by Piper Bayard | Sep 14, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, History, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On August 26, 2015, the Philippine government took a major step in Philippine foreign policy toward its closest ally, the US. During an official visit to the Philippines, the commander of US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, met...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 17, 2015 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes According to news stories in Western sources, China is now conducting a global campaign to capture Chinese fugitives and recover illicit funds. Chinese police and security forces are entering foreign countries, illegally detaining...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 10, 2015 | Current Affairs
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes For the last six months American and foreign intelligence agencies have been reading about a new stealth bomber that is being developed for the US Air Force. Most of what has been published about the new plane has not been published by...
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,...
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