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  • Rubio says Russia-Ukraine talks at 'logjam,' Trump-Putin meeting needed for breakthrough

    05/15/2025 11:05:17 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 5/15/2025 | Humeyra Pamuk
    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the only way a breakthrough will happen in the efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine would be through direct talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Moscow sent a second-tier team to talks in Turkey. Rubio, who spoke to reporters in Antalya, said he would travel to Istanbul for meetings on Friday with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and a Ukrainian delegation, but said he did not have high expectations for the talks. "I don't think we're going to have a breakthrough here until the president...
  • No Venezuelan Spring: 4500 Cuban Military on Venezuelan Soil: $10B Annual US Subsidy at Stake

    01/08/2013 5:53:27 PM PST · by maggiesnotebook · 3 replies
    Maggie's Notebook ^ | 1-8-13 | Maggie@MaggiesNotebook
    The Miami Herald is reporting Hugo Chávez early demise was recognized long before the rest of the world was privvy to the details of a late diagnosed and lethal cancer. With the help of Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl, and Chávez' hand-picked successor Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan presidential election was moved from December 2012 to October 2012, two months that the report says were crucial. In October Chávez could still stand before his supporters to applaud his re-election, but there was no certainty that he could do so in December. He returned to Cuba for a fourth round of cancer treatments in early...
  • Putin Says His 'Young Family Members' Speak Chinese

    09/03/2024 2:02:50 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 9/3/2024 | Ryan Chan
    Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that his "young family members" are fluent Mandarin Chinese speakers. "Some of my family members, the little ones, speak Chinese too—they speak it fluently," Putin told students at a secondary school in Kyzyl, the capital of the Republic of Tuva, about 2,800 miles east of Moscow. The school offers instruction in both Russian and Tuvan languages, according to the Kremlin. -snip- Putin did not specify which of his family members speak Mandarin Chinese, the world's second most widely spoken language with 1.1 billion speakers. He mentioned the importance of learning this language from...
  • North Dakota funding companies propping up China’s military

    04/18/2022 5:17:15 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 14 replies
    https://www.kxnet.com ^ | 4.18.2022 | josh meny
    On Thursday, CIA Chief William Burns gave his first public speech as director at the Georgia Institute of Technology addressing the dual threat of China and Russia. Burns said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “a silent partner” in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “aggression” in Ukraine, warning that China poses the “greatest challenge” and “most profound test” that the agency has ever faced. KX News has covered the State Investment Board’s efforts to entirely divest from Russia, but what about Russia’s “silent partner,” China? The SIB has 69 investments in China that span a wide range of industries throughout the country....
  • Pakistani scientists offered Osama nukes before 9/11: Book

    12/14/2008 8:37:55 AM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 17 replies · 1,760+ views
    Rediff ^ | 14 December, 2008 | Rediff
    Barely a month before the 9/11 terror attacks, two Pakistani nuclear scientists, said to be close to disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan, met up with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and offered to supply him with atomic weapons, according to a newly released book. Chaudiri Abdul Majeed and Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, who held a series of senior posts in Pakistani nuke programme, went to Taliban [Images] headquarters in Kandahar in mid-August 2001 and spent three days with bin Laden who was keen on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, the book says. In fact, Mahmood was said to be more close to...
  • Exclusive-Iran to send Russia launchers for short-range missiles, sources say

    05/09/2025 2:02:01 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 7 replies
    Reuters AOL News ^ | 5/9/2025 | JONATHAN LANDAY AND JONATHAN SAUL
    Iran is preparing to deliver in the near future launchers for short-range ballistic missiles that the U.S. said Tehran sent to Russia last year for use against Ukraine, according to two Western security officials and a regional official. The delivery of the Fath-360 launchers - if it occurs - would help support Russia's grinding assault on its neighbor and reaffirm the deepening security ties between Moscow and Tehran. With a 75-mile (120-km) range, the Fath-360 would give Moscow's forces a new weapon to fire at Ukrainian frontline troops, nearby military targets, and population centers close to the border with Russia,...
  • Brazil's Lula slams Trump tariffs in meeting with Putin

