Streamlined Russian Military is Step in the Right Direction
Getting rid of the old, bloated military and replacing it with a streamlined, smaller, and smarter military is a step in the right direction for Russia.
Americans Are to Blame for the Lack of American Jobs
Because of the American people’s desire to consistently have cheap goods in mass quantity, American companies have had to send their factories overseas to make these cheap prices. If we want American manufacturing jobs, we need to be willing to pay more for goods. Or, we can accept the fact that America has moved up in the economic chain and we are the creator of ideas, not goods anymore.
American Cyber Security Needs a Boost
Every day, federal agencies are attacked by foreign threats who are trying to achieve access to documents and files that, under any other circumstance, is highly classified. Instead of coming into the actual buildings and trying to steal documents and files, foreign threats are, from the comfort of their own bedroom, hacking into government agencies [...]
The Never Ending Fight for Peace
President Barack Obama’s Nobel speech in Oslo, last Wednesday, is a refreshing reminder of the role that remains unfulfilled in the struggle against oppression.
President Obama approaches the audience with an intelligent rebuttal to those who questioned his candidacy for a peace prize. Those who claim that Obama was wrongfully nominated for an award of peace [...]
Electronics Fund Genocide in Africa
Genocide has been going on in Africa for decades now and, for some reason, they have been able to fund their operations even when countries around the world have backed off and not provided funding for those countries. In 2003, the Kimberely Process Certification Scheme was put into place in which countries could opt into [...]
Russia is Falling Behind
One of the greatest things a country can have is a plethora of natural resources because it provides a large amount of money coming into the country. This money can be used to develop the country and help diversify the economy so that the country becomes less reliant on the funds that come in from [...]
Iranian Protests Carry the Future for Iran
Snowballs and other small objects were thrown at the armed soldiers. They stood at attention, their muskets shouldered, and stood through the continued harassment. Suddenly, Private Montgomery was hit over the head with a club by one of the protesters. Falling to the ground, the soldier had reached his breaking point. He rose and yelled, [...]
NATO Steps Up; Where’s the Rest of the World
In the effort of gaining help in the continuing conflict in Afghanistan, the United States was able to convince NATO to supply another seven thousand soldiers to the region in an effort to prevent the fall of Afghanistan back into the hands of the Taliban and to hopefully push Afghanistan towards more economic and political [...]
An Apple’s Success for Afghanistan
One of the focal points of success in Afghanistan rests in the hands of whether or not the Taliban continues to profit off the sale of opium. Despite consistent efforts by the United States military forces to curtail this cash cow, because there is nothing else for the farmers to grow, they have to resort [...]
