by Piper Bayard | Aug 18, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Since we last discussed Moammar Qaddafi and his unhappy subjects, events in Libya have proceeded without many surprises. It has been obvious from the onset of the Libyan Civil War that the rebels’ ability to dethrone Uncle Momo and his pet hyenas would...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 7, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes Last week, a rocket hit Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s personal mosque at his home in Yemen. It killed three of Saleh’s bodyguards and his personal Imam. Saleh and others were wounded and flown to Saudi Arabia for treatment. The...
by Piper Bayard | May 5, 2011 | Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes The spice trade has dried up, and the 24,000,000 well-armed people in “The South” suffer an unemployment rate of close to 70%. The fragile economy relies on Yemen’s very limited oil supplies, and these are expected to dry up by 2017....
by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, History
I have been out of town for the past several days, and, as it happens, I was with my writing partner, “Holmes,” in Arizona last night when the news went public that Bin Laden is dead. We broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted. Not in merriment or triumph, but in...
by Piper Bayard | May 1, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes I thought it was time for a renewed analysis of some of the Middle East and North African hot spots. Let’s look at a few of the ongoing domestic struggles, starting with Libya. Libya: On Saturday night, a NATO air strike hit a command center/Gadhafi...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 21, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes NATO, the dream child of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, came into existence after WWII for the express purpose of forming an alliance for the mutual defense of its members. The original motive was to defend against any invasion from the...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 10, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes The rebels in Libya are not a single unified group that shares the same complex agenda. In fact, the only clear, common agenda that they have thus far demonstrated is a desire to boot Papa Gadhafi and all his little Gadhafis from power. On Thursday, in...
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