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Russia: Fresh Protests Challenge Putin and His Loyalists ? TIME
2011-12-27 17:07:00 The answers to be heard at Saturday’s rally were as diverse as the crowd itself, but they could be distilled to one potent Russian word: dostala, which means, “I’m sick of it.” They were sick of not being given a choice of their country’s leaders. They were sick of corruption and political paternalism. Unlike many ... More About: Europe , Time , Rally , Maxim , Corruption
Your Move, Beijing: Big Year Ahead for Chinese Navy
2011-12-27 16:57:00 “Prepare for war,” Hu said. It’s no big deal because he says it all the time. Are you kidding me? I am absolutely stunned at this. Hu makes these kinds of statements all the time. Isn’t it about time to wake up? Wait. The Mandarin term Hu used — junshi douzheng — really means “conflict ... More About: India , Japan , China , Beijing , Jihad
Chinese Subs ? A Hell of a Lot Noiser Than Expected
2011-12-27 16:46:00 On the other hand, the flurry of undersea activity gives American forces more opportunities to tail and examine Chinese subs. And U.S. analysts discovered a silver lining in the gathering strategic storm clouds. Chinese submarines are a hell of a lot noisier than anyone expected. The sound you hear is the Pacific balance of power ... More About: Military , China , Boats , Hell
Is the White House Gearing Up for Action on Syria? ? Max Fisher ? Internati
2011-12-27 16:41:00 A worsening death toll, new Arab League action, and Russia’s sudden change in position might provide an opening for an international response … The statement, like past U.S. comments on the country’s conflict, leans heavily on international collaboration and agreement on Syria. It puts the U.S. strongly against Assad, but does so by putting America’s ... More About: Organize , House , China , Action , United Nations
Clash of Civilizations: The Confusion of Being a Chinese Student in America
2011-12-27 16:40:00 The way America ns talk about China can often seem hostile, frustrating, or altogether irreconcilable with the world as a newcomer from China knows it Every September, the price of a flight from China to a major American metropolis like Boston or New York soars. In addition to the usual stream of business managers and tourists ... More About: Student , Chinese , Confusion
Hizbullah tied to ?massive laundering? of South American drug money through
2011-12-27 16:34:00 Hizbullah is using U.S. banks and other financial institutions to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal drug revenue. Officials said the revenue stems from trafficking in South America and is funneled to purchase cars in the United States for shipment to Africa . Hizbullah tied to ‘massive laundering’ of South American drug money through ... More About: Cars , Money , Banks
More Housing Woes on the Horizon? ? The Home Front (usnews.com)
2011-12-27 09:18:00 As the United States continues to grapple with the fallout of its housing bubble and blow-up, recent research from the International Monetary Fund uncovers some startling statistics about other countries that could be headed toward their own U.S.-style housing crises. While home prices have fallen in about half of the countries the IMF tracks, they’ve ... More About: Real Estate , Housing Bubble , Home , Housing
Revolution warning as thousands of Russian protesters brave cold
2011-12-26 22:41:00 The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, faces more mass protests over alleged election fraud as the former finance minister Alexei Kudrin warned of a ”revolution” unless the government assuages popular anger. At least 30,000 people packed Sakharov Prospect, a wide avenue in Moscow named after the Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, police said. The event organisers ... More About: Protesters , Cold , Rally , Revolution
Why Russia?s Opposition Movement Won?t Stand for Putin?s March to Power
2011-12-26 19:53:00 With unprecedented protests in Moscow this weekend, Russia ’s growing opposition movement is making it clear they won’t stand for Putin ’s march to power. … Crowd counting, especially from the ground level, is an inexact science at best, but it was clear to everyone — from police to journalists to the event organizers — that thousands ... More About: Power , Foreign Policy , Protest
Can Wukan?s remarkable protest against corrupt officials spread across Chin
2011-12-26 19:36:00 But can the spirit of Wukan last? The small farming village of 13,000 thousand embodies social changes brought about by more than 30 years of economic reforms in China . The first generation of migrant workers that left their villages to work in the cities is now retiring from factory work. Many of them have returned ... More About: Foreign Policy , Protest , Spirit , Small Businesses
China Strategically Undercuts US In Middle East
2010-10-27 17:04:00 This predominant feeling is best captured by the observations of a noted Egyptian analyst who states that: ?The Arab World is still weeping for the golden dawn of the Cold War?. Contemporarily, it seems that this Region is expecting that China would provide an opposing pole against the United States in the Middle East and ...
