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JERUSALEM – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday issued a decree urging his citizens to move to the Golan Heights, claiming the International Committee of the Red Cross would help flood the Golan with Syrians.
Assad said the Golan Heights would soon be returned to Syria.
The decree follows reports, first detailed by WND, and [...]

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(AXcess News) Washington - Korean Peninsula analysts agree that North Korea’s nuclear missiles are gaining the momentum needed to hit U.S. soil.
It’s the possibility of when and where the missiles are aimed that’s causing experts to disagree.
The North Korean government is reprocessing fuel from its nuclear power plant to generate plutonium, according [...]

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If there’s a sucker born every minute, Hugo Chavez is ticking them off with a stopwatch.
Because a trip to the United Nations is never just that for the Venezuelan president; it’s a chance to buy friends.
Friends who would be entranced by his lectern exorcism of “el diablo” George W. Bush, friends willing [...]

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TOKYO The U.S. military has activated a high-powered radar outpost in northern Japan capable of tracking ballistic missiles in the region, a key part of a joint missile defense project amid concerns about nuclear-armed North Korea.

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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are rearming and retraining for an imminent military showdown with the Israeli army, intelligence sources disclosed yesterday.
In particular, the officials said, Palestinian militants have a “real appetite” to adopt Hizbollah tactics from the war in Lebanon, when Russian-built Kornet missiles proved deadly against tanks on the [...]

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WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq is a “cause celebre” for terrorists, but it’s only one of four factors fueling a growing Islamic extremist movement, a top secret U.S. intelligence report concluded.
“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,” [...]

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Behind the spectacle of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s insults against the West lurks something more sinister than meets the eye. Chávez seeks to lead the Non-Aligned Movement in a new cold war of race, class, and nationalism, to be fought everywhere on earth, chiefly against the United States. And before he’s done, [...]

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With the Egyptian government’s decision last week to revive its mothballed nuclear energy program, ISN Security Watch probes the regional and domestic pressures prompting the country to go nuclear.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) — A new national security strategy for the United States in the 21st century that would cut back sharply on the U.S. veto at the United Nations, or even replace the U.N. altogether with a new Concert of Democracies, was launched in Washington Wednesday by a high-powered bipartisan [...]

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In short, while Putin is clearly eager to work with the United States, he is prepared to do so only on terms that do not damage what he views as Russian interests. Putin also has his eye on Russia’s other options - China - and even the capacity to play a central [...]

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If we are, according to many analysts, heading toward a “postproliferation” world driven by the profits of the expanding nuclear industry, in which a number of states either possess nuclear weapons or are a few steps away from developing them, where does that leave the NPT and its once-sacrosanct goal of a [...]

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Tom Plate’s column, “Who Lost Korea?’’ (Sept. 20) is interesting. Mr. Plate boasted to me two years ago that he could easily solve the Korea problem. His solution? Simply withdraw American forces. Okay, Tom is an intellectually honest guy, and since then he may have come across new information. Anyway, most of [...]

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Tokyo • Japan’s new defence chief Fumio Kyuma was quoted saying yesterday that China’s growing military spending posed a threat to Japan, taking a stance that has angered Beijing in the past.
His remarks, one day after being named to the post, came on the heels of a pledge by new Prime Minister [...]

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At a time when Islamic terrorism captures the headlines, another equally ominous threat to our national security is quietly on the rise. China is undergoing a sustained effort to strengthen its military. So much so, in fact, that their annual defense spending has tripled over the past decade.
China already has the largest [...]

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Citgo is owned by Venezuela.
Energy: President Bush may have been loath to reply to last week’s U.N. speech by the sulfur-tongued Hugo Chavez, but the American public wasn’t. Its boycott of Venezuela’s Citgo gas has set off alarms in Caracas.
The big blow came Wednesday when 7-Eleven announced it would not renew a [...]

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A recent third type of anti-Jewish odium is something different. It is a strange mixture of violent hatred by radical Islamists and the more or less indifference to it by Westerners.
Those who randomly shoot Jews for being Jews - whether at a Jewish center in Seattle or at synagogues in Istanbul - [...]

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THE American oil companies Chevron and ConocoPhillips could be shut out of a massive Arctic gas project in a sharp chilling of trade relations between Moscow and Washington.
Substantial volumes of liquefied gas from Shtokmanovskoye in the Barents Sea, originally earmarked for export to the United States, could be redirected to Europe, President [...]

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