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Russia continued to violate provisions of the 1991 START nuclear-arms treaty up until the agreement expired in December, raising new concerns that Moscow will violate the pending “New START” treaty now being debated for ratification in the Senate. CALL YOUR SENATOR TO VOTE NO! 202-224-3121

The best look into Turkey’s turn toward radicalism has been provided by independent Turkish journalists who have for months been arguing that Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is leading the country into the asphyxiating embrace of the East. The Islamist “lite” party, which won power in 2002, used to adhere to a policy of “zero problems with the neighbors;” today it prefers one of helping the neighbors cause problems with the West.

Obama’s assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, Eric P. Schwartz, previously served as the director of Connect U.S. Fund which is a Tides Foundation (George Soros) funded group which funnels money managed by the Tides Foundation to leftist groups promoting UN programs and treaties harmful to the US, the US participation in the International Court, US nuclear disarmament, push for global climate fund payments by the US and deep reductions in US greenhouse gases.

Call Jon Kyle and your senator now 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote no on this Russian biased, one sided US disarmament treaty. Leading national security expert Frank Gaffney says that Obama is taking “considerable risks” with Americans’ security, and his policies could ultimately lead to the “disarmament” of the U.S. Mitt Romney calls the treaty Obama’s worst foreign-policy mistake. National Review Online says the START “is shot through with flaws, and will limit our defenses”

Chávez’s record of providing money, arms, political support, and, yes, safe haven to groups waging a murderous war against a sovereign state openly violates international law. If the United States and our neighbors fail to muster a meaningful response to Colombia’s latest evidence and formal appeal for help, they will share the blame for giving Chávez’s bandit regime a license to kill.

After 16 hearings and 30 different witnesses between the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFR), the SASC finally heeded the request of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the committee, allowing just two witnesses who oppose the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) treaty to testify.

The body of one of two US sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week has been found, Nato says.

The United States is giving strong backing for Colombia’s call for an international investigation of FARC activities in Venezuela, and says the government in Caracas has an obligation to cooperate. The comments follow what was termed here a “fact-based” Colombian presentation to the Organization of American States (OAS) Thursday about the alleged presence of some 1,500 FARC guerrillas on Venezuelan soil.

Mitt Romney says there are eight problems with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, START, and that he Senate should not ratify the treaty until they are resolved.

The Bush Administration could have saved its own credibility and that of the United States by explaining that the distinction between having the ability to quickly produce WMD and having actual stockpiles is minimal. The ISG confirmed that dual-use facilities had “assets that could be converted for BW [biological weapons] agent production within 4 to 5 weeks after the decision to do so.” One site had the ability to “provide the core of an alternative break-out capability…perhaps within 2 to 3 weeks.”