Two outcomes seem very likely because of the recent Russian incursion into Georgia. The first is that Georgia’s membership in NATO will very probably be fast tracked. The second is the greater promotion of the US backed Eastern European missile defense shield. A very interesting statement was recently made by Rep. Mark Kirk (Republican, Illinois), [...]

What am I doing up at this hour? I have no clue. I went to bed at 10:30 and my eyes thrust open at 3am and I haven’t been able to go back to sleep. So I ordered up some tea and thought I’d write a bit. The United States has said that it will allow [...]

Despite the fact that it’s absolutely beautiful here in Toronto today, this entry is going to be quite the opposite. First up on the agenda… Afghanistan According to the International Red Cross, some 250 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded by coalition and insurgent attacks in the last six days alone. Not surprisingly, with regards to [...]

They tried it here on the home continent and didn’t get too far. Fears that North Korean missiles might reign down on North Battleford, Saskatchewan, weren’t enough to convince the government that all out Canadian participation in the proposed defense shield was warranted. As many of you are aware, I was very much opposed to [...]

Seymour Hersh’s latest piece for The New Yorker, Preparing The Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps Up Its Secret Moves Against Iran, is a must read… “Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. “Too many [...]

If you read one thing this weekend, or month for that matter, read this piece by former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. In it, Ritter confronts the shady practices of David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, an organization that Albright himself started. Two of the more revealing passages from [...]

The New York Times recently learned from US officials that the Israeli military conducted an exercise over the Eastern Mediterranean involving more than 100 aircraft. The purpose? To firm up target packages were Israel to preemptively strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Of course, were they to actually preemptively attack Iran it would, as the IAEA’s Mohamed [...]

The United States and the UK have today warned Iran that if they do not comply with UN resolutions regarding its nuclear program then tougher economic sanctions will be implemented, including oil and gas sanctions. The Bush Administration has also employed rhetoric suggesting that tougher measures are also a consideration and that ‘all options are [...]

Like it or not, Dennis Kucinich is one of the most intelligent and courageous members of Congress…

It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that the government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has assured the Iranian government that Iraq will not allow any part of its territory to be used as a staging area for any military strike against Iran. Maliki, who is visiting Tehran, discussed the issue with Iran’s [...]