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Nigeria: Compradorism- the Problem With African Leadership, The three principal enemies of Black Africans are Imperialism, Arab Expansionism and Black Compradorism.

Robert W. Kagan FP: Robert Kagan, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Kagan: Thanks. I appreciate your inviting me. FP: I want to get your thought on the terror war and on the recent report made by the Iraq Study Group. But let's first talk about your new book. What motivated you to write it? Kagan: I suppose my interest in the history of American foreign policy began when I worked as a speechwriter for George Shultz in the Reagan years. Although many, especially the so-called "realists", dismissed Reagan as some kind of aberration from American foreign policy -- just as...

Head of the Islamic Republic's Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines, Alinaqi Khamoushi on Saturday said that just as borders are lifted in Europe, the same move should be considered by Islamic states. He made the remark at the fourth conference and exhibition on the strategy of Iraqi market and its executive strategies in Kermanshah. Khamoushi noted that the people of Islamic states are a single ummah and therefore no borders should separate them. "Given the current shortages in Iraq, we should provide the Iraqi people with the facilities available in IRI. We are duty-bound to do our best to...

SAINT PETERSBURG (AFX) - Russia President Vladimir Putin said he would raise questions about UK Labour Party fund raiser Lord Levy if Prime Minister Tony Blair brings up Russia's democracy record when the two men meet today. Putin was asked what he would say to Blair after the British ambassador to Moscow attacked Putin's governance last week. 'We carefully hear out all our partners. We take into consideration their views on such issues but we take our decisions ourselves,' Putin told journalists at the G8 summit. 'There are also other questions,' he told a British journalist. 'Questions, let's say, about...

French Intellectual Says West's Fear of China Is Unfounded By Seo Dong-shin Staff Reporter Guy Sorman speaks at the French Cultural Center in Seoul Tuesday. /Korea Times Photo by Shim Hyun-chul Guy Sorman spent all of 2005 in China meeting with and listening to ``those who were the poorest, most common, and most deeply sunken in silence but were actually brimming with the desire to tell their stories to whomever would listen to them neutrally.’’ The French intellectual also met with various people _ dissidents, journalists, students, businessmen _ who willingly and frankly shared their views on the reality in...

The conflict has little to do with Russia’s neo-imperialism, but a lot to do with Western reluctance to foot the bill of Soviet de-colonisation. • The “genuine democracies” created in the former Soviet Union in the wake of the so-called “colour revolutions” are failing to deliver political stability and economic prosperity. Insofar as they have failed to reduce dependence on subsidised Russian gas, they are also implicitly failing to deliver real independence. • Ukraine’s demands for continued supplies of cheap Russian/CIS gas in effect mean that Kiev is promoting the preservation of Soviet economic structures. Thus, it is implicitly promoting...

MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - The chief of the General Staff said Wednesday that Russia would honor its commitments on supplying military equipment to Iran. "We discussed supplies of military equipment to Iran, including the Tor M1, in the framework of bilateral cooperation, but it does not fall into the category of strategic weapons," Army General Yury Baluyevsky said after talks in Moscow with NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General James Jones. "And I can assure you it will be delivered under the control of the relevant organizations," he said. At the end of 2005, Russia concluded...

Last week’s saber rattling by Hugo Chavez, a blunt threat to remove the Dutch from the Netherlands Antilles islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, clearly demonstrates the existence of a misguided national policy that can only result in an armed conflict in the Caribbean. The fabricated territorial and maritime claims against the Netherlands by the current Venezuelan government are certainly a recipe for disaster. But by also seeking to expel what he refers to as the other “colonial powers” of France, the United Kingdom and the United States from their possessions in the Western Hemisphere, he risks armed confrontation with...

China: Bachelor bomb Dudley L. Poston Jr. and Peter A. Morrison International Herald Tribune WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 SANTA MONICA, California In a trend fraught with troubling political and social implications, China will soon find itself with a marriage-age population remarkably out of balance, with about 23 million more young men than women available for them to marry in this decade and the next - what demographers term a "marriage squeeze." This impending surplus of unattached young men could be a driving force behind increased crime, explosive epidemics of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and even international threats to...

Russia and China launched their first joint military exercise yesterday in a show of force calculated to dissuade the US from presuming a dominant role in global security. Fighter planes, bombers and more than 10,000 troops will take part in the week-long war games in Vladivostok and the Yellow Sea. While analysts say the exercises are mainly an excuse for Russia to showcase aircraft to its biggest military hardware client, the two countries are keen to erode Washington's image as a world policeman. Moscow and Beijing's interests converge in central Asia, where both hope to quell Islamic extremism, preserve trade...

