The Kremlin President

Over fifty years ago, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence after claiming he had an extensive list of “members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring” that were working for the US State Department. Though McCarthy’s accusations were largely unfounded, our country became paranoid that foreign entities had infiltrated the highest […]

American Hypocrisy in Yemen

Last weekend, thousands of people gathered at a community hall in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa to mourn the death of Sheikh Ali al-Rawishan, a Yemeni public figure and father of the country’s rebel-appointed interior minister. According to eye-witness accounts, two explosive ordinances burst through the hall’s ceiling around 3:30 pm local time before detonating shortly afterwards. The bombs were […]

2016 National Conventions

After a brutal primary season that left both parties more or less on the brink of collapse, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have emerged victorious from underneath the corpses of the various competitors who once stood in the way of their path to the presidency of the United States of America. During their respective national conventions […]

Russian Intervention in the Ukraine

What started off as anti-government protests have escalated into a foreign occupation. Earlier last week, unidentified gunmen took over various government buildings in the southern part of Ukraine known as Crimea. Once the gunmen established control of these buildings, they quickly raised the Russian flag. This comes after a majority of members of the president’s […]

Crisis in Ukraine

Spontaneous protests erupted in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev the night of November 21st after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych decided to reject a free trade deal with the European Union that would have brought the Ukraine one step closer to European integration. The rejection of the free trade deal coupled with crippling unemployment and government corruption that […]

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