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Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Pete Souza, The White House via Getty Images As Obama decides his next move in Afghanistan, he’s getting the greatest pushback from some of the leading ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, The Daily Beast,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Carl Levin,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid

Arctic wars set to heat up

by Martin Sieff Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2009 Global warming doesn't just mean there will be new patterns of mass migration, wars and border lawlessness in the 21st century. For the great climate change isn't affecting just the warmest parts of ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, EcoEarth News,  9 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Janet Napolitano,  George W. Bush,  Shaun Donovan,  Federal Emergency Management Agency,  Vladimir Putin

Russia revives Cold War aircraft

A Russian Tu-95 bomber, surrounded by MiG-29s, participates in an air show marking 95th anniversary of the Russian air forces in August 2007. Coupled with newer long-range missiles, the slower but larger bombers are set to play a role in a modern ...

From MARTIN SIEFF UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Washington Times,  30 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Pope Benedict XVI

Russian leaders downplay tensions over arctic resources

Russian officials have tried to play down tensions with the United States, Norway and other nations over possible conflicts in the Arctic Ocean. "Media assessments of possible aggression in the arctic, even a third world war, are seen as extremely ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, EcoEarth News,  29 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Dmitry Medvedev,  U N Security Council,  United Nations

The Sarah Sensation

Over the past two years, Palin has been a success story even while she has imposed financial probity and the highest ethical standards on what is no longer Ted Stevens’ Winter Wonderland. Despite axing pork barrel jokes like Stevens’ legendary Bridge ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, HumanEvents.com,  29 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  Ted Stevens,  Paris Hilton

Say It Ain't So, Joe!

Crack out the champagne bottles, Sen. McCain. Barack Obama has just conceded the 2008 presidential election to you with a vice presidential pick only a Harvard Law School professor could love. The choice of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as Obama’s veep ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, HumanEvents.com,  25 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Al Gore,  John Kerry,  Harvard University

The Coming Polish Missle Crisis

World War II erupted from a German enclave sticking into Poland that was left over from World War I: World War III may start some day from a Russian enclave sticking into Poland that was left over from World War II. Last Thursday, the Bush ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, Human Events Online,  18 Aug 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Donald Tusk,  Hans Morgenthau,  Barack Obama,  Vladimir Putin

Russia's Blitzkrieg Into Georgia

Russia’s five-day blitzkrieg in the former Soviet republic of Georgia did a lot more than wreck Georgian pipe-dreams of joining NATO: it destroyed a mountain of latte-sipping, virtual reality, laptop–wisdom-dispensing fantasies about the End of History, ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, HumanEvents.com,  13 Aug 2008
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  NATO,  George W. Bush,  White House,  National Security Council

The New Battle for Jerusalem

As Winston Churchill would have put it, a new Battle for Jerusalem has begun. A new front in the global war on terror has opened up, and both the U.S. government and the American media have been blind to the evidence staring them in the face.   Some 23 ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, Human Events Online,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamas,  Winston Churchill,  Ariel Sharon,  Yasser Arafat

Why Iron Man Rocks

"Iron Man” kicks butt. The enemies of the United States of America and its allies are not – for once -- presented as saintly victims of evil American power or tragic casualties of a cruel, uncaring capitalism. They are power-hungry murderous savages ...

From MARTIN SIEFF, Human Events Online,  23 May 2008
Related Topics: Stan Lee,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Iron Man,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Adlai Stevenson

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