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 | 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...
by Piper Bayard | May 29, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Headlines this week are reporting the not-very-new “news” that China is—drumroll and sound track of gasping readers please—stealing US technology and hacking into classified US government computer systems. A secondary aspect of the story focuses on daily...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 3, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Things have accelerated in Syria during the last six months—“things” such as the death rate and the refugee crisis, which have increased alarmingly. Putting a number on the death toll is not easy. The various rebel forces and the Syrian government may...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 1, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On April 15, North Korea will celebrate its 68th anniversary of independence. While the Western world will barely notice the celebration, it will undoubtedly be a big occasion in North Korea. Unlike the 4th of July in the US, there...
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