    05/09/2025 7:47:26 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 13 replies
    Reuters ^ | 5/9/2025 | Reuters
    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday slammed U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies and sweeping tariffs, saying they harm multilateralism as he met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. -snip- "The latest decisions by the U.S. president to unilaterally put tariffs on trade with all countries in the world undermine the great idea of free trade and strengthening multilateralism," Lula said during a bilateral meeting with Putin. The leftist leader said he intends to strengthen Brazil's strategic partnership with Russia, citing "political, commercial, cultural, scientific and technological interests" as he sees room to increase trade.
  • Russia Victory Day 2025 LIVE: Putin Leads Russia’s Largest Military Parade in Moscow | World News

    05/09/2025 2:27:50 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 104 replies
    YouTube ^ | 05/09/2025 | World News
    Russia Victory Day 2025 LIVE: Putin Leads Russia's Largest Military Parade in Moscow to commemorate 80th anniversary of Russia's famous victory over Nazi Germany in WW II. 39 world leaders at this parade including Chinese leader Xi. Very impressive..
  • Peru bans Bolivia's Evo Morales as political crisis simmers

    01/10/2023 1:39:59 AM PST · by blueplum · 5 replies
    Reuters ^ | 09 Jan 2023 | By Marco Aquino
    LIMA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Peru barred Bolivia's socialist former president, Evo Morales, from entering its territory on Monday, Peru's government announced in a statement, a decision Morales later derided as an attack meant to distract from rights violations. The move to ban Morales, along with eight other unidentified Bolivians, follows weeks of deadly protests in Peru targeting President Dina Boluarte... ...The statement from Peru's interior ministry said Bolivian citizens have entered the country in recent months to carry out political activities, violating immigration laws while undermining national security.... ...Shortly after the ban was announced, Peru Prime Minister Alberto Otarola...
  • Communism’s Resurgence

    01/11/2005 8:20:32 PM PST · by Coleus · 56 replies · 4,747+ views
    Stoptheftaa.org ^ | 01.24.05 | William F. Jasper
    Communism is not dead in Latin America. In fact, the dominoes are falling south of the border, but no one seems to be noticing. “It’s a new day. Communism is dead. It’s even dead in Cuba.” So declared Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in May 2002. “I hate to say it,” she continued, “it’s dead.” The senator’s proclamation was a surprise, no doubt, to Fidel Castro, whose regime was (and is) alive and as Red as ever. It also must have come as welcome news to the people of Cuba, still suffering, after nearly half...
  • Venezuela Invades Guyana to Block Exxon Mobil Oil Exploration

    12/25/2018 5:33:00 PM PST · by Rusty0604 · 85 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/24/2018 | Frances Martel
    The Venezuelan Navy illegally entered the waters of Guyana this weekend and forced a ship contracted by Exxon Mobil to conduct oil research in the area to vacate, The incident, which Guyanese authorities angrily denounced and vowed to bring to the attention of the United Nations, reignites a feud Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro began with the neighboring country in 2015, claiming as much as two-thirds of Guyana itself belonged to Venezuela. Guyana has repeatedly noted that Venezuela signed an agreement in 1899 on the territory in question and no disputes remain as to who owns that land. Exxon Mobil...
  • Intelligence Report: Iran Will Use Latin America to Attack US, Israel

    04/20/2009 3:28:31 PM PDT · by lewisglad · 22 replies · 1,906+ views
    Arutz Sheva ^ | Published: 04/20/09, 2:06 PM | by Malkah Fleisher
    Just two days after US President Barack Hussein Obama shared a controversial and landmark handshake with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has released a study analyzing the flowering alliance between the increasingly anti-Western Latin America and the virulently anti-Israel Iran. The study was conducted at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), a non-governmental organization dedicated to Israeli intelligence and terrorism issues. According to the study, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using anti-Western Hugo Chavez as a springboard into several Latin American countries, such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, and...
  • Venezuela Readies for War While Joe Biden Sleeps

    04/05/2023 7:26:10 AM PDT · by Twotone · 16 replies
    19FortyFive.com ^ | April 4, 2023 | Brandon Weichert
    Venezuela Readies for War While Joe Biden Sleeps – The United States is a zombie empire abroad and a banana republic at home. On the world stage, Washington went from being the first among equals following the end of the Cold War; the sine qua non of the world system that it had helped to foster, to today being a cancerous growth to an international order trending toward multipolarity—specifically, a tripolar system in which China and Russia triangulate against the United States. snip The kleptocratic socialist dictatorship under Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela has failed to thrive economically, politically, or socially....
  • Another Conflict In Which The Left Has No Interest: Venezuela/Guyana

