Keep On Rockin’ The GOP
By Allen Schmertzler.
The Huffington Post gets it right again by relegating the Donald Trump candidacy to entertainment rather than serious politics. For now, Mr. Trump, the caricature of Republican politics is doing what [...]
Red lines crossed – Send in the troops, now!
By Oliver Krumme.
It was long overdue, the red line have been crossed several times now it has been confirmed. According to very recent reports by UN Inspectors, the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against its own [...]
Heading Towards a Damned Cold Winter – The Snowden Effect
By Oliver Krumme.
If someone believed that a sole insignificant man would have no effect on the broader global scale or even the relations between two countries, Edward Snowden is proving the exact opposite. However, he is not [...]
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 [...]
All units: Pullback! The imminent failure of western influence in Afghanistan
By Oliver Krumme.
Last week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on visit in Washington D.C., meeting President Barack Obama, just before the inauguration into Obama’s second term by next Sunday. The purpose of Karzai’s visit was rather obvious: [...]
The red lines of 1914 and 2012 – Historic parallels leading to a new global disaster?
By Oliver Krumme.
It has been nearly 100 years since World War I started in Europe after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Este Franz-Ferdinand and his wife in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, on 28July 1914. In a very recent [...]
The need for nuclear sharing, or how Germany learnt to live with the bomb
By Oliver Kr
It is no secret that Germany actually has nuclear weapons, although it does not own them. There are in fact around 20 U.S. nuclear warheads permanently stationed at the German air force base in Büchel (in the middle of the [...]