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The bear is back
2008-05-25 17:36:00 As recent reports make clear, Russia is now forcing its way back into the Middle East - and not necessarily in the most encouraging manner. By dangerously increasing its arms sales to the region, Moscow is seeking to restore prestige, bolster influence and - not least - to make money. The latest example came with reports ... More About: Military , Syria , Back
Sanya base to float Chinese naval ambition
2008-05-25 17:14:00 The question is, should we be concerned about Sanya? The answer: Yes. The naval base centres on a huge underground complex even the most sophisticated spy satellites cannot penetrate. It is being prepared with berths for up to 20 of the most advanced Chinese submarines, the C94 Jin-class boat, which will be capable of firing both anti-satellite ... More About: Google , Israel , China , Satellite , Missiles
Iran ?paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers?
2008-05-25 17:04:00 Iran’s actions mean war. The United States and Europe should put an army together and go to war against Iran. Although, I do NOT believe this will happen. We can’t do it all ourselves, and Britain along with the rest of Europe will not help in this regard. The bottom line is that Iran will continue ... More About: Iraq , Iran , Paid , Soldiers , Kill
Whither the Price of Oil?
2008-05-24 22:03:00 Why has the price of oil risen so much in the past few months? Is it a supply and demand issue as some believe; or is it because of an out-of-control futures market driven by the proliferation of commodity index funds and rampant speculation, as everyone tries to get in on the rise in commodity ... More About: Oil , Price , Nargis
The Fall of Lebanon
2008-05-24 21:54:00 “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now…. Oh, what a fall was there… Then I, and you, and all of us fell down.” –William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act 3, Scene 1. May 21, 2008, is a date–like December 7 (1941) and September 11 (2001)–that should now live in infamy. Yet who will notice, mourn, or act the ... More About: Lebanon , Fall
Double, oil and trouble
2008-05-24 05:29:00 THE price of oil may soon hit $200 a barrel?or so, at any rate, believes Shokri Ghanem, Libya?s oil minister. A few years ago such a prediction would have seemed absurd. But the price has doubled in the past year and has risen by 40% this year alone. It touched yet another record, of over ... More About: Double
Ukraine president warns of Russia ?energy blackmail?
2008-05-24 05:25:00 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday urged fellow leaders to diversify eastern Europe’s energy supply routes away from Russia and not succumb to ‘energy blackmail.’ Speaking to six other heads of state at an energy summit in Kiev, Yushchenko said his country could play a greater role as a supply route from energy-rich Caspian Sea states ... More About: Energy , Ukraine , Blackmail
Bombing Iran: The Clamor Persists
2008-05-24 05:07:00 Nor is it only the Israelis who are concerned. Egyptian and Saudi leaders also expressed their worries about Iran ’s nuclear ambitions when Bush met with them on the trip, several White House aides say. “People in the region really want to see it solved peacefully,” says a senior White House official, “but they’re also concerned ... More About: Bomb , John Bolton
Why Russians choose NATO army instead of Russian army?
2008-05-24 04:51:00 More and more Russian military men switch to Western military. We?re not just talking about French foreign legion, but also about Estonia n army. It turns out that Tallinn touts Russian draftees by giving them freely Estonian citizenship. More and more Russians try to get no in Russian, but into foreign army. Its? not a secret that ... More About: Military , Army
Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission
2008-05-24 04:45:00 The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold war nuclear submarines. When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of ... More About: Cold War , Search , Secret , Cover
Serbia?s Ultra-Nationalists
2008-05-24 02:41:00 ‘It Is not Us but Europe that Needs to Face Reality’ The next Serbia n government could include Tomislav Nikolic, the leader of the ultra-nationalists. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he shows himself uncompromising on the question of Kosovo and even raises the spectre of a new war in the Balkans. more… Serbian Election: A Setback for ... More About: Victory , Ultra , Patriotism
Pakistan?s Other Border
2008-05-24 02:37:00 South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan resumed peace talks May 20 amid reminders of how vulnerable the two nations are to terrorism. Bombings in Jaipur (IANS) allegedly by Bangladeshi extremists and heightened tension (CSM) with Pakistan across the long-disputed border in Kashmir has New Delhi on edge. The U.S. State Department’s 2007 report on ... More About: Terrorism , South Asia
Chinese J-10 ?benefited from the [Israeli] Lavi project?
2008-05-23 20:35:00 Russian aerospace engineers have confirmed to Jane’s that China ’s Chengdu J-10 fighter aircraft benefited from significant, direct input from Israel ’s Lavi programme - including access to the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Lavi aircraft itself. Read More… New Chinese J-10 More About: Project , Israeli
Renovating the Great Hall of American Hatred
2008-05-23 06:28:00 The Great Hall of American Hatred, otherwise known as United Nations headquarters, is getting a face lift. It began earlier this month when UN officials gathered to break ground on what just might be the world?s most expensive fixer upper. Shoveling more than ceremonial dirt, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the ground breaking, ?today ... More About: Organization , New York City
It?s nuclear power, not oil, that worries the Middle East
2008-05-23 06:24:00 The West might be alarmed at the prospect of the mullahs arming themselves with nuclear weapons, but it is the Arabs who are first in their direct line of fire. Relations between Tehran and the Saudis have been strained ever since Iran ’s Revolutionary Guards were implicated in the 1996 bombing of the US Marine base in ... More About: Middle East , Power , The Middle East , Nuclear
Our shield is crumbling
2008-05-23 05:55:00 The US Air Force Association, which includes past and present US air force generals, has just posted an assessment entitled Threats to Air Supremacy on its web site. In short, the air force generals are explaining to US residents and the world that America is about to lose air superiority to the Russians and Chinese ... More About: Shield
India no longer considers Pakistan ?principal enemy?
