Coming Under ‘Enemy’ Fire
There seems to be no let-up in the massacre that has taken over a sizeable part of the northern part of Nigeria. It is daily assuming a frightening dimension in spite of efforts by security agents to...
View Article$135m spent on new fleet of trucks for NZDF
The total cost for the trucks is $113 million, with the balance of the cost made up of armour protection kits, weapon mounts, personnel modules and specialised military equipment. Parents continue to...
View ArticleLi Keqiang’s India Visit: Why Trade And Not Border High On Agenda – Analysis
Wealth (fu) and power (qiang) has remained the dream of China throughout its long history. The best manifestation of this is reflected during the modern period when China was down and out with the...
View ArticleG8 summit: Politics live blog
From the prime minister’s view, if you look at the Syrian conflict thus far, we are talking about something around 93,000 people having lost their lives, about the use of chemical weapons – these are...
View ArticleThe ‘Snowden Effect’ Is Deadly for America
It is likely no accident that Edward Snowden is hiding out in China. No country has benefited more from his revelations about the U.S. government’s widespread eavesdropping and surveillance than the...
View ArticleChina’s Rise and the Future of World Politics
One of the more interesting insights to emerge from the recent California summit between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping is the Chinese leadership’s expressed concerns over China’s...
View Article‘Stupid’ Spending on the Military and Health Care Is Leading to National Suicide
Former reporter for the New York Times and Daily News; taught Political Science at NYU All other spending is minor compared to spending on healthcare and the military. If we can get greater...
View ArticleBritain’s response to the NSA story? Back off and shut up
Even Snowden’s examples of economic spying were remarkable in their extent, but hardly surprising for those hardened to modern diplomacy. What matters here is … The world once struggled to curb the...
View ArticleCorroboration should be abolished, says MacAskill
The majority required for a guilty verdict would also be increased to two-thirds under the new Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill. The Bill, if passed, also raises the maximum sentence for handling...
View ArticleStudent Loan Proposal Would Avert Deadline, But Raise Borrowing Costs …
“Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that ‘the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,’ he said, ‘to report the State of the Union...
View ArticleRoll, Jordan, Roll
Amman, Jordan — American boots are on the ground here in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Nearly 5,000 U.S. military personnel joined Jordanian troops for “Eager Lion,” a training exercise that ended...
View ArticleWhy Pakistan Is a Bigger Threat to Israel than Iran
While the United States and Israel incessantly obsess with the possibility of a future nuclear Iran, they barely ever raise such concerns about Iran’s next door Islamic neighbour Pakistan that...
View ArticleThug Capitalism and Free Enterprise
Why the world is not “Flat”, as some people would have us believe, but rather incredibly TILTED AGAINST US. “Thug Capitalism” turns the mechanisms of the West against it ultimately threatening to...
View ArticleTactical Training Expert Fred Mastison Interview
The Second Amendment and national security remain hotly debated topics across America. World renowned tactical trainer and self-defense expert Fred Mastison recently sat down with The Inquisitr to...
View ArticleDemocracy doesn’t on its own mean effective government
As for Iran, maybe the new president wishes to try to bring his country to agreement with the world on Iran’s nuclear weapons ambition. Maybe he doesn’t. … The good news is that there are millions of...
View ArticleObama is pursuing nuclear folly?
The June 23 op-ed in The Washington Post by Eric Edelman and Robert Joseph, “Obama is pursuing nuclear folly,” accused the president of jeopardizing our national security, and that of our allies, by...
View ArticleOuster of Egypt’s Islamist president a product of army’s US military training
Ali, who ruled in the 19th century, is considered the founder of modern Egypt and its dominant military tradition. American ties to Cairo have run deep ever since Sadat evicted Soviet advisers and...
View ArticleOuster of Egypt’s Islamist president a product of army’s US military training
In ousting Muslim Brotherhood rule, the Egyptian army did what it has been taught to do for decades: Keep Cairo out of the hands of Islamists. It is a creed imbued by its former secular presidents who...
View ArticleCameron and Miliband at PMQs: Politics live blog
Governments at Westminster and Holyrood should make all their own decisions, working together in a modern partnership of equals. • Ed Miliband has challenged David Cameron to accept a £5,000 cap on...
View Article7 Ways The Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization
There were signs that President Barack Obama might rein in the mass militarization of America’s police forces after he won the White House. Policing is primarily a local issue, overseen by local...
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