This is one of the best interviews I have read thus far about the Paris Attacks and the State of the World when it comes to Terrorism in general. -SF Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in…
Category: Europe
Military Defense News: Stop Panicking About Russian “Hybrid” Warfare
There is currently a great deal of alarmist concern, triggered by a recent RAND report, about Russia’s supposed ability to conquer the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, three former Soviet republics that are now part of NATO — and thus drive a wedge into NATO without the West being able to do anything…
Espionage Files: Russian Spies Put Full-Court Press on Sweden
The Swedish state security police, or SAPO, is getting pretty worried about a dramatic uptick in Russian espionage activity in Sweden, according to leaks in the Swedish press. And SAPO is hinting that it’s related to the fact that Sweden is gearing up for a May 25 parliamentary debate about ratifying a “Host Nation Support…
Holocaust History & Book Review: A Guest At The Shooters Banquet
Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light in Rita Gabis’s book, which explores the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen Five years ago, Rita Gabis, a poet and teacher based in New York, discovered a family secret: from 1941 to 1943 her grandfather had been the chief of…
Crusader Corner: France Refuses to use Israeli Data Mining Tech That Could Have Helped Prevent Paris Massacre
It appears that France’s combination of non-existent immigration laws combined with a fear of being labeled “islamophobes” is not enough…they had to throw in good ole’ fashioned Anti-Semitism just for good measure, which has created the perfect breeding ground for terrorism to run rampant. Sound Familiar America? -SF Better to shun and demonize Israel than…
Modern Crime: A Bloody Gang War is Raging in Amsterdam
On March 10, a 23-year-old man’s severed head was displayed at the entrance of a hookah lounge in Amsterdam where drug dealers are known to gather. The rest of the victim’s body was found in a burned-out car on the other side of the city. It was the latest grisly episode in a conflict between…
Crusader Corner: German and Italian Intel Predicts More Terror Attacks on European Resorts
German and Italian intelligence agencies have uncovered evidence indicating that terrorists are planning attacks this summer at resorts in France, Italy, and Spain. The information was first received by Italian intelligence, who passed it along to their German counterpart, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), notes a report in the April 19 issue of…
Espionage Files: Suspect Arrested for Attempted Assassination of Chief Forensic Expert in Malaysia Airlines MH17 Probe
For those of you that have been keeping up with story since it first happened in 2014, if you are like me, you might have to start taking notes or making a timeline chart…it just keeps getting stranger and sounding more and more like the plot out of a Robert Ludlum novel rather than an…
World War Two Books Worth A Damn: Church of Spies
“There’s a man who leads a life of danger To everyone he meets he stays a stranger With every move he makes another chance he takes Odds are he won’t live to see tomorrow Secret agent man, secret agent man” So said Johnny Rivers in the theme to the ’60s show Secret Agent. Mark Riebling…
Brush-Up On Your History: The Real Story Behind Nagorno-Karabakh
Last Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden met separately with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian while the South Caucasus adversaries attended a 50-nation nuclear summit in Washington boycotted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But no sooner did Kerry pronounce “an ultimate resolution” to the ongoing…