I spy with my little eye: Nations between mutual paranoia and the greed for information
By Oliver Krumme.
If you live in a neighborhood, you want to know what’s going on in the apartment next to you. However, you don’t want them to mess around in your life, nor to even spy on you. But that’s what nations [...]
Assessment on The Annual Report About Terrorism Regarding Turkey And Greece
By Themistocles Konstantinou.
After a short look at these two reports I tried to make an assessment about the terrorism over the two countries and the overall view of the US policy in the region. I deploy the 3 parts [...]
A tale of Palestinian nonsense
By Barry Shaw.
Mohamoud Zahar, the ugly Hamas spokesman with a wart on the end of his nose, set everyone laughing at the beginning of 2012 with a nonsense statement that Palestinians in Gaza were prevented from demonstrating [...]
Is it really a conspiracy?!
By Fadi Husseini.
Revolts did not knock on the door, they just sneaked in the Arab region, toppling some regimes while shaking the thrones of others. Analyses began to heap in an attempt to examine this state of affairs; [...]
A Tale Of Palestinian Nonsense
By Barry Shaw.
Mohamoud Zahar, the ugly Hamas spokesman with a wart on the end of his nose, set everyone laughing at the beginning of 2012 with a nonsense statement that Palestinians in Gaza were prevented from demonstrating peacefully [...]
Shock and Anger With ERT’s Closing
Themistocles Konstantinou
Greek society was in shock Tuesday night when Simos Kedikoglou, a former state television journalist, acting as government spokesman described the broadcaster, known as ERT, as a “haven of waste”. Couple of hours [...]
Obama’s Enormous Climate Lies
By Alan Caruba.
Putting aside Obama’s intention to further reduce our nuclear arsenal as articulated in his June 19 speech in Berlin, he has solidified his position as the World’s Greatest Liar with his statements about climate change, aka [...]
“Millions of Voices for Freedom”: Ethiopians Standing against the Brutal Regime
By Betre Yacob
The Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), the most important opposition political party working under the narrowest political landscape of Ethiopia, has launched a “peaceful struggle campaign” with a motto——“Millions [...]
Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Europe And Japan All Get Pummeled
By Michael T. Snyder.
Can you smell that? It is the smell of panic in the air. As I have noted before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do so very rapidly. Normally we don’t see [...]
The Common Core Straight Jacket
By Alan Caruba.
American education was based on some very fundamental principles and, from the 1640s until the 1840s, they were, in the words of Joseph Bast, the president of The Heartland Institute, “real civics, real economics, and real [...]
The New Prince Of Persia
By Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 17 June. Democritus wrote, “I would rather discover one true cause than gain the Kingdom of Persia”. With the election of the maybe vaguely reform-minded Hassan Rouhani many in the [...]
The Continuing Collapse of the Global Warming Hoax
By Alan Caruba.
While the nation tries to come to grips with the cascade of scandals involving the Obama administration, a significant phenomenon has been occurring. It is the demise of the global warming/climate change hoax that has driven [...]
Through the PRISM of Hypocrisy
By Dr. Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 12 June. A young British soldier is mown down in a London street and then hacked to death. Mosques and Islamic centres across England are attacked.
The liberal elite in London mouth their concerns [...]
The Arab World And Democracy
By Fadi Husseini.
The Arab Spring struck the Middle East to the core as popular uprisings landed in Tunisia then Egypt, Libya followed suit after Yemen, yet the course of events was doomed when the process was held up in Syria, bringing [...]
Living in the Government’s Fishbowl
By Alan Caruba.
You have to wonder why all the data gathering by the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, and the FBI failed to identify and surveil the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing? When even the Russians warned national [...]
On the Designation of Systemically Important Financial Institutions
By David J. Merkel.
What does it take to create a global or national financial crisis? Not just a few defaults here and there, but a real crisis, where you wonder whether the system is going to hold together or not.
I will tell you [...]
Admit it: South Korea President Lee Myung-Bak Was Pretty Good
By Robert Kelly.
So President Lee has been out of office for a bit now, and the retrospection will begin soon. And while he left with really low approval ratings, I always thought that was pretty unfair. I am pretty sure history [...]
Known Thy Enemy
By Mordechai Kedar.
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The Emirate of Qatar is located on the shore of the Persian Gulf, and [...]
Influencing the World or Organizing Europe?
Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 31 May. As I was about to board a plane at Oslo Airport yesterday I found myself confronted by a dilemma. Do I read the latest Dan Brown based at it is on Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth century [...]
On Stock Splits
By David Merkel.
Mark Hulbert had a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal called How to Use Stock Splits to Build a Winning Portfolio. I find it curious, because 31 years ago I wrote my Master’s Thesis called, “Predicting Stock [...]