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S. Korea's arms sales jump 20% amid Pyongyang threats

South Korea boosted its arms sales by more than 20 percent last year and has ambitions to become a major weapons exporter, according to a new study. It comes amid frequent ballistic missile tests by arch rival, North Korea. Research by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), released Monday, studied the sales of arms and military services by the world's largest arms-producing and military service companies in 2016. It found that South Korea dominated the "emerging producers" category. " The trend in this category for 2016 is dominated by the 20.6 percent overall increase in the arms sales of South Korean companies, with total sales amounting to 8.4 billion, " SIPRI wrote in a release. Other members of that category were Brazil, India, and Turkey. More: https://www.rt.com/news/412782-south-korea-arms-exports/

Κ. Ήσυχος: «Η Ελλάδα γίνεται “εμπορικός αντιπρόσωπος” του ΝΑΤΟ»

Σε συνέντευξή του στο Real News Network, ο πρώην αναπληρωτής υπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας, Κώστας Ήσυχος, σχολιάζει την εξωτερική πολιτική της χρεοκοπημένης Ελλάδας. Μιλά για τα υπέρογκα ποσά που δαπανά η χώρα ετησίως σε στρατιωτικό εξοπλισμό, για τις Αμερικανικές βάσεις που διατηρούνται στη χώρα και για το παράδοξο του ότι μια θεωρητικά αριστερή κυβέρνηση υποστηρίζει σε τέτοιο βαθμό τις ιδέες του ΝΑΤΟ και μετατρέπει τη χώρα σε «εμπορικό αντιπρόσωπό» του. Επίσης, ο Κώστας Ήσυχος σχολιάζει τη στρατηγική του Ερντογάν, αλλά και τη στάση του Αλέξη Τσίπρα απέναντι στις ΗΠΑ και στον πρόεδρο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ. Περισσότερα: https://info-war.gr/k-isychos-i-ellada-ginete-o-eborikos-antiprosopos-tou-nato/

When Washington cheered the Jihadists

Official Washington helped unleash hell on Syria and across the Mideast behind the naïve belief that jihadist proxies could be used to transform the region for the better. by Daniel Lazare Part 1 When a Department of Defense intelligence report about the Syrian rebel movement became public in May 2015, lots of people didn’t know what to make of it. After all, what the report said was unthinkable – not only that Al Qaeda had dominated the so-called democratic revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for years, but that the West continued to support the jihadis regardless, even to the point of backing their goal of creating a Sunni Salafist principality in the eastern deserts. The United States lining up behind Sunni terrorism – how could this be? How could a nice liberal like Barack Obama team up with the same people who had brought down the World Trade Center? It was impossible, which perhaps explains why the report remained a non-story long after it

How Trump’s declaration inflames a Middle East already ablaze

Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a turning point in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, the issue is much bigger than Palestine as Donald Trump may have just lit the match that will set off the powder keg of the Arab World. by Eric Draitser Part 3 - A region at war Though it is often seen in a vacuum, the Palestine issue cannot be divorced from the broader dynamics of the region. And, given the heightened tensions and turmoil in the Middle East – the war in Syria, Saudi-Qatar conflict, the war in Yemen, the Islamic State’s rise, etc. – Palestinian resistance must be examined as part of a broader regional transformation. Hezbollah has for years been seen by many, especially the Israeli state, as a principal belligerent on the side of Palestinians. Since 2006 and Hezbollah’s resounding victory over Israeli military forces, the organization has become perhaps the primary force for armed resistance against Israe