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Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/9/2012 6:46 PM | Add Comment

“Bottom line is we moved away from the disaster scenario and now it’s being endorsed or even underwritten by central bank activity in the U.S. and Europe.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/8/2012 7:17 AM | Add Comment

The Kremlin is sensitive to the perception that Russia, Mr. Assad’s strongest foreign backer, had given the Syrian leader a green light to crush his political opponents.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/8/2012 7:12 AM | Add Comment

Americans have been frustrated by what they see as Iraqi obstructionism and are now largely confined to the embassy because of security concerns, unable to interact enough with ordinary Iraqis to justify the $6 billion annual price tag.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/8/2012 7:09 AM | Add Comment

The new restrictions also raised new warnings to financial institutions in other nations that they could face big penalties in the United States if they did business with Iran’s central bank.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/7/2012 6:52 AM | Add Comment

Moscow and Beijing now have the blood of Syria’s valiant people on their hands as well.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/7/2012 6:51 AM | Add Comment

The United States closed its embassy in Syria

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/6/2012 11:01 AM | Add Comment

Ever since President Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. presidents upon taking office have asked the same question: Why does the country need so many nuclear weapons?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 4:36 PM | Add Comment

A report by the Syrian state news agency, SANA, complained of “frenetic media campaigns against Syria disseminating false information about Syria Army shelling of civilians.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 7:59 AM | Add Comment

“We are a snowball,” she said, “and we are rolling.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 7:57 AM | Add Comment

“The president said in June that when the drawdown of surge forces is complete in September, U.S. troops will continue coming home..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 7:55 AM | Add Comment

But since the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran died in 1989, they made do with a larger-than-life-size cutout of the leader.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:49 AM | Add Comment

Protesters and police square off in Cairo as anger mounts with the country's interim military government.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:47 AM | Add Comment

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, has said it is “premature” to resort to military force because sanctions are starting to have an impact on Iran.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:37 AM | Add Comment

Iran has refused to address the issue for three years now."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:20 AM | Add Comment

Driven Away by a War, Now Stalked by Winter’s Cold

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:17 AM | Add Comment

The atomic agency, which is the nuclear proliferation monitor of the United Nations, has long tried to get Tehran to address what it calls evidence of the “military dimensions” of Iran’s nuclear program.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/3/2012 7:25 PM | Add Comment

“A nuclear-armed Iran is not imminent and it is not inevitable. These dire warnings are irresponsible and they don’t align with the best information of the U.S intelligence community.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/2/2012 5:55 AM | Add Comment

“My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity,” Romney Declared.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/1/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

“My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity,” Romney Declared.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/1/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

“So getting exactly to what the French bottom line is hasn’t been easy for them, much less for us.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/1/2012 6:55 PM | Add Comment

Russia’s long ties to Syria generate billions of dollars in weapons sales, plus the relationship gives Moscow the entree it needs to the table for Middle East peace talks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

For Soldier Disfigured in War, a Way to Return to the World

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:41 AM | Add Comment

He said it made sense for Hamas to lower its profile at a time when its Islamist allies want to be seen in a better light in the West.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:38 AM | Add Comment

Anticipating this, the State Department began developing its own drone operations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

We know that it is politically easier to continue programs that outlive their usefulness or outrun their cost estimates — especially when Republican politicians are so eager to promise the Pentagon a blank check.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:32 AM | Add Comment

The chamber is all but powerless, and many anticipate that it will be eliminated when a new constitution is written.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:20 AM | Add Comment

Russia’s deputy foreign minister: “We cannot support any U.N. resolution calling for the support of Assad’s resignation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:51 PM | Add Comment

“We have decided in a common agreement with President Karzai to ask NATO to consider a total handing of NATO combat missions to the Afghan Army over the course of 2013,” Mr. Sarkozy said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:49 PM | Add Comment

“I want to mention the main lesson of the Holocaust when it comes to our fate. We can only rely on ourselves.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:01 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Panetta has repeatedly stated that he will preserve funding for Special Operations forces, cyberwarfare and intelligence

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/26/2012 7:05 PM | Add Comment

“We will cooperate with everyone,” Essam el-Erian, a senior leader of the Brotherhood’s party, said at the news conference, “the people, the Parliament, the cabinet and military council.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/23/2012 6:23 AM | Add Comment

"The strongest appeal of unmanned systems is that we don’t have to send someone’s son or daughter into harm’s way."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/22/2012 7:47 AM | Add Comment

Recently, two research teams — one at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and the other at the University of Wisconsin, Madison — announced that they had produced a form of H5N1

