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Pravda Frowns on Governor Romney

March 29th, 2012

By Dan Miller He is out of touch, out of date and unelectable. But President Obama is like a Red Red Rose. Oh my luve is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: Oh my luve is like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So […]

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Tags: foe, geopolitical, Obama, Pravda, Putin, Romney, Russia, satire, Venezuela
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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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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 […]

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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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