The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced

Posted by Matt in November 9th, 2007 | no comment

Published in China, Military, U.S., submarines

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world’s only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
That is the theory. Or, rather, was [...]

What is the Status of U.S. - Russian Relations?

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Published in Russia, U.S.

During the past few years, Putinâ€™s hardfisted political policies, and the apparent unraveling of democratic freedoms in Russia, have been garnering an ever-increasing backlash from those critical of his KGB-era tactics. Clashes with the United States and other nations have only served to further Putinâ€™s reputation as an autocrat and, in the eyes of an [...]

China, â€œcancer villagesâ€ on the increase thanks to governmentâ€™s indifference

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Published in China, pollution

Large chemical plants, backbone of the countryâ€™s industrial development, are built in Chinaâ€™s rural areas, close to small villages, where each year deaths due to cancer increase. The government denounces the rise in cases linked to industrial waste but refuses to close down the plants or move the villages.
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Hamas Is Producing a New Generation of Palestinian Extra-Power, Extra-Range Missiles in Gaza and West Bank

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Published in Israel, Middle East, Hamas, Qassam_missiles

DEBKAfileâ€™s military sources disclose that stocks of the primitive Qassam missiles are low because Hamas has stopped making them and is now fully engaged in setting up the production of a new generation of missiles upgraded to a range of up to 25 km, armed with 3-kilo warheads - one-and a half times the range [...]

‘Apocalyptic scenario’ if Egypt, Saudi go nuclear: Israel minister

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Published in Egypt, Israel, Nuclear, saudi_arabia

Egyptian and Saudi nuclear ambitions, on top of Iran’s atomic drive, will lead to an “apocalyptic scenario”, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said in comments published on Friday.
“If Egypt and Saudi Arabia begin nuclear programmes, this can bring an apocalyptic scenario upon us,” Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the English-language Jerusalem Post newspaper.
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A Nation Ignorant of Being at War

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Published in Islam, U.S., War

If we donâ€™t embrace the reality that we are a nation at war, if we donâ€™t start taking seriously the threat that radical Islam poses to our nation from both a violent and an ideological standpoint, we will lose this conflict. If we lose this conflict there will be no gay rights, no tax cuts [...]

Fundamentalist Islam Finds Fertile Ground in Bosnia

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Published in Islam

The Dayton Peace Accords called for the removal of foreign combatants from Bosnia after the Balkans war. But hundreds of mujahedeen fighters stayed, and today they are successfully spreading their fundamentalist Islamist views. By Renate Flottau in Sarajevo, Bosnia more…