    12/06/2023 4:39:24 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 5 Dec, 2023 | Francis Menton
    The response by Israel to the October atrocities of Hamas seems to have roused the international Left into a furious frenzy. Widespread demonstrations supporting the Gazans’ slaughter continue on a daily basis in major cities around the world and, especially, on university campuses. The demonstrations feature thinly- or not-so-thinly-veiled calls for elimination of Israel as a state, and for violence against Jewish people. The demonstrators call the Jews every horrible thing they can think of, the very worst in their vocabulary being “settler colonialists.” Meanwhile, other comparable conflicts go on around the world without even a hint of interest from...
  • WSJ: Venezuela massing troops to border with Guyana

    02/09/2024 10:57:31 AM PST · by srmanuel · 10 replies
    Report AZ ^ | 02/09/24 | News Department
    This was a hot topic on FR a few weeks ago but had died down, it appears the Biden Administration could be facing another bad situation in South America, if a war breaks out in South America the flood of illegals at the Southern border could escalate to even higher levels
  • Russia lends Venezuela $2.2 bln to buy weapons (Times are hard for Hugo and Venezuela)

    09/13/2009 5:21:47 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 27 replies · 1,136+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/13/09 | Frank Jack Daniel and Patricia Rondon
    CARACAS (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2 billion to finance the purchase of weapons including tanks and advanced anti-aircraft missiles, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday. Chavez said the purchases agreed on a trip to Moscow last week included 92 tanks and the S-300 missile system, which is capable of shooting down fighter jets and cruise missiles. "We have to thank the Russian government, which approved a $2.2 billion loan for arms spending," Chavez said on his weekly television show. He did not say how much the new weapons cost. A major oil exporter, Venezuela's...
  • Iran building nuke plant in Syria; State Dept: What difference does it make?

    01/13/2015 6:36:27 PM PST · by Nachum · 15 replies
    Israel Matzav ^ | 1/13/15 | Car in Jerusalem
    Sunday's Der Spiegel had a massive expose on the continuing efforts of Bashar al-Assad to build a nuclear weapons plant, which included evidence that Iran is constructing such a plant for Syria in Qusayr, less than two kilometers from Syria's border with Lebanon. The issue came up in the State Department's Monday daily briefing. Disturbingly, spokeswoman Marie Harf said that the United States did not plan to raise the issue in the Iranian nuclear talks, claiming that those talks only deal with Iran's nuclear capabilities and not with Syria's. According to findings of Western intelligence agencies, however, the situation...
  • Syria loads chemical weapons into bombs; military awaits Assad's order

    12/05/2012 4:03:49 PM PST · by John W · 96 replies
    nbcnews.com ^ | December 5, 2012 | Jim Miklaszewski and M. Alex Johnson
    The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday. The military has loaded the precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, into aerial bombs that could be dropped onto the Syrian people from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials said. As recently as Tuesday, officials had said there was as yet no evidence that the process of mixing the "precursor" chemicals had begun. But Wednesday, they said their worst fears had been confirmed: The nerve agents were locked and loaded...
  • Ambassador Reich to Obama: Be Wary of ‘Evil Men’ Now Running Venezuela

    03/05/2013 11:18:30 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 24 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 06 Mar 2013 12:36 AM | Paul Scicchitano
    Now that Hugo Chávez is out of the picture, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich warns President Obama to tread carefully in dealing with the “evil, evil men” that are now running the South American nation. “These guys are so tricky and so evil, quite frankly,” Reich, tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview following the announcement of Chávez’ death on Tuesday. “The people in power in Venezuela today are evil.” … Reich added that Fidel Castro and his brother may be calling the shots in Venezuela. …
  • Chinese President Xi arrives in Moscow following massive Ukraine drone strike

    05/07/2025 5:27:15 PM PDT · by McGruff · 15 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | May 7, 2025 | Vaughn Cockayne
    Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a lengthy diplomatic visit in the aftermath of a massive drone attack on the Russian capital. Mr. Xi traveled to Russia for a four-day visit that will include signing numerous cooperation agreements and attending a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The visit is part of the “no limits” partnership between Russia and China, which Mr. Xi hopes to deepen with the trip. Mr. Xi is also expected to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine with Russian...