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...

The date.... August 29th, the time..bout 11 am, the place...New York City; against the backdrop of America's key city, a legion of protesters hit the streets in an effort to show their disgust with everything from the War on Terror, the Invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan, American Superpower status (ecconomicly and militarily) and a host of other "perceived " wrongs against the world. In fact there wasn't any area left un-protested from religion to gay rights to the military being nothi...

With the RNC convention just days away, the city of New York prepares to face whats been coined the security event of the year. From the President of the United States to the convention delegates to even the legion of protesters outside the convention center themselves...elements from the Secret Service, NYPD, FBI, US Military and a host of other agencies will have but one mission in mind...to see to it that during the week long convention (a key target of terrorists both foreign and domesti...

We have all seen the reports and heard the news speculating that the U.S. military is having problems finding troops to deploy into both Iraq and Afghanistan all the while trying to keep up our military commitments around the numerous other spots the world over. From the majority of stories or two-line snip-its, one would get the idea that the military must be too small and needs to add more soldiers, sailors, airmen & marines fast and I might agree if I didnt do the kind of reading I do on ...

Recently, news reports across the country broke with the story that Sandy Berger, adviser to the Kerry Presidential Campaign on national security issues, was currently under criminal investigation for the theft (and I mean theft) of classified documents while reviewing them among others at the national archives prior to his appearance before the 9-11 commision. Berger the former Clinton administrations National Security Adviser, visited the archives on no less then three seperate occasions t...

In the Aftermath of the brutally barbaric killing of Nick Berg , the usual reactionary questions are being asked such as why Berg was in Iraq, why didn't the US-led coalition protect him, etc; but they are just part of the course and are not unexpected by me or many others. But while I was gonna write bout Bergs death as my main talking or maybe what should be called bitchin' point, I decided to do bit of a side story related to the incident at hand, i.e. the reaction in the middle-east over it...

Recently I came across several op-ed's pieces on the links between Mohamed Atta & the Former Iraqi Regime which by now most people have heard or read about to some extent. The report on the link itself, if true, could seriously upset what I've come to term as the Hyper-Left or even the "Useful Idiot" crowd for those that know the phrase whose arguments have been one part revolutionary, one part socialist dogma and one part intellectual elitism who have made their rather passe' catch-phrase ...

Recently, in a news story broke by The Christian Science Monitor reporter Rondi Adamson, Canada has decided to grant temporary refugee status on Army Privates Jeremy Hinzman (25) & Brandon Hughley (19) who fled to Canada after being informed that their units would be begining the process of deployment for action in ongoing operations in Iraq/Afghanistan. Out of 1.5 million Americans currently serving, to date only these two cowards decided to run for the hills....although they have become th...

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...