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North Korea is ?serious adversary? - US?s Gates
2008-06-03 15:11:00 Last Friday, North Korea , which has more than 1,000 missiles with at least 800 of them ballistic, rattled sabres by launching short-range missiles off its west coast. Experts said North Korea , which tested a nuclear device in October 2006, developed an arsenal of short-range missiles to threaten the capital Seoul as well as South Korean and ... More About: Military , West Coast
Are the BRICs crumbling?
2008-06-03 06:10:00 In effect, the BRIC countries collectively took the place of the United States as the locomotive of the global economy, helping to haul the rest of the planet along. But there is a problem. They may not be able to keep it up, because just as it looked like the world had found a new economic ... More About: India , Middle East , China , Brazil , Russia
Making sense of modern China
2008-06-03 05:59:00 Winning and then staging what are sure to be spectacular and successful games will help justify the party’s continued rigid authority, and let it bask in most Chinese people’s excitement to be hosts. But the games will also be seen as one of history’s most expensive, and well-orchestrated, coming-out parties. After three decades of breakneck economic growth, ... More About: Sense , China , Games , Olympics , Neighbours
U.N. Nuclear Inspectors to Visit Syria
2008-06-03 05:31:00 At the Euphrates site, Mr. Albright said, the agency?s inspectors should look for evidence like special piping, old foundations and chemical traces of graphite, a basic reactor building material. ?If the Syria ns think that a quick visit and some interviews? will clear up the nuclear suspicions, he said, ?they?re sadly mistaken.? The senior official in Vienna said ... More About: Interviews , Nuclear , Foundations
Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight
2008-06-03 05:25:00 DEBKAfile: Our Washington sources report that president George W. Bush is closer than ever before to ordering a limited missile-air bombardment of the IRGC-al Qods Brigade?s installations in Iran . It is planned to target training camps and the munitions factories pumping fighters, missiles and roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgency, Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist ... More About: George Bush , Missiles , President Bush , George W Bush
Sino-Russia row ? Part 1
2008-06-03 05:17:00 The Russia n-Chinese bilateral commission on military technical cooperation has not met for two years, and Russia’s defense minister has repeatedly postponed his visit to Beijing. Military experts say that Russian companies are not working on a single major contract for China, supplying only spare parts and components, including for the assembly of Mi-8 Hip and ... More About: Part
India Reactivates Air Base Close to China in Kashmir
2008-06-03 05:13:00 The revival of the base, abandoned in 1966, is seen by analysts as India ’s military standing up to China . This comes as the Air Force plans to revive two more bases in eastern Ladakh, both close to the Chinese frontier. The news agency Press Trust of India quoted Air Force sources as saying that the Daulatbeg ... More About: Military , Kashmir , Close
Inspectors Discover Iran?s Nuclear Weapon Instruction Book
2008-06-02 20:24:00 UN inspectors were shocked by the recent discovery of an Iran ian document describing the process for making the potential core of a nuclear weapon. Tehran called the allegations of pursuing bomb-making “baseless” and claimed that the intelligence was fabricated. However, the 15-page document appears to be the recipe for the process of machining uranium metal into ... More About: Discovery , Nuclear , Intelligence , Book
Food Crisis: World at ?alarming juncture? as leaders gather for FAO summit
2008-06-02 20:21:00 “If not handled properly, this issue could trigger a cascade of other crises — affecting economic growth, social progress, and even political security around the world.” Participants at the High-Level Conference on World Food Security will discuss short-term solutions as well as new strategies to deal with the effects of global warming, growing demand for biofuels ... More About: Developing World , Summit , Biofuels
From the ruins, Chinese begin to rebuild lives
2008-06-02 15:44:00 Like Su, China is already trying to look ahead after the magnitude-7.9 earthquake. Reconstruction has started, even as the communist government attempts to feed and shelter about 5 million people left homeless by the massive disaster. Shopkeepers who lost years of investment are plotting how to get their businesses running again. The government’s open response may ... More About: Earthquake , Chinese , Lehman Brothers , Lives
Gates, Chinese defense official spar over military
2008-06-02 15:41:00 Gates took on Ma’s claims that China wants only to defend itself with intercontinental ballistic missiles and is focused on defensive systems. “I don’t know what you use them for if it’s not for offensive capabilities,” Gates told reporters Sunday. While that kind of system might be considered a deterrent for other countries, Gates said it ... More About: Japan , Military , Poland , Chinese
Russia: Lost in Byzantium
2008-06-02 00:58:00 Putin may be endangering Russia ’s future by revisiting the past. The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453. But you wouldn’t know it in Russia, where Vladimir V. Putin has been behaving as though the 15th century never ended, as though he is the direct descendant of the Byzantine kings and Moscow remains the “Third Rome” it declared ... More About: Lost , Asia , Century
Iran FM calls on Muslims to ?erase? Israel
2008-06-01 16:52:00 Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called on the world’s Muslim s on Sunday to work to “erase” Israel , in the latest verbal attack by Tehran against the Jewish state. “As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased,” Mottaki told a conference in Tehran, recalling a ... More About: Iran , Muslims , Calls
Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to North Korea, Book Says
2008-06-01 06:46:00 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment — a route to making a nuclear weapon — to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the slain politician well. Read More… Video: The ... More About: North Korea , Nuclear , Documentary , Missiles
The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
2008-06-01 06:44:00 Chavez, 53, the country’s first dark-skinned leader, has used Venezuela’s immense oil wealth, says Jones, to improve life for millions of impoverished shantytown residents through health and education programmes such as no other leader ever attempted. For Washington, though, the ?Bolivarian revolution? (named after Simon Bolivar, the leader of the independence struggle against Spain ) is ... More About: Education , Health , Story , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Russia army unit sent to Abkhazia
