by Piper Bayard | Aug 28, 2011 | Special Edition Libya, The Cold War
By Jay Holmes This week, Zimbabwean Dictator Robert Mugabe, a long time friend of Qaddafi’s, stated to the international press that Moammar Qaddafi is now his guest in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean opposition leaders claim that they have verified Momo’s presence. Mugabe’s...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 18, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Since we last discussed Moammar Qaddafi and his unhappy subjects, events in Libya have proceeded without many surprises. It has been obvious from the onset of the Libyan Civil War that the rebels’ ability to dethrone Uncle Momo and his pet hyenas would...
by Piper Bayard | May 8, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently declared that the Detroit, Michigan school system is a national disgrace. He is right. Some politically sensitive types in Detroit were offended by this. They should, instead, be offended by their...
by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, History
I have been out of town for the past several days, and, as it happens, I was with my writing partner, “Holmes,” in Arizona last night when the news went public that Bin Laden is dead. We broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted. Not in merriment or triumph, but in...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 21, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes NATO, the dream child of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, came into existence after WWII for the express purpose of forming an alliance for the mutual defense of its members. The original motive was to defend against any invasion from the...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 10, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes The rebels in Libya are not a single unified group that shares the same complex agenda. In fact, the only clear, common agenda that they have thus far demonstrated is a desire to boot Papa Gadhafi and all his little Gadhafis from power. On Thursday, in...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 7, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Since the middle of February, when the fledgling protest movement coalesced into an active rebellion in Libya, many Western observers have been asking, “Who are the Libyan rebels?” Many Libyans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners are...
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