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01:48 pm | Times247.com Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident who briefly took refuge in the U.S. embassy, recently expressed his hope that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would rescue him. “My fervent hope is that…

Israeli intelligence goes public with opposition to Iran war »

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz walks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.  /Yossi Zeliger/Flash90

12:50 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel’s intelligence community has lost confidence in the government’s policy toward Iran. Most of the senior members of Israel’s intelligence community were said to have lost their trust…

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China demonstrating the will to dominate; West losing the will to resist

May 18 2012 | 12:28 pm: By Lev Navrozov From Moscow, the capital of the slave country founded in 1917, I came to New York, to the 21st floor of a skyscraper. The owners of the slave country had created their radio and television and even their own art and philosophy — in short, they created a new culture, with inevitable [...]

Putin presses offensive on missile defense against U.S. global network

May 15 2012 | 2:27 pm: Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday to be Russian president for a six-year term following a controversial election. The first thing Putin wanted was a guarantee from the U.S. that its missile defense system would not be used against Russia. That puts the Obama administration in a difficult position because [...]

End of Atlanticism and the rise of Germany: The West looks East and yields to unelected bureaucracies

May 10 2012 | 3:34 pm: Gregory Copley, Global Information System Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe have finally led us to the dénouement of the 20th Century. It may presage a new Europe tied more firmly into the Eurasian heartland than [...]

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Sarko, the waffle and the future of France »

01:23 pm | Wesley Pruden Nothing focuses a politician’s mind like staring at oblivion, and reluctantly contemplating himself at the center of that dark and dreary place. Though it may be too late to save himself, Nicolas Sarkozy is scared contrite and humble, a remarkable precedent for a French president. On the eve of Sunday’s voting, he offered…

Marine Le Pen, National Front Party Candidate for the 2012 French presidential election casts her ballot to vote in the first round of the 2012 French presidential election in a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, April 22, 2012. / Pascal Rossignol / Reuters

Collapsing Europe is in crisis and the U.S. bailout option, for once, is not available »

12:31 pm | Sol W. Sanders   [See Archive] Despite the fact that Europe is in the Northern Hemisphere, the downward swirl of the euro this month took a reverse direction and started going left — counterclockwise. Maybe it is the first part of the Mayan prediction that gravity will fail later this year and we will all…

A one euro coin is pictured with a British pound coin. Britain's economy sank back into recession in the first quarter, when it contracted by 0.2 percent amid ongoing state austerity and the eurozone debt crisis, official data shows.  /AFP

Twilight for two once-great civilizations »

01:23 pm | Jeffrey T. Kuhner France’s decay serves as a warning to America. For centuries, Paris was the cradle of Western civilization. The French, however, have hit hard times. Their country is dying, and most French citizens don’t seem to care. This threatens to be our fate as well. France’s first-round presidential elections were held on Sunday.…

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How to solve the piracy scourge? Lethal force seems to work best »

11:59 am | John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There’s been a significant drop in ship seizures and hijackings by Somali pirates in the troubled waters off East Africa. Despite last year’s spike in piracy with 28 vessels captured in the first half of 2011, there were only three ships seized in the second half of the year…

Pirates leave a merchant vessel for the Somali shore, while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship, Oct. 8, 2008.  /Jason R. Zalasky/U.S. Navy/Reuters

Big Government’s nightmare: The Internet »

12:25 pm | Lev Navrozov Even Stalin would have had a very long way to go before becoming the owner of the globe. Russia, which Stalin seized as its absolute owner, had technologically lagged behind the countries with developed capitalist systems. Germany, for example, had become industrialized long before Russia. It is hard to imagine what Russia would…

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Kim Jong-Un’s ‘special actions’ commando group targets S. Korea leadership by name »

12:59 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s new ruler Kim Jong-Un has invented his own military group dedicated to conducting blitzkrieg-style offensives against South Korea, an…

Getting Bin Laden didn’t start with Obama »

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11:43 am | By Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. As we mark the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama deserves credit for making the…

Moscow deploys advanced SA-21 Growler missiles in rebuff to Obama »

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02:04 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a sign of the Kremlin’s increasing hostility toward NATO’s missile defense system, Moscow…

Tensions in Asia-Pacific give rise to multiple war games »

Members of the U.S. Marines Echo Company of the 2nd Marine Division based in Fort Lejeune in North Carolina participate in an Amphibious Assault Exercise in Dingalan Bay, Aurora Province.  /AFP/Arlan Naeg

01:25 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com A series of naval exercises involving troops from China, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and…

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Al Qaida offers Brits swap for release of militant cleric »

Abu Qatada was said to be the right hand man of Osama bin Laden in Europe.

03:08 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Al Qaida’s network in North Africa has demanded a leading Islamic preacher held in Britain. Al Qaida…

South Sudan reports series of wins on the ground but Khartoum controls the air »

Soldiers of South Sudan's SPLA Army at a military base in Bentiu on April 22.  /Reuters/Goran Tomasevic

03:05 pm | Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — South Sudan has reported gains in the ground war against its northern adversary. South Deputy Defense Minister…

Collapsing Europe is in crisis and the U.S. bailout option, for once, is not available »

A one euro coin is pictured with a British pound coin. Britain's economy sank back into recession in the first quarter, when it contracted by 0.2 percent amid ongoing state austerity and the eurozone debt crisis, official data shows.  /AFP

12:31 pm | Sol W. Sanders   [See Archive] Despite the fact that Europe is in the Northern Hemisphere, the downward swirl of the euro…

 

Pirates leave a merchant vessel for the Somali shore, while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship, Oct. 8, 2008.  /Jason R. Zalasky/U.S. Navy/Reuters

How to solve the piracy scourge? Lethal force seems to work best »

11:59 am | John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There’s been a significant drop in ship seizures and hijackings by Somali pirates in the troubled waters off East Africa. Despite last year’s spike…

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