Four New Gay Rights Battlegrounds – By Peter Williams | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in March 9th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Africa, Asia, Countries, Equality, Face, Foreign Policy, Gay Rights, Governments, Peter Williams, Rights Movements

They’re here, they’re queer, and governments from Africa to Asia don’t quite know what to do about it. Four countries where gay rights movements face an upward battle for equality.
Four New Gay Rights Battlegrounds – By Peter Williams | Foreign Policy

India Prepares for a Two-Front War – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in March 1st, 2010 | no comment

Published in India, Aggressiveness, Asia, China, Daniel Blumenthal, India Military, Pakistan, Peace, superpower, United States, War Doctrine, Wsj

There is one country responding to China’s military build-up and aggressiveness with some muscle of its own. No, it is not the United States, the superpower ostensibly responsible for maintaining peace and security in Asia. Rather, it is India, whose military is currently refining a “two-front war” doctrine to fend off Pakistan and China simultaneously. [...]

Anti-Aircraft Missiles Intercepted From North Korea Alarm Scientists | Asia | English

Posted by Matt in February 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Airborne, Aircraft Systems, American Scientists, Asia, Attempt, Authorities, Missile Systems, Missiles, North-Korea, Thailand

A group of American scientists is expressing alarm at a possible attempt by North Korea to ship portable anti-aircraft missile systems abroad. The missiles were part of a an airborne cargo intercepted by authorities in Thailand in December.
Anti-Aircraft Missiles Intercepted From North Korea Alarm Scientists | Asia | English

Debt crisis unsettles European economy – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Europe, Asia, Crises, Debt Crisis, Economic Woes, Euro Debt, Europe, European Economy, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, Latin-America, Neighbor, Parallels, Turmoil, Value Of The Euro

The crisis unfolding in Europe has some parallels to the debt crises that hit Latin America and Asia in the past, particularly in how Greece’s problems have spread so quickly to other countries in the region with similar economic woes.
But there are major differences. Analysts said the healthy, large economies of the “eurozone” — namely, [...]

2020 vision: that sinking feeling | The Australian

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Forecasts, 2020 Vision, American Access, Asia, Australia, Freedom, Half A Century, Lowy, Manoeuvre, Pax Americana, Peace, Political Transformation, Sea Lanes, Sinking Feeling, South China Sea, Us Navy, World Oceans, World S Oceans

Lowy researchers list 10 aspects of our world that may vanish by 2020
SINCE 1945 the US Navy has enjoyed untrammeled freedom of manoeuvre across the world’s oceans. American maritime supremacy has maintained the peace and kept the sea lanes open to trade for more than half a century. In doing so it has underwritten Asia’s [...]

Families of disappeared accuse Moscow of dirty war – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in January 10th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Abduction, Activists, Asia, Bears, Crossroads, Dirty War, Europe, Grief, Hallmarks, Ingushetia, moscow, Muslim Separatists, North Caucasus, Outrage, Outskirts, Russia, Russian Region, Shadow War, State Terror, Young Man

Officials here in the Russian region of Ingushetia say they don’t know anything about Pliyev’s abduction, one of scores in recent months that have caused fresh outrage and grief in a region already scarred by over 15 years of fighting.
But the young man’s kidnapping in the outskirts of Ingushetia’s largest city bears the hallmarks of [...]

How Russia Is About to Dramatically Change the World | theTrumpet.com

Posted by Matt in January 9th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Oil, Russia, Asia, Balance Of Power, Church Of God, Columns, Europe, Few Days, Global Balance, Global Economy, New Oil, Oil Exporter, Oil Pipeline, Philadelphia Church Of God, Ramifications, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Shape

Over the next few days, Russia will change the world. It has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global economy—and the global balance of power—will be altered [...]

Rice crisis may loom in Asia — Michael Richardson

Posted by Matt in December 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Asia, food, Asia, Australia India, Countries, Crop Land, Crop Losses, Decades, food, Global Population, Grain Rice, International Trade, Michael Richardson, One Fifth, Philippines, Price Surge, Rice, Rice Importer, Rice Price, Verge

But Asia may be on the verge of another destabilising rice price surge following big weather-related crop losses in India, the Philippines and Australia.
India, which sustains almost 20 per cent of the global population with 3 per cent of the world’s crop land, is set to become a net rice importer for the first time [...]

Brazil’s Romance with France and Iran, a Game of Power and Nukes

Posted by Matt in December 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Brazil, Anti-Americanism, Asia, Brazil, Competitions, Dollar, Fragile Democracies, France, Game Of Power, Iran, Middle East, Military Industry, Modern Romance, Negotiations, North-Korea, petroleum, South-America, Syria

Recently a major petroleum producing country located in a region recognized for anti-Americanism and fragile democracies completed negotiations on a multi-billion dollar arms deal with nuclear implications. The region is not the Middle East or Asia, but South America and the country is not Syria or North Korea, but Brazil.
A country determined to reflect [...]

Japan: Save the Endangered Tomahawk!

Posted by Matt in December 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Japan, Advocates, Asia, Conventional Version, Desire, Flying Bomb, Gulf War, Invasion Of Iraq, Japan, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Umbrella, Nuclear Warheads, Own Security, Sentinel, Tokyo, Tomahawk Cruise Missile, Tomahawk Missile

But Japan is caught in a box. On one hand, Tokyo is one of the strongest advocates of nuclear disarmament, while on the other hand it relies on US arms, including nuclear ones, for its own security. Lately, it has come to worry about whether it can count on America’s extended nuclear deterrence, more commonly [...]