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Putin and Congress Checkmate Obama War-hawks
“The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its’ determination to continue to be a world power.” -Henry Kissinger, quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975 The term 'unintended consequences' has been used frequently in discussions on the pending Obama Syrian strike...
On the Sultan of Oman Visiting Tehran
On August 25, 2013, the sultan of Oman, Kabus ben Said, arrived in Tehran on a three-day official visit, accompanied by a quite imposing government delegation. The ruler of Oman is a remarkable personality. He is called a royal reformer and not for nothing. Having ascended to the throne in 1970...
Pyongyang and another “canard”
South Korean newspaper the “Chosun Ilbo”, which “enriched” the Korean Internet studies with the expression “execution with a mortar”, told the world about another crime of the Pyongyang regime. It turns out that the DPRK authorities held a public execution of about a dozen people convicted of...
