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Next Year?s Wars ? By Louise Arbour | Foreign Policy
2011-12-31 19:16:00 Ten conflicts to watch in 2012. 1. Syria 2. Iran /Israel 3. Afghanistan 4. Pakistan 5. Yemen 6. Central Asia 7. Burundi 8. Congo 9. Kenya /Somalia 10. Venezuela Next Year’s Wars – By Louise Arbour | Foreign Policy
The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition- By Gordon G. Chang | Foreign Po
2011-12-31 18:53:00 In the middle of 2001, I predicted in my book, The Coming Collapse of China , that the Communist Party would fall from power in a decade, in large measure because of the changes that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) would cause. A decade has passed; the Communist Party is still in power. But ... More About: Economy , Foreign Policy , Foreign
Many experts predict slower economic recovery in 2012 | GARP
2011-12-30 23:24:00 Puffing and plodding, the American economy needed all of 2011 to build a bit of momentum going into the New Year. Job growth picked up, and the economy kicked into a higher gear late in the year. Enjoy it. The prediction from most economic forecasters is that it will not last, and that the pace ... More About: Recovery , Experts , Economic
EDITORIAL: Being Christian is a death sentence ? Washington Times
2011-12-30 16:08:00 Persecuted Christian s are fleeing from the Middle East in increasing numbers. The United States should open its doors to them as a guaranteed safe haven. America has long been a beacon of hope for the world’s refugees, and members of religious minorities in the Middle East are in increasing need of relief. They have never ... More About: Washington , Washington Times , Editorial , Death
KAHLILI: The coming war with Iran ? Washington Times
2011-12-30 16:03:00 Iran’s tyrannical leaders, determined to make the Islamic regime a nuclear-armed state, are preparing for war. That’s exactly what the United States and Israel might have to deliver, and soon. @-Text.rag:Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guards in May to speed up the regime’s nuclear-bomb program and arm its missiles with nuclear ... More About: Iran , Washington , Missiles
Without Economic Changes, America Can?t Contain China
2011-12-30 13:16:00 The key turning point in China ’s economic development came only weeks after the 9-11 attacks, when it became a member of the World Trade Organization. The bargain that China made in return for unfettered access to overseas markets was that it would abandon mercantilist policies such as export subsidies and currency manipulation that distorted trade ... More About: America , Economic
Three Biblical Signs of Impending Doom on America
2011-12-30 00:22:00 Find out why the US is in pretty serious trouble according to the Bible. It gives us some signs that appear to be close at hand. These signs indicate the approach of doom. In interpreting Bible prophecy one must think about the possibility of multiple futures or scenarios. This happens because often the prophecies are ... More About: America , Signs , Doom
Bulava approved for service | RIA Novosti
2011-12-29 23:09:00 The testing of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is completed and the missile will now be put into operational service, President Dmitry Medvedev said. The convoluted history of the project, which has been alternately criticized and praised, is finally reaching its intended destination. Bulava approved for service | Features, Opinion & Analysis | RIA ... More About: Missiles , Service , Russia , Submarine
Ivan Krastev: When China Rules
2011-12-29 23:07:00 For a European these days, thinking about the future is disturbing. America is militarily overstretched, politically polarised, and financially indebted. The European Union seems on the brink of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old continent as a retired power that can still impress the world with its good manners, but not with nerve or ... More About: China , Rules , Fear , Ambition
Noble Announces Natural-Gas Discovery Off Coast of Cyprus ? Businessweek
2011-12-29 22:59:00 “The gas discovery in the exclusive economic zone of our country creates great prospects for Cyprus and its people, which we shall seriously, prudently and collectively exploit to serve public interest,” Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said at a press conference in Nicosia today. “Cyprus is coming into Europe ’s energy map with prospects of substantially contributing ... More About: People , Discovery , Natural Gas , Energy
