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Bush administration to examine new measures against Syria

Oct 02

WASHINGTON - President Bush and his top aides are weighing new steps against Syria, according to U.S. officials involved in Middle East policy.

Bush's national security team is due to meet Saturday to review policy toward Syria, the officials said. Options range from tougher economic sanctions to limited military action. One official involved in the deliberations said military action is unlikely for now.

The meeting comes as a United Nations investigator nears compl... (more)

UK backs Afghan troop expansion

BBC

Oct 01

Nato troops should be sent to volatile south Afghanistan to boost security and counter the drugs trade, Defence Minister John Reid has said.

Mr Reid, who is visiting Afghanistan, said differences within Nato on whether its troops should take an offensive role would have to be "worked through".

France, Germany and Spain believe Nato troops should keep to peacekeeping.

Nato has 12,000 peacekeepers mainly in the more stable north and west. The UK takes c... (more)

Israelis urge U.S. to stop Iran's nuke goals

Washington Times

Sep 30

The United States and its allies must act to stop Iran's nuclear programs -- by force if necessary -- because conventional diplomacy will not work, three senior Israeli lawmakers from across the political spectrum warned yesterday.
As a last resort, they said, Israel itself would act unilaterally to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms.

Iran will not be deterred "by anything short of a threat of force," said Arieh Eldad, a member of Israel's right-wing National Union Pa... (more)

Russia prepared to pay entire foreign debt to Paris Club ahead of schedule

Pravda

Sep 30

During the annual Moscow conference "Investments in Russian economy: a key to success" organized by international financial group Brunswick UNS, Russian PM Mikhail Fradkov and Minister of Finance Aleksey Kudrin made several important statements concerning the present economic situation in Russia and perspectives of the nation's economic development. Fradkov, in particular, described the situation in Russian economy as stable and confirmed that the government rejected using resources of the Stabi... (more)

UK rules out Iran military action

BBC

Sep 28

The UK foreign secretary says military action is still inconceivable against Iran and he hopes diplomacy can solve deadlock over its nuclear programme.

US President George W Bush has refused to rule out military strikes against Iran, which Washington accuses of wanting to develop nuclear weapons.

"It is not on the agenda, I happen to think that it is inconceivable," Jack Straw told BBC radio.

Iran insists its nuclear activities are purely peaceful, to... (more)

U.S. Promises to Leave Airbase in Uzbekistan

MosNews

Sep 28

A U.S. senior official has confirmed Washington would leave an Uzbek airbase that Tashkent asked it to quit after the U.S. criticized Uzbekistan’s human rights record, Reuters reported.

Daniel Fried, U.S. assistant secretary of state in the bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, came to the Central Asian state amid a worsening of ties between the two countries that cooperated to overthrow Afghanistan’s Taliban militia.

Former Soviet Uzbekistan had allo... (more)

With Open Gates: Watch The New Anti-Immigration Film Going Viral Across Europe

InformationLiberation

Nov 16

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC

"With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations" is a new anti-immigration film released on November 9th which is going viral across Europe. The video was disabled on YouTube due to copyrighted music from a French compos... (more)