Everything looks a little different from the outside looking in...

A snap-shot of world headlines:

• Iranian backed Iraqi soldiers press to take back Tikrit from the Islamic State (IS). Iraqi's and the world react to IS demolishing the archaeological site of Nimrud.
• North Korea (DPRK) launched two nuclear missiles in to the Sea of Japan, Japan has lodged a formal UN complaint - this is not the DPRK's first act of this kind in response to US-South Korean military exercises in the region.
• The death of Russian opposition leader and former Kremlin official, Boris Nemtsov highlights the growing dissent and crackdown between the current Russian government and their people.
• American politics are split over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Congress calling out President Obama's efforts to work with Iran on their Nuclear policy.
• The Conservative Party of Canada is under fire (and rightly so) for publishing fear-mongering images regarding IS threats to Canada while seeking to stir up support for Bill-C51, a bill that could put Canadian freedoms at risk.

I recently read something that I would like to share in response to all of this news and conflict:

“From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

Edgar Mitchel, Astronaut, 1974.