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New Direction For NATO Must Make Alliance Relevant In Current Sec…
Zamp BioTopics | December 24th 2009 by Zamp
NATO is rethinking its future direction for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a process that could redirect the Cold War alliance toward contemporary security issues like cyberthreats and piracy, and strengthen its commitment to fr read more
Stuck in the Cold War muck
Along the Malecon | December 23rd 2009 by Tracey Eaton
The billboard reads: Mr. Imperialists. We have absolutely no fear of you."Is the honeymoon over?" Anya Landau French asked on the Havana Note blog on Dec. 21. Then she quickly answered: There never was much of a honeymoon in U.S.-Cuba relations after read more
All Your Tweets Are Belong to Us!
Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log | December 21st 2009
The old timers here in Washington, DC tell me that back during the Cold War, the CIA found out that the Soviets had concluded the best time to launch a pre-emptive thermonuclear MIRV ICBM attack on the United States of America was when Washington was read more
1974: Mun Segwang, errant assassin
Executed Today | December 20th 2009 by Executed Today
This morning in Seoul, Mun Segwang (various similar transliterations possible) was hanged for an assassination attempt four months earlier. Mun, a Japanese-reared Korean who needed a translator for his subsequent trial, tried to gun down dictator Par read more
Cold War Bomb Shelters Get New Look
American Cold War Veterans, Inc: Blog Jerry T | December 17th 2009 by Jerald Terwilliger
New world threats reviving cold war era bomb sheltersWhile the possibility of a nuclear attack in Los Angeles seems almost unthinkable, local officials are inventorying hundreds of old bomb and fallout shelters as part of their preparations for a "ra read more
US-Russia Cyber Talks?
Ubiwar | December 12th 2009 by Tim Stevens
This has been rumoured for a while: The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace. American and Russian officials have different read more
This Is Not The Cold War
Ubiwar | December 11th 2009 by Tim Stevens
I find myself in near-total agreement with Mike Tanji’s piece at ThreatsWatch, Burying Nitze, which examines the futility of applying Cold War strategic and operational models to the modern conflict environment: The problem of course is that it read more
Baby, It's Cold Outside! ... by Alan Caruba
INSIGHT on Freedom | December 10th 2009 by J. D. Longstreet
Baby, It’s Cold OutsideBy Alan Caruba *********************One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on “global warming” at a time when Planet Earth has been in a cooling cycle for read more
Pearl Harbor
American Cold War Veterans, Inc: Blog Jerry T | December 9th 2009 by Jerald Terwilliger
It is sad, even though there were many ceremonies to remember Dec. 7, 1941; thatnot all agree with American Military Strength to keep our country free.Notice the part about the Cold War, and how Communists aided and fomented dissent. Now is it about read more
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum: One of Berlin’s Most Touching Mo…
StudentsInEurope Blog: The Backpacking Experience | December 9th 2009
You are now leaving the American sector I love Berlin. For my money, there’s no cooler city in all of Europe. Berlin is a thriving modern melting pot of alternative lifestyles, international influences, and art. Still, you can’t read more
Gucci Mane – Dangers Not A Stranger [Diplo Remix]
The Gunsmoke Mafia | December 8th 2009
So if you haven’t heard, Diplo (producer/DJ extraodinare) has decided to remix Gucci Mane’s Cold War mixtapes. And if you heard any of his stuff before, you know Diplo always comes with some of the greatest remixes ever. He makes a full read more
O death, where is thy victory? Needed: one conspiracy theory
Sumnonrabidus's Blog | December 8th 2009 by Harold Knight
El Greco - Conspiracy Theory Reprise : Watching the Discovery Channel is dangerous. Last night they again played (for the umpteenth time) “Apocalypse 2012.” I watch the idiocy and then can’t stop thinking about how dumb it is. Another mornin read more
The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan
Current Affairs | December 7th 2009 by Junaid Alee
by Rick Rozoff The U.S. (and Britain) began bombing the Afghan capital of Kabul on October 7, 2001 with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships and submarines and bombs dropped from warplanes and shortly thereafter American special forces beg read more
All The President’s Perps – The “Plumbers” at the White H…
My Blog - That Goes Without Speaking | December 7th 2009 by Marguerite Arnold
Editors Note: This is a follow on to two previous blogs and a developing story. For those of you new to this, please read the first two installments at: Part I Part II The reason I am sending you to another wormhole in cyberspace for these two arti read more
The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan
Pak Alert Press | December 7th 2009 by Noureen
Fifty or more countries in a single war theater by Rick Rozoff The U.S. (and Britain) began bombing the Afghan capital of Kabul on October 7, 2001 with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships and submarines and bombs dropped from w read more
