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Is Berlusconi Being Targeted By CIA? – OpEd

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By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley This coming Sunday and Monday, Italians will go to the polls to choose a new parliament and thus a new prime minister, while setting the stage for the election of a new president of the republic shortly thereafter. Most indications are that the most numerous faction in the coming parliament, [...]

U.S. Spending Cuts Will Harm Poor, Warns Catholic Agency

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By Adelaide Darling If members of Congress do not come to an agreement on a debt reduction proposal, the resulting spending cuts may threaten the lives of those in poverty, cautioned Catholic Relief Services. Members of Catholics Confront Global Poverty, an initiative of Catholic Relief Services, agreed with conclusions by several U.S. bishops that while [...]

John Kerry’s Grand Tour: Priorities For Europe – OpEd

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By Luke Coffey, Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. and Theodore R. Bromund, Ph.D. From February 24 to March 6, John Kerry will make his first trip overseas since being appointed U.S. Secretary of State. During this period, he will be visiting the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. [...]

Kyrgyzstan Mulls Scrapping Canada Gold Deal

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(RFE/RL) — Kyrgyzstan’s parliament has given the government three months to renegotiate the terms of a 2009 financial agreement on the Kumtor gold mine with Canada’s Centerra Gold company. The resolution adopted on February 21 after two days of debate orders the government to cancel the current contract if no compromise is reached in that [...]

Remuneration Tips For A More Motivated Workforce – Analysis

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Variable remuneration schemes, although increasingly widespread, do not always achieve their main objective: to motivate people. Typically, these schemes are useful for establishing and communicating business priorities. In addition, they can link labor costs to results, which means that remuneration costs only increase in line with business profits, whether economic or otherwise. However, IESE’s Pablo [...]

Japan Preparing New Nuclear Regulations

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Japan’s new nuclear regulations could demand that operators are prepared to avoid an accident even in the case of war or deliberate aircraft impact. Draft rules are at the first public comment stage. The Fukushima accident of March 2011 showed that neither the Japanese government, regulator or industry had taken enough care to prepare for [...]

Washington Debates The Pivot To Asia – OpEd

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By Walden Bello Over the last two years, the Obama administration has executed what the president has termed the “Pivot to Asia” strategy, whereby the United States’ global military force posture is being reconfigured to focus on the Asia-Pacific region as Washington’s central front. Movement has been rapid, with Washington expanding its naval exercises with [...]

US Economy Slow Down Predicted As Sequester Looms

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By Cindy Saine U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to take action to prevent $85 billion in automatic spending cuts — known as the “sequester” — from going into effect on March first. The sequester deadline resulted from a battle over raising the debt ceiling in August of 2011. Congress and the president [...]

U.S. Deploys Troops To Niger

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The US military has deployed about 100 troops in Niger to help coordinate intelligence sharing with the French, whose forces are currently fighting to seize Islamist-controlled territory in Mali, President Obama announced Friday. The US forces are armed with “weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security,” Obama said in a [...]

Power Grab At The Fed – OpEd

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Are you ready for a good laugh? The head of the New York Fed wants Congress to grant the Central Bank extraordinary new powers to deal with future financial system emergencies like the bank run that followed Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008. Here’s the story from the New York Times: “[William] Dudley’s concern is [...]

How Languages Shape Our Understanding Of The World – OpEd

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There are currently about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. It is estimated that by the end of this century as many as 90% of them will have become extinct. Some people might think that the fewer languages there are spoken, the more readily people will understand each other and that ideally we should all [...]

Why Customers Are Disappearing, Why Higher Unemployment Is Likely Result, And Why Many In Washington Don’t Have Half A Brain – OpEd

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Can we just put aside ideology for one minute and agree that businesses hire more workers if they have more customers, and fire workers if they have fewer customers? There are two big categories of customer: One is comprised of individual consumers. The other is government. We tend to think of the government as a [...]

Iran Denies Illegal Actions In Nigeria

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Iran has denied accusations regarding its presence in Nigeria, saying: “they are fabricated by biased intelligence and media circles.” Hossein Amir Abdolahian, Iran’s Foreign Ministry deputy, said Iran and Nigeria have amicable relations and Iran is not involved in any illegal activities in that country. He stressed that the allegations against Iran are “made in [...]

Germany Reminds Albania Of Need For Free Elections

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By Besar Likmeta The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, has called for free and fair elections in Albania, warning against the rise of nationalist rhetoric in Tirana. “It’s very important for the elections to be held successfully and in accordance with European principles,” Westerwelle said in a joint press conference with his Albanian counterpart, Edmond [...]

Patrick Buchanan: Cut Commitments, Not Muscle – OpEd

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In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third. A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean. The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving [...]

Palestinians Disqualify U.S. As Peace Broker – OpEd

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By Nicola Nasser The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel, will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – Israeli conflict in Palestine, a Palestinian veteran peace negotiator says. This “unbreakable alliance” will doom whatever hopes remain during Obama’s [...]

US 2014 Drawdown To Begin After Afghanistan Elections

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By Karen Parrish The United States will maintain more than 60,000 troops in Afghanistan through the spring and summer fighting season, cutting to 34,000 by February and staying at that strength through the Afghan elections set for 2014, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said here today. “Once those elections are completed, we will then begin [...]

India: Police And Safety And Security Of Women – Analysis

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By A. K. Verma Why do people in India love to despise the police? The seeds of the mystery are buried in the deep history of the British Raj, so deep that the modern narrative on the subject hardly ever brings it under scrutiny. The original culprit is the Police Act of 1861 which laid [...]

Myanmar: Ethnic Reconciliation And The Peace Process

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By C. S. Kuppuswamy In a landmark talks between the government and the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held at Chiang Mai on 20 Feb 2013, the government, perhaps for the first time, officially agreed to initiate a political dialogue with the ethnics after six decades of civil war. “This is the beginning. They (ethnic [...]

The Hyderabad Blasts – Analysis

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Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 20 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7 PM on February 21,2013. Initial reports indicated that one of the improvised explosive devices had been placed in a cycle or motor-bike and the other inside a tiffin box.These reports are [...]
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