A week after Iran offered us the best opportunity for an attack, Israel did not carry it out. Time is running out quickly as Iran has enriched its 4% uranium to 20%, thus greatly reducing the size of its stocks. Smaller stocks will be easier to hide. After three months of enrichment, no Israeli attack will be able to eliminate Iran’s nuclear stocks. Every sane person understands that sanctions are futile. Not only they are torpedoed by Russia and China, but even the strongest sanctions... Full Story

A few overseas sources are reporting that there is currently a coup underway in Niger. Forces – currently unidentified – are trying to forcibly remove the quasi-dictator Mamadou Tandja from power. It seems to be a coup d’état as opposed to a general uprising since smoke is reported to be coming from Tandja’s palace but there are no report of general violence beyond the normal “background noise” of Nigerian society. Supposedly Tandja’s guardsmen... Full Story

The Egyptians blew the whistle: Israeli and US navies operate in the Persian Gulf. The only plausible reason is to prepare commando landings, as the Egyptians had correctly figured out. Special troops will deactivate Iranian air defenses and clear the way for Israeli strike. IAF landing on American aircraft carriers in Persian Gulf is a very remote possibility. If true, the attack would mark another touch of genius, right after we saw one in the Gaza war. Commando raids so deep into the enemy... Full Story

Oops - Do we have a problem in Sassy Land? I really like articles like this: Runaway journalist gathered shocking videos about South Ossetia: "Vakhtang Komakhidze, a well-known Georgian journalist, who requested political asylum in Switzerland, has shocking materials about South Ossetia, received in the course of his journey to the region in December 2009.He managed to record 'scandalous interviews, videos that can shake', and the government of Georgia doesn't want these to be published, said... Full Story

NATO Wants Russia to believe: "NATO is not an enemy of Russia," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich. Russia does not believe NATO: President Dmitry Medvedev signed into approval his country's new military doctrine Friday. The doctrine identifies one of the "main external threats of war" as NATO's expansion east to Russia's borders, and it sees U.S. plans to create an anti-missile shield in Europe as a concern... Full Story

The US administration denied Israel the right to maintain F-35 jets which she is about to purchase. The planes have to be flown to Italy every time they need maintenance. That bars Israel from using the jets in a war or any large operation which requires immediate maintenance. At $130 million a piece, the planes will be anyway too expensive to risk them in combat. Israel eyes the jets mostly as the only way to spend US military aid which must be used to purchase American armaments. Israel... Full Story

A few weeks ago I was reading about the statements from the British that literally blamed Russia for the Iraq war. I thought about this for a little bit and did some checking around as to why the British would make this statement!Read this:Blair’s ex-foreign policy adviser Sir John Sawers said Russia blocked the “smart sanctions” against Iraq, which the US and British delegations lobbied for in the UN Security Council in 2001. In Sawers’ view, this stance of Russia made... Full Story

With civilian casualties escalating in Afghanistan and American troops dying in ever greater number, it is difficult to ignore the parallels between this war and the Vietnam war almost half a century ago.  This never ending war has been condemned by many of America's military strategists with claims that it is an unwinnable war and the USA will eventually be forced to withdraw with no victory in sight.  Barack Obama disagrees with this, but so far his policies haven't instilled a... Full Story