Nuclear Disorder: Surveying Atomic Threats

For those interested in the nuclear arms race and progress in the nuclear nonproliferation arena, the following article is a sad and dismal commentary on where we stand on this important subject. President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in part because of his announced...

The 10 Countries With The Most Dwindling Oil Production

Global oil production saw a 0.4% increase in 2008, according to the 2009 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. But while the overall industry saw a rise in production, several countries saw oil production sink considerably. "As the threat of Peak Oil continues to rise, the...

Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Pol

Gordon England, then deputy secretary of defense, is shown in 2006 at a convention that focused on issues facing American Muslims and their evolving role and identity in the U.S. APThe jihadist threat to U.S.-based armed forces is external as well as internal — and far...

Bank Of China Official: The World Is Running Out Of Money To Buy

Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China has issued a stark warning to President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. China's appetite for United States Treasuries is rapidly declining. China believes it is getting harder for governments to buy United...

US Attack Kills 120 In Yemen

On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. American officials said the missile strikes...

Iraqi Troops Mass Along Iran Border

" Tensions are rising at the Eastern Maysan oil field, which straddles the border between Iran and Iraq, and Iraqi forces have massed at a “staging area” just outside the field, awaiting orders. The situation...

Tomgram: How Much is the Afghan Surge Going to Cost?

" Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, put the matter this way recently: “[N]ext to Antarctica, Afghanistan is probably the most incommodious place, from a logistics point of view, to be trying to fight a war... It's landlocked...

In Iran Sanctions Plea, Obama Warns of Possible Israeli Strike

President Obama is laying it on the line with the Chinese and others who are against imposing strict sanctions against Iran. Israel will strike and there is nothing that the U.S. can do to change their mind." The United States cannot indefinitely prevent Israel from launching...

Funding for jihad troubling, scholar says

" WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 35 percent of Egyptians and Saudis interviewed in a recent survey considered it their duty to back regional mujahedin financially, a scholar notes. Private polling of Egyptian and Saudi citizens reveals trends regarding the public...

DC buried in snow

While President Obama spent the day in Copenhagen with other foreign dignitaries, and the Senate ordered in pizza for a late night deliberation on health care, a very different scene was taking place on the...

Gazprom group to invest $2bn in Iraq

 A consortium led by the Russian oil firm,  Gazprom Neft, will invest $2 billion in developing the Iraqi oilfield it won at last weekend's oil development auction. Gazprom Neff expects to pump the first crude from Badrah within three years  Gazprom plans to...

House OKs $634 Billion Defense Bill, Doesn’t Include Surge

Last week, The House passed a a $1.1 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, a hotly contested bill loaded with every pet project Congress could imagine. Today, less than a week later, the House has rushed through another $634 billion DOD spending bill. " The bill, voted on with...

War bonds proposed to pay for Afghanistan, Iraq conflicts

 Lawmakers in both houses of Congress have introduced legislation to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by using a method that's a throwback to prior U.S. conflicts: war bonds. In the House, war bond legislation was proposed by Rep. Kendrick Meek. Sen. Ben Nelson,...

Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar

" " The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modeled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate. "The move will give the Arab states of oil exporters...

China Just Broke Russia's Monopoly On Central-Asian Natural Gas

"With one flick of a switch, Russia's long-standing dominance and near monopoly over Central Asian natural-gas exports officially came to an end on Monday. The Turkmenistan-China pipeline, which will carry natural gas from eastern ...

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