Kremlin says U.S. and Russia to sign weapons-reduction deal in De…
Views from the Left Coast | December 6th 2009 by NatetheGrate
Anybody still remember the Cold War? Remember air-raid sirens and fallout shelter drills? Remember Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev saying "We will bury you?" Remember the Soviet Union? Those days were brought to mind Friday when Russia said it expect read more
Rogue Warrior (2009)
Download4Fun | December 6th 2009 by Saske
Hot days of the Cold War. Government conspiracies, secret weapons and the stakes higher than life – all this awaits you in the famously twisted political blockbuster Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko nicknamed Demo Dick in the lead role. This & read more
Flashback Five – Chevy Chase’s Greatest Movie Moments
community nbc | December 4th 2009
Just for the holiday season: 1. ¡Three Amigos! (1986) …And here’s a great one to start with. One of the few perfect comedies in existence, it casts Martin Short, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, all in their prime, as down on their luc read more
Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43
Scholars and Rogues | December 3rd 2009 by Scholars and Rogues
“Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assu read more
Scapegoats From Heaven; The White House Crashers
The Daily Grand and Sundry | December 1st 2009 by gerry maxey
“ A week after they crashed the Obama administration’s first state dinner, Michaele and Tareq Salahi are telling their side of the story on U.S. television.” What a wonderfully misguided couple;they crashed the party and now, if th read more
Spy Shoelaces
Impact Lab | December 1st 2009
Suppose you are a clandestine service agent for the CIA and you need to tell another agent that you have important information for him, but you suspect the walls have ears. Well, you could tie your shoelaces in a pattern like the one shown below, a read more
Be careful what you say, someone may be listening...
Professor Walter's History Lessons | November 30th 2009 by Jennifer Myrna
1946 was a time of rebuilding across the world as WWII reached it's conclusion. The allies had won, and the axis powers were defeated. Hitler and Mussolini were dead, Japan had agreed to unconditional surrender. The Cold War was just begin read more
LINK: America and Russia: Has the Cold War Really Ended?
Eschaton//Aesthetic | November 30th 2009 by Hanif al-Husayn
An article discussing the continuation of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was recently posted on the Centre for Research on Globalization website. This article, though not written by me, discusses several topics highly relevant to this blog read more
Tree of Smoke
Everyday Citizen | November 29th 2009 by Everyday Citizen
Book Review by Weeden Nichols of Novel by Denis Johnson (2007; Picador; New York) Tree of Smoke is a 2008 National Book Award winner. The reason this novel, or a review of this novel, might be of interest to many readers is that the novel is concer read more
White House State Dinner “Crashed?” I don’t think so…..
My Blog - That Goes Without Speaking | November 28th 2009 by Marguerite Arnold
If there is one thing that I do give Obama and Crew credit for, particularly the wanna be Machiavellian himself and his cohort Rambo, with a serving of Axelturf on the side, it is two things. 1. They have no consciences. And are if not politicall read more
Dubai Debt Sends Panic: A Dangerous New Phase In The Global Econo…
Pak Alert Press | November 27th 2009 by Noureen
Fears of a dangerous new phase in the economic crisis swept around the globe yesterday as traders responded to the shock announcement that a debt-laden Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill. Reported by Patrick Hosking and Da read more
Former Secret CIA Manual Goes On Sale
The Global News Terrorists | November 27th 2009 by Gregory Brennan
A CIA manual instructing US agents on the use of magic tricks during the Cold War has gone on sale. It was written in 1953 by magician John Mulholland. It includes deceptions such as spiking drinks, pocketing small objects and tying shoelaces to comm read more
Another loss of life incident in the Cold War
American Cold War Veterans, Inc: Blog Jerry T | November 27th 2009 by Jerald Terwilliger
I received this information from Wendell PruittOn January 11, 1985 as Member of the 56th Field Artillery G-3 Training Staff I was sent to Camp Redleg, Heilbronn, Germany when an accident was reported involving C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 84th Field Art read more
A Young German Citizen Thanks the US
American Cold War Veterans, Inc: Blog Jerry T | November 26th 2009 by Jerald Terwilliger
A seventeen year old exchange student from Germany, attending school in Upland, California thanks America for winning the Cold War.Although he is too young to remember the Cold War, and the Berlin Wall, this youngman living with an American family wh read more
Review: Rendezvous with Destiny
Acton Institute PowerBlog | November 23rd 2009
President Ronald Reagan was far from the common Republican. If anything he was the exception to the rule in a party dominated by moderates and pragmatists. It’s one of the overarching themes of Craig Shirley’s new and epic account Rendezv read more
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