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US overturns ban on nuclear trade with India

Though there were concerns that the deal allowing the UNited States to trade in nuclear materials with India would not pass before the end of President Bush's second term, it appears that the deal has gone...

Missile deal frays US-Russia ties

"ensions heightened between Russia and the US after Washington signed a deal with Poland to position US missile interceptors on Polish soil, with Russia warning that this created mistrust and would fuel an arms race. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the war in...

EU envoys consider Serbia's bid

UPDATE 11AM: The EU has decided to put off a decision on whether to unfreeze trade benefits for Serbia. For every action there is a reaction, and the EU is looking to quickly demonstrate that they were serious...

McCain, Obama Respond to Iran Missile Test

By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.comIran said today it had tested  long-range missiles with the ability to reach U.S. in the Persian Gulf.  Iran futher related that these missle have guidence...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Is Switzerland’s Money a Weapon to Foment Terror?

" One of the latest Iranian statement, I quote, ..”Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday,”…(see here), did not...

London editor prays for nuclear attack on Israel

Think I'm Crazy? Are those among us waiting and praying for the unthinkable? "The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper published in London said in an interview on Lebanese television that he would dance in...

Russia Claims the North Pole!!!

    In what is the most bizarre turn of events in recent memory, as well as another display of belligerent foreign policy moves by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian scientists placed a flag...

U.S. Toll in Iraq Lowest in 8 Months

    With the troop surge underway in Baghdad, Washington in a gridlock, and the public deeply splintered in partisanship, is there any good news on the horizon. Well that depends on how you look at...

Scotland on Sunday

"THE ingredients most likely to spark confrontation between the United States and Iran could scarcely be simpler or more combustible: a tin filled with an explosive charge and a lump of copper is all that is needed to manufacture what the US military calls an Explosively...

Ed Viesturs and Dreams

"Ed Viesturs and Dreams I went to see Ed Viesturs at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver last night. Ed was there to promote his new book, No Shortcuts to the Top, which details his quest (called Endeavor 8000) to climb the fourteen 8000 meter (26,000+ foot) peaks without...

Don't write off Berlusconi just yet

"Questionable physical and legal health is unlikely to stifle the political ambitions of Italy's former leader, writes John Hooper "

Kerry to meet soldiers, leaders in Iraq

"WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry, whose botched joke about U.S. troops in Iraq dealt a blow to his presidential ambitions, will travel to Iraq this weekend to meet with soldiers, political leaders and military...

Iran's nuclear ambitions seen similar to Holocaust

"JERUSALEM -- Iran's reported drive to make an atomic bomb has become an existential threat to Israel that some Israelis are likening to the Holocaust -- especially with the United States appearing to back away...

Report: 700 Somali volunteers fought alongside Hizbullah

"Over 700 Somali fighters joined Hizbullah in its war against Israel this past summer, a United Nations report revealed. According to the report, quoted by the New York Times, Hizbullah provided the Islamist Somali militias with training and weapons, through Iran and Syria,...

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