Foreign Policy
U.S. Could Very Well be in Haiti for the Oil
America answered Haiti’s call and helped the disaster-stricken country. Few can argue that America’s aid to Haiti was unjust. The only problem, America may never leave. President Bush was attacked for going into Iraq for the oil, now it is... (more...)
Another real reason for the Afghanistan/Pakistan war
In what may be an early move toward a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline, officials in Washington are putting pressure on the Pakistan central government to allow agricultural goods to pass through Pakistan on their journey from... (more...)
Obama knows the US can never leave Iraq
Thinking back to the ominous firing of Barack Obama’s lead security advisor, Samantha Power, during his primary fight with Hillary Clinton the country was at that moment given a taste of what was to come. Samantha Power gave a television interview in... (more...)
Russia opens oil port that will supply China Japan and South Korea
Last week Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the ceremonial opening of what will become Russia’s third largest oil port. The port is on the Pacific Coast of Siberian Russia, just north of South Korea and Japan. The port will serve as the... (more...)
Next up in Obama’s War on Terror: Africa
The Chinese receive 7% of their oil supply from Sudan. Given this fact, if the US could go into Khartoum and throw out the Sudanese President Bashir under the pretext of a human rights mission and gain control of the oil supply, they could then greatly... (more...)
Unconventional war on Pakistan by the Obama Administration
Taliban leadership is claiming that the recent triple agent suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA agents was in response to over 700 dead Pakistani civilians by way of predator drones in 2009. Pakistan officials claim that out of 44 strikes in the... (more...)
Is Yemen the staging ground for a US/Iran proxy war?
It is public knowledge that the Houthi insurgency in Northern Yemen is accused of being backed by the Iranian government lead by President Ahmadinejad. The Houthis, whose fighters now number in the 10’s of thousands, are Shiite as is the majority of... (more...)
Janet Napolitano: Clueless About Home Security
When President-elect Barack Obama announced a little over a year ago that Janet Napolitano was his choice to be the head of Homeland Security, it wasn’t just conservatives who were asking, “What was he thinking?” As governor of Arizona,... (more...)
Iran Prepares a Pop Quiz for President Obama
Iran has insisted for years that it has only the best of intentions with its nuclear program. Skeptics have been asking for the same number of years why the nation with the world’s third largest deposits of crude oil and the second largest estimated... (more...)
Iran continues to consider proposal from international community
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Istanbul, Turkey for an Organization of The Islamic Conference, a group of 57 Muslim countries that promotes religious solidarity in national and international matters. When addressing the conference Ahmadinejad said,... (more...)
What is motivating the most recent Sy Hersh sources?
Recently the New Yorker magazine ran a piece by renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, which posed the question of whether or not the US military would guard Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. US officials say there is no evidence that the Taliban... (more...)
The real reason Iran wants to go nuclear
Talks begin today between Iran and the world’s most powerful nations in Geneva. The talks will be the first direct talks between the US and Iran in over thirty years. The US delegation will be headed by William Burns, the under secretary of state for... (more...)
Rhetoric out of Israel heats up before talks with Iran
Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked controversy in Israel when he secretly made a visit to Moscow and had his aids lie to the Israeli press. Netanyahu could have urged Russia to stop selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, weapons... (more...)
The Lesson for America from the Inglourious Basterds
There is a direct lesson that the American citizens can learn about what this White House has continued to call “the war on terror,” by watching Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds There is a scene at the end of the film where... (more...)
Important week in Israel/US relations ahead
To begin the week, today Hillary Clinton will appear on Meet the Press where she will have the opportunity to publicly set the tone for the coming week. Then hours later on Monday in Israel, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will meet with Israeli leadership... (more...)
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