A new Newsweek Poll on American attitudes toward Muslims and Islam has found that 46 percent of Americans believe that the United States is taking in too many Muslim immigrants. 32 percent think that Muslims in America are less loyal to the United States than they are to Islam. 28 percent believe that the Qur’an [...]

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The INS Jalashwa, the newest addition to the Indian Navy was commissioned at the Norfolk, Virginia naval station on June 22, 2007. Formerly the U.S. Navy’s amphibious transport dock USS Trenton (LPD-14), the Jalashwa will increase India’s power projection capabilities well into the Indian Ocean and beyond. The ship’s transfer marks an important step in [...]

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Coinciding with the campaign to sabotage Lebanese domestic affairs is a growing Syrian belligerence. Although the Syrian army, with its rusting Soviet-era tanks, has long been regarded as a laughingstock, the image of Syria as militarily feeble may be due for a revision. According to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Syria has already deployed [...]

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It is 8am and eager young supporters of Vladimir Putin are doing their morning exercises before another day of political education to prepare them for the battle against Russia’s enemies at home and abroad.
Hundreds set off on a five-kilometre run, others gather to follow instructors in a stretching routine to pounding disco music. The final [...]

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Most countries other than Iran - including the United States, the European Union, the Gulf states and Israel - don’t want Iran to have the bomb. Moreover, they all agree that a unified front is critical if Iran ever is to be persuaded to stop its nuclear program. So why has it been so hard [...]

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A Syrian official said on Monday that his nation will target Israel’s civilian population centers with long-range ballistic missiles in the war his country expects to take place in the coming six months.
In an interview with Defense News Weekly, an unnamed senior official in the Syrian Defense Ministry said his nation is looking to avoid [...]

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There is, however, one country that is by far the most important to Venezuela’s economy. That is his hated United States, by far Venezuela’s biggest trading partner and, for the U.S., the hemisphere’s trading partner second only to Mexico. Venezuela is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the U.S., providing a crucial 11-to-12 [...]

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Soviet-style propaganda and a personality cult for Putin are only two of the signs that Russia is edging towards fascism

One key concern arising from the recent spat with Russia is this awakening superpower is drifting into the foothills of fascism domestically. The simple defence Russians have offered in recent weeks is that Russians are [...]

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Iran warned yesterday that it would consider taking “illegal” steps, including possible abrogation of the non-proliferation treaty, if further UN sanctions are imposed because of its nuclear programme.
The warning was given by a senior Iranian official in an increasingly fraught war of nerves with the US and its allies over Iran’s enrichment of uranium.
However, it [...]

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With the explosion of Web 2.0, anyone can be a pundit or broadcast the minutiae of his or her life for the world to ogle. And politicians around the world—never a shy crowd—are less and less squeamish about joining the fray. In this week’s FP list, we’ve catalogued some noteworthy blogs of people in positions [...]

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Hizbullah has restored its military capability and replenished its stockpiles of weapons and missiles since the end of the Second Lebanon War, Israel Radio quoted a senior defense official as saying Tuesday morning.
The official claimed that Syria was transferring weapons to Hizbullah with the full knowledge of the Lebanese army and behind UNIFIL’s back. [...]

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“Moral paralysis” is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them.
It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times.
Back in the 1930s, the [...]

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DUBAI - Syria warned Israel it would send troops into Lebanon during the Jewish state’s 2006 war against Hizbollah militants if its forces advanced into a Lebanese region adjacent to Damascus, the head of the guerrillas said.
Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told Al Jazeera television that Syria, which along with Iran backs the Shi’ite guerrilla [...]

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Russia should abandon its “confrontational” rhetoric and join the Western allies to combat the common threats of terrorism and failed states, the secretary-general of Nato said yesterday.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the former Dutch foreign minister who has led the organisation since 2004, told The Daily Telegraph that “nobody wants a new Cold War, neither the [...]

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TAIPEI (Defense News Weakly) - A suspected Chinese ballistic missile facility located at Delingha in the central-northern part of the country has been revealed to actually be a termite colony instead.
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In remarks on July 20 to a Freedom 21 conference in Dallas, Texas, conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly declared that the Chinese communists intend to exploit development of a North American Union in order to bring more cheap goods into the U.S. and destroy more American jobs.

The Freedom 21 conference, organized by Tom DeWeese [...]

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Leading China expert and FSM Advisory Board member Arthur Waldron, Ph.D., warns that preparation for a likely regime crisis in China is perhaps our most urgent task. The Council of Foreign Relation’s recent report, which Waldron has signed with substantial reservations, tends to discount China concerns. Read why Professor Waldron’s dissent is so [...]

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