I recently had a dream that British marines fought back, like their forefathers of old, against criminals and pirates. When taken captive, they proved defiant in their silence. When released, they talked to the tabloids with restraint and dignity, and accepted no recompense.
I dreamed that a kindred German government, which best knew the wages of [...]

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Beirut — Iranian threats to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in response to the continued international pressures on it, its declaration that it has moved to an advanced stage in enriching uranium, and the escalatory stances announced by Hezbollah Secretary General with respect to the Lebanese dialogue, the international tribunal, and the four arrested [...]

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WASHINGTON, April 13, 2007 (UPI) — The price of uranium has jumped nearly 19 percent since April 2 in a rush led by supply instability, constant and planned increase in demand, and investors looking to gobble up supply before the price spikes again.
The nuclear industry isn’t worried its fuel stock will price them out [...]

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NEW DELHI - Even as India celebrates the successful test-firing on Thursday of its home-grown Agni-III intermediate-range ballistic missile - capable of delivering a 1.5-tonne nuclear or conventional payload over much of Asia - officials admit that the test had the tacit approval of the United States.
The US is striving to build India as a [...]

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Years of threats and bluster over the operations of U.S. and European oil companies in Venezuela turned more serious this month as President Hugo Chavez set a May 1 deadline (NYT) for nationalizing several major foreign petroleum projects. Chavez’s announcement prompted fear from oil executives, but many analysts say the move could be even more [...]

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The world is truly a really big place. At any moment in time you can take a picture from space (or an airplane) and always catch something interesting going on. With millions of people using Google Earth and Maps, eventually someone will happen upon something interesting among the millions of photos in the Google imagery [...]

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At the beginning of 2007, Russia maintained approximately 5,600 operational nuclear warheads for delivery by ballistic missiles, aircraft, cruise missiles and torpedoes, according to the latest Nuclear Notebook published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Russian Notebook, which is written by Hans M. Kristensen of FAS and Robert S. Norris of NRDC, breaks [...]

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Ehud Olmert’s indecisiveness, the ineptness of a politically appointed general and failure to immediately go all out to defeat Hezbollah has inspired the entire Muslim world to believe now is the time to attack and destroy Israel.
The IDF paid a heavy price for Israeli “appeasers” giving back southern Lebanon in the hope of peace. The [...]

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Beware Russian gunships that pass in the night.
WAS it a stunt, a signal or a test? A month after helicopters launched a night-time rocket attack on government buildings in Georgia’s Kodori gorge, nobody knows. As so often in post-Soviet imperial politics, the big picture is clear, but the details are mysterious.
The big picture is that [...]

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NEW DELHI, April 13 (Itar-Tass) — Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee believes trilateral interaction of his country with Russia and China is a “useful format for exchange of views among the three countries and for pursuing trilateral cooperation in areas of mutual interest.”
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The U.S. government “should give serious consideration” to shifting the balance of its naval forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and beef up its military muscle on Guam as part of the shift, according to a think-tank’s report, released Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
China’s potential to become the U.S. military’s next military rival is the [...]

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Doha: Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with Gulf countries and open its research facilities to create confidence among neighbours and demolish the charge that the country is on its way to building a nuclear bomb, Iranian officials here said.
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SLAMABAD, April 12: Pakistan will get one of four F-22P frigates from China in 2009. First three of the frigates will be built in China and the fourth in Karachi. China will equip these frigates with six helicopters.
This was stated by chairman of the Senate’s standing committee on defence, Senator Nisar A. Memon, while speaking [...]

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