Venezuela announces takeover of U.S. glass-making plants ? CNN.com
2010-10-27 17:01:00 Venezuela continues to nationalize private businesses, with President Hugo Chavez announcing late Monday that the government will take over two U.S.-owned Owens-Illinois glass-manufacturing plants. Chavez also ordered an environmental investigation at the sites, the state-run Agencia Venezolana de Noticias reported. Venezuela announces takeover of U.S. glass-making plants – CNN.com More About: Plants , Takeover , Venezuela , Glass
Limited nuclear war possible, says Shivshankar Menon ? India ? DNA
2010-10-27 07:24:00 National security adviser Shivshankar Menon said on Thursday a limited war in nuclear conditions to deter adversaries was a possibility, and called for creating a new security architecture for the country. ?What India needs is an open, balanced and inclusive architecture to correspond to the new situation that is emerging,? he said while delivering the ... More About: Nuclear , War , New Delhi , Nuclear War
China Has Ability to Hijack U.S. Military Data, Report Says ? Bloomberg
2010-10-27 07:21:00 China in the past year demonstrated it can direct Internet traffic, giving the nation the capability to exploit ?hijacked? data from the U.S. military and other sources, according to a new report. Recent actions raise questions that ?China might seek intentionally to leverage these abilities to assert some level of control over the Internet,? according to ... More About: United States , Military , China , Data , Report
From North Korea to its Muslim west and beyond, Beijing has its hands full
2010-10-27 07:03:00 In short, China?s most delicate and dicey challenges are often seen most dramatically on its borders. In the regions where China meets the rest of the world, its own ethnic lines are blurred by intense concentrations of minority populations, sometimes dominating whole provinces like Xinjiang, Tibet , Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Many of these regions have ... More About: Korea , North Korea , Beijing , Muslim
Japan, worried by China, may boost submarine fleet ? Washington Times
2010-10-27 06:57:00 According to Japan ese media reports, the number of submarines would be increased from 16 to 22 over the next four years, a substantial rise that could generate concern from neighboring China . Though well outnumbered by the Chinese ? who now have about 60 subs ? the Japanese navy’s submarine fleet is significantly augmented by U.S. subs ... More About: Washington , Washington Times , Times
Why Has America?s Economic Recovery Stalled? ? Project Syndicate
2010-10-27 06:47:00 This recovery has been much weaker than previous ones because of fundamental differences in the cause of the downturn and in the policies chosen to achieve recovery. Previous downturns were caused by the central bank?s efforts to reverse or prevent inflation by hiking short-term interest rates. When the central bank succeeded, it lowered those rates ... More About: America , Economy , Recovery , Financial , Project
With Ukraine?s blessing, Russia to beef up its Black Sea Fleet ? CSMonitor.
