military action around the world
Did the “Islamic State” spring full-blown into spontaneous being as the fanatical scourge of the Middle East, or was it helped along by state sponsors? In ISIS IS US, a panel of cutting-edge researchers tell what ISIS really is, and what has been going on behind the scenes in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The…
SAYONARA GLOBAL ECONOMY Posted on January 5, 2015 by JimQ “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total…
. Christ The Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A country whose recent presidents all suffered at the hands of the military regime that ruled from 1964 to 1985, Brazil has been awfully slow to probe that dark chapter of its history. Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent, was tortured. Her two immediate predecessors, Luiz Inácio Lula…
THE north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok is spared little. Earlier this year fighters from the extremist group, Boko Haram, abducted more than 200 local schoolgirls. In the past week insurgents and government troops have traded possession of urban districts and surrounding farmland, leaving much of it burnt. The Nigerian army, one of the biggest…
JUNE 18, 2014 A THIRD IRAQ WAR? POSTED BY ROBIN WRIGHT The United States now faces the possibility of its third intervention in Iraq. On paper, the two earlier wars quickly achieved their military goals. In 1991, a muscular alliance of thirty-four nations, led by the United States, forced Iraq to withdraw from…
Analysis: Why Assad can have confidence in his survival By Jim Muir BBC News, Beirut Pro-government demonstration in Damascus – picture from Sana news agency (3 April 2014) It is now the working assumption of most observers and analysts, Western diplomats who have toiled to dislodge him, and even some of the more realistic elements…
A knowledgeable correspondent submitted these observations: RE: Russian Army. Effective draft evasion is running 80%. Morale is low, training is very poor and poorly funded. The Russian army has also gone through 22 years of near continuous contraction. And this standing army has heavy commitments in the Caucasus and Far East Siberia. Moreover,…
USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier in a ‘super-class’ of its own By KJ Kwon, CNN October 14, 2013 — Updated 0600 GMT (1400 HKT) USS George Washington, a U.S. nuclear-powered carrier, can carry as many as 80 aircraft and accommodate more than 6,000 crew. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rare visit to USS George Washington, one of world’s…
A new report by the Department of Defense claims for the first time that the Chinese government is directly connected to attacks on U.S. computer systems, including those owned by the government. The report—which is part of an annual review on China’s military capabilities—claims that “intrusions” on those systems “appear to be attributable directly to…