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Obama Deploys U.S. Predator Drones To North Africa

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In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Patrick Leahy, President Barack Obama officially informed lawmakers of his deployment of military predator drones and American troops on Friday to the African country of Niger. The letter indicated the drones may be used to support French counterterrorism [...]

What Does Iran Want From The P5+1? And What Do The P5+1 Want From Iran? – Analysis

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Iran and the P5+1 group (United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany) are to resume negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan on February 26. Their last meeting was eight-month ago in Moscow. That meeting did not produce a breakthrough and that was expected because, in part, the U.S. was not prepared to offer anything of significance [...]

Limbaugh’s New Racism – OpEd

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For some years, several times a week while driving to go shopping and do errands, I have listened to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.  Pretty much all the time I have become angered because every few sentences I realized that with his total sincerity and conviction he was stating absolutely incorrect things.  Add to endless [...]

Syrian Rebels Supplied Arms By United States And Its Allies – OpEd

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From the very beginning apprehensions were expressed that Syrian rebels were getting arms from outside. The critics also said that after demolishing the Syrian regime ‑- which enjoys a cordial relationship with Iran -‑ the next target will be Pakistan and then Iran would be attached. Some of the critics attributed this to ‘provoking anti [...]

Rosneft And Eni Sign Agreement To Develop Trading And Logistics Opportunities

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Rosneft and Eni agreed to strengthen their cooperation by signing a strategic agreement to develop trading and logistics opportunities. The agreement was signed on February 23 in Rome by Igor Sechin, Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board, and Marco Alverà, CEO of Eni Trading & Shipping (ETS). The aim of the agreement is [...]

Democracy Canadian-Style Part I: Abroad – OpEd

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Canada’s role in the postmodern imperial world is as a poster child for promoting formal electoral democracy — at home and abroad. Internationally, instead of offering peacekeeping troops to the UN, as in days of yore, and promoting grassroots development in the third world, it takes orders directly from its US-Euro masters, helping them invade [...]

Save the NHS Now! Legislation Enforcing Privatisation Will Be Passed In A Month Unless We Act – OpEd

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Where is the outrage in the mainstream media? For the past week I have been receiving messages via email or on Facebook from concerned friends and/or organisations warning me that the government is sneakily pushing through new legislation which will force all Clinical Commissioning Groups — the GP-led practices, which, from April, will be responsible [...]

Why Obama Must Meet The Republican Lies Directly – OpEd

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The White House apparently believes the best way to strengthen its hand in the upcoming “sequester” showdown with Republicans is to tell Americans how awful the spending cuts will be, and blame Republicans for them. It won’t work. These tactical messages are getting in the way of the larger truth, which the President must hammer [...]

Media Bytes: India And Sri Lanka War Crimes Issue

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By Col R Hariharan On photographs showing Prabhakaran’s son’s death On the eve of the release of a full length film on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes, the British daily the Independent carried an article along with two photographs showing Prabhakaran’s son eating a snack before his Sri Lankan captors allegedly shot him dead in [...]

Nepal: Inching Towards An Agreement For CA Elections – Analysis

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By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan. It looked as if the major political parties having realised the urgency of holding the CA elections before mid June, had come to an agreement to have a “non partisan” government immediately under the Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. But they did not reckon that the Chief Justice himself is reluctant [...]

Hyderaqbad Blasts: A Quick Review

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By Col R Hariharan BACKGROUND INFORMATION Two improvised explosive devices (IED) kept in tiffin boxes strapped to bicycles had exploded minutes apart, in Dilsukh Nagar, a congested Hyderabad suburb, around 7 pm on February 22. So far 17 people are reported to have died. Over 100 people were injured – some of them seriously – [...]

Teesta Water Accord: Expectations For Indo-Bangladesh Water Diplomacy – Analysis

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By Roomana Hukil Recent talks of optimism over the Teesta accord by Indian Foreign Secretary, Ranjan Mathai and Minister of External Affairs, Salman Khurshid have defused a striking political assertion of bringing a cut to the impending decade-long water deal between both countries. With the cross-border exchange of premier visits nearing this year, a greater [...]

Potential Threat Of Asteroid Impact Should Unite International Community – OpEd

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Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences continue to investigate the meteorite explosion recorded in the Chelyabinsk region near the Chebarkul lake on 15 February 2013, after which more than 1.5 thousand people sought medical care. Modern methods of detection of celestial bodies have been unable to predict this threat, prompting the international community to [...]

Future Evidence For Extraterrestrial Life Might Come From Dying Stars

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Even dying stars could host planets with life – and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf’s [...]

Rethinking Wind Power: Real-World Generating Capacity Of Wind Farms At Large Scales Overestimated

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“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says Harvard applied physicist David Keith. After all, gusts and breezes don’t seem likely to “run out” on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry. Yet the latest research in mesoscale atmospheric [...]

President-Elect Vows To Restore ‘Credibility Of Cyprus’

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(EurActiv) — Nicos Anastasiades, who won a resounding victory in the run-off of the elections held yesterday (24 February), promised to “restore the credibility of Cyprus”. He faces weeks of difficult talks with foreign lenders on a financial rescue for the nation. Known for his no-nonsense style and impressive access to key European policymakers like [...]

Former Obama Spokesperson Says He Was Barred From Discussing Drones

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President Barack Obama’s former press secretary said over the weekend that the White House restricted him from even recognizing the United States’ overseas drone program. Robert Gibbs, who served as the president’s official spokesperson from 2009 through 2011, told MSNBC host Chris Hayes that early on in his White House days he was told he [...]

Eni Says Significant New Natural Gas Exploration Success In Mozambique

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Eni has made a new natural gas discovery within the Mamba Complex, in Area 4, offshore Mozambique, at the Coral 3 delineation well, which is the eighth well drilled back to back in Area 4. The new discovery confirm the potential of Area 4 operated by Eni at 75 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas [...]

EU-Albania: Elections To Be Crucial Test Of Democracy

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Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle met Chairman of the Socialist Movement for Integration Ilir META in Brussels today to exchange views on the follow-up to the Council Conclusions from December and on the latest developments of the political situation in Albania. The Commissioner said that Albania has no time to spare [...]

Delegations Arrive In Kazakhstan For Nuclear Talks

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Delegations representing Iran and the G5+1 have arrived in Almati, Kazakhstan in time to resume nuclear talks on February 26. The talks are scheduled for one day, but a number of Iranian media outlets have indicated that they can possibly stretch to Wednesday. Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Security Supreme Council, is leading [...]
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