“They are clearly cooperating with one another to sort of generate anti-American feeling in the Americas.”
And they’re using their oil money to do it.
Iran’s warming relationship with Venezuela has generated nearly 200 bilateral agreements, including increased cooperation between the two in the financial, metals and oil industries.
Ahmadinejad has also welcomed Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega to Iran [...]

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Hezbollah is prepared for a new war with Israel but it will not start one, the militant group’s deputy leader said in remarks published Wednesday.
Naim Kassem warned that Israel will pay “a high price” in any future conflict.
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The city of Ashdod, several kilometers north of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean and home to over 200,000 residents, is preparing to be the next city to come within range of rockets from Gaza.
The Ashdod Municipality says it does not intend to wait for the rockets to fall and is making preparations to protect its residents [...]

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With global warming hogging the limelight, and Nostradamus predicting our impending demise, This excerpt from Radar Magazine’s February issue explores the other apocalyptic scenarios threatening to do us in.
From transgenic experiments destined to go awry to the imminent culmination of the Mayan calendar’s 13th baktun cycle, we’ll have to dodge a hell of a lot [...]

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PHILADELPHIA — www.Islamist-Watch.org, the website of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project, is open for business.
Islamist Watch asserts that nonviolent radical Islam is more likely to alter the makeup of Western society over time than is terrorism. For while it is relatively easy to mobilize public opinion against terrorist groups, no institutions exist to [...]

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Britons tend to regard wars between South American countries as Ruritanian affairs. And the escalating dispute between Colombia and Venezuela certainly has its opéra bouffe aspects, not least because of the language of the Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chávez: “Colombians must be liberated from the US empire”, “Dracula’s fangs are covered in blood”, etc. But the [...]

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But unlike the old Soviet Union, the Pentagon can’t quite cite a clear and present danger. So it’s pointing to China’s secretiveness as justification for assuming the worst. “The lack of transparency in China’s military and security affairs poses risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation,” the report said. “This situation [...]

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