In late January of this year an Iraqi daily paper, Al-Mada, published a partial list naming at least 270 individuals and enities who received oil vouchers as payments for the use of their influence or supplying the needs of the regime regardless of U.N. sanctionsWhile the reactions of a few from the lst were mixed and the arab media laughable (most were well know regime appologists) the majority oof those named must have taken a vow of silence. Almost immediately the list itself was calle...

Recently, the Spainish city of Madrid was rocketed by a seris of well times & coordinated explosions that tore through several train stations this past Thursday. In the wake of the bombings, 200 innocent civilians lay dead & over 1,400 more lay wounded. They were perhaps the worst acts of violence in Spain's recent history and a wake-up call for the world. While the blame for the bombings was initially laid at the doorstep of ETA ( Basque Separatists ) by the Aznar government, analysts ...

Recently, in the town of Fulluja, roughly bout 32 miles west of Baghdad, a small two vehical convoy was attacked by insurgent forces resulting in the death of four individuals. The victims were civilian contractors working for Blackwater Security Consulting, one of several private companies hired to provide security for food shipments among other jobs and its been reported they were enroute to provide security of one such shipment when they were attacked. Now...while the attack itself was ...

Recently....in a very non-DOD approach, the Department of the Army has given the green-light to transfer 4 of the 5 remaining prototypes of the M8 Armored Gun System (AGS) to the 82nd after an Operational Needs Statement from the 18th Airborne Corps (of which the 82nd is part of) at Fort Bragg was 'kicked' upstairs to Army Forces Command that spelled out the the divisions need for a rapidly deployable vehicle with firepower that could be airdroped from an aircraft. The 82nd's requirement fo...

In the last week Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic have stated that they would pull out their military forces in Iraq citing everything from lack of UN involvement to increased threats to said forces....aside from Spain's appeasement policy (the UN already is involved in Iraq and reports have filtered out that the spanish troops aint exactly happy at being re-called home) and the two other goverments essentially punking out....the recent 'shake-up' if one could call it that in the co...

This past saturday, King Abdullah of Jordan revealed that a major plot to detonate several bombs ,in the Amman area of his country, has links to Al-Qaida was thwarted. The three intended targets were the HQ of Jordanian Intelligence, the Jordanian Prime Ministers office in Amman as well as the US Embassy. While threats of bombings are not uncommon, one factor shows and increasing shift from the use of general explosives....the fact that materials for the construction of both a chemical bo...

In the early morning hours, foreign invaders attacked the United States using aircraft to launch a devastating blow that shocked the psychie of the American people and called into question their willingness to fight back. It was the first time in history that an attack of this magnitude and daring was launched against American soil, in its aftermath lay thousands of dead and dying and an almost bitter taste of revenge needing to be quenched in the minds of all in the US. Who is to b...

Last month, Hamas' spirital and operational leader and it's founder, Yassin, was killed in a targeted strike by Israeli forces...killing him, his bodyguards and unfortunately several bystanders. While a good part of the world reacted as usual that it was "uncalled for", "he was only a religious leader" etc., it was part of the course for the 'selective outrage' mentality of Europe and the middle-east. (See my article on Yassin's death) To replace Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi was 'selected' as ...

With the daily barrage of network media "hyped" stories on the varied problems the Coalition and the Iraqi people themselves face in the post-Saddam Iraq, one might get the impression that nothing has gone right for them...and to a small extent that is true but the media has tenacious appitite for pushing the so-called "hard-hitting" stories i.e. attacks on coalition/Iraqi forces then reporting on other so-called "soft" stories..i.e. anything that's not related to the attacks such as re-build...

The following is a report written by Nile Gardiner, regarding the very real and very disturbing possibility that the U.N., that oh so wonderful international establishment internationalists like Kerry love and realists like myself and a growing number of Americans have begun to hate... Is the U.N. Meddling in the U.S. Presidential Election? by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. October 27, 2004 The ‘revelation’ that 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives have allegedly gone mi...

This is the second part of my article.........lets continue with those for Kerry shall we and my colorful biased memo's Germany: In a statement by Gert Weisskirchen, foreign policy expert for the ruling Social Democratic Party, "...I cannot imagine that there will be any change in our decision not to send troops, whoever becomes president. That said, Mr. Kerry seems genuinely commited to multilateralism and as president he would find it easier than Mr. Bush (note he failed to say Pre...

I was sufing the net when I popped on to Victor D. Hansons site..as I usually do.... when I ran across this story he wrote...as an observation...its fairly good...even it some may disagree with it...I do think he does pose some basic question we sould ask ourselves where this Anti-Americanism began...for it surely didnt start with president Bush's election in 2000 nor did it start with the Iraqi war...and if it didnt start there..then when?and why? October 16, 2004 Why Do They Hate Us?...

Since October 0f 2001, in an effort to pay homage to those who died in the 9/11 attacks and solidarity with the U.S., Spain's goverment has invited American troops to join them in marching in their national holiday parade (the date on which Christopher Columbus' sighting land on his first westward journey)...but not any longer.... But since then a new Socialist goverment has come to power, reversing former PM Aznar's central-right goverments pro-US foreign policy and angering Washington b...

The following is a story by Banafshed Zand-Bonazzi for FrontPageMag.com that was posted a few days. The story is an intresting bit of reporting...the kind thats very rarely reported by the general media here and abroad.....if even part of the story is correct....it does signal some good news out of Iran....but thats just my opinion..... By Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2004 A few weeks ago, Mamoun Fandy, a media analyst, syndicated columnist a...

The following is an Op-Ed in the New York Times by David Brooks regarding the UN's action or in-action over the growing situation in Sudan. And so we went the multilateral route. Confronted with the murder of 50,000 in Sudan, we eschewed all that nasty old unilateralism, all that hegemonic, imperialist, go-it-alone, neocon, empire, coalition-of-the-coerced stuff. Our response to this crisis would be so exquisitely multilateral, meticulously consultative, collegially cooperative an...