By Dilek Karal Do you remember the movie Fisher King? It tells the story of two men’s tragically converging lives. An arrogant talk radio DJ, Jack’s insensitive on-air comments involuntarily prompt a depressed caller to commit a mass shooting at a popular Manhattan bar. Later on Jack meets Parry, a schizophrenic homeless man, whose condition [...]
Last But Not Least: Why Mass Killing? – OpEd
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New Concerns For President Peña Nieto: Hezbollah’s Rising Profile In Mexico – Analysis
By J.T. Larrimore A day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico”, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the stability in a country notorious for its violent drug war and devastating corruption.[1] The current plague of instability in Mexico [...]
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Shooting Kills 2 US Firefighters, Wounds 2 More
Two volunteer firefighters were fatally shot Monday in the latest example of American gun violence since a primary school shooting spree shocked the nation earlier this month. Two more firefighters were wounded as they rushed to put out a house fire near the shore of Lake Ontario, about 540 kilometers Northwest of New York City. [...]
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Spain: 300 Evacuated After Bomb Left Outside Brothel
A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel’s parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior Ministry said. A security guard at Paradise, one of Spain’s largest legal brothels, called police late Sunday in La Jonquera, which is on the border with France, after masked men [...]
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Political Bickering Hurts US Economy
Continued political bickering in the United States is hurting stock and commodity prices and slowing spending by some U.S. holiday shoppers. Oil was selling at below $89 a barrel Monday, as traders worried that an economic downturn could cut demand for energy. U.S. stocks were down in early trading, while European and Asian stocks were [...]
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White House Urged To Punish Russians Backing US Adoption Ban
The White House has been flooded with tens of thousands of requests to blacklist Russian officials supporting a ban on US adoptions of Russian children amid an escalating diplomatic feud. A petition asking the White House to slap sanctions on Russian legislators who vote for the adoption ban – which was approved by Russia’s lower [...]
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Mali: Destruction Of Holy Shrines Continues In Timbuktu – OpEd
On December 23 Islamists occupying northern Mali have destroyed again Timbuktu ancient mausoleums, promising to destroy all the tombs they consider places of “idolatry” . The European Union reacted by the voice of the chief diplomat Catherine Ashton, “deeply shocked” by the destruction of these holy graves of Islam in this city’s flagship Islamic culture [...]
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Turkey Should Leave NATO Now! – OpEd
By Ihsan Bal NATO is an organization which was established in 1949 for the defense of the Western Bloc and cooperation within it in the aftermath of the Second World War. Among its founders are the UK, France and the United States at the outset. The time Turkey joined NATO was when Soviet threat was [...]
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US Deploying Troops To 35 African Countries
The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year. Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated [...]
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US Celebrities Demand Gun Violence Plan (Video)
In the wake of the Connecticut school shooting massacre, several popular film, television and music stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Beyoncé, and Chris Rock, appear in an online video (See below) urging US lawmakers to act now to develop stricter gun control legislation. “Demand a plan right now. As a mom, as [...]
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India: When Justified Outrage Degenerates Into Anarchy – OpEd
In all democracies, the public has a right to demonstrate in public in a peaceful manner, but it does not have the right to demonstrate where it will, when it will and how it will. The police can impose reasonable restrictions on the right to demonstrate for maintaining law and order. In Washington, there are [...]
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What’s Wrong With The Economy? – OpEd
The reason the US economy is still sluggish 4 years after Lehman Brothers defaulted, is of lack of demand. Demand dropped off after the housing bubble burst and has never really recovered. Economist Dean Baker calculates that hit to demand is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 trillion per year, a sum that’s been impossible [...]
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Syrian Christians Pray For Peace On Christmas Eve
As disastrous civil war continues to ravage Syria, Christian communities across the country gathered to attend Christmas masses and pray for peace in the strife-torn land after almost two years of violence. “I pray that peace and safety returns to the hearts of all Syrians,” Heba Shawi, a Catholic attending mass at Notre Dame church [...]
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New Thrust To India-Japan Relations: A “Broader Asia” Likely – Analysis
By Dr. Sudhanshu Tripathi As the global geo-politics is shifting towards East far away from the traditional Anglo-American hub of power and the US’ Asia pivot has already set the stage for accentuated power rivalry in the Asian region between itself and China and also with the rest of prominent powers in the greater Asian [...]
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From China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ To ‘Peaceful Development’: The Rhetoric And More – Analysis
By Dr. B R Deepak In the wake of China’s mammoth economic growth that catapulted China as the second largest economy of the world in 2010, and the military expenditure corresponding to its economy, everyone including the Chinese is talking about China’s rise and its emergence as a challenger to the unipolar world. Chinese think [...]
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Gaza: Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilians, Says HRW
Palestinian armed groups in Gaza violated the laws of war during the November 2012 fighting by launching hundreds of rockets toward population centers in Israel. About 1,500 rockets were fired at Israel between November 14 and 21, the Israel Defense Forces reported. At least 800 struck Israel, including 60 that hit populated areas. The rocket [...]
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HSBC Case Shows Banking System Still Fraught With Injustices – OpEd
By Burç Köstem On July 17th 2012 HSBC was charged with money laundering, failing to monitor transactions amounting to $60 trillion and 17,000 account alerts. A United States Senate report alleged that these transactions include money from Mexican drug lords, Iran, North Korea and Hamas. The Department of Justice of the United States immediately examined [...]
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US: Gunman Used Assault Rifle in Firefighter Shooting, Left Note
The ex-convict who set his house on fire and ambushed firefighters in northeastern New York state, killing two, left a chilling note for authorities, saying he was doing what he liked best, killing people. Police Chief Gerald Pickering, of the town of Webster, said the two- to three-page typewritten note did not shed any light [...]
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Over 63% Of Egyptians Approve New Constitution – Election Committee
Egypt’s Supreme Election Commission says 63.8 per cent of those who cast ballots voted for the constitution, while 36.2 per cent voted against it. The approved constitution is set to clear the way for elections in the future lower house of parliament. The approved charter, drafted by Islamists, will now become Egypt’s first constitution following [...]
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Pakistan: The True Heir Of Indus Valley Civilization – Analysis
The vision of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in the 1940s did not only constitute creation of a Muslim political entity at the expense of India’s Hindu domination. It was also embedded in thousands of years of historical and geographical realities. These aspects clearly emerge from Jinnah’s interviews given to foreign correspondents where he described [...]
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