The Chinese energy firm Cnooc yesterday abandoned its $18.5bn (£10.5bn) bid for US oil and gas firm Unocal, citing "unprecedented political opposition" from Washington. The bid by Cnooc, which is 71% owned by the Chinese government, sparked a furious outcry in Washington where politicians denounced the offer as a threat to national security. Some of the more fiery rhetoric characterised the bid as the beginning of a frantic grab by the Chinese for control of the world's energy supplies. California congressman Richard Pombo warned that the deal could have "disastrous consequences for our economic and national security". Cnooc's decision to...

According to the Pentagon, the China's People's Liberation Army is acquiring arms from Russia and developing new weapons systems. These include: Missiles: 100 short-range missiles, directed at Taiwan, a year. It currently has 650 to 730. The DF31, a mobile intercontinental missile and a submarine-based ballistic missile, the JL2. Air: A Russian-built advanced fighter aircraft, plus launching its own F10 this year. Acquiring and developing precision strike weapons. Adding to its fleet of unmanned aircraft. Naval: Two new Russian-built guided missile destroyers, with two more on the way. Two new classes of diesel submarine, one can carry submerged-launch missiles. More...

WASHINGTON -- A Chinese company's attempt to take over California-based Unocal threatens U.S. security and would give China political leverage in areas where the oil company has resources, lawmakers said Wednesday. "The simple fact is that energy is a strategic commodity," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Hunter, R-Calif., said Unocal's holdings _ from drilling rights to exploratory capabilities in Asia and elsewhere _ "represent strategic assets that affect U.S. national security."

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Chinese counterpart Thursday in a bid to strengthen ties between the former Cold War rivals and to quadruple trade now worth about $20 billion a year. The two leaders were upbeat, noting Beijing and Moscow had progressed on several issues in recent years. Chinese President Hu Jintao's four-day trip reflects the strategic importance Beijing places on ties with Russia. ``Our countries signed a strategic accord on cooperation and resolved our border issues. Russia and China are actively cooperating on the international arena,'' Hu noted in talks late Thursday with Putin. Hu...

TBILISI, June 27 (Reuters) - Georgian police are hunting three men who may know who threw a grenade during a speech by U.S. President George W. Bush in May, an interior ministry spokesman said on Monday. U.S. officials said the grenade failed to explode only because of a malfunction and had landed within 30 metres (100 feet) of the president as he spoke to tens of thousands of people in Tbilisi's Freedom Square. The security scare blighted a trip intended to show Bush's support for the former Soviet state's West-leaning government, which came to power after a democratic revolution a...

MOSCOW (AFX) - Russia is withdrawing its signature from a land and sea border treaty with Estonia that the two countries signed in May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, adding that the two sides would have to restart negotiations. 'Since the Estonian side has not fulfilled its obligations, we withdraw our signature from this accord,' Lavrov said, quoted by Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency, during a visit to Helsinki. 'There will be no accord... In order to regulate border issues, we will have to restart negotiations,' Lavrov said, adding that he hoped the dispute would not affect relations between Russia...

Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 25 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message of congratulations to Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, who has won the presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian president's press service said today. "I am confident that now that you have been elected [president] as a result of the Iranian people expressing their will, continuity in the development of long-term multi-faceted partnership and cooperation between our states will be secured," the message says. "These relations have been developing vigorously of late. The volume of trade has for the first time...

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - Russia will not lose no matter who wins the second round of the presidential election in Iran. It has a fair chance of preserving its priority standing in Iran's foreign policy under any president - Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, technocrat and pragmatist, or his rival, the ultraconservative Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, who produced a furore with his surprise success at the election. This is the unanimous opinion of most Russian experts. Unlike Washington, which said the election in Iran was undemocratic and would not create a legitimate...

Hong Kong, 23 June (AKI) - This week's Middle East tour by Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, is a rare visit by a top Beijing official to the region, signals China's growing diplomatic ambitions and its quest to secure oil supplies for its energy-hungry, rapidly expanding economy. It's a change of focus for Beijing; for decades, China's communist rulers, including Mao Tse-tung, focused their diplomatic attentions on Africa, where China promoted itself as a sort of guiding light for the Third World and a bulwark against the neo-colonialist tendencies of the West. China also sought to isolate its tiny rival,...

Beijing (VNA) - President Hu Jintao said both China and Russia want to further promote their strategic partnership. In an interview with ITAR-TASS in Beijing on June 21, President Hu said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have established a close and friendly relationship. The two leaders have met each other eight times to frankly exchange their views. China and Russia have supported each other on important issues relating to national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Cooperation between the two countries in the areas of politics, economics, trade, and military has increasingly expanded. Two-way trade increased by more than 20...