2010-10-27 06:43:00 Moscow’s upgrade to its Black Sea Fleet ? headquartered with Ukraine ’s blessing at Sevastopol ? could make waves around the Black Sea , where NATO has a strong presence. With Ukraine’s blessing, Russia to beef up its Black Sea Fleet – CSMonitor.com More About: Beef
Israel?s ?options open? on Iran | BBC NEWS
2009-09-22 06:14:00 Israel has not ruled out any options in dealing with Iran ’s nuclear programme, a senior Israeli official has said. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said there was no guarantee Israel would not launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel’s ‘options open’ on Iran More About: News , Israel , Open
Is the U.S. Losing the Pacific? - WSJ.com
2009-09-22 06:03:00 Yet the trend is not in America’s favor. The Obama administration has curbed the Navy ’s expansion plans and sent signals that it doesn’t believe in expanding missile defense. Beijing has meanwhile poured money into access denial capabilities, including antiship ballistic missiles, cyberwarfare and antisatellite weapons. The American Enterprise Institute’s Dan Blumenthal estimates that China has ... More About: Pacific , Stealth , Estimates
At War with Iran for Thirty Years | History News Network
2009-09-22 05:57:00 From the earliest days of Iran ?s Islamic Revolution, its leaders were determined to acquire nuclear weapons and the missiles with which to deliver them. From the beginning, America was always identified as Iran?s greatest enemy, the ?Great Satan?, while Israel was called the ?Little Satan.? It is criminally stupid, if not insane, to believe that Iran ... More About: News , United States , History
Venezuela: The Next Iran? | FrontPage Magazine
2009-09-22 05:55:00 Venezuela is a critical part of Iran ?s efforts to build an alliance of rogue states across the world to challenge the U.S. and provide the regime with help to sustain its fight against the West. To help prepare Iran for possible sanctions targeting its reliance upon imported gasoline, Venezuela has agreed to provide the regime ... More About: Magazine , Chavez , Venezuela , Gasoline
Israel Did NOT Assure Russia There Wouldn?t Be An Iran Attack
2009-09-22 05:50:00 Yesterday, Russia n President Medveded announced that he had been assured by Israel i President Shimon Peres that they would not launch a preemptive attack on Iran ian nuclear facilities. Today Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon pointed out that the pledge was not true, and even if Peres was not a doddering old fool, the office of President ... More About: Launch , Pledge
US abandons only Ecuadoran military base
2009-09-22 05:47:00 The US military on Friday returned to Ecuador a base it has been using for a decade for regional anti-drug operations, as critics seethe over its controversial replacement in neighboring Colombia . Ecuadoran authorities took control of the US Forward Operation Location (FOL) at the Eloy Alfaro Air Force base in the Pacific port of Manta to ... More About: Military , Control
China Says Military Arsenal Comparable With West - NYTimes.com
2009-09-22 05:46:00 China’s military now possesses most of the sophisticated weapon systems found in the arsenals of developed West ern nations, the country’s defense minister said in comments published Monday. Many of China’s systems, including the J-10 fighter jet, latest-generation tanks, navy destroyers, and cruise and intercontinental ballistic missiles, match or are close to matching the capabilities of those ... More About: Arsenal , Military , China
Russia?s Raiders
2008-06-08 02:42:00 Companies are paying public officials to raid the offices of business rivals and subject them to criminal investigations It seemed like any other workday at Togliatti Azot, a giant chemical factory in Russia ’s Samara region, on the Volga River 600 miles east of Moscow. Engineers were on their morning rounds, and union representatives had just finished ... More About: Corruption , Target , Vladimir Putin , Camouflage
The day we lost the Second World War
2008-06-08 00:14:00 This is a fictional account of what could have happened. The rapid advance of the German army through Belgium and France in May 1940 left hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian troops encircled at the port of Dunkirk in northern France. But then Hitler ordered a halt to the attack. This gave the British ... More About: Europe , Lost , World , World War , Britain
Israel threatens war on Gaza and Iran
2008-06-08 00:04:00 Israel braced itself for conflict on two fronts against militants in Gaza and an Iran ian government persisting with its nuclear programme. Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, said the “pendulum is closer” to a large scale military operation in Gaza after another Israeli civilian was killed by a mortar fired from Gaza on Thursday. … One of Mr Olmert’s ... More About: Israel , Prime Minister , War
China, Africa, and Oil
2008-06-07 23:59:00 With energy demand spiking, China looks for answers in Africa . But Western investment and influence still dominate the continent’s oil market. As global demand for energy continues to rise, major players like the United States, European Union (EU), and Japan are facing a new competitor in the race to secure long-term energy supplies: China. As its ... More About: Globe
Venezuela fires missiles in exercises
More articles from this author:2008-06-07 23:05:00 Venezuela fired live missiles from fighter jets and ships Friday during exercises intended to demonstrate the firepower of President Hugo Chavez ’s military. Smoke rose from ships off the La Orchila island military base as Otomat MK2 missiles arced into the sky and Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flew in formation. The televised war games allowed the military to ... More About: Military , Missiles , Venezuela , Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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