Experts not sure, but deals with Iran and Syria have alarmed Israel.

In this speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, Ron Paul asks many questions, all related to his main question, What If America's policy of foreign intervention is a colossal mistake.

Examining the FTAA’s Tripartite Committee and following the money trail back to the United Nations exposes the UN’s behind-the-scenes control.

The Sunni Muslim minority can hardly be expected to sit still as the Shiites and Kurds split up the post-war spoils of power, says Debka.com.

Six Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday as insurgents clashed with U.S. troops and blew up a school slated to serve as a polling center, pre-election violence that followed the deadliest day for U.S. troops since the war's start. Another U.S. soldier died in an accident.

Congress has been pressing the U.S. intelligence community to investigate claims by an Iranian defector that Teheran planned to crash an airliner into a nuclear reactor in the United States.

Global food companies are aggravating poverty in developing countries by dominating markets, buying up seed firms and forcing down prices for staple goods including tea, coffee, milk, bananas and wheat, according to a report to be launched today -Guardian UK

No one denies this will happen eventually. After all, oil is a finite resource. But these oil skeptics - so-called "peak" oil analysts - say the "peak" is coming sooner rather than later, maybe even in 2008.Mainstream experts, however, dismiss such talk as scaremongering -Tony Wesolowsky/Asia Times

The Iraqi government that emerges from Sunday's election may open its oil business to foreign investment, and international petroleum companies are jockeying to curry favor with the war-torn country -San Francisco Chronicle

Mayoral candidate Walter Moore is a 45-year old business trial lawyer with 20 years experience.A comparison of the candidates on the issues indicates Moor constitutionally oriented and not politically correct. Moore is going up against the following candidates: -NewsWithViews

The US Department of State released a communiqué yesterday, categorically rejecting allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States participated in the capture of Rodrigo Granda -Venezuelanalysis VE

K Subrahmanyam, the nation's leading thinker on national security issues, reflects on what lies ahead for the Republic(of India) in its 55th year -Rediff IN

Jacques Chirac today used his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos to call for an "experimental" international tax to help fund the war against Aids.The French President suggested it could be raised by via a levy on financial transactions, airline tickets, and fuel -London Times

Condoleezza Rice won confirmation as secretary of state Wednesday despite blistering criticism from Senate Democrats who accused her of misleading statements and said she must share the blame for mistakes and war deaths in Iraq

President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries Wednesday not to hire columnists to promote administration agendas after disclosure that a second writer had been paid to assist an agency

The No. 3 man at the Pentagon, Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, is resigning his Pentagon position, FOX News learned Wednesday.