Tag Archives : Cold War

Come July 8th, 2011, the long standing and highly successful NASA shuttle program will finally meet its end as Shuttle Atlantis will ferry the last four U.S astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). This historic event will eventually result in establishing the domination of the Russian Federation in the so called ‘Space Race’ that [...]

The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from [...]

The war in Congo has been going on for a decade and a half. The conflict has many causes, among them the collapse of the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. A case of an abandoned former Cold War ally of the United States, his fall led to a government that was not able to control vast areas of the country. This brought about the rise in many [...]

The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops are [...]

Two of the most powerful countries in the world and the arch nemeses in the cold war era, the United States of America and Russia (formerly, Soviet Union) are now on their way towards the ratification of a landmark agreement, where both the countries are planning to take a step forward towards nuclear arms reduction. Diplomats from both the countries [...]

When it comes to Iran’s nuclear threat, the powers that be always conjure up worst-case scenarios. ‘But the underlying assumptions need to be questioned more thoroughly. Why would a nuclear Iran necessarily set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? The conventional wisdom is that the Sunni Arab powers fear the power of Shiite Persia, and [...]

Starting from a secret department in North Carolina, the company before known like Blackwater it assumed a more important paper in the program of counter-terrorism of Washington: the use of airplanes operated by remote control to kill leaders of Al Qaeda, according to government’s authorities and current and old employees of the company. The [...]

Nuclear weapons are otherwise regarded as evil, immoral, and illegal. The only justification there is for owning some and the only legitimate function of these weapons is deterrence. In the light of much paranoia happening around as to who has nuclear weapons and just who has the business of telling owners they should not have them, the question remains: [...]

When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that the cause which the national hero of Scotland fought for is no different from the freedom causes that others likewise died fighting for, and still some are fighting for to this day. Wallace [...]

Beijing has reacted to allegations that China is involved in a global cyber espionage network, claiming that those who concocted these ‘fabricated lies’ have the mentality of the Cold War. These statements were a response by the Chinese government to a report by Canadian researchers claiming the existence of a global cyber espionage network whose [...]