Europe?s Inexorable March Towards Islam :: Hudson New York
2011-12-29 22:46:00 Also in Austria, the King Abdullah Center for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Dialogue was inaugurated at the Albertina Museum in downtown Vienna on October 13. The Saudis say the purpose of the multi-million-dollar initiative is to “foster dialogue” between the world’s major religions in order to “prevent conflict.” But critics say the center is an attempt ... More About: Islam , Europe , New York , York , March
Emerging U.S. strategy builds a ?geopolitical economy? along China?s periph
2011-12-29 21:25:00 A Chinese admiral recently raised eyebrows by remarking to a U.S. counterpart that it would be best if the U.S. Navy pulled back to Midway Island, well to the east, and left the waters of East and Southeast Asia in the capacious hands of the Chinese navy. It puzzled the U.S. admiral and alarmed his ... More About: Economy , China , Strategy , Southeast Asia
Japanese Tsunami: Debris scatters in the Pacific Ocean, possibly heading to
2011-12-29 21:14:00 The powerful Japan ese earthquake and resulting tsunami in March, 2011, washed untold tons of marine debris into the Pacific Ocean . Carey Morishige, Pacific Islands Regional Coordinator for the NOAA Marine Debris Program, explains where this debris may be, where it’s heading, what’s being done about it, and what you can do to help. Tracking marine ... More About: Tsunami , Japanese
Iran raises anti-US threat level, and Israel?s Chief of Staff warns of pote
2011-12-29 17:59:00 At around the same time, Israel ’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz spoke of “the rising potential for a multi-arena event,” i.e. a comprehensive armed conflict. Facing in several directions as we are “between terrorist organizations and Iran ’s progress toward a nuclear weapon… we can’t afford to stay on the defensive and must come ... More About: Chief , Persian Gulf , Espionage
Debt relief: A time for forgiveness ? FT.com
2011-12-29 09:36:00 Yet there is a strange absence in the cacophony of demands. Almost no echo can be heard from a long tradition of economic protest movements, which, since the dawn of recorded history, have put one unambiguous demand at the top of their agenda: cancel the debts, redeem the debtors. According to David Graeber, an anthropologist ... More About: Time , Tradition , Financial , Debt Relief , Debt
China?s greatest threat is internal ? FT.com
2011-12-29 09:27:00 I have been travelling to China for more than three decades, but never have I encountered a Chinese leadership so uncertain of the country’s future. It is little exaggeration to say that the world’s most populous country is on its heels. The irony is inescapable: political leaders in the US and Asia are busy debating ... More About: Internal
?China more at risk from US AMD plans in Pacific? ? RT
2011-12-28 19:48:00 Speaking on the presence of US missile defense systems in the Pacific region, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Vladimir Dvorkin says this shield is more of a threat to the nuclear forces in China than it is to Russia’s. Major Gen. Dvorkin, a senior fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International ... More About: International Relations , Plans , Risk
Russia: Back to the Future ? HUMAN EVENTS
2011-12-28 18:06:00 Last weekend’s massive protest in Moscow’s Prospekt Sakharova will result in a new Soviet-style Russia not an Arab Spring-like revolution. The West had better beware because the Russian bear is coming out of hibernation. Twenty years ago this month the Soviet Union crumbled and from those ashes rose a promising Russian democratic republic. But Soviet-era corruption reared its ugly ... More About: Events , Future , Human , The Future , Corruption
START may be sunk by a nuclear torpedo | RIA Novosti
2011-12-28 18:04:00 Washington has once again signaled its desire to negotiate reductions in Russia ’s tactical nuclear arsenal. According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, the United States wants Russia to reenter the tangled web of interdependence spun around the issues of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and antimissile defense. There will be no further progress ... More About: Nuclear , Start , Torpedo
Calendar Needs Serious Overhaul | News from The Johns Hopkins University
2011-12-28 17:47:00 Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School ... More About: News , Christmas , Economist , Calendar
Turkey?s fury and France?s folly
