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Those deepening ties worry US officials because Iranian Spies around the world have been known

the Bush administration, Israel and other governments worry that Venezuela is emerging as a base for anti-US militant groups and spy services, ...

In June, the US Treasury Department designated two Venezuelan citizens as Hezbollah supporters and froze their US assets. Treasury officials formally ...

Hezbollah and Iran accused Israel and promised revenge, putting Western authorities on guard against attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets around the world. ...

... drug and diamond trade in South America and elsewhere, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute For Near East Policy, told Congress in 2005. ...

... Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute For Near East Policy, told Congress in 2005. Three years ago, police in Colombia and Ecuador broke ...

The creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank after World War II was intended to encourage Third World countries to borrow money from ...

The corporations ignore basic human needs, seeking to control world resources by encouraging the US government to build more and more military bases around ...

On June 15, 2001, China, Russia and four of their central Asian neighbors, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, established the Shanghai ...

Michel Chossudovsky, "The Global Crisis: Food, Water, Fuel. Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy," June 5, 2008. www.globalresearch.com ...

In particular, the former Serbian province of Kosovo was occupied by US troops in order to build Camp Bondsteel, among the largest military bases ever ...

Standard Democrat rhetoric, complete with standard flourishes and gestures. She also echoed her husband's tone of the prophet, claiming that this was where ...

Robert Grant, FBI Special Agent in Charge, told the Times that he had reorganized the bureau to add a third public corruption squad, giving Chicago the ...

On May 14, 2007, during a meeting with the afl-cio in New Jersey, Obama was asked about Wal-Mart and he said: "I won't shop there. ...

More than that, actually, it is to establish such experience as critical to his mission in the White House, essential to what America needs. ...

If he becomes the nominee, the web of corruption leading to Obama's rise to power that this investigative journalist was able to untangle in less than three ...

It joins Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and other states that will decide the election. You will be hearing a lot about them this fall and ...

In the US Senate, Vermont was once represented by George Aiken and Jim Jeffords, Massachusetts by Edward Brooke, Connecticut by Lowell Weicker, Rhode Island ...

DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire - It is no surprise that the delegation from New Hampshire has a prominent position on the floor and on the program of the ...

Joe Biden, who is set to make his debut as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in Denver tomorrow night, today reflected the high expectations ...

But speaking to delegates from his home state this morning, he acknowledged the expectation raised about an Obama administration, drawing a parallel with ...

But others at the convention argued that it will not be easy to rein Biden in, given he is much more experienced in foreign policy than Obama and that, ...

Another asset on the campaign trail is that Biden, aged 65, from a Catholic working-class background in Scranton, Pennsylvania, might make a better job than ...

... by the Pakistan government towards the Taliban and al-Qaida elements inside i

"All vice-presidents since (Walter) Mondale (vice-president from 1977-81) have played a more important role than had historically been the case. ...

26, 2008, in FOB Fenty, Afghanistan, after being shot in Waygul, Afghanistan. The department was investigating the death and said Kahler might have been ...

26, 2007, outside of Baghdad when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device. He was training Iraqi police officers as a contractor with Falls ...

17, 2003, in an ambush on his patrol near Balad. 4. army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick Dorff, 32, of Minneapolis, died Jan. 25, 2004, when his helicopter ...

1, 2005, when buried artillery shells were detonated outside an abandoned flour mill the Marines had been using as a temporary patrol base in Fallujah. 31. ...

... 34, a native of St. Paul and Golden Valley, died May 5, 2006 when his

Prime Minister Maliki's Shiite-dominated government risks security gains by taking on US-backed Sunni forces. By Shawn Brimley and Colin Kahl There is a ...

Much of Iraq's dramatic securit

David H. Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, we are convinced that if Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and his advisors persist in this sectarian agenda, ...

But Iraq's predominantly Shiite central government seems intent on doing precisely that. Maliki and his advisors never really accepted the Sunni Awakening, ...

After returning from a trip to Iraq last month at the invitation of army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, we are convinced that if Iraqi ...

"These people are like cancer, and we must remove them," an Iraqi Army general in Abu Ghraib, a Baghdad suburb, told a reporter last week. ...

The President reminded them that America achieved many technological breakthroughs in World War Two-not just the atomic bomb, but also radar, sonar, ...

Only now, with the proper perspective of time, can we see that the US prevailed by reapplying the wisdom of Ronald Reagan. Indeed, the Reagan Doctrine was ...

Indeed, a writer for a mainstream publication, Newsweek, went so far as to say that George W. Bush was practicing appeasement on the Russians. ...

For example, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles were a mainstay of the US Air Force long before 2008, but the major breakthrough came when those UAVs could be powered ...

... about guerrillas melting into a sympathetic local population-because the local population was almost entirely Ossetians and Abkhazians, loyal to Russia. ...

The Khalilzad-Zardari contacts were first reported by the New York T

Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) - Gunmen opened fire on the top US diplomat in northwestern Pakistan early Tuesday as she left for work in her armored vehicle, ...

Masood did not think Western allies should scale back their presence, however, saying that would only embolden al-Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants and ...

It also rejected a militant cease-fire offer in Bajur, a rumored hiding place for Osama bin Laden, where an army offensive has reportedly killed hundreds in ...

... though mainly in tribal regions where US officials say Insurgents have found safe havens from which to plan attacks on American and NATO forces across ...

In contrast, cricket was not an official Olympic event but is an extremely important sport in the UK (#4) and Australia (#6) as well as in countries not in ...

For a detailed history of the US contribution to this carnage see William Blum's "Rogue State". For a detailed history and "body count" of this horrendous ...

... Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Palestine and Pakistan (whose Waziristan villages are being bombed by the US) gained no medals of any kind. ...

... Morocco (2), Tajikistan (2), Chile (1), Ecuador, (1), Iceland (1), Malaysia (1), Netherlands Antilles (1), Singapore (1), South Africa (1), Sudan (1), ...