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 8:19 PM | Add Comment

“The sense of hatred is growing rapidly,” said an Afghan Army colonel. He described his troops as “thieves, liars and drug addicts,” but also said that the Americans were “rude, arrogant bullies who use foul language.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 5:58 AM | Add Comment

Suicides among active-duty soldiers hit another record high in 2011

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 5:50 AM | Add Comment

In response, the Mexican government deployed its military and the federal police

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/19/2012 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Israel has kept open the possibility of military action against Iran, saying that a credible threat is necessary to back up the sanctions effort.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/18/2012 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Killed by a U.S. drone...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Under the terms of the legislation, Mr. Obama must, within 180 days, cut off access to the United States to any public or private financial institution that buys oil through the Central Bank of Iran.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 6:40 AM | Add Comment

“The control regime, if you call it that, is still trying to catch up,” he said. “If their approach is too stringent, they risk a blowback.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 6:38 AM | Add Comment

“Russia is sort of a perfect storm for cybercrime,” he said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 6:27 AM | Add Comment

In the final weeks of the military withdrawal, the son of Iraq’s prime minister began evicting Western companies and contractors from the heavily fortified Green Zone

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/16/2012 7:03 PM | Add Comment

Most defense spending goes to personnel and operations costs, which are based on the number of troops we have. For 2016, the CBO projected these to cost more than $350 billion

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2012 7:35 PM | Add Comment

"The Paul campaign likes to point out that it receives more money from America’s men in uniform than anybody else."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2012 7:03 PM | Add Comment

“It’s a very dangerous business. The vacuum will eventually be filled. By whom, we don’t know.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2012 7:06 AM | Add Comment

“A day of reckoning will come,” he said. “And I am asking the Egyptian people to keep a record of every case of torture and oppression and the violation of personal liberty.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2012 7:03 AM | Add Comment

“The people gave their approval of our efforts to put aside disagreements and focus on peace on both sides of the straits, turning crisis into economic opportunity,” Mr. Ma told his supporters.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2012 7:02 AM | Add Comment

In the past, the military has ended frustrations with civilian governments with coups, in 1958, 1969, 1977 and 1999.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/14/2012 6:46 AM | Add Comment

http://debka.com/

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/13/2012 7:17 PM | Add Comment

The United States, and Europe, have moved aggressively to block Iran’s ability to sell oil

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/13/2012 6:45 AM | Add Comment

NATO and some Persian Gulf countries are preparing military intervention in Syria, the head of Russia’s security council said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 11:13 PM | Add Comment

“Iran is one of China’s biggest petroleum suppliers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 6:33 AM | Add Comment

“I think the cocktail of diplomacy, of sanctions, of covert activity might bring us something,” the former official said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 6:32 AM | Add Comment

The killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May added momentum to the peace efforts, underscoring the increasingly limited ties between Al Qaeda and the remaining Taliban.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 6:31 AM | Add Comment

Almost exactly two years ago in January 2010, a physics professor, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was also assassinated in Tehran.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/11/2012 7:39 PM | Add Comment

The bombing, which a city official said was similar to attacks a year ago on nuclear scientists in Iran, came as the United States sought to persuade a skeptical China to help efforts to toughen sanctions against Iran.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/11/2012 5:09 AM | Add Comment

“I wouldn’t discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons,” he said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/10/2012 7:16 AM | Add Comment

“Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/9/2012 8:31 AM | Add Comment

“We know that Al Qaeda’s leaders were constantly taking the U.S. counterterrorism operations into account, spending considerable time planning their movements and protecting their communications to try to stay alive.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/8/2012 9:13 AM | Add Comment

"The president I know and worked for is deeply committed to the peace and security of a Jewish state of Israel."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/8/2012 9:12 AM | Add Comment

Indeed, everyone feels more empowered now. The army has its guns and now runs the country; both the Islamists and the liberals have won electoral mandates

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/8/2012 8:52 AM | Add Comment

Overcapacity is the sector's main headwind. There are 576 supertankers on the water now, and 78 are due to be delivered this year, even as demand for shipments has decreased—owing to the economic slowdown and domestic energy discoveries in the U.S.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/7/2012 8:20 AM | Add Comment

“The regime wants to frighten us with these explosions, but we will continue our peaceful demonstrations until we see Bashar out of the country and out of power.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/7/2012 8:16 AM | Add Comment

Pirates!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 7:55 PM | Add Comment

“He is the one with the interest in oppressing these protests and in killing the protesters who only went out to call for his ouster,” Mr. Suleiman added.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 6:43 AM | Add Comment

"The fiscal crisis has made that more urgent."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 6:20 AM | Add Comment

