European Federation (EF) English Regional Government to increase taxes to pay for the South-East European Regional Development [...]
The Great Defunding Obamacare Debate
By Alan Caruba.
Congress is going on vacation in August and the President will be taking another one in Martha’s Vineyard where the very rich and the extremely rich pass a summer’s day. When both return they will have until September 30 [...]
Law enforcement agency conceals Trayvon Martin criminal records
Charles Rowley.
Sanford Police Department publicly stated, after Martin’s death on February 26, 2012, that the youngster had no criminal record whatsoever; that he was a good kid, a mild mannered kid. This was a flat-out lie, [...]
Is Huma the One We Should be Watching?
By Joy Tiz.
While everyone has an opinion about Huma Abedin’s choosing to stand by her man, I’m far more concerned about her family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Let’s not forget this woman had access to extremely sensitive [...]
Northerners resist an ‘ever-closer union’
By Nick Ottens.
Germany’s upcoming federal elections have put European plans to form a banking union “on ice,” less than a week after the Dutch government announced that “the time of an ever-closer union in every [...]
Banning Hezbollah’s Military Wing: Was it worth it?
By Tal Shalev.
European Union’s decision on Monday, July 22nd to ban Hezbollah’s military wing proved no more than Europe’s readiness to the move forward with the war on terrorism and cooperation with the U.S.
Though the [...]
America and Germany: Longstanding Espionage Partners
by Stephen Lendman.
A previous article discussed Stasi. It was East Germany’s secret police. It was one of the most repressive state apparatuses in modern times.
Its infamous reputation speaks for itself. It’s [...]
Operation Irresolute support
By Julian French.
In 1842 Sir Charles Napier wrote perhaps the most succinct telegram in military history to mark his success at the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War – “Peccavi”, he wrote, “I have sinned”. It was a [...]
Israel’s Duplicitous Prisoner Release Offer
by Stephen Lendman.
Israeli agreements, offers, and other concessions aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Pledges made are systematically broken.
It happens virtually every time. Rogue states operate that [...]
Living in a Communist Economy
By Alan Caruba.
In the former Soviet Union, the joke was “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.” It took over four decades of the Cold War to finally put an end to the lie that Communism as an economic system works. [...]
Reactions to George Zimmerman’s “Not Guilty” Verdict For Killing Trayvon Martin
by Baldr Odinson
George Zimmerman, suspicious that 17-year old Trayvon Martin was a burgler as the boy walked home from the store, stalked and chased the boy at night through an apartment complex, confronted him, and shot him to death, [...]
Zetas Leader Miguel “Z-40” Treviño Morales Captured in Nuevo Laredo
By Sylvia Longmire.
Or so we believe. This news is breaking all over as I type, so this post is subject to updating as more information comes in. A report from the San Antonio Express-News has some moredetail than the other early [...]
Are Americans Living in a Police State?
By Alan Caruba.
The thing about a police state is that it tends to creep up on you. One day you think the Bill of Rights is intact and the freedoms you take for granted are intact, but the next day you find out that under the National [...]
Bulgarian Election Shows Need to Clean House
By Megan Greene.
It looks as though the center-right Citizens for European Development party won Bulgaria’s early elections, the same party that triggered the vote by resigning from government amid protests in February. So has [...]
Prospects For Reducing Nuclear Dangers
By Michael Krepon.
There have been only two Democratic presidents since Franklin Delano Roosevelt who have been elected to serve two full terms. On nuclear issues, Barack Obama seems to be following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, whose [...]
House must stop big brother
By Conservative Action Alerts.
American Conservative,
Harry Reid and the U.S. Senate passed the Gang of Eight’s “immigration reform” bill late last month containing 1,200 pages of rules that few have even read.
With [...]
Government watchdogs’ actions show a lot of bark but little bite
By Dwight Haskins.
The public needs for the Merit System Protection Board and Office of Special Counsel to perform their duties in upholding the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.
The banking crisis need not have caused [...]
Freedom Of Speech Is Dead In 21st Century America
By Catherine Haig.
Before this huge backlash of White American Guilt I had not idea who either of these two people were.
Of course most of the stay at home moms and dads who watch the Food Network for entertainment and learning [...]
Democracy is an imaginary political concept
By Jaime Ortega.
Democracy is a vague description
Believe it or not, demokratia is a concept that was founded on Ancient Greece back in 5 BC, which states that “rule of the people,” can govern themselves without any class distinctions.
True [...]