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The attacks range from shouted anti-Semitic slurs to swastika graffiti and vandalized Jewish graves. Last month, a 12-year-old girl was kicked unconscious by thugs who asked her whether she was Jewish, according to Community Security Trust, a London-based group set up to protect the British Jewish community.

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There is no point setting a deadline for Iran fulfill its nuclear non-proliferation obligations unless it is enforced.
Unfortunately, the United Nations Security Council appears reluctant to enforce its own demand. That probably explains why Iran seems so unconcerned about the now-passed Aug. 31 deadline to freeze its uranium-enrichment program.

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Russia’s defense minister said on Friday the new nuclear submarines now being built for the military will become the mainstay of Russia’s sea-based strategic nuclear forces after 2018.
The submarines of Project 955 and 955A Borei will become “the backbone of Russia’s sea-based strategic nuclear forces after 2018,” Sergei Ivanov, who is also [...]

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Defying the United States, Russia agreed in July to sell $1 billion in combat aircraft to Venezuela. The deal marks the latest in a series of Russian arms sales to a state that has increasingly clashed with Washington over different ideological approaches to Latin America and the developing world.

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The build up of opposing strategic alliances continues to present similarities with the build up to World war 1. War-games, arms sales, technological advances and advanced weaponry testing are creating the powder keg ready to erupt into World war 3.

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Behind Ahmadinejad, a powerful cleric
TEHRAN As Iran defies the West over its nuclear program, the public face of the nation has become the outspoken president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it is the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who by most accounts has been the primary architect of Iran’s combative foreign policy and the [...]

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China is more brittle than it looks from the superb restaurants overlooking the Shanghai Bund. Scores of new skyscrapers in Shanghai are half-empty. The government seldom allocates capital to private, commercially rational projects. Banks extend 65 percent of their loans to state-owned firms that produce only 25 percent of the national output. [...]

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