From 'Why We Fight': Eisenhower's Warning to the Nation about the Military Industrial Complex

Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate for President in 2012, is suggesting raising the 'defense' budget yet again, despite the fact that no one at the Pentagon is asking for this to happen. Why?

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Michael Isikoff and David Corn, "Russian Roulette"

Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea : Exploratory drilling near the coasts of Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey has unearthed vast reserves of natural gas. Competition over the rights to tap those resources is compounding existing tensions over sovereignty and maritime borders. The eastern Mediterranean is quickly becoming as volatile as its eastern cousin, the South China Sea.

Know thyself!

The spirit of this blog can be summed up thus: Know thyself! These words were inscribed in the stones of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and they are the essential mystery of the human experience, both as an individual and as groups, throughout time.

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