Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) fear a war could break out this summer with Syria, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports.
The IDF has decided not to conduct military operations in the Gaza Strip to clean out terrorist nests, believing “that war might break out with Syria this summer,” military sources told Haaretz.
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PERHAPS the greatest paradox in political economy is how countries endowed with the most bountiful natural resources almost invariably end up with deeply unsavoury regimes and the worst economic policies. In many cases, especially in Africa and the Middle East, this “resources curse” means that commodity-rich countries are also among the poorest, with many of [...]

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Reporting in the Times of London, Moscow correspondent Mark Franchetti adds more evidence that Russians have rejected the concept of democracy and are willingly returning to the dark days of Soviet dictatorship, underlining the extent to which we were misled by the idiots who said, during the first cold war, that ordinary Russians were decent [...]

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Iran’s latest round of hostage-taking has netted it four Iranian-American dual nationals and perhaps another American who went missing in Iran. The most prominent hostage is Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, who was arrested May 8 after four months under house arrest [...]

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SHE GOES WEST, HE GOES RIGHT
A new study has found that many more women are leaving economically moribund Eastern Germany. The result is a new, frustrated and largely male underclass. And many of them find succor in the neo-Nazi scene.
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Insofar as they existed since 2001 (on the part of the United States) or since 2006 (on the part of a come-lately EU), Western energy policies in Eurasia collapsed in May 2007. During this month, Russia seems to have conclusively defeated all Western-backed projects to bring oil and gas from Central Asia directly to Europe.
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China is investing vast sums of money in fielding weapons designed to strike U.S. aircraft carriers and ships at great distances, according to the Pentagon’s latest assessment of Chinese military power.
The objective is the capability to attack U.S. ships responding to any Chinese attack on Taiwan.
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David E. Kaplan is chief investigative correspondent at U.S. News & World Report. His work includes cover stories on intelligence agencies, police spying, Saudi financing of jihad groups, and the growing use of organized crime by terrorists. Among Kaplan’s books are Yakuza and The Cult at the End of the World, on the doomsday sect [...]

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Get a global view of terrorism events and other suspicious activity at GlobalIncidentMap.Com.
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Global Counter-Terror “Mashup” (Updated)
The other day, in an interview with Computerworld, Defense Intelligence Agency bigwig Lewis Shepherd talked about all the ways in which the Pentagon’s analysts are trying to work with (sorry for the cliche) “Web [...]

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WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) — Taiwan has yet to acquire major defensive systems the United States offered six years ago that would help defend against China, a new Pentagon report said.
“Taiwan … has allowed its defense spending to decline in real terms over the past decade, creating an increased urgency for the Taiwan authorities [...]

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Now Russia and China will emerge together as “one clenched fist,” and their intention is to smash America.
President Putin’s intentions are clear. The Cold war is to be renewed. America is the “main enemy” once again.
The Chinese, like the Russians, have carefully crafted their excuse for enmity. And like the Russians, they will blame the [...]

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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that tests of new Russian missiles were a response to the planned deployment of U.S. missile defense installations and other forces in Europe, suggesting Washington has triggered a new arms race.
In a clear reference to the United States, he harshly [...]

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic: Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Thursday that plans to place a missile defense bases in the Czech Republic and Poland will test Europe’s willingness to defend itself.
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Russia and Moldova reportedly are in secret talks to create a treaty that will allow Russia to keep a military presence in Moldova’s secessionist region of Transdniestria for another 10 years but will allow that region to reintegrate into Moldova. The deal looks highly favorable for Moldova, which has struggled against the small enclave since [...]

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A newly released report from the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the government’s handling of 13 suspicious passengers on a June 29, 2004, Northwest Airlines flight serves as a reminder of why so many Americans are rightly skeptical of Washington’s ability to manage a mass-amnesty program. The report, which details [...]

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YESTERDAY, the Kremlin seemed to put another nail in the coffin of U.S.-Rus sian relations by testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile supposedly capable of penetrating any missile-defense system.
Any missile-defense system? More like our missile-defense system.
In reality, the new Russian RS-24 long-range missile test is about a lot more than the advent of U.S. missile-defense [...]

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One in four younger US Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida, a poll says.
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In Part 4 of this probing study, FSM Contributing Editor David J. Jonsson linked radical Islamist agendas with the resurgence of international communist movements. Today, David concludes with a powerful discussion of the possibly sinister machinations between Russia and China.
The Russia – China Cabal
In my article of November 26 of 2006, The Grand Chess Masters: [...]

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How wide is the trend toward domestic Islamofascist terrorist ideology among our youth? FSM Contributing Editor Ian M. Cuthbertson traces the emergence of homegrown terror cells throughout Europe over recent decades. Are they now hibernating in American neighborhoods?
In a trend already well established in Europe, as evidenced by the July 2005 bomb attacks on London’s [...]

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FSM Contributing Editor Col. Thomas Snodgrass (USAF, ret.) posits why any 21st century conflict theorist would believe that 18th century limited war ground rules could apply to combatants seeking the radical transformation of Islamic religious dominance.
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“These debacles are not attributable to individual failures, but rather to a crisis in an entire institution: America’s general officer [...]

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Far from being a show of unity by some of the world’s richest nations, next week’s G-8 summit could fast deteriorate into a slanging match between the US and Russia. That, at least, was what happened when the G-8 foreign ministers gathered in Germany on Wednesday.
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