by Piper Bayard | Mar 16, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
Early this month, security firm Venafi reported that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her private email in conjunction with a private server at her house to conduct formal State Department business. It is State Department security policy that any...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 9, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes During the past twelve years, US-Turkey relations have been in a state of flux. Statements from Ankara and Washington D.C. to the Western media have been almost habitually optimistic, but the reality beneath the rhetoric has proven problematic for both...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 2, 2015 | Current Affairs, History, News
By Jay Holmes The basic relationship between Turkey and the US was founded on post-WWII Cold War realities. Since then, there has been a tug of war between Western-leaning Turkish political factions and pro-Islamist contingents. To understand current US-Turkey...
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 | Feb 16, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes Precisely who is fighting in Ukraine depends upon whom you ask. When Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin speaks to non-Russians, he claims the Russian-speaking Ukrainian rebels are valiantly fighting to save Russian-speaking orphans, Jews, and senior...
by Piper Bayard | Feb 9, 2015 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You, News
By Jay Holmes The hot media story has been the NBC anchor Brian Williams debacle. In an apparent attempt to burnish his personal image, Brian claimed to have been in a helicopter that was hit by an Iraqi RPG, when in fact he had been in a different helicopter. ...
by Piper Bayard | Feb 2, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes The recent terror attacks in Paris have been a central theme in Western news outlets for the last couple of weeks. The outrage at these cowardly attacks is understandable, and responses from Western European leaders have shared some common themes....
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