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The UAV Revolution
2008-06-07 23:02:00 The hundreds of drones cruising over Iraq and Afghanistan have changed war forever. The UAV is the “smart bomb” of the Iraq War , the latest turn in the unending offense-defense spiral that characterizes the history of warfare. Army units searching and fighting house-to-house are using hundreds of drones, some of them as small as a model ... More About: Earth , Revolution
Does the E.U. Hate You?
2008-06-07 22:43:00 Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn?t on the rise. In Europe, as in nearly everywhere else in the world, the image of the United States has taken a severe battering during the Bush years. Survey after survey shows that negative feelings toward America and U.S. policies have soared. Only 36 percent of Europeans, for example, ... More About: Hate , Hate You
German report: Assad?s brother-in-law attempted coup
2008-06-07 22:41:00 The report stated that Assaf Shawkat, Syria n military intelligence chief and Assad’s brother-in-law, planned to sieze control of the government while the president was hosting a meeting of the Arab League in Damascus in February. Shawkat was detained along with a hundred other Syrian intelligence officers. According to Die Welt, Assad was informed of the turnover ... More About: German , Report , Coup , Hizbullah
Russians in Israel
2008-06-07 16:40:00 This is a fascinating documentary about the Russian community in Israel . It’s produced by Al Jazeera , but don’t let that stop you. I found it interesting and informative. We explore how their presence is raising the issue of what it is to be Jewish. Russians in Israel I Russians in Israel II More About: Documentary , Presence
Aegis BMD Satellite Shoot-Down Documentary
2008-06-07 15:47:00 On 20 Feb 2008 HST, the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) fired a modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) missile at the malfunctioned spy satellite USA 193. The impact occurred at about 150 miles above the Pacific Ocean and at an impact velocity of around 22,000 mph. The Aegis Weapon System (AWS) confirmed a successful hit and ... More About: Satellite , Documentary , Shoot
DOES NATO HAVE A FUTURE?
2008-06-07 05:37:00 The Atlantic alliance is in limbo: There is no consensus among its members on a range of key issues. No one wants to pay the bills or contribute more troops. Is NATO a Cold war relic that has lost its relevance? Or does today?s array of security challenges make it more important than ever? Read More… Video: ... More About: Europe , Future , Nato , Array , Consensus
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nucl
2008-06-07 05:03:00 The nuclear strike codes were kept inside a black vinyl briefcase known as ?the Football.? The Football enabled the President to order the obliteration of thousands of targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Within seconds of the authentication of a presidential order, missiles would lift off from silos on the plains of ... More About: Castro , Kennedy , Minute , Midnight
The Battle for the World?s Skyline
2008-06-07 04:57:00 A building frenzy is raging in Asia , Russia and on the Persian Gulf. And cities like London and New York don’t have the money to compete. Will Western urban landscapes soon look outdated? By Ulrike Knöfel, Frank Hornig and Bernhard Zand more… Photo Gallery: The East’s New Skylines The Rise of Dubai: A Queue in the Sand Unveiling ... More About: Middle East , Building , Lifestyle , World
Poor Whites - South Africa
2008-06-06 20:28:00 Since the end of apartheid, thousands of white South Africa ns have been forced into poverty. They blame the government’s positive discrimination policies, which favour black employees. Link to video on YouTube. More About: South Africa , Poor , Whites
Australia - Dangerous Ground
2008-06-06 18:22:00 Relations between Australia ’s Muslim community and the rest of the population are near to exploding. As they face increasing suspicion and hostility from the rest of the nation, young Australian Muslims are being made to feel like foreigners in their own country. Is Australia’s response to terrorism to blame? Link to this video. More About: Ground , Dangerous
Growing talk of Iran attack
2008-06-06 15:03:00 The BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, looks at increasing speculation that Iran may come under attack because of its nuclear programme. … The talk has alarmed, among others, the former German Foreign Minister, Joshka Fischer. Germany has, with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, taken the lead in talks with Iran about its nuclear ... More About: Bush , Israel , Nuclear
Seven Questions: The New World Energy Order
2008-06-06 14:58:00 Why are oil prices soaring so high, and will they ever return to Earth ? Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency in Paris, explains why peak oil is real, why biofuels are indispensable, and how China determines what you pay at the pump. Read More… More About: World , Questions
2 Leaders Ousted From Air Force in Atomic Errors
2008-06-06 14:57:00 The Air Force ?s senior civilian official and its highest-ranking general were ousted by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday after an inquiry into the mishandling of nuclear weapons and components found systemic problems in the Air Force . … So deep and serious are the problems, Mr. Gates said, that he has asked a former secretary of ... More About: Errors , Leaders , Atomic
Chinese torture
2008-06-06 06:44:00 The Europe an Union may find dealing with the Middle Kingdom trickier than it expects IN THIS Olympic summer, expect to hear a lot about the century of China ’s rise and America’s decline. That sounds like good news for the European Union , and all who dream of a ?multipolar? order in which European wealth counts as much ... More About: Chinese , Freedoms
Building BRICs of growth
2008-06-06 06:41:00 Record spending on infrastructure will help to sustain rapid growth in emerging economies THE biggest investment boom in history is under way. Over half of the world’s infrastructure investment is now taking place in emerging economies, where sales of excavators have risen more than fivefold since 2000. In total, emerging economies are likely to spend an ... More About: Economy , India , Economist , Building , China
Oil to hit $400 a barrel by 2018
2008-06-06 06:36:00 ?The big story is productivity in China ,? he asserts, noting it is an incredible 9%, or three times the level of productivity in the US during its 1990s peak. Admiral Owens attributes this to the country?s high-quality infrastructure. It will allow the Chinese economy to soon become the second-largest in the world, with a GDP ... More About: India , Oil , Productivity , Venezuela
Rising Brics - For a new order
2008-06-03 15:27:00 BRIC shows signs of emerging as an alliance in an exercise seen as a challenge to the U.S.-dominated unipolar world order. BRIC, an acronym coined by Goldman Sachs a few years ago to define a group of large emerging economies with fast growth rates, was born in May this year as a formalised grouping aspiring to ... More About: India , China , Brazil , Exercise
Why Iranians like America again
2008-06-03 15:14:00 On a recent afternoon, while riding a rickety bus down Tehran’s main thoroughfare, I overheard two women discussing the grim state of Iran ian politics. One of them had reached a rather desperate conclusion. “Let the America ns come,” she said loudly. “Let them sort things out for us.” Although their leaders still call America the “Great Satan,” ... More About: United States , Presidential campaign , Affection
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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