Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil all have deals with China to supply oil in exchange for loans. While it remains unknown at what cost to US interests China’s strategic partnerships with Latin America will have in the long-term, it behooves Washington to engage Latin America and maintain friendships throughout the region as the power gravity slowly shifts east.
Archive for Category: "Foreign Policy"
June 3, 2010 06:00
How wars begin – is Obama leading us to chaos?
In hindsight, it will probably be obvious that the missteps of the Obama administration vis a vis Israel were critical catalysts to a war that today seems ever more likely to engulf the Middle East, and perhaps the world more generally.
June 3, 2010 05:33
US Officials: US Might Send Carrier to Korea
The deployment of the nuclear-powered carrier, one of the world’s largest warships, would represent a major show of force by the U.S., which has vowed to protect South Korea and is seeking to blunt aggression from North Korea.
June 3, 2010 04:39
In rare moment of being right Biden sides with Israel
Vice president says Israel has a right to know whether arms are being smuggled in to Hamas-controlled Gaza
June 2, 2010 18:42
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Response To U.N.
The US almost started world war three when Russia started bringing missiles to Cuba. Iran wants to put missiles in GAZA and has vowed the extermination of Israel. How can anyone expect Israel to sit by and do nothing when the haters continue to seek its total annihilation?
June 2, 2010 04:51
Obama Abandons Israel to UN Feeding Frenzy
The U.S. statement during today’s debate, delivered by American ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahue, says “the United States remains deeply concerned by the suffering of civilians in Gaza.” It expresses no concern about the suffering of Israeli civilians, paying the price for weapons smuggled into Gaza including by sea.
June 2, 2010 04:44
Fifty ‘Mavi Marmara’ passengers tied to global jihad network – Gaza crisis escalates
The group of over 50 passengers with possible terror connections have refused to identify themselves and were not carrying passports. Many of them were carrying envelopes packed with thousands of dollars in cash.
June 1, 2010 19:14
Bachmann says Obama sending ‘signals of weakness’ on Israel
“We have to ask if the Obama administration remains committed to the state of Israel and the right of Israel to exist and defend herself,” Bachmann told POLITICO. “The Obama administration, through its word and its actions, has been sending the world mixed signals at best.”
June 1, 2010 10:35
Was the flotilla ‘aid’ ship a set up?
Fox News panel discusses the attempt to break the Israeli blockade against weapons going to Hamas in Gaza.
June 1, 2010 09:47
Hope for Colombia – Santos leads Chavez backed Mockus 2 to 1
The lead vote-getter, Juan Manuel Santos, the architect of crushing blows against guerrillas as a defense minister under President Álvaro Uribe, took 46.6 percent, against 21.5 percent for his main rival, Antanas Mockus
