Author Larry Kelley explores News from around the world and relates it to fallen civilizations.

Syria, Benghazi and News from the Front

Where did Syria Get Its Chemical Weapons? In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I write: …In 2003, Stephen, a British spy and self-styled “Lawrence of Arabia,” was on the ground inside Iraq weeks prior to the US-led invasion and saw the evacuation of WMD stockpiles and production equipment. Stephen observed the operation being conducted [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 May 1st, 2013|blogroll, News From the Front|Comments Off on Syria, Benghazi and News from the Front

Tel Aviv, Tehran, Toronto, Boston and News from the Front

Good News from Israel; Due to the firestorm of coverage surrounding the massive governmental screw-up that enabled the Boston jihadi attack, there was almost no coverage Hagel’s first trip to Israel.  Jewish and Israel News (JNS.org) reported Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced a massive new arms deal with Israel. Hagel made a number of [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 April 26th, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on Tel Aviv, Tehran, Toronto, Boston and News from the Front

The Boston Bombing and News from the Front

On April 18, Joe Kovacs reported for World Net Daily, “… the Saudi national who was the original “person of interest”( identified as 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi) in connection with Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing is going to be deported from the U.S. next week… …on national security grounds. Reuters reported President Barack Obama met [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 April 18th, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on The Boston Bombing and News from the Front

Of Lady Thatcher, the Cold War, and the War on Terror

Early in her first term as Prime Minister, the Soviets moved short range nuclear missiles into Eastern Europe where they were positioned to erase London and various European capitals in a flight time of mere minutes. During this intense stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West, and despite massive protests by capitulationist leftists inside [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 April 11th, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on Of Lady Thatcher, the Cold War, and the War on Terror

Carthage, Rome, Cyprus, Stockton and North Korea

Korean Missile Threat is real and eminent. (An excerpt)… In the First Punic War, during the late 240s BC, the Carthaginians grew weary of the long war with Rome and made the decision to decommission much of their fleet and to release from their employ many of their mercenary sailors. This proved to [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 April 4th, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on Carthage, Rome, Cyprus, Stockton and North Korea

Kerry Begs Iraq – “Please Don’t Go Viet Nam”

Thanks to the editors of the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion page, we learned this week that our esteemed Secretary of State, John Kerry, was reduced to begging Iraqi officials to “search Iranian flights that fly over Iraq on their way to arming Bashar Assad’s Syrian Government.”  As they put it, “the strategic cost of President [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 March 28th, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on Kerry Begs Iraq – “Please Don’t Go Viet Nam”

News From the Front

In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, the subtitle poses a stark question; Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat?  So frequently do we see headlines such as, Car Bomb at Mosque Kills 37 or Terror Leader Emerges, Then Vanishes in Sahara, that the misnamed phenomenon—The War on Terror, fades into irrelevance.  Despite the Obama administration’s assurances to the contrary, [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:09-08:00 March 21st, 2013|News From the Front|Comments Off on News From the Front