If Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus—if their perspectives on values and world affairs are so contrary—how long can NATO survive? Prof. Andrei Markovitz of the University of Michigan goes so far as to define Anti-Americanism as Europe’s lingua franca, conventional wisdom, and measure of belonging. That is, you just don’t say nice [...]

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Iran’s outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Israel to “go find somewhere else” for its state and leave its territory for the creation of a Palestinian state, according to an interview published Saturday.
“Our support (for the Palestinian people) is unconditional. As for the Israelis, let them go find somewhere else,” Ahmadinejad told several Algerian newspapers [...]

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Russia has wreaked the most environmental havoc of any country on earth, and now they’re claiming the Arctic seabed.
There’s another little nugget of information to wonder at with Russia: despite, or perhaps because of, possessing one of the lowest population densities in the world, it has wreaked easily the most environmental havoc and misery of [...]

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will start production of a submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile after a recent successful test that followed repeated misfires, Russia’s navy chief said on Sunday according to Interfax news agency.
Admiral Vladimir Masorin said Russia had decided to order the industrial production of parts for the Bulava missile after a successful launch [...]

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In his famous collection of essays Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman made an argument that has been paraphrased endlessly by those who dismiss the notion that trade deficits are a problem. Postulating a greatly undervalued yen (1,000 to the dollar), the Nobel economist stated that at such an, “exchange rate the Japanese could sell [...]

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Russia is seeking to establish a naval base in the Middle East – most likely in Syria, experts said. “For the Black Sea fleet, the Mediterranean has the highest strategic importance,” the RIA Novosti and Interfax news agency quoted Admiral Vladimir Masorin as saying in the Ukrainian port city of Sebastopol. “I think a permanent [...]

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BEIJING — The 22-year-old was a freelance prostitute. Henna-haired, eyebrows painted and dressed no differently than a college student, she moved from beauty salon to beauty salon, taking calls on her mobile phone from salon managers when they couldn’t find enough girls for all their customers.
She said she wasn’t as well paid as call girls [...]

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