Said David L. Goldwyn, former State Department coordinator for international energy affairs. “We would take out their frigates.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/5/2012 6:42 AM | Add Comment

“The place to get Iran’s attention is in the oil sector.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/4/2012 7:47 PM | Add Comment

In its investigations into the collapse, the central bank found that Kabul Bank’s management maintained two sets of books — a false set in Kabul and a genuine set in Dubai

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/4/2012 6:18 AM | Add Comment

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not repeat its warning.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/3/2012 6:28 PM | Add Comment

“Even at a trillion dollars, this is a shallower build-down than any of the last three we’ve done. It would still be the world’s most dominant military. We would be in an arms race with ourselves.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/3/2012 7:16 AM | Add Comment

“The Koch case was a classic case of environmental crime, significant violations of law occurring alongside widespread efforts to conceal those violations, which Koch has admitted."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/3/2012 6:58 AM | Add Comment

“There is nothing more important for people than poppies, and there is nothing more productive for people than poppies.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/2/2012 6:13 AM | Add Comment

In the name of maintaining stability, the interception and detention of petitioners seems perfectly reasonable, and higher-ups look the other way.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/2/2012 5:50 AM | Add Comment

“Certainly, this type of award falls far short of expectations....It appears to be fairly disappointing for Exxon Mobil.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Casualty Count for Two Major Wars...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 7:37 AM | Add Comment

"Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding, true to the instructions of the great General Kim Jong-il," read the editorial.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 7:17 AM | Add Comment

While cartel leaders kept money, houses and families in the capital, they were extremely cautious about unleashing violence on its streets.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 7:14 AM | Add Comment

“It is our duty not to take the food from our orphans, so I threw a bowl of food in the director’s face and fired him and the cook.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 7:01 AM | Add Comment

And if Iran did build a nuclear bomb, he said, “What are the odds of them using it? Probably zero. They just are not going to commit suicide. The Israelis have 300 of them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/31/2011 7:11 AM | Add Comment

Egypt’s generals claim that they are protecting their country.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/31/2011 6:57 AM | Add Comment

Ten prisoners from the paramilitary Irish Republican Army starved themselves to death in a protest that lasted from March until October.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/31/2011 6:54 AM | Add Comment

The government still has not let journalists travel to the country, as it had promised.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/30/2011 6:55 PM | Add Comment

“You should choose your fights wisely,” he said. “If it’s not there, don’t invent something, don’t shed blood needlessly.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/30/2011 7:05 AM | Add Comment

“There was a big hype at the time -- it was, ‘here we go, we’re going to take care of it and it’s going to last 90 days.’”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 7:10 PM | Add Comment

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Cairo and J. David Goodman from New York.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 6:56 PM | Add Comment

“Boeing views Saudi Arabia as a market with great potential and has made it a priority to invest in Saudi Arabia’s aviation industry,” said Boeing Chairman Jim McNerney

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 6:54 PM | Add Comment

The agreement is part of a broader 10-year, $60 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia that Congress approved a year ago.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 6:48 PM | Add Comment

In a speech to the crowd, he also called on the North Koreans to “solidify the monolithic leadership” of Kim Jong-un.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 6:34 AM | Add Comment

Those sanctions have not targeted Iran’s oil exports, the world’s third largest. But in recent weeks, the European Union has talked openly of imposing a boycott on Iranian oil

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/28/2011 7:32 PM | Add Comment

“I was among those who helped President Putin stabilize the political system. I was among those who helped President Medvedev liberalize it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/27/2011 6:12 PM | Add Comment

“Our motto is friendship and brotherhood, but Westerners are not willing to abandon their plots.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/27/2011 6:11 PM | Add Comment

And nothing could be more contrarian, in the early years of the last decade, than for a hero of the left to embrace George W. Bush. It breathed new life into Hitchens

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/27/2011 6:08 PM | Add Comment

The C.I.A. has conducted 64 missile attacks in Pakistan using drones this year, compared with 117 last year and 53 in 2009, according to The Long War Journal

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/26/2011 9:19 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama, his aides said, is adamant that the United States will not send troops back to Iraq.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/25/2011 9:04 AM | Add Comment

“I can see that there are enough people here to seize the Kremlin,” said Mr. Navalny

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/25/2011 9:01 AM | Add Comment

“This is not a guy who has any interest in compromising.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/24/2011 9:52 AM | Add Comment

“Under the dying wishes of Comrade Kim Jong-il, we will follow our peerless leader and respected comrade Kim Jong-un to the ends of earth and heaven.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/24/2011 9:45 AM | Add Comment

“We’re buying down risk,” Mr. Shapiro

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/23/2011 10:07 AM | Add Comment

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