2008-05-23 05:48:00 ?After decades of considering Pakistan their principal enemy, India n defence officials are beginning to see China as a more serious long-term threat, and they don?t want to be caught unprepared again. Washington is embracing India as a rising power that can be a valuable ally to stand with this country, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and ... More About: South Asia , Australia
IEA worried about oil supplies, prepares forecast
2008-05-23 05:28:00 A leading global energy monitor fears there may not be enough oil to slake the world’s thirst ? and is preparing a landmark forecast that could reverberate through the global economy even as major companies announce fuel-related cutbacks. The International Energy Agency is studying depletion rates at about 400 oil fields in a first-of-its-kind study of ... More About: Oil , Supplies , Fears , Thirst , Hirsch
Growing demand in producing countries pushes up the price of oil
2008-05-23 05:25:00 The growing thirst for oil in China and India is well known. However, this global surge in demand is being led by oil producers that are emerging as significant consumers, too, undermining their capacity to export when global supplies are tightening. ?Consumption is cannibalising their export capacity,? Jeff Rubin, an oil analyst for CIBC World Markets ... More About: Oil , Russia , Price
Crude oil threat
2008-05-23 05:08:00 There are three explanations for the oil price’s muffled impact. The first is that nowadays developed economies are more efficient in their use of energy, thanks partly to the increased importance of service industries and the diminished role of manufacturing. According to the Energy Information Administration, the energy intensity of America’s GDP fell by 42% ... More About: Economy , Oil , Crude Oil , Threat
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch
2008-05-22 15:11:00 The world’s premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand. The Paris-based International Energy Agency is in the middle of its first attempt to comprehensively assess the condition of the world’s top 400 oil fields. ... More About: Production , Crunch
Diplomacy is tried to reduce tensions over Abkhazia
2008-05-22 14:58:00 The long military standoff in Abkhazia, where a separatist dispute has risked escalating this year to a renewed war, has entered a phase of quiet diplomacy aimed at easing tensions and urging negotiations, according to officials on both sides of the conflict. No agreement to negotiate has been reached, and the differences between the Abkhaz and ... More About: Georgia , Violence , Conflict , Diplomacy , Reduce
A new Israel-Syria peace push?
2008-05-22 14:54:00 The fact that both Israel and Syria have publicly acknowledged their indirect talks using Turkish mediation is of significance in itself. This brings into the open a process that has been under way behind the scenes for some months and it promises the first serious attempt at an Israel-Syrian peace deal since US-brokered efforts failed eight ... More About: Peace , Push
Telling the Soviet story
2008-05-22 14:52:00 A new film about Nazi-Soviet links BEING burnt in effigy on the streets of Moscow by nationalist hoodlums must count as a kind of Oscar if you are a Latvian filmmaker whose aim is to expose modern Russia ’s blindness to the criminal history of the Soviet Union . The ire of Young Russia’s protest outside the Latvian ... More About: Story , Protest
The power of Hezbollah
2008-05-22 14:42:00 Lebanon’s factions appear to have halted a nascent civil war — at least temporarily — with an agreement struck Wednesday in Qatar between the Western-backed government of Fouad Siniora and the Syria n-backed Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah. But the peace deal cannot fairly be called a compromise. Hezbollah won That’s the result of its stunning military ... More About: Middle East , Power , Lebanon , Beirut
Europe is a geopolitical dwarf
2008-05-22 14:40:00 Yet, even though it has an economy comparable with America?s, it stands as a political dwarf in responding to the rapidly changing geopolitical environment. The combination of slavishly following the US lead (with the possible exception of the invasion of Iraq), its reluctance to contemplate badly needed strategic initiatives (as in the Middle East ) or ... More About: Europe , Economy , Paradox , Dwarf
India?s missile power lifts off
2008-05-22 14:37:00 The spread of long-range ballistic missiles took a step forward on May 7 with India ’s successful flight test of its Agni-III missile that can carry a nuclear warhead as far as Beijing. But the difference between this and other missile developments is that India’s missiles ? like those of the United States, Britain, France and Israel ... More About: Power , Missiles , New Delhi
Israel wants more pressure on Iran
2008-05-22 06:04:00 Israel wants to put more international pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, suggesting an US-imposed naval blockade and tougher sanctions, local media reported on Wednesday. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert raised the idea of a naval blockade in talks with the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, during her visit to ... More About: Israel
Japan to allow military use of space
2008-05-22 06:03:00 Japan’s estrangement from its postwar pacifism continued today with the enactment of a law ending its 40-year ban on the military use of space. The law signals Tokyo’s determination to expand its military capability amid concern over China ’s ballooning defence budget and North Korea’s development of ballistic and nuclear missiles. The move will be welcomed by the ... More About: Japan , Space , Military , Pacifism
Is an attack on Iran a big risk?
More articles from this author:2008-05-22 06:00:00 In other words, you’re basically saying that things are not as they seem? That Iran is like a dog whose bark is worse than his bite? There’s something to that. My assessment is that contrary to the impression that has been formed, Iran’s options for responding are limited and weak. Read More… More About: Options , Risk , Contrary , Attack 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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