The people in Georgia wonder why the U.S. and NATO isn’t there helping them fight Russia: As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense […]
While the media is fixated on the Edwards affair, there is real news out there. Reports are indicating that some 1,500 people have been killed already in the fighting between Georgia and Russia. Georgia has also approved a “state of war” against Russia. Yesterday the word was that this has the potential of exploding into […]
Know world geography: At a press availability today, John McCain expressed concern about relations between Russia and a country that hasn’t existed for quite some time: “I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is […]
The U.S. decides not to join in the international ban of cluster bombs: More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […]
Not my words, but the words of Bloomberg news: McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq And that thought should send cold shivers down your spine. Hell you should wake up in a cold sweat, screaming in the middle of the night. Just check this out: John McCain is at least as determined […]
Russia says they could use nuclear weapons: Russia’s military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky’s comment did not mark a policy shift, military analysts said. Amid disputes with the […]
Bush during his press conference, talking about Russia’s diplomatic reform; “I emphasis to them that checks and balances are important”. Why yes they are Mr. Bush! Mr. Putin – to learn about these checks and balances, just watch George Bush. Whatever he does – do the opposite. Also wipe “executive privilege” from your vocabulary.
That is what this is all about: China faced a barrage of international condemnation from London to Canberra yesterday after it was revealed that it had launched a missile attack on an ageing weather satellite, a test that threatened to open a “Star Wars” space race. Formal protests were lodged with the Beijing government, accompanied […]
Well I have been wondering where China would fit into the entire Iran debacle and now we might know: China is hastening to complete a deal worth as much as $100 billion that would allow a Chinese state-owned energy firm to take a leading role in developing a vast oil field in Iran, complicating the […]
For more proof that the iron curtain never fell and now surrounds America, you have to look no further than Deborah Davis. She is a 50 year old mother of a son serving in Iraq. She lives in Denver and leads an ordinary middle class life or at least she did. On December 9th, she […]