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Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz During the McCarthy witch-hunting era, the “duck test” was used to identify a person’s ideological leaning. It works this way: “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” Thousands of people’s lives were ruined during this period that came to be known as the Second Red Scare. Yes, Read More …
Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz There is a new virulent disease that infected a group of people in Washington, DC. So far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) cannot isolate the organism that’s causing the mysterious disease. It’s so mysterious that it makes a lot of people wonder when – not if – they would be infected by the disease. But for some strange Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz If China attacked the United States, she had better knock her out in the first strike. Otherwise, the U.S. would unleash 1,654 nuclear warheads on 792 deployed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), B-52 bombers, and B-2 stealth bombers. China has approximately 240 warheads and an undetermined number of ICBMs. But who would fire the first ICBM? China had Read More …
TEACHABLE MOMENTS By Josemaria Claro The Philippine Star Viral video of the little girl who was crying because she realized that she has had enough of political advertisements? “Just because I’m tired of Bronco Obama and Mitt Romney,” replied Abigael in between the cutest sobs when asked by her mother what she was crying about. People are not supposed to vote for candidates based solely Read More …
Source: Bloomberg News North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told front-line troops the military is ready for “all-out war” against its enemies as the hermit nation nullified the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. The North also closed liaison channels with South Korea and the United States. China, meanwhile, is appealing for calm and urging both sides to avoid escalating the already-tense situation in the Read More …
Source: UPI.com PYONGYANG, North Korea, March 5 (UPI) — North Korea, citing what it called U.S.-led moves to punish it for its recent nuclear testing, threatened Tuesday to nullify the Korean war truce. The threat came as the United States and China introduced new sanctions against North Korea at the United Nations. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters the sanctions will be among “the toughest” Read More …
Source: International Relations and Security Network (ISN) America’s pivot to Asia is forcing many states in the region to try and strike a balance between their strategic relationship with Washington and their growing economic ties with China. Today, John Bruni looks at Australia’s and New Zealand’s attempts to reconcile these two imperatives. By John Bruni for the ISN The Australia-New Zealand and United States (ANZUS) Read More …
By Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States. The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state Read More …
By Rodney Jaleco ABS-CBN North America Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. – Filipina nurse Menchu Sanchez will get a rare vantage view of President Obama’s State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening (Wednesday morning, Manila time). Sanchez, a nurse at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, will sit at the balcony as one of the special guests of First Lady Read More …
By Jim Miklaszewski and Andrew Rafferty NBC News Published 6:30 p.m. ET: Budget constraints are prompting the U.S. Navy to cut back the number of aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region from two to one, the latest example of how contentious fiscal battles in Washington are impacting the U.S. military. According to Defense Department officials, the USS Harry S. Truman, which was set to Read More …