Pyongyang: We’ll Nuke South Korea, Japan, Guam, Hawaii And Mainland USA
BELLICOSE miscreant state North Korea has ordered its “strategic” rocket forces and long-range missiles readied for war; it comes amid a long period of belligerent rhetoric from the DPRK, and threats...
View ArticleBREAKING: “State Of War:” North Korea Ratchets Up Rhetoric To Boiling Point
NORTH Korea this morning announced that a “state of war” now exists between itself and South Korea, and that it will deal with each inter-Korea issue “accordingly;” whilst the latest rhetorical...
View ArticleUnpredictable Miscreant: More Opinion On North Korea
WE HAVE spent a lot of time on North Korea lately, and rightly so, given the way it insists on behaving; the time is approaching for it to put up or to shut up, and whilst frenzied diplomacy would seem...
View Article“Final Approval” For Nuclear Attack: DPRK Raises Tensions To Boiling Point
NORTH KOREA has continued to raise the temperature of its nuclear standoff with the USA, warning the “moment of explosion” is approaching; it comes as the US acknowledges for the first time the DPRK...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: North Korea Readies More Missiles For Launch
BRITISH NEWSPAPER the Daily Express is reporting that North Korean forces have been detected moving more medium-range ballistic missiles into locations along its east coast; its speculation, citing...
View ArticleA Word On The Boston Bombings
The Red And The Blue wishes to minute its sympathy and condolences to the families of those killed, and to those injured, in the disgusting and cowardly attack on runners in the Boston marathon; it is...
View ArticleAnother Bush As President Of The United States In 2016?
GEORGE W. BUSH resurfaced this week, in the time-honoured tradition of former US Presidents opening presidential libraries; he has advocated younger brother Jeb running for the US presidency in 2016....
View ArticleDeadly Joke: Rudd Postures On Syria And G20
IF KEVIN RUDD — on the sham pretext of mock concern over the spiralling situation in Syria — goes to the G20 summit in Russia next week, it deserves to drive the final nail into his government’s...
View ArticleAble Archer: 30 Years On From Nuclear Near-Miss
SPARE A THOUGHT for the nuclear Armageddon that so nearly, yet inadvertently, destroyed civilisation 30 years ago; a routine military exercise at a time of heightened cold war tensions, this day in...
View ArticleChinese Military Mischief: One Slip Can Trigger Conflict
A DISTURBING ISSUE that we have intermittently watched in this column concerns the belligerent military aspirations of China, and its potential to spark a conflict that could spiral out of control;...
View ArticleDangerous Game As Putin Readies To Invade Ukraine
THE BRINKMANSHIP that has been played out in recent months over the future and fate of Ukraine seems destined to come to a head, with news Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought parliamentary...
View ArticleWar Clouds: The Chilling, Brutal Reality Of Ukraine
WITH THE SITUATION in Ukraine continuing to deteriorate — and the prospect of Russian military intervention increasing in likelihood — there are a couple of chilling and brutal realities that so far...
View ArticleViewing: Threads Of War In Eastern Europe
WITHOUT BEING ALARMIST, the deployment of 18 nuclear-capable fighter aircraft to Eastern Europe — in light of civil unrest in Ukraine, aggressive acts by Russia, and the position of the West to stand...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Let’s Nuke Russia
COMMENTS BY FORMER Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin — that the USA should institute a nuclear strike on Russia in response to its aggression over Ukraine — are unhelpful in the...
View ArticleAt 89, Jimmy Carter Reminds Why He Was A Poor President
HE MAY BE DECREPIT, but he remains lucid enough to be a menace; Jimmy Carter — at an ominous and dangerous point in global affairs — has served up a salutary reminder of why he was such an ineffectual,...
View ArticleHard Reality: Only A Fool Advocates “Banning” Nuclear Weapons
THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT that nuclear arms rank among the most destructive instruments of human ingenuity ever devised; there is no doubt that any global war involving their widespread use will either...
View ArticleDitch The US: Fraser’s Latest Geriatric Pronouncement
MALCOLM FRASER has emerged yet again from his dotage to make the ridiculous claim Australia should end its military alliance with the United States; the comments show his perspective on world events...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: A Spark To A Powderkeg
THE CRASH OF A MALAYSIA AIRLINES Boeing 777 over Ukraine — with all 295 passengers and crew killed — could very well be the spark that ignites the smouldering powderkeg in the uneasy confrontation...
View ArticleMH17 Disaster: Is Russia “The Monster At The Bottom Of The Abyss?”
THREE DAYS after the criminal atrocity of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the finger of world condemnation is pointed directly at Russia, whose denials of all responsibility over the incident have also...
View ArticleMH17 Disaster: Putin’s Statement And A UN Resolution
FACED WITH IMMUTABLE international outrage over the wanton murder of 298 civilians in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Russian President Vladimir Putin has conceded ground, and...
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