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Afghan Narcotics Efforts Called Into Question
Thomas Schweich, recently retired principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and coordinator for counternarcotics...
Chile’s Social Security Success
Think of the United States as a latter-day Titanic. Super-modern. Super-rich. And heading for an iceberg of colossal proportions. Unthinkable? So, too, was...
Read moreKasparov Analyzes the Games of Mugabe, Putin, and Medvedev
Western political leaders and media pundits expressed outrage at the friendly reception accorded Zimbabwe’s defiant dictator, Robert Mugabe, by fellow African leaders at...
Read moreMugabe Maintains Stranglehold on Zimbabwe
On June 22, Zimbabwean opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from his race to unseat dictator Robert Mugabe, who has terrorized Zimbabwe for more...
Read moreRussian “Merchant of Death” Still Held in Thailand
For more than a decade and a half, Viktor Bout has been fueling the most savage wars and terrorist operations in Africa, Asia,...
Read moreBringing the KGB’s Top Afghani “Islamist” Back to Power
U.S. troops in Afghanistan may soon find themselves squeezed in a new political power play in Kabul. Gulbadin Hekmatyar, leader of the radical...
Read moreChina Loosens One-child Policy Due to Earthquake Toll
Chinese officials announced on May 26 that owing to the massive devastation caused by the May 12 earthquake, the communist regime’s harsh family...
Read moreMexican Police Fleeing Drug Cartel Assassins
The escalating violence by Mexico’s various drug cartels has taken a heavy toll on Mexico’s police forces in recent months, with the month...
Read moreIran Drops the Dollar, Begins Selling Its Oil in Euros
On the last day of April, according to a CNN report, Iran’s government confirmed that it has begun selling its oil in euros...
Read moreOngoing Conflict in Tibet
On April 18, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi — who is in Japan as an advance...
Read moreIan Smith and the Fall of Rhodesia
Ian Smith's passing at age 88 on November 20 merited a few mentions in the mainstream press. Unsurprisingly, much of what was written...
Read moreThe Real Terror Paymasters
The KGB has long sponsored the Muslim fundamentalist groups that have now become a global terror network carrying out the Marxist-Leninist revolution in...
Read moreWho’s Who in Terrorism
The following article surveys the "Islamist" terror groups PLO/al-Fatah, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and their connections to the international terror network sponsored by the...
Read moreBehind Islamic Terror
Syria and Iran are scorned in much of the Western world for supporting terrorism, but neither one is the puppeteer directing the worldwide...
Read morePutin’s Russia
"KGB influence 'soars under Putin,'" blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline...
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