by Piper Bayard | Feb 17, 2014 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes The United Nations News Center released a report on February 8, 2014, stating that civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by 14% last year. It also indicates that 2014 was the worst year since 2009 in terms of the number of women and children killed or...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 21, 2013 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On October 10, 2013, the Venezuelan Navy frigate Yakuna seized the ocean exploration ship Teknik Perdana from Guyanese waters and ordered it to proceed to Isla Margarita in Venezuela. On October 12, the headlines of a BBC article read...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 30, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On Saturday, September 21, terrorists of Somalia’s al-Shabaab al-Qaeda affiliate entered the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and went on a four-day killing and hostage-taking spree. They allowed people who appeared to be Muslim to leave...
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 | 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 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...
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...
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