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Written by Miklos K. Radvanyi
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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In the fifth volume of his Memoirs under the heading “Louis Philippe, King of the French,” Count Metternich-Winneburg summed up the tragedy of the initially popular 19th century “Citizen King” thus: “Whenever the King of France tries to turn to the Right, the Right closes ranks against him. For the King to turn to the Left is impossible without ruining himself. Thus, condemned to hover between two realities, Monarchy and Republic, Louis Philippe is in a vacuum, because a lie is a vacuum.” |
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Written by Miklos K. Radvanyi
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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At the beginning of 2010 American foreign policy is once again in utter and complete disarray. To the keen observer of the Obama Administration the strategic mismanagement of the economy and the progressive worsening of the nation’s financial position at home and abroad, coupled with a deep conceptual failure of the President’s personal diplomacy, pose a long-term, existential threat to the United States’ security and vital interests throughout the world. Even more alarming, however, is that the extent of the United States’ rapidly burgeoning isolation in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, and especially in the Middle East, is not really appreciated by the White House and Congress. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 |
Harold Hutchison’s Strike Group Reagan is a military thriller in the best traditions of Tom Clancy. And if you are weary of how the “popular” media culture typically portrays the U.S. military or America’s unique place in world history, Hutchison provides a pro-military, pro-America action thriller.
Hutchison tells a compelling story of sacrifice, loyalty and heroism and places it in context that is true to current events and today’s geo-political realities. Civil war breaks out in a north African nation. Well armed and supplied Islamic forces with the help of the Chinese military make a formidable foe. Additionally, there are a number of unforeseen obstacles which almost doom the endeavor and are only overcome because of tremendous bravery and a never say die attitude.
Two sisters become key to the story -- one is a fighter pilot on USS Ronald Reagan and one is a student studying abroad in Tunisia. The characters are compelling. The story is exciting. It is also rich with historical references, military history, and a keen knowledge of how the military functions and how military weapon systems work. Hutchison gives you an insider’s perspective.
If you liked Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger or The Sum of All Fears, then you need to read Harold Hutchison’s Strike Group Reagan.
Strike Group Reagan is available at Amazon.com's website. [Click Here]
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Written by George Landrith
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 |
FedEx and UPS both compete to provide consumers with a wide-variety of shipping services. They both have large fleets of aircraft and pilots and crews to operate them. They both have huge fleets of trucks and a vast army of truck drivers to deliver their packages to homes and businesses across the globe. But although FedEx and UPS are competing in exactly the same business, they are governed under a separate and unequal set of labor regulations. It would stand to reason that they should be regulated by the same rules, but they are not. |
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Written by Dr. Miklos Radvanyi
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
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Debilitated by over hundred years of British-Russian rivalry between 1837-1944, ever increasing Soviet involvement from 1945 to 1979, and outright invasion thereafter, bloody resistance to Soviet occupation during the 1980s, devastating civil war in the first half of the 1990s, tyrannical rule by the so-called “Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement”, better known as the Taliban, from 1996 until 2001, and the restless eight years of NATO warfare against the remnants of Mullah Muhammad Omar’s forces and Osama bin Laden’s al- Qaeda organization, the Afghan people are desperate for a better future. With the long-awaited reassessment of NATO’s Afghanistan strategy by the Obama Administration is slowly proceeding to its uncertain conclusion, many in the West too hope for the general sweeping out of these two forces and their interests, a more closely knit unification of society, a fundamental improvement of governance throughout the country that would put Afghanistan firmly on the path of political stability and economic progress. |
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Written by MIKLOS K. RADVANYI
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
In the last two years of President George W. Bush’s second term in office, the weakening of the dollar and the resulting decline of the national wealth and the economy caused by the policy errors and reckless spending of the Republican Administration both in the executive and legislative branches, had resulted in successive crises in the financial, service and manufacturing sectors of the country. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, and in the middle of an emotionally charged election campaign, the United States was engulfed by fear of an uncertain future and growing anger, not only against the President and the Republican Party, but also against the business establishment in general. The failure of a few large banks, the collapse of several smaller financial institutions, the impending insolvency of flagship corporations, the chaos in the real estate market, the real and imaginary wrong doings of which the overwhelmingly anti-Bush media accused the Republicans, woke out the people of their traditional apathy to protest. Albeit not for the first time in the history of the Republic, a general feeling of discontent rose from all over the fifty states – from the poor, the middle classes, and even the rich – and penetrated the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and local campaigns with irrational emotions. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
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NATIONAL
DEFENSE
TRUST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Dave Mohel
(703)548-1160
WASHINGTON, DC -- A group of conservative leaders concerned with defense and trade issues sent a letter to Congress today calling for the Air Force to take European trade violations into account when evaluating bids for the Air Force’s new aerial refueling tanker.
On September 4, the World Trade Organization issued its preliminary finding that the tens of billions of dollars European governments have given Airbus in “launch aid” represents an illegal trade violation. The decision was the result of a complaint first brought by the United States Trade Representative in 2004. |
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Written by George Landrith
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
To the Congress of the United States:
We, the undersigned, write to draw your attention to the landmark decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO) of an estimated $23.7 billion in illegal government subsidies provided to Airbus by the European Union (EU). This ruling has far-reaching consequences, not only for the state of U.S. trade relations with the EU, but also on U.S. government contracting.
On September 4, the WTO issued its preliminary finding that the tens of billions of dollars European governments have given Airbus in “launch aid” is illegal under international trade law. The decision was the result of a complaint first brought by the United States Trade Representative in 2004. The details of the WTO ruling, while not yet public, are available to you as a Member of Congress.
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Written by MIKLOS K. RADVANYI
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 |
Ever since Cyrus, son of the Median King Astyages’s daughter Mandane and an obscure prince from Paarsa of the plateaus of the Zagros Mountains, was crowned the king of Persia in 559 B.C., Iranians and the peoples to their West viewed each other as irreconcilably different. Two and a half millennia later in 1979, Ayatollah Seyyed Ruholla Khomeini seized power in Iran. Starting from the principle that absolute power resides exclusively in Allah, Khomeini gradually invented a political system, defined by him as “Velayate Faqih”, or a theocratic state presided over by the highest religious authority with supreme powers.
By this constitutional coup d’etat, Khomeini transferred earthly political power into the realm of the divine. Arguing that God brought him back from his exile to implement Allah’s sovereignty and legitimacy in Iran and also throughout the world, Khomeini declared himself the “Representative of the Twelfth Imam,” “God’s Representative on Earth” and the “Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution.” |
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Written by George Landrith & Miklos Radvanyi
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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President Barrack Obama will be speaking to American school children next week. The White House says he will encourage America’s youth to stay in school, study hard, and do their homework. Such a speech is not controversial. However, this so-called educational speech is controversial because the Obama Administration prepared and distributed a lesson plan that directed teachers to assign students to "Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals." (Emphasis added.) That is stunning and unprecedented in America. |
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