In the last day or two we have seen one of the most remarkable policings of the discourse that I’ve ever seen; and it seems to be one man’s achievement, Jeffrey Goldberg, in asserting…
Category: Europe
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander warned yesterday that “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its nuclear programme. General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran’s response to any attack will…
A «Price Tag» October Surprise in September for Obama Twin crises on opposite ends of the world have been engineered by the old Boston business consultant team of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Binyamin Netanyahu…
One of the most awe inspiring photographs ever taken was by a machine, not a person. The ‘Pale Blue Dot’ is the name of the photograph. It is an image of the Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager spacecraft, some six billion kilometers away from our planet as the craft was about to leave the Solar System. The Earth appears as a miniscule dot, almost lost in the vastness of space. The ‘Blue Marble’ is another image from space that also shows the Earth. It was taken by the US Apollo 17 spacecraft in 1972. The entire planet is a vivid, enchanting swirl of deep blue oceans, scattered white clouds and solid green land masses set in stark contrast against the apparent emptiness of space. To see the magnificent fragility of Earth hanging in a mind boggling expanse of blackness is as wondrous as it is humbling.
[Editor’s note: The words within those four [ ] brackets in the KCNA article are from The 4th Media’s editorial work.] [The worst national] traitor [in her entire history] Lee Myung Bak of…
To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a U.S. election is a race Israel should try to win. As someone who spent many of his young years in the United States, both as a student…
Reset to Reroute: Should Russia rethink Western relations? “In the first years of Perestroika, Russia was definitely Western-oriented; Gorbachev had been speaking about a ‘common European home,’ while Yeltsin actually applied for NATO…
East China Sea Conflict: Pentagon Chief Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do U.S., Japan agree on new missile defense system TOKYO: Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited a controversial war shrine Wednesday on the anniversary…
Last summer the Pentagon announced its plans to create an advanced missile defense system in the Asian-Pacific region. In the next few years a chain of modern missile defense radars can be deployed from the North of Japan through its Southern islands to the Philippines. Together with the missile systems and the ships the radars will form a joint system that allows intercepting ballistic missiles. “Without acknowledging it, the system is targeted against China. And practically nobody doubts that…[T]he USA is not prepared to acknowledge China as an equal partner and not ready to have a mutual nuclear deterrence or strategic partnership with China…” Leon Panetta, the head of the Pentagon, announced that Japan and the US signed an agreement to deploy the second element of the American missile defense system on Japanese territory. Washington and Tokyo assured China that the missile defense system was not targeted against it. However, experts are convinced that Beijing will view with caution these steps towards deploying a new missile defense element.
“I can’t promise you much better, but I can protect from much worse” is not the kind of rallying cry that covers an audience with goosebumps. But you go to the podium with the arguments…