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The Creeping Talibanization In Pakistan has Developed into a Full Gallop

Written by MEMRI

May 10, 2009
Pakistani Author Ahmed Rashid: 'The Pakistani Taliban Movement is Turning Into a Multiethnic Movement [Not Limited to Pashtuns]; I No Longer Say That There's a Creeping Talibanization In Pakistan – It's a Galloping Talibanization'
MEMRI.org

In a lecture delivered in Karachi on ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:55

China Cited for Religious Rights Abuses

Written by Sarah Page

May 10, 2009

Foreign Ministry spokesman asserts ‘full religious freedom' despite arrests, torture.

By Sarah Page

DUBLIN, May 8 (Compass Direct News) - A U.S. government body cited increased harassment, imprisonment and torture of members of unregistered religious groups in China last year, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 09 May 2009 20:16

Strategic Failure: Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Report

Written by Ivan Oelrich and Hans M. Kristensen

May 6, 2009
By Ivan Oelrich and Hans M. Kristensen
FAS Strategic Security Blog

It is not in the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission reportpublished today that the President should look for new ideas on how to reduce the role of nuclear weapons and lead the world toward nuclear ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 May 2009 12:47

Lebanon in Advance of Elections

Written by Amir Kulick

May 6, 2009
by Amir Kulick
INSS Insight No. 104,

From its inception, Lebanon has been a mosaic of diverse communities: Sunnis, Shiites, Christians (with all their sects), Druze, and Alawites. The ability of these groups to exist as a state in the area between Jebel Amal in the south and Tripoli ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 May 2009 02:49

Clinton Says Ideology 'So Yesterday' -- Marxists Disagree

Written by Toby Westerman

May 6, 2009

International News Analysis Today
By Toby Westerman

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently declared that "...ideology...is so yesterday."Several days after Clinton made her statement, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, publically described himself as a ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 18:32

'Al-Hayat' Interview With U.S. Ambassador To The U.N. Susan Rice

Written by Memri

May 5, 2009
Memri.org
Special Dispatch
No. 2339
In an interview with the London daily Al-Hayat, published May 1, 2009, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Dr. Susan Rice answered questions regarding the Obama administration's positions on Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and Sudan. Following are excerpts from ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 16:39

The Geopolitics of Pandemics

Written by George Friedman

May 5, 2009
by George Friedman
Stratfor.com
Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of ...

Playing politics with national security

Written by Bob Steinburg

April 30, 2009
By: Bob Steinburg
A Conservative's Viewpoint

There are those abroad who hate or resent America. The reasons are varied but generally it evolves around the disparity of national wealth, prosperity and influence we have over the rest of the world. America continues to be a ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:54

Somali Government Condemns Insurgent Moves to Annex Parts of Kenya

Written by VOA

April 28, 2009
By Peter Clottey
Washington, D.C
Voice of America
The new Somali government has sharply condemned threats of fresh attacks on neighboring Kenya by hard-line Islamic insurgent group al-Shabab. The group, which has refused to recognize President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:51

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