ISDEI Instituto de Seguridad, Defensa y Estudios Internacionales

By John Vibes Earlier this month, it was reported that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008 , several members of Congress took their money out of the stock market. Many high-ranking government employees were given a heads-up about the impending market crash in secret meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department. Then they used that information to engage in insider trading. It was revealed that Senator Shelley Capito and her husband sold $350,000 worth of Citigroup stock at $83 per share, just one day before the stock dropped to $64 per share. Another shady trader was Congressman Jim Moran, who had his biggest trading day of the year days after the secret meeting, sellings stock in nearly 100 different companies. These actions would be illegal for any American in any other circumstance, but members of Congress and high-ranking government officials are actually exempt from insider trading laws. Years later, a 60 Minutes investigation aired on televisi...

A week from now, when all of Russia's warplanes in Syria are blown out of the sky, Putin will scratch his head and think to himself: Why didn't I consider the threat of explosive, floating condoms? But by then it will be far too late. Via the greatest tabloid article ever to grace the Internet : BIZARRE footage has been released appearing to show ISIS fighters using bombs attached to blown up CONDOMS to try to bring down Russian fighter jets. The incredible three minute video shows jihadis putting together the explosives before releasing the contraceptives into the air. Said to take place in the Syrian town of Idlib, the scenes show the desperate levels the terrorists are going to try to stop Vladimir Putin's onslaught. The astonishing footage, which has religious chanting running over the top, begins with jihadis assembling the bombs in a room with Arabic writing on the walls. (Popular Science also reported on this irresponsible Takfiri condom use. So maybe it's ac...

A remarkably candid analysis by U.S. Navy Commander Garrett I. Campbell (also a fellow at the Brookings Institution) concludes that not only has Russia's military shown incredible competency in Syria, it has also done more with less — using “outdated” naval vessels to fire state-of-the-art cruise missiles with no western equivalent, for example. Some highlights from his article : Russia's Air Power Is Nothing to Sneeze At According to Campbell: The Russians are flying a significant number of sorties with recognizable successes. Current estimates range from 48 to 96 daily . This is a lot…… Can Russia sustain this level of air campaign? Maybe. Almost none of our NATO allies could match what Russia has done so far in the skies. Russia Does More With Less The Navy Commander also warns again dismissing Russia's naval capabilities: Russia's navy has been called “ more rust than ready .” But Russia is, impressively, retrofitting older vessels and procuring newer ones. And the...

The end of international law and diplomacy The end of the Cold War was welcomed as a new era of peace and security in which swords would be transformed into plows, former enemies into friends, and the world would witness a new dawn of universal love, peace and happiness. Of course, none of that happened. What happened is that the AngloZionist Empire convinced itself that it had “won the Cold War” and that it now was in charge. Of the entire planet, no less. And why not? It had built anywhere between 700 to 1000 military bases (depending on your definition of “base”) worldwide and it had split up the entire globe into several areas of exclusive responsibility named “commands”. The last time any power had mustered the megalomania needed to distribute various parts of the planet to to different commands was the Papacy in 1494 with its (in)famous “ Treaty of Tordesillas ”. And to make that point abundantly clear, the Empire decided to make an example and unleashed its power against tiny Yu...