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  • Irons in fire with the 2016 US Presidential elections

    Wisdom, moderation, insight, courage and at some extend compassion are important ingredients for the US Presidency, – besides experience and an ability keeping the right balance in the midst of different opinions within various groups of advisers and security meetings. Robert F Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis noted that at the time there were…

  • Hundred Years of Anzac : the spirit lives but which way in the future?‏

    “…….To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” – ― Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems – I would like to raise the opportunity today, in remembrance of “Anzac” and actually to all the Anzacs of the world,  to write briefly to you about the senseless and growing…

  • Sydney Siege 2014: A serious warning for better terror prevention.

    “Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.” —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 13 June 2007 >>>Terror prevention is…

  • A Collision Course in Europe and the US with Russia?‏ – What is the real Crisis?

    To preserve peace and avoid the threats of war will be a challenge for each generation anew in different identities and requires now to make a united stance against increasing sectarian violence across the borders of inflated perceptions on those which were earlier considered to be opponents. Relations between nations with frictions on relatively trivial…