We accept!...
Meanwhile, Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes limited use of force resolution...
Just as the NSA-Snowden leak story was being broken by The Guardian via Glenn Greenwald, and to a lesser extent at The Washington Post, I thought about writing a post with the title this post bears. In the crush of other things, and the uncertainty as...
"the Cold War's been over for 20 years"...
Edward Snowden officially filed for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday, according to the Russian Migration Service and a Russian human rights lawyer. Wikileaks also tweeted out a confirmation of the news. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/357115053251633153 From Russia Today: The Russian Migration Service confirmed it has received whistleblower Edward Snowden’s application...
Another "who bombed it" mystery in Syria...
Edward Snowden has issued a statement tonight through Wikileaks. He's not very happy with President Obama. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/351823566435655681 It is posted in its entirety below, from its page at the Wikileaks website. One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were...
Because the last thing Putin would want is Snowden to leak more U.S. national security secrets....
Mideast Media Sampler - 06/26/2013...
In an interview today, President Bashar Assad of Syria claims that Russia has delivered some of the S-300 missiles he bought.The Lebanse paper, Al Akhbar, quoted from an exclusive interview Assad gave to Hezbollah's Al Manar television channel. "Syria has received the first batch of Russian...
Some flee the sinking ship. Via Times of Israel: Manaf Tlas, one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s closest friends and most trusted military colleagues, who is also the son of the Assad regime’s former long-serving defense minister, has defected from the Assad regime and fled to...
There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can't tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad's road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah...
With so much going on in the domestic political arena, it's easy for attention to get distracted from the Iranian-Hezollah-Russian attempt to keep Bashar Assad in power. Other than when there is a heavy one-day body count, Syria is not in the U.S. news media radar. This...
well, you know, we all want to change your world view. Part 2 here. And remember Hannity's interview with one of the yutes....
Dick Lugar's strong point in the campaign against Richard Mourdock is Lugar's claim to foreign policy expertise. Yet an examination of Lugar's history shows consistent wishful thinking on Iran, something which will be the subject of posts over the next two weeks in the run up to the...
That's what this web ad needs to be reduced to. Just run the part where they are whispering. Via Lonely Conservative (h/t Linda). ...
to watch this again. I was a student in Moscow at the time, and it was overwhelming. No one thought it was possible. And it wasn't, it just happened. ...
First the good news, completely unconfirmed but great to speculate about: Is the Stuxnet computer malworm back on the warpath in Iran? Exhaustive investigations into the deadly explosion last Saturday, Nov. 12 of the Sejil-2 ballistic missile at the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Alghadir base point increasingly to...
