US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance Let those Americans who still don't get it read Paul Craig Roberts' "US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance." Let them hear his message loud and clear. Those of us who are condemning the neocons and...
Backtalk, August 7, 2007
Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran This article is extremely naive and one-sided. Believing that the Arab world will be peaceful if left alone is as naive as Dubya's thinking Americans would be viewed a liberators in Iraq. It completely ignores the the history of the...
Backtalk, July 9, 2007
Caught Red-Handed: Media Backtracks on Iran's 'Threat' I have been shocked to see some, including Rep. Dennis Kucinich, latch onto the myth that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Iran's own news agency reports...
Backtalk, June 25, 2007
Goodbye and Good Luck Mr. Reese states: "Since we stupidly decided to have an all-volunteer Army, we can't afford too much cannon fodder." Is it Mr. Reese's position that the United States should have a drafted army, rather than an all-volunteer military? I would like...
Backtalk, June 21, 2007
Lying Us Into War, Again Charlie I love this bit: "Finally, of course, there is the matter of deterrence. Deterrence worked against the Soviet Union's 30,000 nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them." You Americans do not get it even now. Deterrence...
Backtalk, June 11, 2007
What's up with Putin? What's up with Putin? The Russians feel U.S. encroachment into the former Soviet Union is starting to represent an existential threat to the Russian Federation. It's evident American elites are in the dark, and they ought to be aware the neocon...
Backtalk, June 5, 2007
Pakistan Is Going Down the Road of the Shah's Iran Political commentators generally tend to misrepresent the position of Islamists in Pakistan. Being close to Pakistan and actively observing the current events it becomes quite obvious that despite the post-Sept. 11...
Backtalk, May 24, 2007
The Ron Paul Effect In the dozen-plus years I have been active in matters relating to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, I have watched them go from a small Islamist organization to a worldwide insurgent movement, while bin Laden has established himself as the primary...
Backtalk, May 15, 2007
Back in the EUSSR The standards used by the Empire to justify independence for Kosovo from Serbia should then be applied also to Nagorno Karabakh. The Republic of Nagorno Karabakh should be recognized by the UN as a sovereign country independent from Azerbaijan. But...
Backtalk, April 26, 2007
Ethanol: A Threat to National Security? I normally like the articles by James Gordon Prather, but the latest one is confusing, and I have a PhD in physics. What the heck does the C-13/C-12 ratio have to do with anything? What the heck does it matter whether the deep...