Well, that must’ve been awkward. Today, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, met with President Obama. Ordinary state visit between allies, right? Well, yesterday, President Obama gave his anticipated “Arab Spring” speech, and it definitely ruffled some feathers. For decades, any thought of the U.S. wavering in its commitment to the preservation of Israel in…
The three men pictured below, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Ex-President of Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and the Middle Eastern dictator du jour, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt represent a colossal failure of US foreign policy over the past thirty years. In the case of the first two dictators, decades of autocratic rule…
Well, that was interesting. While I was flying home for the holidays today, the Senate decided to actually get stuff done and, you know, be productive. When you think about peace on Earth, “good will toward men”, and so on this holiday season, you just gained another reason to believe in the possibility of those…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Cablegate, the release of some 250,000 United States diplomatic cables to the whole world via the internet. Just like the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs, various newspapers got early access to them, and are slowly reporting what they find; of course, the rest of the media is picking…
Just about halfway into President Obama’s term, and we’ve had one of the most lopsided elections in American history- all based on misconceptions about what has or hasn’t been accomplished. The media, politicians, their parties, and blogs far less sane than the one you’re currently reading, have spun a lot of things and just not…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=8967183" src="d/4/7/f/Palestinians_Protest_against_c247.JPG?adImageId=13057270&imageId=8967183" width="500" height="317" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well this is a mess for anyone who was hoping for the latest attempt at peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In case you haven’t heard about it by now, early this morning, Israel intercepted the “Freedom Flotilla”, an attempt by human-rights activists to…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=8445054" src="0/5/1/9/Clinton_Gates_And_75d2.jpg?adImageId=12194679&imageId=8445054" width="500" height="333" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Peace in the Middle East; it has been a dream shared by millions throughout the last several decades, and it may finally be time for it to be achieved. Of course, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about this possibility, but this…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=7544389" src="f/7/8/5/EarthquakeShip_0fde.JPG?adImageId=9049418&imageId=7544389" width="380" height="206" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] By now, this particular event should need no introduction. However, here is a quick recap just in case. Earlier this week, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the nation of Haiti. A humanitarian crisis occurred in its wake, of course, but that is not all. …
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=7409539" src="4/c/7/f/US_President_Obama_8f3f.JPG?adImageId=8466437&imageId=7409539" width="380" height="500" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] For the past two weeks, delegates from most nations have been meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to try and come up with a new treaty to address the problem of Global Climate Change. Going into the summit, hopes were high for a replacement for the…
North Korea's government decided to revalue its currency, the Won, earlier this month. They claim it is a measure designed to curb inflation, but is there an ulterior motive? If so, will it backfire?
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