The events in Boston have trumped most news from around the world, but events continue to make headlines in Asia. The latest situation with North Korea took a turn on Tuesday as leadership from the North reacted to protests that were conducted in South Korea in which effigies of North Korean leadership were burned. The [...]
The situation in North Korea is so fluid, it is better at the moment to just highlight some of the developments rather than try and speculate as to what the next 24 hours might bring. In a move that could help pull tensions down, South Korean leadership has asked the North for dialogue [...]
We haven’t been covering Syria as much lately because of the events with North Korea. But there is a development that analysts are starting to talk about that would be worth mentioning. The Syrian Rebel groups have allowed their Al Qaeda contingent to fight alongside them – and those troops are currently at the [...]
There is a lot being spread around about the North Korean situation – and as happens when the media gets excited, we have a lot of stretching of the truth out there right now. Let’s say on the outset that none of the parties in the region want a war. Deep down, even the North [...]
There is a report circulating through several international sources regarding a shipment of advanced missile launchers from Saudi Arabia to Syrian rebel forces. According to these reports, these launchers are capable of sending multiple missiles into an area from about 70 kilometers away. Analysts believe that these missiles might be used to make a final [...]
By now the bulk of the high drama is over and most are focused on what the banks in that nation are going to look like when they open for the first time in two weeks. The rules will prohibit the depositors from stripping out their assets right away – especially the large depositors that [...]
When we think about the billions upon billions of dollars that flow from the US worldwide for aid, what we don’t think about on a daily basis is where those funds go. A significant amount of them go to the “refugee” population. These are people that have been driven out of their homes by war [...]
Just like we saw in the United States in 2008 when President Obama took office, new administrations typically like to make some moves to show those that supported them that they will follow through with their campaign promises. As a result, we typically get a wave of new legislation and perhaps some sweeping change that [...]
The commentary from France is straight out of the “getting in deeper and deeper” playbook. After a week in which the woeful Malian army combined with French troops swept through much of the north of the country there are all sorts of problems that suggest a very lengthy engagement. The advance of French troops met [...]
Just a week after we showed you a nationalistic propaganda video from North Korea showing a city believed to be New York being destroyed by military attacks from what is reportedly North Korean aircraft, the North has successfully tested a nuclear bomb that was three times the size of their previous two tests. Of course, [...]
