WHAT DO THE RUSSIANS THINK ABOUT SYRIA NOW?

Russian President Vladimir Putin said two interesting things during an interview with the Associated Press and a Russian television station about his support for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The first item, which most of us have heard before, is that Putin finds the idea of Assad using chemical weapons to be “absurd” since Assad’s […]

POPCORN ALERT: SAUDIS ISSUE THREAT TO RUSSIA

Remembering what I wrote regarding Russia’s terrorism concerns during the 2014 Winter Olympic games they will host in Sochi, this article I read in As-Safir [CLICK FOR ENGLISH TRANSLATION] about Russian President Putin’s meeting with Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan is probably the most mind-blowing piece of news I read […]

THE SYRIAN PEOPLE – LOVED BUT NOT HEARD FROM

I have the occasional habit of speaking in parables and metaphors without explicitly stating what I want you to know. I won’t do that for this post about the expanding Syria civil war. This war is about damn-near everything else except for the will of Syrian people. This war is about […]

IS WAR WITH SYRIA GOOD NEWS FOR SOME?

While President Barack Obama thinks about helping the jihadists rebels beat Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s forces through military strikes, I keep thinking about this US military spending chart from the Washington post: How many conclusions did you reach? And besides this, what are the Russians really thinking? BTW, don’t worry […]

THIS IS BIGGER THAN SNOWDEN

If you still kick-off any NSA or British GCHQ spy conversation by debating whether Edward Snowden is a traitor or whistle-blower, you’re missing the big picture. Ordinary citizens like you and me, who have no intention of blowing up buildings or harming others, are being rounded up by a cross-continental electronic dragnet where – if […]

CONGRESSMAN PETER KING FOR PRESIDENT!

(Laughing) The title of my post could have read: “Now confirmed to perform for the 2016 Party of No Brains Freak Show…” C’mon, team! Rep. Peter King wants to be the next American President?? Are we talking about the House’s go-to Homeland security “guru” who wants plant the seeds for a remix of the […]

OBAMA AND JINGPING’S CYBER TRICKS

(Laughing) Just when I was telling one of my friends not too many late nights ago about how President Obama is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping so that the People’s Republic will chill on the alleged cyber attacks against the United States, and I was then wondering why it seems the United States always […]