by Piper Bayard | Nov 16, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On the night of November 13, 2015, cowardly criminals from the ISIS gang carried out coordinated attacks against innocent people in Paris, France. So far, 136 people are confirmed dead, and many more remain wounded. ...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 19, 2015 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You, Foreign Affairs, Humor, Mohammed Faqwahdi, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Given recent problems with several Western “expert” commentators in the fields of intelligence, counterterrorism, and asymmetric warfare, we know that many of our readers are anxious to find an authority they can...
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 | 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 | 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 | Jan 19, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, Humor, News
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Every now and then, we here at Bayard & Holmes are reassured that not all of the political crack heads in the democratic world reside in the US Congress or the White House. As part of its counter-terrorism and security efforts, the...
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