Iran Plans to Light Skies over Jerusalem

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If as the president of the Reform Party in Syria, Farid Ghadry claims, “Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of Islam on his journey,” then it is difficult to imagine anything other than a full-scale Iranian nuclear attack. As Spencer continues, “a [...]

Look back at Weimar and start to worry about Russia

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Published in Niall Ferguson, Russia, Weimar, Niall-Ferguson, Russia, Weimar

By Niall Ferguson
(Filed: 01/01/2005)
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In 1997, I published an academic article – co-written with the Russian economic expert Brigitte Granville – entitled Weimar Germany and Contemporary Russia. I can still remember being teased by one of my brightest undergraduates – himself a German – that this was excessively pessimistic, at a time when [...]

The origins of the Great War of 2007

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Published in Niall Ferguson, War, general, general, great_war, Niall-Ferguson, niall_ferguson, War

The origins of the Great War of 2007 – and how it could have been prevented
By Niall Ferguson
(Filed: 15/01/2006)
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Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East:
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With every [...]

England: You could be next

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England: You could be next
‘Iran already has the missiles to reach London’ – Netanyahu

Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the people of England Thursday that they, too, are in the firing line for missiles out of the Islamic Middle East.
“The big problem, the mother of all problems is Iran [and] the [...]

China’s Strategic Unhelpfulness

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Published in China, Unhelpful, American Intelligence, Guided Missiles, Intelligence Analysts, Jiang Zemin, Military Attacks, Military Buildup, Nuclear Weapons Program, President George W Bush, President Jiang Zemin, Proliferator, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Summary of “Hedging Against China”
Hedging Against China
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Backgrounder #1925
April 17, 2006
While Beijing has prudently avoided head-on collisions with U.S. policies, an examination of China’s strategic unhelpfulness at virtually every level of engagement with the United States—from the war on terrorism to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to even the [...]

The SCO, A Nightmare Worse Than China

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Published in SCO, general, confederacy, India, Iran, military_capabilities, Russia, SCO, shanghai_cooperation_organization, tajikistan, uzbekistan

If you’ve been paying attention then you are probably concerned about the growing military power of China. Well, the nightmare is about to get worse with the emergence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The SCO has the potential to become the most powerful alliance on earth, combining Russiaï¿½s energy, military and technology expertise; China and [...]

Pew Poll: How Muslims Think

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Published in Islam, American Government, Arabs, Batches, Conspiracy Theories, Daniel Pipes, Monarchy, Muslim Nations, Muslim Population, Muslim Populations, New York Sun, Proclivity, September 11 2001, Westerners

[Pew Poll on] How Muslims Think
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 27, 2006
[NY Sun title: "Survey of World's Muslims Yields Dismaying Results"]
How do Muslims worldwide think?
To find out, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press carried out a large-scale attitudinal survey this spring. Titled “The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each [...]