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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez intends to inject new urgency into his socialist and anti-imperialist revolution, claiming “capitalism is destroying the world”. Sounds like Obama White house top visitor Andy, ‘workers of the world unite’, Stern. Privately owned enterprises are now being expropriated with increasing frequency – sounds just like the US.

Our dangerous Iran policy. The passage last Wednesday of a fourth U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was the latest act in the tragicomedy that is U.S. policy toward Iran.

Rep. Mike Pence unloaded on Barack Obama efforts to “curry favor with our enemies” while being “far too hard on our friends,” in the second installment of the Indiana Republican’s exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS. Pence also blasted this president’s attempt to impede Israel from building apartment complexes in undisputed territory, calling Obama’s tactics “nothing short of bullying.”

A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials has discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, conceivably enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world’s most lucrative mining centers, a senior military official told Fox News on Monday.

Colombian security forces have rescued two senior police officers and a soldier who had been held hostage by Marxist rebels for almost 12 years.

“Isolation” may have failed to deflect Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it does enjoy incessant repetition by the administration. Apart from the fact that isolation is hardly an end in itself and is pointless if Iran rushes headlong to become a nuclear power regardless, the very claim of Iran’s increasing isolation is increasingly implausible.

During the past two years there have been increasing signs that drug-trafficking gangs from Mexico have infiltrated Guatemala, as well as Honduras and El Salvador, recruiting operatives and establishing smuggling routes.

Connecting a few dots: Last week, “Anthony Joseph Tracy, 35, was set free after pleading guilty to human smuggling charges … Tracy, a former informant two U.S. intelligence agencies, was collared at JFK Airport last January. He copped to helping 272 Somalis illegally enter the U.S. from Kenya through Cuba. … Tracy allegedly helped the Somalis get travel visas to Cuba. After traveling from Kenya to Dubai to Moscow to Cuba, they then went to South America before entering the United States through the border in Mexico.”

Rock throwing boy killed by border patrol was on most wanted list for human trafficking and had been deported multiple times. US Atty Gen holder ignores illegal smuggling aspect of incident.

It appears the President is inclined to lean on Israel to accept more risk in Gaza—abandon the blockade, which would further radicalize the region vis-à-vis greater Iranian influence and increase violence against Israelis.