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Italian Cruise Ship “runs aground”

January 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller It has been widely reported that the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia “slammed into shallow water off Italy’s western coast.” Authorities are looking at why the ship didn’t hail a mayday during the accident near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, officials said. “At the moment we can’t exclude that [...]

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Tags: aground, Costa Concordia, Giglio, Greece, Iran, Russia, submarine, torpedo
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Our Foreign Policy Is OK for a Second-rate Nation

January 7th, 2012

By Dan Miller Herds of horses have leaders. They establish dominance by fighting all comers and by protecting the lesser horses within the herd. Eventually, fighting ceases to be necessary. A hard stare, the baring of teeth or even a kicking gesture become sufficient. Only when the dominant horse weakens or a new horse is [...]

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Tags: Ahmadinejad, Chavez, foreign policy, Iran, Latin America, Venezuela
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Further Speculations on North Korea

January 3rd, 2012

By Dan Miller Strange things can happen behind closed doors. As I’ve observed many times, North Korea is a black hole from which little light emerges; what little useful information escapes usually consists of propaganda and speculation. Here’s some more speculation. Part of the Eurasia Group report about the top risks of 2012 involves North [...]

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Tags: DPRK, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, stability, succession, transition, violence
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Iraq: Hot News and History

December 29th, 2011

By Jan Barry “Crisis plagues Iraq as U.S. troops depart — As the last U.S. soldiers exited Iraq Sunday and debate was raging about the nation’s future, political crisis erupted in Baghdad that raised fears of more sectarian strife to come. Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that draws support largely from Sunni and more secular [...]

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Tags: Britain, casualties, costs, democracy, hubris, Iraq, U.S., violence
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Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Korea Are Necessary

December 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller Although from the same culture, the two Koreas are now very different. In February of this year, North Korea celebrated the sixty-ninth birthday of Dear (not really) Leader Kim Jong-il. Following the official announcement at noon on December 19th of his death on the morning of December 17th, there were many instant [...]

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Tags: China, DPRK, Japan, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, succession
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Kim Jong-il Has Passed to His Long Hoped For Reward

December 20th, 2011

By Dan Miller Will the son of the Wicked Warlock be any better? Here is my article on the unlamented (except perhaps by those in North Korea who know their place) passing of North Korean dictator and Dear Leader Kim Jong-il. His death, on the morning of December 17th, was officially announced at about noon [...]

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Tags: death, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, satire, succession
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Writing the Way Home

December 20th, 2011

By Jan Barry Across America, a special gift is arriving at numerous homes this week. This gift is a new book by Warrior Writers titled After Action Review: A Collection of Writing and Artwork by Veterans of the Global War on Terror. What makes this book decidedly different from so many other gifts this holiday [...]

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Tags: After Action Review, photos, poetry, PTSD, veterans, Warrior Writers
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Will North Korea Collapse? (Part Two)

December 19th, 2011

By Dan Miller The situation in North Korea remains cloudy but some information has become available. (Also read Dan Miller’s PJ Media article from November titled “Will North Korea Collapse?“) North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is dead at the age of sixty-nine. The spin by the North Korean media is that he died of [...]

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Tags: death, food aid, Kim Jong-il, missiles, North Korea, nuclear, succession
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Conservation for the Sake of Our Children Is Far More Important than Mere Cost

December 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller Green stuff is scarce and is too important to waste. According to this article, Last week, the Navy signed a contract with two biofuel companies to purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced biofuels at $12 million to assist in President Obama’s goal to establish a domestic biofuels industry and to advance it in [...]

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Tags: biofuels, conservation, cost, energy, environment, oil, satire, U.S. Navy
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Manuel Noriega Returns to Panama

December 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller On Sunday, he was transferred to a maximum security facility in the jungle. After spending more than two decades imprisoned in the United States and then France, former Panamanian dictator Manuel (Pineapple Face) Noriega was flown back to the Republic of Panamá on the evening of Sunday, December 11. More than one [...]

