Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s family is bankrolling Gingrich super PAC
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s family is bankrolling Gingrich super PAC
Of the $2 million in donations reported through the end of 2011 by the Winning Our Future political action committee, which backs Gingrich’s campaign, half came from the daughters and son-in-law of Miriam Adelson, according to filings made to the Federal Election Commission this week.
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Mitt Romney favored for Nevada caucus win; Newt Gingrich looks ahead to Super Tuesday
Mitt Romney favored for Nevada caucus win; Newt Gingrich looks ahead to Super Tuesday
A new poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal shows Romney has the support of 45 percent of Republicans planning to participate in Saturday’s caucuses. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich comes in second, with
Russia and China in the Balance of the Middle East: Syria and other countries
Since
the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been searching for a new
geopolitical balance. All the various models have failed, starting with
the unipolar world order of the New American Century. What emerges is
not the result of an ideology, but a tectonic shift in the global
balance of power, observes geopolitician Imad Fawzi Shueib. The double
Russian and Chinese veto related to the Syrian crisis marks the dawn of
this new world configuration, which is still groping to find its own
operating rules in a complete break with past models.
With the Russian-Chinese joint/double veto as
regards Syria, the French –Anglo-Saxon shock was not taken as a
transient contingency in international strategies. Such a veto was
intended to be a message sent by the emerging economies; china, Russia
and its satellite Eurasian states, in addition to states of the Shanghai
Treaty, to the European and American flagging economies that it is high
time for the crystallization of a new world order after the dominance
of two phases over the international system in the aftermath of the
collapse of the USSR; unipolarity (1991-2006) and non-polarity
(2006-2011). These are not actual world systems due to absence of
international game rules and discord between the phase of unipolarity
and a multinational global economy in the first phase, and to the
inability of the phase of non-polarity to substantially be a
international system.
What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
In this
article Boris Dolgov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and
the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, reports on his recent trip
to Syria. His field investigation is particularly valuable since most of
the information about Syria in recent months has emanated from Beirut,
Paris or London. Professor Dolgov confirms that, far from a contrived
"Arab Spring" scenario, Syria is undeniably grappling with the threat of
foreign occupation. He observes that while the offensive is
inordinately violent, the population will not be intimidated. Aware of
the disaster wrought by NATO "humanitarian" operations in Yugoslavia and
Libya, the Syrians refuse to be drawn into a sectarian ambush. A
process of reform and development is on track, but it will not be
dictated from abroad. In Syria, one may object to the president, but not
to national sovereignty.
Pakistan Slams NATO Leak on Taliban Support
Pakistan on Wednesday hit out angrily at a leaked NATO report
accusing its spies of secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban, saying that
pre-dawn air strikes killed at least 20 local Taliban fighters.
Pakistan's alliance with the United States and NATO plummeted to an all-time low after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26 and Islamabad has since shut its Afghan border to NATO supply convoys.
Pakistan's alliance with the United States and NATO plummeted to an all-time low after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26 and Islamabad has since shut its Afghan border to NATO supply convoys.
The Next War
Not one of the old "frogmen" or young SEALs who gathered this week at
the nearby National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum for their annual Muster want
to see another war. Those who came here are veterans of combat spanning
from World War II to the present war in Iraq and Afghanistan to numerous
other unnamed fights around the globe. Within their ranks are men --
and their families -- who know what it means to go in harm's way, often
without any recognition or public acclaim.
When War Games Go Live. Preparing to Attack Iran. "Simulating World War III"
by Michel Chossudovsky
With ongoing war games
on both sides, armed hostilities between the US-Israel led coalition and
Iran are, according to Israeli military analysts, "dangerously close".
There has been a massive deployment of troops
which have been dispatched to the Middle East, not to mention the
redeployment of US and allied troops previously stationed in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
Nine thousand US troops have been dispatched to
Israel to participate in what is described by the Israeli press as the
largest joint air defense war exercise in Israeli history.
The drill, called “Austere Challenge 12,” is
scheduled to take place within the next few weeks. Its stated purpose
"is to test multiple Israeli and US air defense systems, especially the
“Arrow” system, which the country specifically developed with help from
the US to intercept Iranian missiles."
In the course of December, Iran conducted its own
war games with a major ten days naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz,
(December 24, 2011- January 2, 2012).
Missile defense and naval war games are being
conducted simultaneously. While Israel and the US are preparing to
launch major naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, Tehran has announced
that it plans to conduct major naval exercises in February.
An impressive deployment of troops and advanced military hardware is unfolding.
Meanwhile, Israel has become a de facto US
military outpost. US and Israeli command structures are being
integrated, with close consultations between the Pentagon and Israel's
Ministry of Defense.
A large number of US troops will be stationed in Israel once the war games are completed.
The assumption of this military deployment is the
staging of a joint US-Israeli air attack on Iran. Military escalation
towards a regional war is part of the military scenario.
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