India seems to be suffering from a tendency of making unnecessary hue and cry on any action taken by Pakistan, even if it is purely commercial. This point was proved once again when Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony said, “China’s role in operating a strategically important port in Pakistan is a matter of concern for India”. However, [...]
India Overreacting On Gwadar Port Issue – OpEd
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Panetta Warns Cyber Threat Growing Quickly
By Karen Parrish Pentagon officials are concerned about the growing threat of cyber warfare, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told a Georgetown University audience today. Following a speech on leadership and government this morning, the secretary responded to questions from the audience. All were from Georgetown students, one of whom asked Panetta if “cyber warfare [...]
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Mexican Cartel War: Profiling An Unorthodox Insurgency – Analysis
By Christopher S. Ljungquist In a previous Geopolitical Monitor analysis on Mexico’s bloody drug wars, we explained the existential logic that forces the government’s actions against the powerful trafficking cartels: By 2006 the Mexican state was facing the very real prospect of degenerating into functional irrelevance as a result of the increasing power and audacity [...]
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Bulgaria Blames Hezbollah, Bibi Blames Iran – OpEd
Bulgaria finally released its much-anticipated report on the terror bombing at its airport last year which killed five Israelis. It said that several of the bombers and accomplices had clear connections to Hezbollah’s military wing. As I’ve said many times here, I don’t support terror attacks, especially not on civilians. I denounced this attack at [...]
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Ethiopia: The Case Against Trial By Public Media – OpEd
By Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam An authoritarian regime is bad, no matter what its ideological dressing may be. Terrorism is also bad, whether it is Islamic, secular, or so-called state terrorism. While this may be a truism, the EPRDF would argue that neither could nor should be forced on it. Yesterday, ETV aired on prime time [...]
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Chinatown Of U.S. Geopolitics – OpEd
By Nikita Sorokin Recently the official Beijing newspaper Zhenmin Zhibao reported that there was an opportunity to take Chinese-US relations to a new orbit. It looks like China intends to ‘reset’ the dialogue with Washington. But first of all, Beijing, with its Oriental subtlety, expressed concern over the growing US activity in the Asian-Pacific Region [...]
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad Calls For Strategic Alliance With Egypt
(RFE/RL) — Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called on Egypt to form a strategic alliance with Iran. Ahmadinejad accused outside forces of keeping the two nations from a rapprochement. Ahmadinejad was speaking on February 6 in Cairo. Ahmadinejad is on the first visit to Cairo by an Iranian leader in more than three decades. The [...]
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Man Faces Year In Jail After Abbas Facebook Joke
A Palestinian court has sentenced a man from the Nablus area to a year in prison for insulting President Mahmoud Abbas on Facebook, officials said Thursday. The Nablus magistrates court sentenced Anas Saad Awwad, 26, of Awarta village, in absentia to a year in prison after convicting him on charges of criticizing the government, an [...]
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The Real Debate Over American Citizenship – OpEd
Sometimes we have a national conversation without realizing it. We talk about different aspects of the same larger issue without connecting the dots. That’s what’s happening now with regard to the meaning of American citizenship and the basic rights that come with it. On one side are those who think of citizenship as a matter [...]
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Aubrey McClendon And The Destruction Of The Natural Gas Market – OpEd
By Dan Dicker Aubrey McClendon is gone – or at least he’s on his way out from Chesapeake energy (CHK). But the destruction of the natural gas market, where he was the ringleader in the shale gas land grab and cratering well price, is his real legacy, and not likely to be recovered from anytime [...]
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Eni Says No Involvement Of Directors And Managers In Saipem’s Activities In Algeria, currently under investigation
With regards to the judicial investigation of the prosecutor of the Republic of Milan (Procura della Repubblica di Milano) involving Saipem’s activities in Algeria, Eni acknowledges that the prosecutor has decided to extend the investigation to include Eni and its Chief Executive Officer. Eni and its CEO declare themselves totally unrelated to the object of [...]
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Ethiopian Annihilation Of The Ogaden People – OpEd
Besieged, abused, ignored In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces. Illegal actions carried out with the knowledge and tacit support of donor countries, seemingly content to turn a blind eye to war crimes and crimes against humanity being [...]
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Poll: 9-In-10 Americans Support Gun Background Checks
A new public opinion poll says Americans overwhelmingly support background checks for all gun buyers. The Quinnipiac University poll indicates 92 percent of U.S. voters support the checks, and 56 percent want a ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds. Forty-six percent of the citizens surveyed said [...]
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Tunisia: Police Station In Capital Ransacked Amid Clashes With Police
Protesters have raided a police station in Tunis, witnesses say, after clashes where police fired tear gas. There have been large scale demonstrations in the country after the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid on Wednesday. Clashes erupted Thursday between police and anti-government protesters who were marching in Tunis, the capital, to protest the assassination [...]
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Hunger-Striker, Freed By Israel, Returns To Gaza
A Palestinian prisoner who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year was released to the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Akram Rekhawi crossed through the Erez crossing into Gaza to a public reception of political officials after nine years in Israeli jail. In a short address, Rekhawi stressed the need to support other Palestinians on [...]
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Qatar: Promises, Little Action On Migrant Workers’ Rights, Says HRW
Qatar has not delivered on its pledges to improve migrant workers’ rights, Human Rights Watch said today at a news conference in Doha about its World Report 2013. More than two years after it won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, it is high time for Qatar to deliver on its promises for [...]
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Myanmarnization Of Non-Myanmar Is Ad Nauseam – OpEd
The Burmese regime insistence on the use of word Myanmar over Burma in the English language reveals the highest stage of their ethnic cleansing policy implemented by the Divide and Rule policy over the Non Myanmar, the ethnic nationalities, which constitutes more than half of the population of Burma when the modern Union of Burma [...]
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Islamists And Democracy – OpEd
The murder of Chokri Belaid, leftist leader and lawyer known for his outspoken opposition to radical Islam demonstrates that the situation in Tunisia has reached a critical point. The country where the Arab Spring was born two years ago and enjoyed even under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, a certain freedom of manners, is now [...]
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Salmon May Use Magnetic Field As Navigational Aid
The mystery of how salmon navigate across thousands of miles of open ocean to locate their river of origin before journeying upstream to spawn has intrigued biologists for decades, and now a new study may offer a clue to the fishes’ homing strategy. In the study, scientists examined 56 years of fisheries data documenting the [...]
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US: Brennan Defends Drone Strikes After Leaked Memo
By Michael Bowman President Barack Obama’s pick for CIA director says U.S. drone strikes are carried out judiciously and in compliance with federal law. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence questioned counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan days after an administration memo surfaced that provided a legal justification for drone strikes targeting U.S. terror suspects abroad. U.S. [...]
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