by Piper Bayard | Feb 23, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes The cancerous growth of ISIS across Syria and Iraq since 2014 both exacerbates and illuminates a series of changes in US-Middle East relations. The most crucial and obvious of these changes is to the relationships between the US and Iraq, Iran, Israel,...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 18, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes In Cairo on the morning of August 18, the Egyptian military and police evicted protestors from the al Fath Mosque. In the chaos that has overtaken Egypt, this eviction could be dismissed as an insignificant event, but it can also be seen as an important...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 8, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes On July 3, 2013, as Americans were preparing to celebrate the 4th of July Independence Day, the Egyptian military acted on its threat to remove Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi from office. While it seems clear that a majority of Egyptians are happy to...
by Piper Bayard | Feb 11, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Today, from the Western point of view, we see continuing strife in Egypt centered on the basic issue of theocracy vs. democracy. The simple interpretation of that strife indicates that Egyptian President Morsi, his Muslim Brotherhood backers, and their...
by Piper Bayard | Dec 10, 2012 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes When the people of Egypt ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 12, 2011, most Western media outlets assumed that the anti-Mubarak protestors were de facto pro-democracy. However, Egyptians are not so cohesive, and they have a complex variety of...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 19, 2012 | Current Affairs, History, News
Perspective on the Recent US Embassy Attacks By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* American news followers of the USA type have spent the last week watching, reading, and hearing reports of protests and attacks against US diplomatic compounds in Libya, Egypt, Yemen,...
by Piper Bayard | May 7, 2012 | Life and Death, News
By Piper Bayard In zombie lore, as I understand it, a person dies when bitten by a zombie, and then comes back as one of the undead. For the purposes of this article, I’m going to refer to that interval of death between “life” and “undead” as the “Pre-Zombie...
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