2011-12-28 17:34:00 The vote in France ’s lower house of parliament making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 was genocide and penalizing those who deny it with a year in prison and a fine of up to 45,000 euros has brought France’s relationship with Turkey to the end of the road. ... More About: Europe , Relationship , Actors
N.Korea closer to nuclear-tipped missile: U.S. expert | Reuters
2011-12-28 17:17:00 North Korea likely is closer to mounting nuclear warheads on its ballistic missiles than generally reported, possibly only one or two years away, the Congress ’s former top expert on the issue has concluded. N.Korea closer to nuclear-tipped missile: U.S. expert | Reuters More About: Nuclear , Nuclear warheads
Does Nigeria?s Taliban have the West in its sights? ? Telegraph
2011-12-28 17:03:00 The Christmas Day bombings could be a worrying sign of things to come, says David Blair. The warning signs are familiar. An armed group begins by imposing the strictures of Islam ic sharia on a Muslim population, using first moral persuasion and then actual violence. Having secured its hold over a region where central government has ... More About: Sights , Enemies , Taliban
Meet the Group That?s Killing Christians in Nigeria
2011-12-28 16:55:00 Why the Christmas Day bombings in Nigeria could be the harbinger of much worse to come … “There will never be peace until our demands are met. We want all our brothers who have been incarcerated to be released; we want full implementation of the sharia system and we want democracy and the constitution to ... More About: Islam , Peace , Constitution , Christians
Nigeria?s Christmas Present ? Blowing Up Christians: The New York Times Scr
2011-12-28 12:29:00 Several churches in northern Nigeria were bombed December 25, in what has been described as “Nigeria’s blackest Christmas ever.” The attacks, perpetrated by the Muslim militant group Boko Haram, killed at least 39 people, “the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church [in Madalla near the capital of Abuja] after celebrating Christmas Mass ... More About: Islam , New York , York , Christians
Third Intifada: Abbas primes West Bank for ?Palestinian Resistance?
2011-12-28 12:02:00 Debkafile’s military sources in Washington and Jerusalem report that in both capitals, the Palestinian leader’s action is seen as paving the way for radical changes in West Bank security. This fragile edifice was kept stable for some years thanks to joint US-Israel i-Palestinian efforts to back up peaceful relations between the Palestinians and Israel after the ... More About: Middle East , Resistance
Beijing Launches GPS Rival ? WSJ.com
2011-12-28 08:23:00 He said China had so far launched 10 satellites for the Beidou [Compass] system, including one this month, and planned to put six more in orbit in 2012 to enhance the system’s accuracy and expand its service to cover most of the Asia Pacific region. The system isn’t as believed to be as accurate as ... More About: Satellites , Beijing , Orbit
IDF assessing plans to counter possible Cairo threat | JPost
2011-12-28 08:10:00 Considerations come in light of likely Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt ian elections; plan would reestablish units dismantled seven years ago. … As a result, the IDF Planning Directorate has recommended that a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the ongoing Egyptian elections serve as the cutoff line for when the military should begin establishing long-lead items – ... More About: Victory , Middle East , Israel , Cairo
No oil through strait if sanctions applied: Iran
2011-12-27 21:25:00 No oil will be permitted to pass through the key oil transit Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran ’s oil exports, Iranian Vice President Ali Rahimi warned on Tuesday. The threat was reported by the state news agency IRNA as Iran conducted navy wargames near the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance ... More About: Middle East , Oil , State News , Violence
In China, a Christmas Crackdown on Dissent | Global Spin | TIME.com
More articles from this author:2011-12-27 17:09:00 Christmas means different things around the world, but in China one of the things it’s come to stand for crackdown. In recent years Chinese courts have chosen the holiday season as the time to hand down the harshest sentences to political dissenters, possibly in the belief that their rulings will received the least attention abroad. ... More About: Christmas , Reuters , Time , Global 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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