
United Nations/Damascus, February 2, 2012 (TSR) - China expressed its opposition to military intervention, or the introduction of new sanctions, to resolve the situation in Syria as Beijing issued a travel alert and reminded its citizens already in the country to step up security measures. “We firmly oppose forcefully pushing for ‘regime change’, which violates the [...]

Jan 31, 2012 (TSR) - A senior Iranian lawmaker says Majlis (parliament) will discuss a bill in the coming week which seeks to cut off Iran’s oil exports to Europe. Deputy head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi said on Friday that Iranian lawmakers would debate a “double-urgency” bill on Sunday which calls for the [...]

Jan 25, 2012 (TSR) – A profoundly significant news came out of the Middle East on Monday January 23, 2012. The headline via DEBKAfile* reads: India to Pay Gold Instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil. Oil and Gold Markets Stunned Within the body of the report were gleaned these crucial items: 1. India has become [...]

Jan. 19, 2012 (TSR) - The CNAS [Center for a New American Security] study argued that the South China Sea is an “epicenter” in terms of globalization and geopolitics, and it will determine whether the US can preserve its dominant role in the Asia-Pacific region. As to how the US will maintain its control over the [...]

Jan. 17, 2012 (TSR) - Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Seyyed Reza Sajjadi says Iran and Russia have turned to their national hard currencies instead of the American dollar in reciprocal trade exchanges. Sajjadi said last week that the proposal for the replacement of the US dollar with the Iranian rial and Russian ruble was raised during [...]

Jan. 11, 2012 (TSR) - The world’s largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyze data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is servers built with graphics chips — the sort of processors that were originally designed to draw images on your personal computer. They’re called graphics processing [...]

BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2012 (TSR) — Paleontologists say several hundred fossilized footprints in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs. The footprints, unearthed in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces the city has found, according to Zhang Jianping, researcher at the China University of Geosciences. They were left by dinosaurs [...]

Jan. 10, 2012 (TSR) - China’s Ministry of Defense today warned the U.S. to be ‘careful in its words and actions’ as it made moves to strengthen its military bases across Asia. In a statement, ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng announced China’s response to the U.S.’s new military strategy developed under the Obama administration. ‘We have noted that [...]

Jan 3, 2012 (TSR) - A political analyst says Russia and China consider a US military action on Iran as an attack on their own borders and a threat to their own national security. “The US is assuming that Russia or China will not respond militarily, but they’ve been wrong before,” Shamus Cooke wrote on the Global Research website. Cooke [...]

Jan 3, 2012 (TSR) - There is something big brewing across the globe and it does not look good. India, Japan and Australia are strengthening trilateral ties while the United States and NATO are looking to firm up alliances between them all along with Ukraine and Armenia. This comes soon after the United States announced they are going to place [...]