by Piper Bayard | Dec 1, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, two Turkish Airforce F-16s shot down a Russian SU-24. How will that incident impact Russia-Turkey relations, Russia-West relations, NATO response, and the fight against ISIS? Not...
by Piper Bayard | Nov 23, 2015 | Espionage, Mohammed Faqwahdi, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes News and social media are awash with opinions and pseudo-facts about the Syrian refugees. One fact, though, is that hundreds of thousands of people are caught in a desperate situation between a Europe that is closing...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 5, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On Saturday, October 3, a Russian fighter flown from Syria entered Turkish airspace without Turkey’s permission. Turkey responded by summoning the Russian Ambassador to Turkey to receive a formal complaint from the...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 21, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes Stories and concerns are circulating about an escalated Russian military presence in Syria. Many of the stories focus on the fact that Russia has sent four Sukhoi SU-30SM fighter jets and eight military helicopters to Syria. We know...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 7, 2013 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You, News
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes It has come to the attention of Bayard & Holmes that the Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World (ASUCPW) nominated the Russian President, KGB officer Vladimir Putin, for the Nobel Peace Prize. At first,...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes As of September 22, 2013, the civil war in Syria continues to generate more humanitarian disasters than the world’s observers can tolerate. Identifying Syria as a humanitarian crisis is simple enough. Refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey now house...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 29, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes When we last published an analysis of the war in Syria in April 2013, this was where things stood: Various factions of Islamic fundamentalist-branded gangs had hijacked the conflict. Russia had announced its continuing support for Assad. Turkey’s own...
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