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It created a structure that allowed for economic development but assured the dominance of the Communist Party. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was designed to change the balance of power in the Persian Gulf after the Iraq-Iran war and tested the...
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Osama bin Laden is dead, yet his creation lives on as an ideological anointer of aspiring terrorist fronts. Al Qaeda-linked groups kill and maim regularly in lands from Afghanistan to Yemen and from Algeria to Somalia, plus such in-between places as...
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Gasoline tax expenses will cover more than half of the total $476 billion six-year commitment. As much as $231 billion would be financed through savings dedicated to reduce military spending as a result of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Obama’s plan...
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It is ironic that our Nobel Laureate President is seemingly unable to grasp the strategic logic of the Iranian bid for the bomb and prefers to parrot George W. Bushs mantra that all options must remain open. Instead of threatening a military action...
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Systems hinted at the possibility of more job cuts yesterday as Britain's biggest defence manufacturer announced disappointing results for 2011 with sales expected to remain stagnant this year. Posting a 7-per cent drop in full-year profit to Ł2.02...
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Nichola, WfWI-Iraq’s Life Skills and Sponsorship Manager, recently shared his thoughts on the challenges Iraq’s most vulnerable women face and the security situation in the month and a half since the US troop withdrawal from Iraq. The US completed...
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Barack Obama has employed ad nauseam—once in his State of the Union address, twice in the course of remarks last month at the unveiling of the Pentagon's new military strategy document, once again during his speech at the United Nations, also in his...
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BAE Systems forecast flat sales this year after reporting a 7 per cent fall in 2011 profit, hit by continued cuts to military spending by the United States and Britain. Revenues fell 14 per cent to £19.15 billion (Dh111 billion) after the US army cut...
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10 years through a mix of tax increases, caps on spending and savings in other areas, but specifics are lacking and such long-term commitments have historically proved unreliable. There is also budget trickery in accounting for hundreds of billions of...
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Ban Ki-moon says Iranian exiles should be relocated from Iraq's Camp Ashraf to their new home "without further delay." The camp houses several thousand members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran: Iranians once allied with Saddam Hussein. ...
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In fact, Israel is the only country receiving US aid to be above the 50th percentile economically – Israel is ranked in the richest one-third of countries in the world. The US State Department will receive a 10% decrease in funding for its programs in...
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Of that amount, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who oversees the CIA, National Counterterrorism Centre and other agencies, requested $52.6-billion. The Pentagon's budget begins to add flesh to the bones of its new defence strategy,...
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With the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the completion of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan next year, a large portion of the Pentagon’s fleet of 7,500 combat drones will return to the U.S. The Pentagon is urging the FAA to open U.S. airspace to the...
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3, which encourages voluntary repatriation at government expense, while at the same time imposing an automatic ban on the deployment of Filipino workers in that country. The DFA explained that the alert level stemmed from the "higher-than-expected surge...
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The president's spending plan calls for a Pentagon base budget of $525.4 billion, about $5.1 billion, or 1 percent, less than approved in 2012. The cost of U.S. wars abroad would fall 23 percent, to $88.5 billion from $115 billion, primarily due to the...
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