China’s newest attack helicopter is powered by Canadian-built engines, a development military analysts say could spark a backlash against Canada’s aerospace industry from U.S. lawmakers concerned about technology being transferred into the wrong hands.
Other analysts are questioning why Canada would sell engines to a nation that has used its military to crush internal dissent.
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Military contractors from Latin America are playing a far greater role in Iraq than most people realize, and the implications will be felt from Baghdad to Bogotá.
Media stories about private security firms (PMFS) such as Blackwater have highlighted the important—and controversial—role that private security contractors play in supporting U.S. military forces in Iraq. What few [...]

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More than 60 years ago, Dr. F.A. Hayek brilliantly described the final destination of all people living under socialism: serfdom in a cruel totalitarian state. Venezuela is heading in that direction under the leadership of Fidel Castro’s star pupil, Dictator-President Hugo Chávez. On Sunday, September 30, voters in Ecuador will decide whether to authorize their [...]

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South America embraces Bush’s arch enemy
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 4 hours ago
The leaders of Bolivia and Venezuela embraced Mr Ahmadinejad and blessed Iran’s nuclear programme, underlining how much influence Washington has lost over a …
Ahmadinejad shores up support in Bolivia, Venezuela AFP
Iran Strengthens South America Ties The Associated Press
Ahmadinejad and Chavez: Brothers in nukes New Europe
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Ahmadinejad shores up support in Bolivia, Venezuela
AFP - 6 hours ago
Chavez and fellow leftist Morales both support Iran’s controversial nuclear program and, like Ahmadinejad, are virulent critics of the US administration. …
Iran Strengthens South America Ties The Associated Press
Ahmadinejad seeks to strengthen South America ties Guardian Unlimited
Ahmadinejad Visits Latin America to Deepen Ties (Update1) Bloomberg
France24 - MercoPress
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran’s president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and trade partner and counterweight to U.S. influence.
On the heels of a U.N. General Assembly appearance in which he said Iran will ignore demands by “arrogant [...]

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FSM Contributing Editor David Jonsson shows us how Venezuela links with anyone who opposes America – Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and more - and how that strategy can mightily contribute to the US losing economic and political strength not only in the Pacific, but around the world.
Venezuela: Strategic Partner of Russia, China, Iran and Cuba
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CH-18 Hornets were scrambled to intercept several Tupolev-95 Bear bombers flying over the arctic a bit too close to Canadian airspace Friday, Lt.-Gen. Angus Watt told The Chronicle Herald. “It’s not exactly a new challenge; it’s an old challenge that has returned,” Watt said.
The area buzzed by the bombers is located inside what the Canadian [...]

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Two months later, Iran and Venezuela pledged $350 million to build a seaport near Monkey Point on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. (Tehran has also been cultivating an alliance with oil-rich Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.) And last Wednesday, the Nicaraguan foreign minister returned from Tehran, where he met with the foreign ministers of Syria, Cuba and Iran. [...]

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CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran is gaining influence in Latin America as the region turns away from Washington and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad courts new allies to counter U.S. efforts to isolate his government.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and other leftist leaders from Cuba to Ecuador, many of them sympathetic to Chavez’s anti-U.S. rhetoric, have struck energy, trade [...]

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The Asian economic tiger is aggressively making inroads in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean as it seeks the resources to feed its super-heated economy. Some critics wonder if China’s involvement will supplant the United States’ near-hegemonic role in terms of trade and finance.
China’s economy continues to grow at a dizzying speed - at [...]

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Canada fired a warning shot in a new Cold war over the vast resources of the far North by announcing last night that it will build two new military bases in the Arctic wilderness.
A week after Russia laid claim to the North Pole in what is rapidly becoming a global scramble for the region’s vast [...]

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to announce plans for a deepwater docking facility and military base in the far north of the country as part of the nation’s quest to assert its sovereignty in the Arctic.
Military planning documents, obtained by CBC news on Thursday, outline C$60m ($57m) plans to adapt an abandoned mine [...]

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Finally, the worse news is that the cheap-labor lobbyists, terrorists and world-governing globalists are all moving ahead with their various plans. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from an alarming story on the front page of yesterday’s Washington Times, which informed us that “Islamic extremists embedded in the United States - posing as Hispanic nationals [...]

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The Venezuelan colonel is willing to spend whatever is needed: $10 million, $50 million, $100 million. The gush of petrodollars is enough to bankroll those imperial spasms. After the triumph in Colombia, Peru will fall of its own weight in the next elections, maybe by the hand of Ollanta Humala — and the conquest of [...]

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Nicaraguan Vice President Jaime Morales Carazo has termed as “odious” China’s requirement that Nicaragua sever ties with Taiwan first before it can establish formal diplomatic relations with Beijing.
In an interview with the Nicaraguan daily El Neuvo Diario on Wednesday, Morales described China’s high-handed attitude as an act of “yellow imperialism.”
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As a Kremlin-backed Arctic expedition led by a Russian legislator closed in Monday on the North Pole - with plans to send a submersible craft and a flag to the ocean bottom to assert Russian sovereignty over an Ontario-sized swath of the polar seafloor - a leading Canadian expert on the Arctic urged Canada’s leaders [...]

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Of all the long-winded speeches Cuban leader Fidel Castro has given each year, few were more anticipated (or longer-winded) than his address every July 26th, commemorating the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada military barracks that sparked his Cuban Revolution. So despite the fact that major stomach surgery forced Castro, 80, to disappear [...]

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1. Brazil resumes production of nuclear submarines.
2. Colombia wants a U.S. base.
Is the military buildup of Venezuelan petrotyrant Hugo Chavez starting to worry our neighbors to the south?
Chavez is setting up a string of bases in Bolivia that could project regional power. Peru, Paraguay and Chile, all of which border Bolivia, have expressed concerns.
There won’t [...]

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Whatever the strategic merits of President Carter’s 1979 decision to cut formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the U.S. no longer needs to appease China in order to contain the Soviet Union. To the contrary, China has taken over the former Soviet role as the main external supporter of dictatorship and anti-Americanism in the Americas. It [...]

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In Venezuela and Bolivia, Presidents Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales “are taking advantage of their popularity to undercut the opposition and eliminate checks on their authority,” said Fingar.
According to Fingar’s report, Ecuadorian and Nicaraguan Presidents Rafael Correa and Daniel Ortega, respectively, are “critical of free market economics and have friendly relations with Venezuela’s President Chavez.”
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