1913 Intel

Your world at risk. How the impossible becomes the inevitable.

greyimg

Tehran has developed an advanced nuclear warhead

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

Iran has developed according to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung with the help of a scientist from a former Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory, the design for an advanced nuclear warhead.
[I used Google Translate to translate from the original German to English]
Western intelligence agencies and diplomats confirmed with information from a paper that the knowledge of [...]

read more....

Top Risk No. 7: Brazil | The Call

Posted by Matt in January 13th, 2010 | no comment 
Published in Brazil, Geopolitical, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

After years of being wildly bullish on Brazil, we’re in for a bump. The country stands to gain from a strong rebound in growth over the course of 2010, but Brazil’s newfound economic abundance will lead to a drop in the quality of economic policymaking — both on macroeconomic policy and, to a much greater [...]

read more....

For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement

Posted by Matt in December 25th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Middle East, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

By Barry Rubin*
December 25, 2009
http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/12/for-obama-2010

The year 2010 is going to be interesting. Well, all years in the Middle East are interesting; many of them are far too interesting.
For the Obama Administration, I’m going to predict, it will not be a fun year. True, the best face will be put on things. Since it is [...]

read more....

The West has ‘lost’ Iran and Turkey, with an assist from Russia and to China’s benefit

Posted by Matt in December 7th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Iran, Turkey, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The fact that the West has “lost” Turkey and Iran (and the fact that Iran is now working closely with Turkey on a range of issues, but motivated mutually by the energy network controlled by Moscow) to some extent empowers the Iranian clerical leadership, but this may be insufficient to paper over the differences between [...]

read more....

Europe-a-Dope | The American Prospect

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Europe, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The European Union is becoming ever stronger, and no one seems to care.
On Oct. 2, one of the year’s most important stories passed by with little notice in the United States: Irish voters supported ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum that cleared the last major obstacle to a substantial overhaul of European [...]

read more....

Israel’s Secret War on Hezbollah – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in October 15th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Israel, Middle East, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Harsh criticism of Hezbollah also came from an unexpected source: Tehran. The Iranian strategy calls for Hezbollah to play two roles. One is to instigate minor border provocations. The other is to launch, on Tehran’s command, a full-scale retaliatory attack should Israel target Iran’s nuclear facilities. The 2006 war met neither criterion, and, as the [...]

read more....

How Moscow courts the Muslim world

Posted by Matt in December 29th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Islam, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Since then, Putin and other Russian leaders, including the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, claim that Russia “is, to some extent, a part of the Muslim world.” In an interview with Al Jazeera on Oct. 16, 2003, Putin stressed that, unlike Muslims living in Western Europe, those in Russia were indigenous, and that Islam had been [...]

read more....

Bad Economy Could Cause China Crackup

Posted by Matt in December 1st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Economy, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Don’t believe me? Here is what President Jintao Hu said over the weekend at a party meeting:
“In this coming period, we will starkly confront the effects of the sustained deepening of the international financial crisis and pressure as global economic growth clearly slows. … Whether we can turn this pressure into momentum, turn challenges into [...]

read more....

China’s one world?

Posted by Matt in August 23rd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Military, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

With all the world’s attention focused on the Beijing Olympics and to a lesser extent, the “truce” in Georgia, we should not underestimate the serious implications for U.S. strategic objectives posed by the Chinese military modernization programs, (Russia’s announced modernization programs is another element).

By 2010, the PLA Navy could have about 60 very modern to [...]

read more....

Paper Clips

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in History, , , , , , , , , ,

Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors [...]

read more....

Next Page »

Search


Ads



Ads




Ads



Financial



Main Translator

French

German version

Spanish version

Italian version

Main Topics

My Friends & Network

Pages

Main Links

March 2010
M T W T F S S
« Feb    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Main Archives


Main Topics




Counters


Social Feeds