TagsTagsAn apparent suicide bombing in the international arrivals hall of Moscow's busiest airport has killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 100: Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport. Video
In another piece of good news from the Raging Duck Congress, the Senate has passed the "New Start" arms control treaty, 71-26.
Russia, START, Nuclear Proliferation, Republican Party, Obstructionism, National Security, Europe
The Senate has voted for cloture on the new START arms treaty with Russia ... final count 67 yeas, 28 nays (all Republicans).
Russia, START, Nuclear Proliferation, Republican Party, Obstructionism, National Security, Europe
One of the craziest weirdos LGF has been following for years is a guy named Israel Shamir, a Russian-born bark-at-the-moon antisemite and Holocaust denier who used to write for the Saudi English-language journal Arab News. Here's an LGF Search page with some of our articles about this noxious psycho. After the ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Russia, Israel Shamir, Antisemitism, Psychoville
The Republican Party is getting so crazy they're starting to scare the whole world. LISBON, Portugal (CNN) – Several nations once in the shadow of the Iron Curtain have a message for Republicans in Congress: Don't stop New START before it starts. Making their appeal on behalf of the U.S.-Russian nuclear ...
Russia, START, Nuclear Proliferation, Republican Party, Obstructionism, National Security, Europe
President Obama is going to tackle the Republican effort to scuttle the START treaty head on: Obama Turns New Start Treaty Into Showdown With GOP. He is pushing for a vote on a signature issue despite long odds, daring Republicans to block an arms-control treaty at the risk of disrupting ...
Russia, START, Nuclear Proliferation, Republican Party, Obstructionism, National Security
The party of Homeland Security, as part of their strategy for subverting absolutely everything Barack Obama tries to achieve regardless of the effect on the nation, decided to take advantage of the lame duck Congress and block the START treaty with Russia. President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new ...
Russia, START, Nuclear Proliferation, Republican Party, Obstructionism, National Security
Slate international relations columnist Fred Kaplan goes line by line through Mitt Romney’s attack on President Obama’s new START treaty, and concludes that it’s “shabby, misleading, and thoroughly ignorant.”
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, START, Mitt Romney
Ukraine may not be the biggest player in the non-aligned nuclear proliferation game, but this is good news: Ukraine to give up nuke material; boost for summit.
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Ukraine
Today, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a historic nuclear arms reduction treaty, reestablishing a nuclear inspection agreement that lapsed along with START last December. Wingnut blogs are going bonkers, of course, because that’s what they do. Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller has a representative comment, delivered with her characteristic taste, ...
Barack Obama, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation
Female suicide bombers struck today in two central Moscow subway stations, killing at least three dozen people in the latest attack by Chechnyan Muslim fanatics: Toll From Moscow Bombing at 37. MOSCOW — Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow during the Monday ...
Russia, Moscow, Suicide Bombers, Chechnya, Militant Islam, Terrorism
Today’s work of genius is a masterful performance of “Я очень рад, ведь я, наконk 7;ц, возврk 2;щаюсь домой.R 21; (“I am very glad, because I’m finally back home,” according to Google’s language tools.) A poignant evocation of simple proletarian joy at returning to a familiar homeland, with orange walls and ...
During the 2008 Presidential election one of my main concerns about Barack Obama was that he would take a soft line toward the Hamas terrorist gang. And there were reasons to be concerned; to name just a couple, Obama was closely acquainted with several well-known Palestinian advocates in the US, ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Russia, Barack Obama, Terrorism
A senior member of the IPCC is charging that Russia mounted a sophisticated operation to discredit the Copenhagen climate change summit: Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Russia, Crime, Copenhagen
What does it take to get Russia on board with sanctions against Iran? Russia links Iran sanctions to US missile change. NEW YORK – With a diplomatic wink and nod, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened the door Wednesday to backing potential sanctions against Iran as a reward to President Barack Obama’s ...
Russia, Missile Defense, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Diplomacy, Tightrope
A lot of people are angry at President Obama for this decision (surprise!), but it should be pointed out that the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously recommended this course of action. Are they all wrong? [Video]
Russian metal? Yeah, we got that. A berserk tribute to “Gorbachov” by ANJ, with zombies. (Warning: sorta PG/R rated.) [Video]
Video, Weird, Soviet Union, Gorbachev, Russia, Music, zombies
Cold War heroes Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel, along with 20 other European leaders and intellectuals, have written an open letter to Barack Obama pleading with him not to cave in to Russia and give up on missile defense. [T]he thorniest issue may well be America’s planned missile-defense installations. Here ...
Charles Krauthammer says, “Our president likes his plumage.” Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama’s intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Russia
This is a welcome development, but I’m sure Putin has his own reasons for agreeing to it: Russia Opens Route for U.S. to Fly Arms to Afghanistan. MOSCOW — The Russian government has agreed to allow American troops and weapons bound for Afghanistan to fly over Russian territory, providing an ...
Afghanistan, Taliban, Militant Islam, Military, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Russia
For today’s test of Barack Obama, Russia is hinting about putting strategic bombers in Cuba and Venezuela. MOSCOW – A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported. The chief of ...
Another slap in the face for Obama from Russia, without much love: Russia rejects link between missile defence and Iran. Madrid/Washington - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Tuesday showed willingness to discuss the US-planned missile defence system opposed by Moscow, but without “haggling” linking it to Iran. Medvedev was commenting during ...
Interestingly, the Washington Post editors apparently toned down the title on Charles Krauthammer’s latest op-ed, from Obama’s ‘Kick Me’ Diplomacy (still visible in the print version) to Obama’s Supine Diplomacy (but they forgot to change the page title). With a grinning Goliath staggering about sporting a “kick me” sign on ...
Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Diplomacy, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, Supine
What the hell is going on in Russia? Hikind, Thompson Denounce Sunflower Seeds Package As Anti-Semitic. Brooklyn, NY - Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson today denounced the Shnayder family, owners of the value import store, Net Cost Market, for stocking and selling dozens ...
Here’s another great piece from Michael Totten, in which he gets to the bottom of The Truth About Russia in Georgia. TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South ...