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It has happened again. On the heels of global Muslim rage against Pope Benedict XVI – which led to riots and three killings of Christians – a teacher in France has gone into hiding after receiving death threats. His offense? He published a column in the French newspaper Le Figaro in which [...]

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The clouds of the coming war are converging upon Israel. But our political and military leaders refuse to look up at the darkening sky.
The Russian bear has awakened after 15 years of hibernation. Under the leadership of former KGB commander President Vladimir Putin, Russia is reasserting its traditional hostility towards Israel.

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Although this summer’s widely-covered Muslim riots in France have ended, daily violence against France’s police continues. An average of 14 officers per day are said to be injured by Muslim radicals, with 2,500 police already wounded in 2006.
Calling the violence an undeclared “Intifada”, the Telegraph.co.uk reports: “…a police union declared that its [...]

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Another piece of news should also have triggered concern: a German Google Earth user spotted a military base in China’s northern plains. The free satellite imagery software had shown a startlingly accurate scale model of the disputed Sino-Indian border in the Aksai Chin area of Ladakh. The model is located 2,400 km [...]

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Luxury apartments, fine dining, a thriving internet and booming development. It is easy to forget that China is a communist state. But Marxist ideals still have a firm grip on the country’s thirst for economic supremacy, writes Kirsty Needham.

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The United States, China and India are moving to assert control over the sea lanes through which they receive critical energy supplies amid fears in Beijing of a US blockade of the Malacca Strait in the event of a crisis over Taiwan, experts said here.
The United States at present has vast control [...]

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The latest crisis in the chronically uneasy relationship between Moscow and Tbilisi is not likely to fizzle out any time soon, as the positions of the two sides appear to be irreconcilable. This poses a painful dilemma for the West: do the United States and the European Union want to make the [...]

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North Korea’s brinkmanship will intensify a debate in Japan about developing atomic weapons, a long-standing taboo in the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack, analysts said. Both the United States and South Korea predicted in official statements or reports that North Korea’s plans to test a nuclear bomb will build momentum [...]

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Israeli Intelligence forces are now reporting that Hamas has a trained army of 7,500 fighters in Gaza. This is not a group of guerillas, but a genuine army with specialized units including a short-range missile unit, a long-range missile unit, an anti-tank unit, and a sniper unit. Estimates are that if the [...]

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Here’s a scenario to keep you up nights. North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, and Japan, South Korea and Taiwan start thinking they need one too. Meanwhile, over in the Middle East, Iran’s neighbors start asking themselves why they should even wait for Tehran to go nuclear before starting their own programs.

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On Nov. 5 — just two days before our own mid-term congressional elections — the people of Nicaragua will cast ballots for a new president. Friends of democracy in Latin America have been stunned by new polls showing that Ortega — the ardent Marxist who once ruled Managua with a Soviet-backed iron [...]

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The increasing sophistication of South Korea’s economy, and its growing links with China, also have consequences for Japan. South Korea, though a military ally of America’s, is moving into—or returning to—China’s sphere of influence. Japan’s territorial disputes with both China and South Korea over the Spratlys are inflamed by the possibility of [...]

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Moreover, China wants to reinforce its relations with Iran and to deepen its presence in Central Asia with the goal of reaching the energy resources of the Caspian Sea region; tapping Caspian energy would help China lessen its dependence on maritime oil imports from the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, thus [...]

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Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers have launched a debilitating attack on the computer system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau, forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and block employees from regular use of the Internet for more than a month, Commerce officials said yesterday.

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