2008-06-01 06:40:00 Russia is sending a unit from the army’s railway force to the breakaway province of Abkhazia, the country’s defence ministry has said. The 300 unarmed troops are needed to help carry out repairs on the network, said the head of Abkhazia’s railways. The move has been denounced by Georgia which says Russia is planning a military intervention ... More About: Railways , Army , Russia , Conflict , Unit
Putin Calls U.S. `Frightening Monster,? Urges French Solidarity
2008-06-01 06:37:00 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin compared the U.S. to a “frightening monster” and urged France to distance itself from its American ally. “How can one be such a shining example of democracy at home and a frightening monster abroad?” Putin said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde transmitted live to journalists in Paris yesterday. ... More About: Europe , Calls , Russia
Iran on track for nuclear milestone
2008-06-01 06:30:00 Iran?s nuclear programme has made big strides in recent months and the country is on course to pass an important threshold for nuclear weapons capability next year, scientists and analysts say. Read More… More About: Iran , Nuclear , Scientists , Track , Milestone
United States uncertain why China is boosting its high tech weapons arsenal
2008-06-01 06:23:00 Is it really that hard to figure out? China is boosting it high tech weapons arsenal in order to take on America. China understands that at some point there will be confrontation between the countries. Most likely it will be over Taiwan. China is positioning itself to defeat America or at least prevent America for ... More About: United States , Arsenal , Asia , Military
Iran Achieves a Four-Front Missile Command, Breakthrough on Nuclear Missile
2008-06-01 06:16:00 There are two significant developments going on at the same time concerning Iran . Iran is now in command of missiles stationed in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Iran. Next, Iran has achieved a breakthrough in missile design in order to accommodate nuclear warheads. From the article: Military experts comment that Tehran?s centralized control of four hostile missile fronts ... More About: Nuclear , Missiles , Front
Only fools want China influencing our [Canadian] future
2008-06-01 05:26:00 Those Canadian s who hope to see the new Asian giants rival the U.S. in a few decades as the great global engine and the new big market for Canada simply do not realize that such a change would be an unmitigated disaster for us. China is a brutal one-party dictatorship, a mixture of totalitarianism and unbridled ... More About: India , Future
How America Can Survive the Rise of the Rest
2008-05-31 18:59:00 Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain ’s decline was driven by bad economics. The United States, in contrast, has the strength and dynamism to continue shaping the world — but only if it can overcome its ... More About: America , Economics , Survive
Hezbollah?s Shadow War
2008-05-31 15:38:00 For their part, Hezbollah’s leaders remain coy on specifics, but have not disputed the characterization that their capabilities are greater than prewar levels. In mid-2007, Nasrallah said his militia has missiles “able to hit every point in occupied Palestine .” Still, finding independent sources on Hezbollah has proven difficult. Western military assessments tend to agree that ... More About: Middle East , Lebanon , Shadow , State Department
Stratfor Intelligence Guidance: Week of June 1, 2008
2008-05-31 06:35:00 Asia in general, and China in particular: The pressure in Asia is starting to show, beginning with South Korea. But anecdotal reports out of China also show the ratcheting of pressure. We have reports of plant closures due partly to informal taxes for earthquake relief imposed by the government and partly to the business environment. ... More About: Google , Asia , Intelligence , June , Energy
What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?
2008-05-31 05:41:00 Since the late 1990s, there has been a flood of research on natural resources and civil war. This article reviews 14 recent cross-national econometric studies, and many qualitative studies, that cast light on the relationship between natural resources and civil war. It suggests that collectively they imply four underlying regularities: first, oil increases the likelihood ... More About: Resources , Drugs , Relationship , Natural , Oil
South American defence
2008-05-31 01:14:00 Speak fraternally but carry a stick. Is there a new arms race?or just overdue retooling of armies? Even as its leaders talk, Latin America is re-arming?or rather some South American countries are. In the broader region, including Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, total defence spending shot up to $38 billion in 2007 from $25 billion ... More About: Defence , South American
1913 Intel Site News
2008-05-31 01:01:00 If you’re new to 1913 Intel then welcome. Thanks for coming. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been focusing on YouTube videos more and more in the last few weeks. Generally, I post articles then later go back and try to add YouTube videos for each article. I like watching the videos myself, so hopefully you’ll ... More About: News , Site News , Photos , Site
Sharia by stealth - Ontario turns a blind eye to polygamy
2008-05-30 15:52:00 It?s an issue the Liberal govenrment of Ontario, led by Premier Dalton McGuinty, doesn?t want to deal with ? polygamy in the Muslim community. Last week the Toronto Star told the story of Safa Rigby, a 35-year-old mother of five children who recently learned her husband of 14 years had two other wives. Ms. Rigby?s ... More About: Islam , Egypt , Canada , Americas , Sharia
Photo Essay: China?s Tragic Aftershocks
2008-05-30 15:47:00 Thousands of Chinese children died in the Sichuan earthquake when poorly constructed schools collapsed on top of them. Now, grief-stricken parents are demanding a reckoning. Read More… Video: China earthquake: Angry parents protest collapse of China’s School More About: Photo , Earthquake , Schools , Tragic
BRIC nations grab power
More articles from this author:2008-05-30 06:51:00 The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are emerging as the new powers destined to inherit world economic leadership by the middle of the 21st century. With China and India combined representing more than one-third of the world’s population (2.4 billion) and undisputed leaders in converting raw materials into finished goods, these Asian giants are headed ... More About: Power , Nations , Grab 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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