How A.Q. Khan helped arm rogue regimes.

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If a cataclysm happens, the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan may well figure prominently in the judgment of history. His name is not as familiar as those of, say, Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, two of the scientists who paved the way for America’s atomic success; and his talents are nothing like their [...]

China Sees Iran Forming Anti-American Axis

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Allah’s Axis?
China’s Middle East experts–led by Liu Yazhou, a Lieutenant General and Deputy Political Commissar in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force–are apparently convinced that Iran is close to creating a new alliance in the Middle East that will unite Shiite and Sunni Muslims in an Islamist-led struggle against Israel and the [...]

Medved: Why the world hates America

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The disease of America Hatred now has reached pandemic proportions in many corners of the globe, spreading far beyond the predictably hopeless fever swamps of Islamic militants, French intellectuals, or Latin American demagogues. In fact, many citizens within the USA itself energetically embrace the basic assumptions of America Hatred, perceiving their country [...]

WhyDo Europeans Hate America?

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“Democracy may, after all, turn out to have been a historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes.” With those words, French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel sounded an alarm as the ramparts of democratic conviction were under attack by the political left. Revel, one of the most important conservative thinkers [...]

Countries That Hate America

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An interesting survey by the PewResearchCenter, cited in The Economist, asks the citizens of several countries for their opinion of the United States. Comparing this to the socioeconomic history and current characteristics of each of these nations allows some corelations to present themselves.
America_2 In the US itself, 17% view their country [...]

Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria

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THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources.
The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink in Israel. A key conclusion is that too much attention has been paid to Palestinian militants in Gaza [...]