by Piper Bayard | Jun 15, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This week, world governments and the attendant media gaggles are focused on the ISIS militia that has captured much of northern and western Iraq. From popular news reports, we might get the impression that ISIS’s expanding influence is a shocking and...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 8, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
~ Jay Holmes Since his release from Taliban captivity on May 13, 2014, in exchange for five senior Taliban leaders, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been in the spotlight of the U.S. media. The Obama administration and much of the American media hailed the initial reports...
by Piper Bayard | May 19, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On April 14, 2014, a Boko Haram gang attacked a girls school in Chibok, Nigeria. After killing the armed guards at the school, the gang kidnapped 234 girls and possibly a dozen adult staff members. The attack captured the attention of the Western media,...
by Piper Bayard | May 12, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes On February 23, 2014, with the help of ethnic Russians in Crimea, Russia’s special forces and intelligence services stepped up their pro-Russian campaign to a degree that signaled that a Russian invasion and annexation of the Crimean...
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 | Nov 4, 2013 | Espionage, News, PRISM
By Piper Bayard “Compulsive Hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.” ~ Hoarders At this point, we know the following about the NSA and its electronic data...
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...
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