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French President Jacques Chirac met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris on Sept. 22 before being joined the next day by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Three years ago, the meeting of the three powers would have signaled a nightmare scenario for U.S. foreign policy.
How times change.
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China’s undiscriminating and opulent oil and gas transactions with Iran’s radical leaders, for example, seem to include the fringe benefit of providing them with Beijing’s diplomatic shield for their nuclear ambitions. China has also prevented the United Nations from seriously addressing Syria’s refusal to cooperate with the U.N.’s investigations into the assassination [...]

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The Reliable Replacement Warhead is intended to replace the United States’ aging stockpile of nuclear weapons with a weapon designed for a post-Cold war world.

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Debka is confirming reports that surfaced all this year of Turkey - Iran preparing a major invasion of Iraq’s independent northern province of Kurdistan. As preparation both Ankara-Tehran have regularly attacked and bombarded nationalist Kurdish PKK-PJAK positions inside Iraq. In Turkey’s case against PKK bases across their southeastern border while Iran has [...]

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What was once a respected “American” corporation, which happened to be owned by and partnered with the National Oil Co. of Venezuela, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), is now the American directorate of Chavez’s anti-American revolution.

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You may be wondering what the vicious, anti-American rhetoric in the United Nations last week really means — not to mention the troubling silence that followed from our leaders. Let me give you my analysis of what it could mean if we allow our enemies to occupy the moral high ground:
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Here is a prediction we sincerely and desperately do not want to see come true — that the Bush administration will launch an air attack on Iran’s nuclear research facilities in late October.
Time magazine reported last week that a “prepare to deploy order” (PTDO) was given by the Navy to the [...]

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A group of South Korean opposition lawmakers fresh from their week-long visit to the United States claimed on Tuesday that Washington has opted for a policy of using military force to retaliate against North Korea if the communist state conducts a nuclear test.

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South Korea gets 45 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Power Reactor Information System Web site. Only the U.S., France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. operate more nuclear reactors than South Korea, according to the Paris-based IAEA.

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Russia has agreed to ship nuclear fuel to Iran for its atomic power plant in the city of Bushehr, a senior Russian nuclear official has said.
Sergei Shmatko, head of Atomstroiexport, the state company building the plant, said on Tuesday that the agreement should remedy concerns voiced by Tehran over Russian reluctance on [...]

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CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) — At a time of slowing oil production in some Middle Eastern countries, and the growing influence of a nuclear Iran, those states may turn to nuclear power to supplement oil and gas supplies, while balancing Iran`s power, analysts told United Press International.
Amid declining oil exports, Egypt and Yemen [...]

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Well, maybe. No one wants war. Russia and China are both deeply involved in economic relations with Iran, and do not want to jeopardize their own economies by supporting sanctions. France - well France is France. The only thing that is certain about the French is that the U.S. cannot count on [...]

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Jerusalem - Syria, buoyed by Hezbollah’s success against Israel, has ordered his military to prepare for a regional war with the Jewish state.
The Middle East News Line has confirmed reports from Israeli intelligence sources which assess that Syrian President Bashar Assad has ordered a series of measures meant to bolster the preparedness [...]

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It’s the question that plagues every high school student who learns in history class about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis:
How could the world be so clueless?
We’ve heard the story:
Hitler bucked the international community again and again. And, with each transgression, European leaders and diplomats protested loudly, but did little. By [...]

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Shinzo Abe is set to take over as Japan’s prime minister Tuesday with a promise to create a more assertive nation and give its military a larger international role.
But the surge in Japan’s assertiveness coincides with the spectacular rise of China’s clout in the region - risking ever greater competition over resources, [...]

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