Being Realistic About the China Threat
Item: In an article entitled “China’s military bluster camouflages toothless bite,” Reuters reported on March 8, "China’s military has far to...
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Opposition Candidates Arrested in Iraq After Maliki’s Party Losses
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's party, the State of Law Coalition, lost the March 7 parliamentary elections in a fractured vote, but...
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Socialist Chavez Arrests More Critics
In his latest paranoid crackdown on free speech, socialist Venezuelan “President” Hugo Chavez arrested the chief of the last critical television network as...
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Afghanistan’s Karzai Meets With Insurgents
The Washington Post has reported that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met with representatives of Hizb-i-Islami — a major Taliban-linked insurgent group —...
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“Quartet” Meets For Middle East Talks
The quartet — a group comprised of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations that focuses on Middle East...
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German Austerity Draws Ire
Germany, which has a higher rate of savings and a lower government debt than other nations in the European Union, is being criticized...
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Protestors in Cuba Dragged Off by Police
Members of a Cuban opposition group known as the “Ladies in White” were hauled away by Cuban police on Wednesday after...
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Pakistan Indicts Five Americans for Terrorism
Major news sources reported on March 17 that five U.S. men who were arrested in Pakistan in December were charged this day with...
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Escalating Chaos on Our Border
The escalating violence along the Mexico-U.S. border has reached new levels of ferocity, as rival Mexican drug cartels battle each other and, simultaneously,...
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A New “Greek Tragedy”
Let us be perfectly clear: The fiscal woes of Greece, one of the European Union’s weaker economies to begin with, are quite likely...
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UK Nixes Climate-change Ads
The United Kingdom has banned two government-funded advertisements for exaggerating claims of catastrophic man-made global warming. The independent media watchdog organization, Advertising Standards...
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Resurgent Communism in Latin America
Many Cuban refugees risked everything to escape the murderous regime of Fidel Castro. Oftentimes they made treacherous voyages aboard rickety rafts, hoping only...
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Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America
Olavo de Carvalho, an author and philosopher, is renowned as one of Brazil’s preeminent thinkers. He played a leading role in exposing subversive...
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Climate-change Nepotism
The United Nations is launching an independent review of its climate agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has weathered harsh...
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Iceland Debt Small Part of Global Debt Crisis
Iceland’s recent vote not to repay billions of dollars owed to Britain and the Netherlands underscores the growing risk involved in bailing out...
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