China is undermining the U.S. agenda to advance political reform, human rights and free trade in Latin America, the China-Latin America Task Force says.
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Putin has already roiled the waters. He threatened to retarget select European cities with nuclear weapons (AP) if plans for deployment of a U.S. missile defense system go ahead and warned of a “new arms race.” Russia’s “sharp decline” in standing and reputation with the West forms the backdrop to this year’s G8 meeting, says [...]

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MOSCOW, June 4 (Itar-Tass) - In an interview with reporters from G8 states Russian President Vladimir Putin called “another stupidity” talks about expelling Russia from G8 for allegedly deviating from liberal values in its development.
“I would say it is another stupidity, and maybe a wish to attract attention, maybe a wish to reach some [...]

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Either way, this creepily retrograde mood forms the backdrop to the current foreign policy of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Whether by waging cyberwarfare on Estonia, threatening the gas supplies of Lithuania, or boycotting Georgian wine and Polish meat, he has, over the past few years, made it clear that he intends to reassert Russian [...]

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“You can’t be sure,” said Stephen Sestanovich, an expert on Russia at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Putin is on a tear. One week it’s the Third Reich and the next week, it’s diktat and imperialism. He is in kind of a snarling frame of mind and it may be that he will pick a [...]

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Standard liberal mantras condemning the United States’ foreign policy charge “interference with the internal affairs of other nations.” FSM Contributing Editor Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D., exposes this cynical lie in her latest examination of the truth behind the propaganda.
We hate you! This is an all too familiar quote heard from many countries speaking to the United [...]

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AIDS may be killing elected officials in some Southern African countries faster than they can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and governance in the region, a new study said.
The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) said a study of mortality patterns in South Africa, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania [...]

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A recent Pew Research Center poll indicates potentially high numbers of violent jihadist Muslims in America. How concerned should we be? Read why FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser warns that ignoring the toxic signs of totalitarian political Islam could place us in mortal danger.
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Thus, from here, what is so sorely needed in reviewing the [...]

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Russian Leader Says U.S.’s Planned European Missile Defenses May Prompt “Retaliatory Steps”
(CBS/AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system for Europe, including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at targets on the continent.
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Russia’s membership of G8 is becoming awkward. If it were not for Vladimir Putin’s presence at the table at the annual summit, the principal topic of conversation would be him.
Relations between Russia and the West are at their worst since the end of the Cold War. There have always been arguments about Nato expansion, human [...]

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While the G-8 dithers with global warming, every day brings us closer to a nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran. One of the world’s two largest proliferators, Russia, is an esteemed member of the G-8 club. The other menace to peace is China, which has paid no price for its reckless support of Kim Jong-il and [...]

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CHINA has warned the US, Japan and Australia against the development of a regional ballistic missile defence system arguing that it could destabilise security in the Asia-Pacific.
Lieutenant General Zhang Qinsheng, deputy chief of the general staff of the People’s Liberation Army, told a security conference in Singapore at the weekend that if the current US-Japan [...]

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