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Protests in Yemen: Life on the Spice Trade Route
By Jay Holmes The spice trade has dried up, and the 24,000,000 well-armed people in “The South” suffer an unemployment rate of close to 70%. The fragile economy relies on Yemen’s very limited oil...
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How the Schooling Disaster in Detroit is a Win for Al-Qaeda
By Jay Holmes United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently declared that the Detroit, Michigan school system is a national disgrace. He is right. Some politically sensitive types in...
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We. Are. At. War.
By Piper Bayard My heart is heavy today thinking about our soldiers killed when our enemies brought down their Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan last week. Seventeen Navy SEALs, five conventional...
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Good Riddance to Qaddafi
By Jay Holmes On October 20, 2011, the Libyan National Transition Council reported that Libya ended forty-two years of suffering under the heartless, egomaniacal Moammar Qaddafi. The world was treated...
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Why ARE We In Afghanistan?
By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* As we approach 2013, several Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries seem to be undergoing changes, but there is no consensus on what those changes will mean....
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Attack on the Capitol!
By Jay Holmes What if a terrorist group managed to detonate a bomb in the Capitol building? In the War on Terror, one of the most obvious targets in the United States is our nation’s iconic Capitol...
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The Boston Marathon Bombing: What Does It Mean, and Where Will It Lead Us?
By Jay Holmes By now, you will have heard about the bombs that detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Before offering opinions concerning that event, I would like to...
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The Westgate Mall Attack–Who is Al-Shabaab, and What Does This Mean?
By Jay Holmes On Saturday, September 21, terrorists of Somalia’s al-Shabaab al-Qaeda affiliate entered the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and went on a four-day killing and...
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Boko Haram–The Nigerian Jihadi Biker Gang
By Jay Holmes On April 14, 2014, a Boko Haram gang attacked a girls school in Chibok, Nigeria. After killing the armed guards at the school, the gang kidnapped 234 girls and possibly a dozen adult...
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ISIS — The Vultures Come Home to Roost
By Jay Holmes This week, world governments and the attendant media gaggles are focused on the ISIS militia that has captured much of northern and western Iraq. From popular news reports, we might get...
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