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Tags: Chiriqui, drugs, France, invasion, Manuel Noriega, Panama, prison, U.S.
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Will North Korea Collapse?

November 16th, 2011

By Dan Miller Kim Jong-il’s days of living the high life while his people starve are counting down. South Korean newspapers Korea Times, Chosun Ilbo, Dong A-Ilbo and Arirang News reported late last week that the Russian Institute of World Economy and International Relations opined in September that the Kim regime in North Korea will [...]

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Tags: China, collapse, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, reunification, Russia, South Korea
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Celebrating Drew Cameron’s Healing Art

November 14th, 2011

By Jan Barry Remarks I gave at “Envisioning Tomorrow,” the Printmaking Center of New Jersey’s awards dinner at the Somerville Elks Lodge, Bridgewater, NJ on November 12. The center honored Drew Cameron, the co-founder and co-director of Combat Paper, “a touring project with a compelling mission to use the healing power of art to transform [...]

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Tags: Combat Paper, Drew Cameron, poetry, PTSD, uniform, veteran, workshop
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Panetta Talks the Talk

October 30th, 2011

By Dan Miller At a news conference in Seoul, Korea today, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that “provocations by North Korea similar to a pair of deadly attacks last year will not be tolerated.” He pledged that the United States will “sustain and enhance its military presence on the peninsula and in the Asian [...]

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Tags: North Korea, nuclear weapons, Panetta, response, sanctions, US troops
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The War at Home

October 29th, 2011

By Jan Barry In Boston, Massachusetts and Oakland, California, Veterans For Peace members have been assaulted by police while peacefully demonstrating on behalf of Occupy Wall Street protest groups’ constitutional rights. The most seriously injured is Scott Olsen, a Marine vet of two tours in Iraq, who was hospitalized with head injuries after police in [...]

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Tags: Iraq, Marine, Occupy, police, San Francisco, Scott Olsen, veteran, VFP
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From Making War to Book Making

October 28th, 2011

By Jan Barry Tearing a leaf from Edgar Allan Poe’s literary leave from the US Army, a similarly brash band of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans called Warrior Writers is raising money from friends, family and fellow vets to publish a collection of their own poetry, prose and art drawn from military experience. Poe parted [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, anthology, Iraq, poetry, veterans, war, Warrior Writers
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Is Another Conflict Coming to Korea?

October 22nd, 2011

By Dan Miller Until recently, there had been little new in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. North Koreans continue to starve, the country begs for food, and the barely fed prisoner-slaves (there are up to 200,000 political prisoners there) grow poppies to make heroin to provide state export revenues of $500 million to one [...]

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Tags: foreign policy, Iran, Japan, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, nuclear, sanctions
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Republican Peace Piper

September 18th, 2011

By Jan Barry Ron Paul is the kind of presidential candidate the American people haven’t seen in a long time—one who’s dead serious about ending overseas military adventures. That’s a stance that is increasingly popular with disgruntled voters across the political spectrum, which could well spell trouble for President Obama. Activists on the left and [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, foreign policy, Iraq, libertarian, Ron Paul, war, withdrawal
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Peace Beat

September 11th, 2011

By Jan Barry War drums began beating across America before the dust settled at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It’s an all-American tradition to march to the beat for military action, the fountain of flag waving excitement that produces legions of war correspondents, bugle-blaring headlines and armchair commandos in newsrooms. It is rare [...]

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Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, budget, Iraq, Keller, peace, Pentagon, war
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Never Forget, Never Forgive

September 11th, 2011

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Tags: 9/11, attack, memorial, terrorism, terrorist, war
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Understanding the Real Meaning of 9/11

August 30th, 2011

By Seth Forman Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic has a wonderful piece on “The Real Meaning of 9/11.” As he should, Goldberg places the “meaning” at the feet of Islamist hatred. He skewers the intellectuals who defend them and build a scaffold of ideology to excuse this murderous horde. But, as any well-intentioned centrist, he [...]

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Tags: 9/11, Guantanamo, Iraq, Muslims, Pakistan, Syria, terrorism, UN, war
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