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  • Inheriting the Fireballs of Hell: The Hiroshima Challenge
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    5 Minutes to Midnight, Atomic Time: Half Past Sanity
    Bee Z. Bendigedig Bombshelter.org August 7, 2007
    As the world teeters on the brink of total Armageddon, thanks to a global network of war profiteers, multi-billionaire weapons manufacturers, corrupted politicians, apathetic and sociopathic mobs of industrial consumers, we once again cross the memorial marker of the first atomic bombing of civilian populations on our planet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    Every year, as an American (…)

  • Bush-Bin Laden Black Market Heroin Set to Boom in Afghanistan
    6 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record poppy crop to be harvested in Afghanistan By Matthew Lee Associated Press Saturday, August 4, 2007
    WASHINGTON - Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world’s near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
    As President Bush prepares for weekend talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, divisions within the U.S. (…)

  • Indo-Israeli military ties enter next stage
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    03 August 2007 Indo-Israeli military ties enter next stage
    A US$2.5 billion Indo-Israeli defense project marks a new phase in the two countries’ relations.
    Commentary by P R Kumaraswamy for ISN Security Watch (03/08/07)
    India’s recent decision to develop jointly a new generation of surface-to-air missile with Israel is a quantum leap in the two countries’ relations.
    In early July, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the US$2.5 (…)

  • Rice Backs Appointed Palestinian Premier and Mideast Democracy
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 3, 2007 By HELENE COOPER and STEVEN ERLANGER RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug. 2 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, embracing an appointed Palestinian prime minister here in the West Bank, said Thursday that the United States still supported democracy in the Middle East. But she defended the American refusal to recognize the earlier, elected, Hamas-led government.
    Standing next to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, during a news conference here, Ms. Rice said, “We believe (…)

  • Elbit, Dassault, HAL Team on Mirage Upgrade
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although the contract has not yet been signed, officials with HAL, prime contractor for the $1 billion upgrade program, said Elbit has been selected to supply electronic warfare systems and other avionics. defensenews By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI, NEW DELHI Posted 07/30/07 19:27
    India’s upgrade of 51 Mirage 2000-H combat jets is expected to incorporate avionics from Israel’s Elbit Systems, which has an equity arrangement with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL).
    Although the contract (…)

  • Dubai Aerospace Enterprise acquires Standard Aero and Aviation from Carlyle Group
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is part of an integrated aerospace cluster that is being assembled at Dubai World Central – the new 140 square kilometer airport and logistics city being constructed at Jebel Ali, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The firm is made up of 6 divisions – DAE Airports, DAE Capital, DAE Engineering, DAE Manufacturing, DAE Services, and DAE University. Dubai has long since taken over from Lebanon as the business and financial center of the Middle East, however, (…)

  • Live From Lebanon: The Beirut of the Problem
    3 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    LIVE from Lebanon: The Beirut of the Problem by Trish Schuh
    BEIRUT- Early one peaceful Sunday morning, a Lebanese colleague from the Christian side of the Green Line offered to skip church and give me an Assassins’ Tour of Beirut. "Would you like to trace steps from the Civil War?," she asked. "That would be great," I said. "Why not?" I love a dose of napalm in the morning, as they say...
    We start with drive-by sightings of car bomb locales from the last few weeks and work back (…)

  • More devastating floods hit China
    3 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    More devastating floods hit China
    By Dragan Stankovic 3 August 2007
    Parts of China, especially along the eastern Huai River, have had some of the heaviest rainfalls in 50 years. Continuous rain since mid-June has resulted in widespread flooding, affecting over 119 million people. Anhui, Sichuan and Hubei are the worst-hit provinces.
    At least 3.6 million people have been evacuated, over one million houses have been damaged and another 452,000 destroyed. It is estimated that at least (…)

  • US escalates ME arms race
    1 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US military package for allied Middle East states is designed to create a de facto Sunni Arab front against Iran as the region slips deeper into crisis.
    http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=17927
    31 July 2007 Commentary by Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch (31/07/07)
    A high-level US delegation will hold talks with foreign ministers from allied Arab states in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday on a planned military package for allied Middle East (…)

  • Converging Interests in Iraq Allow Bush an ‘Iranian Option’ - Arabs Threatened
    31 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab – Israeli conflict or India; however several factors are ruling out this window of opportunity, including his militarization of the U.S. foreign policy, obsession with the “regime changes” overseas, his insistence on exploiting to (…)