by Piper Bayard | Nov 10, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes In November of 2013, the US Navy made public an investigation into the questionable purchase of firearms silencers* for US Navy SEAL Team 6. The silencers were for use with AK type weapons, such as the venerable Kalashnikov AK-47**. They were also to be...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 29, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This week, ISIS remains a major news item. For the sake of continuity, we will continue referring to them as ISIS, but be aware that, in recent weeks, they have acquired more aliases than the average Brooklyn mob goon. Since their defeat at...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 18, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On June 29, 2014, after gaining control over large swaths of northern Iraq, ISIS declared itself to be a caliphate. Its intention is to expand this caliphate from Morocco to Malaysia and Indonesia. ISIS “Caliph,” is supreme leader Abu Bakr...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 10, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes In April of 2014, Hamas, which governs the Palestinian Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which governs the Palestinian areas of the West Bank, agreed to make peace and form a unity government. Predictably, Israel reacted negatively to the Hamas-Fatah...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 28, 2014 | Current Affairs, Interviews, News
By Piper Bayard A great deal of misinformation regularly fires throughout the Cyberverse about gun control. Tempers flaring, insults flying, and people “unfriending” those who state even the barest, most uncontested facts from any source on any side of the issue. In...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 14, 2014 | Current Affairs, History, News
When the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict recently flared up, Holmes and I discussed the possibility of a fresh article on the topic. We concluded, however, that there was nothing fresh to say. To verify this, I looked up an article that Holmes wrote in November,...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 7, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This past February, Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin ordered his intelligence and military services to invade Crimea in the Eastern Ukraine. Western governments loudly condemned Russia’s aggression, but practical responses have been limited to minor...
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