Tag Archives: Venezuela

John J.  Xenakis

15-Jan-12 World View — Consensus Is Growing For Military Action In Syria

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Qatar now favors military action in Syria to ’stop the killing’ Arab League observer in Syria says his life was threatened Incumbent Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou wins close reelection bid Iran seeks revenge for killing of nuclear scientist Venezuela’s Chávez says U.S. is giving cancer to Latin leaders Qatar now favors military action in Syria [...]
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Sun Tzu

WaPo: Obama Foreign Policy an Abject Failure

Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post has a devastating take down of Obama’s failures in foreign policy.  An excerpt: Peace Prize winner,  foreign policy failure? Here again there appears to be a disconnect between Obama’s 1970s-vintage ideas and the real world of the early 21st century. There’s nothing wrong, and modest good, in extending Cold War nuclear conventions [...]
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Rachel Ehrenfeld

Failing to Deal, Dealing to Fail: US Response to Iran Aggression Fumbling, Tepid

The inflation of the Administration’s rhetoric at the expense of action has not deterred Iran in the slightest in the past. The U.S. lack of leadership seems to have been welcomed by our ostensible allies, who appear quite happy to be only secondary targets of the Islamic Republic.
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Secure Freedom Radio

Roger Noriega: Civil War In Venezuela

Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: Is Iran contracting with the drug cartels in Mexico to kill people in the United States? Weekly commentator at Secure Freedom Radio and Visiting Fellow at AEI, Roger Noriega offers his insight on this topic, among other Latin American issues. What is of paramount concern to Noriega is that there is [...]
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Ilan   Berman

The Iranian Terrorism Plot: How Bad Is Our Homeland Security Capability?

On Tuesday, the Obama administration dropped what amounts to a major bombshell when it announced that the FBI had successfully disrupted a plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the United States being planned by the Qods Force, the paramilitary arm of Iran’s clerical army, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Friends…or enemies? On one level, the news isn’t [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

3-Oct-11 World View — Greece Misses Requirements For Next Bailout Payment

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece misses requirements for next bailout payment * Greece’s banks face nationalization * Terrorist groups in Pakistan are splintering into smaller groups * US aids Uzbekistan despite human rights record * Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns that Israel is too isolated * Venezuela’s Chavez promises China all the oil it needs * China using Tibetan [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

1-Aug-11 World View — Syria’s Regime Massacres Hundreds

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria’s regime massacres hundreds of peaceful citizens as Ramadan approaches Smoke rises in the city of Hama on July 31, 2011 (Reuters) Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad increased the level of slaughter and massacres of peaceful Syrian protesters on Sunday, with armored tank attacks on unarmed citizens in cities across the country. [...]
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José Kalosha

Where Do You Bury Hugo Chavez?

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, has returned from a lengthy medical stay in Cuba. It seems  doctors removed a puss infection from his colon and cancerous parts of his colon. There have been few details as to what stage of colon cancer he has and will the cancer  be fatal. Hugo Chavez will either have [...]
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John J.  Xenakis

11-Jul-11 World View — Euro Crisis Reaches Italy

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Emergency EU meeting on Monday will discuss crisis in Italy Italy 10-year bond yields (Bloomberg) A sharp spike in Italy’s bond yields (interest rates) on Friday, combined with the fact that Italy has the highest sovereign debt ratio relative to its economy in the euro zone after Greece, is raising crisis [...]
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Secure Freedom Radio

Roger Noriega: Hezbollah in Latin America

Former Ambassador to the O.A.S, Roger Noriega testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence about Hezbollah’s long standing, well financed, and kinetically capable assets in Latin America.  The threat is incredible and it is ghastly that the American press doesn’t make more of it.  Luckily for the Secure [...]
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