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This article focuses on difficulties faced by U.S. President Bill Clinton to handle the 1972 U.S.-Soviet ABM Treaty. The U.S. administration wants that the Treaty must be revised. If the administration wants smooth relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, it must leave the Treaty virtually untouched. The administration has planned to start its missile-defense deployment with 100 land-based interceptors in Alaska, guided by several land-based radars. The U.S. is also planning ways to intercept attacking ballistic missiles. But critics of ballistic-missile defense are arguing that such defenses will encourage other countries to build more offensive missiles to overwhelm the defenses.

The article focuses on nuclear threats and electromagnetic-pulse (EMP) attack on Americans underestimated, it talks of North Korea launching Unha-3 space launch vehicle that could carry a small nuclear warhead and detonate over U.S. to create an EMP resulting in societal chaos and kill millions.

The article offers information on the "National Space Weather Action Plan" revealed by U.S. President Barack Obama which is not the full plan of preventing damage to national electric grid, satellites, and infrastructure from space weather.

The article reports on the unsuccessful nuclear arms-control agreement between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and Iran to abandon nuclear weapons proliferation.

The article reports on a bill introduced by U.S. Senator Rand Paul, the no-subsidy, no-mandate Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act, which would offer automobile manufacturers the option of reducing their fuel-economy obligations.

The article discusses the need to break the monopoly of oil of about 95 percent of the transportation of the world, and the cartel of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The author explains that oil is a crucial strategic commodity, and that for as long as transportation is nearly exclusively dependent on oil, the U.S. will be under OPEC's control in terms of oil volume and price. According to the author, the creation of a North American Energy Alliance is a good idea.

The article urges U.S. President Barack Obama to respond decisively to the threat posed by Iran's plan to prohibit all foreign warships from using an international waterway to enter the Persian Gulf without its navy's permission. It calls on the U.S. government to demand freedom for the Syrian and Iranian peoples and commit itself to helping them. It also encourages Obama to emulate Theodore Roosevelt (TR) by sending U.S. forces to locations where they can carry out operations against Iran.

The article features Muslim physician Doctor Zuhdi Jasser and his potential role in the efforts of the government to oppose radical Islam. Jasser is described as the intellectual counterpart of the late Rick Rescorla, who warned the authorities about possible terrorist attacks against World Trade Center in New York City. The American Islamic Forum on Democracy was founded by Jasser. The administration has failed to take the opportunity to use the abilities of Jasser.

The article discusses the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which was first presented by then President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Senate in 1999. The administration of President Barack Obama is beginning to promote the ratification of CTBT, which it supporters say would be instrumental in convincing the international community to support the U.S. in its campaign for nuclear nonproliferation. Since the U.S. halted nuclear testing in 1992, China, France and India continued doing nuclear tests.

The article discusses the similarity between the Nazi Germany and Iran in the 2000s. These similarities include arms buildup and the recession which discourage the U.S. and allied states to risk potential military undertakings. To prevent a repeat of history, the author suggests that the U.S. and its allies should impose crippling economic sanctions on Iran, provide aid to Iranian reformers and help bring out a shift in the nature of the Iranian regime.

The article presents a conversation about the threat to dominance of oil in Georgia. It cites the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel wherein half of the energy used in the process of making it goes to produce dried distillers grain (DDG). It also relates the move toward making ethanol to replace gasoline to keep using the starch to make fructose and keeping the fructose cheap.

This article calls on the U.S. to become independent not only of imported crude oil but of crude oil itself as a major source of energy. It explains that weaning the U.S. from dependency on imported crude oil does not mean the country will no longer import this commodity. Rather independence of imported crude oil only means that the country cannot be held hostage by the nations that are the source of this commodity. It means that U.S. foreign policy will be more free and less entangled by the politics of crude oil. Promoting hybrid vehicles and alternative fuels is a good direction toward crude oil independence.

This article explains how the collaboration between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein has endangered the U.S. Specifically, this article traces the history of with Sunni theocratic totalitarianism. There are two varieties of theocratic totalitarianism within Sunni Islam. Both of them are Salafists meaning they believe that only a literal version of the model of rule implemented in the seventh century in Islam has ultimate legitimacy. The relationship between the Salafist jihadists such as al Qaeda and Salafist loyalists such as the Wahhabis is described. The Salafist ideology being spread by the Wahhabis is discussed and how the U.S. can deal with it as well as its teachings is noted.