Opinion Forum

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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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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After 61 Years, Korean War Offers Modern Lessons

June 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller As we remember our military personnel who gave their lives during the conflict, we might also think about the reasons it happened and about how to diminish the likelihood of another, in Korea and elsewhere. Sixty-one years ago, on June 25, 1950, North Korea “unexpectedly” invaded South Korea. As we remember our [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: China, DPRK, Korea, lessons, MacArthur, Mao, nuclear, Russia, Stalin, war
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The Past Is Prologue

December 2nd, 2010

By Dan Miller So it is with China, Russia and Korea. The events leading up to the North Korean invasion of South Korea sixty years ago are, of course, now ancient history, dull and little considered in evaluating current events. Stalin, Mao and Kim il-Sung are dead. Unfortunately, their spirits survive and continue to haunt [...]

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Tags: China, Kim Dynasty, Korea, Korean Conflict, Mao, Russia, Stalin
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Retreat from the New Frontier

February 12th, 2010

By Tom Carter President Obama’s decision to end U.S. manned space flight programs for the next decade or two is one of the most disappointing things he’s done so far. By killing the Constellation program, troubled as it may have been, the President has put the U.S. in the position of relying on Russia and maybe China [...]

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Tags: budget, China, Constellation, manned space flight, NASA, Obama, Russia
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Russia to Suppress “Falsifications” about USSR

June 4th, 2009

According to an article in The Moscow Times on May 20, President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the creation of a new commission tasked with countering attempts to rewrite history to the detriment of Russia’s interests. The article states the Commission, officially titled the “Commission on Analyzing and Suppressing Falsifications of History Detrimental to Russia,” is being [...]

Articles written by Trevor Dane
Tags: Russia, USSR, World War II
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Selective Moral Outrage

April 26th, 2009

In Our Selective Moral Outrage in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, Bret Stephens asks why there is so much moral outrage directed at Israel in regard to the Palestinians and so little at Russia in regard to Chechnya. Russia’s actions have been far more aggressive and deadly than Israel’s. However, if the issue is [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Chechnya, Israel, Palestinians, Russia
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History Repeating…?

January 10th, 2009

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.” Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate, forceful, and united. It would be a major news story in newspapers, on TV, and the internet. Such an unthinkable action would warrant official statements [...]

Articles written by Trevor Dane
Tags: Putin, Russia, Stalin
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