There will soon be another war in the Middle East, this time a renewal of the conflict between the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and Hizbollah. The conflict is inevitable and unavoidable. It will come about because Israel cannot tolerate the rebuilding of Hizbollah’s fortified zone in south Lebanon, from which last year it launched its [...]

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The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea’s nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the accelerated military planning includes detailed programs for striking a North Korean plutonium-reprocessing facility [...]

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At the September meeting of G7 ministers in Singapore, China was severely chastised for overloading many African nations with debt. Left unsaid was China’s hidden imperialistic agenda behind its usurious ways. It is a story that urgently needs telling.
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As China prepares to host a summit with African leaders in Beijing, American experts say they are concerned about Beijing willingness to maintain close relations with pariah states on the continent.
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But it is Russia’s supplying of weapons to rogue countries like Iran and Venezuela that is causing friction with America. Sadly, Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose outward democratic façade hides the heart of the former Cold war KGB official that he once was, sees nothing wrong with arming nations that have made no secret of [...]

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That Western Europe suffers from a state of general paralysis is a truth too universally acknowledged to require much reiteration. Slow growth and high unemployment; an aging and shrinking population; scientific and cultural irrelevance to the rest of the world; a large, unassimilated alien population much of which is hostile to the very countries into [...]

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The case for reducing the United States’ dependence on oil is most often argued by environmentalists concerned about global warming and ozone depletion. But a growing number of people are drawing what they consider to be a crucial link between oil and national security. They argue that America’s reliance on oil is the number one [...]

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A massive underground bomb shelter that is being constructed near the new government compound in Jerusalem will be used by top government officials as a war room in case of a conventional or non-conventional attack, officials said Thursday.
The construction of the underground bunker was approved last decade when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert served as mayor [...]

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Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in [...]

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When I saw the headline on Drudge earlier tonight, that the New York Times had a big story coming out tomorrow that had something to do with Iraq and WMDs, I was ready for an November Surprise.
Well, Drudge is giving us the scoop. And if it’s meant to be a slam-Bush story, I think the [...]

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I have written 4 prior articles entitled “THE GATHERING OF THE NATIONS”…each was built on prior observations in terms of the gathering of the nations from the north (as it says in the Bible) - each seemingly for their own reasons to attack Israel but, hostility was a common theme for them all. The Arab [...]

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(AP) Iran has successfully test fired three new models of missiles in the Persian gulf, state TV reported Friday.
Television showed footage of the elite Revolutionary Guards firing the missiles from mobile launching pads on the shore, and from warships.
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NEW YORK: Just over a year ago, Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza. To be sure, a negotiated withdrawal would have been preferable to a unilateral decision, but absent a credible Palestinian partner, Israel chose to act alone rather than to wait.
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In the Middle Ages,pioneering merchants who travelled thousands of miles to peddle their wares made the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean a great early channel of globalisation. As demonstrated by this week’s China-Africa Co-operation Forum in Beijing – attended by 1,500 entre- preneurs from both sides – the Silk Roads are back, albeit [...]

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