Egypt gets $2-billion in U.S. aid year — more than any country except Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan.
But what does the United States get for the rest of its millions?
It doesn’t get much good will. A new World Public Opinion poll found that 93 percent of Egyptians — the most in any Muslim country surveyed — [...]

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Preface: The Caspian Sea Summit and the Historical Crossroads of the 21st Century
This article is part of The Sino-Russia Coalition: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia (September 23, 2007). For editorial reasons the article is being published by Global Research in three parts. It is strongly advised that readers also study the prior piece.
History is in [...]

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The Kremlin-backed Nashi is just another element of Mr. Putin’s carefully orchestrated efforts to control nearly every aspect of Russia’s political landscape. The government has already harnessed the news media, banned opposition groups from the airwaves and clamped down on non-governmental organizations operating in Russia.
Now, critics say, Moscow intends to unleash Nashi members onto the [...]

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But when agents descended on the Orange County, Calif., home of Reza Tabib, the 51-year-old former flight instructor at John Wayne Airport who sent the shipment, they were astonished to discover 13,000 other aircraft parts, worth an estimated $540,000, as well as a list of additional requests by an Iranian military officer and two airplane [...]

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After intensive bargaining, the Communist Party has approved a new leadership lineup that denies President Hu Jintao the decisive consolidation of power that his supporters hoped would allow him to govern more assertively in his final five-year term as China’s top leader.
Before the party congress, which begins Monday and is held every five years, the [...]

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Intelligence reports indicate that China is retargeting more of its missiles at the U.S. Iran continues to expand its uranium-enrichment facilities; it insists that this work is aimed only at generating electricity, but few nations believe that claim. India is broadening its ability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air and sea, and Pakistan is [...]

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The conventional wisdom is that China is rising and the United States is on its way down. According to this view, the 21st century challenge for U.S. foreign policy is to manage our inevitable decline as gracefully as possible as the new superpower of the East reaches for the stars.
The conventional wisdom almost always sounds [...]

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British defence officials have held talks with their Pentagon counterparts about how they could help out if America chose to bomb Iran.
Gordon Brown ‘will back air strikes on Iran’
The man who stands between US and new war
Michael Burleigh: Drum beaters for Iran war should think again
Washington sources say that America has shelved plans [...]

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Secret MI6 files reveal, for 1st time, leader’s agonizing deception of Nazis
LONDON – With Nazi “flying bombs” raining down on the nation’s capital and largest population center, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a fateful and agonizing decision to use a double agent to redirect the missiles toward the Jewish sector of the city, secret [...]

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