By Houda Trabelsi A year after Tunisia’s historic vote, some political forces say the country needs a national dialogue to speed up the transitional process. The goal is to reach a consensus before the October 23rd deadline, when the term of the interim government expires, according to Ettakatol. Mustapha Ben Jaafar’s party on September 27th [...]
Tunisian Parties Call For National Dialogue
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Teenager Wins $60,000 For Hacking Into Google
A youngster who goes by the name Pinkie Pie made $60,000 for hacking into Google. In fact, Google was the one who paid up, VentureBeat News said. This is the second time the teenaged reverse engineer enthusiast was able to collect the grand exploit prize from Google in less than a year. In order to [...]
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Protecting Girl Children And Pakistan’s Woes – OpEd
By Mazhar Iqbal As the World inaugurates the First International Day of Girl Child, Pakistan is struggling to save life of a brave teenage girl. On this day, 14-year-old Malala, is not fighting against militancy, but for her own survival. Communities around the globe are entering into a new era of joint efforts to end [...]
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Do Subsidies Improve Nutrition? – Analysis
When food price subsidies are given to the poor, the assumption is that they improve both access and nutrition, but the impact these subsidies have on the quality of nutrition is hard to gauge, say experts. Food price subsidies – whether donor or government funded – are provided through conditional cash transfers where people receive [...]
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IMF: Give Greece, Spain A break
(EurActiv) — The IMF on Thursday (11 October) backed giving debt-burdened Greece and Spain more time to reduce their budget deficits, cautioning that cutting too far, too fast would do more harm than good. But Germany pushed back and said back-tracking on debt-reduction goals would only hurt confidence, a stance that suggested some disagreement between [...]
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Memo to Joe Biden, Re: Debate – OpEd
TO: VPOTUS FROM: Robert Reich RE: Debate Beware: Paul Ryan will appear affable. He’s less polished and aggressive than Romney, even soft-spoken. And he acts as if he’s saying reasonable things. But under the surface he’s a rightwing zealot. And nothing he says or believes is reasonable – neither logical nor reflecting the values of [...]
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The Politics Of Fear And The Party Of Non-Voters – OpEd
The latest Pew Research Center poll shows Mitt Romney ahead of President Barack Obama among likely voters, 49% to 45%. But the latest Gallup poll shows the President Obama leading Romney among likely voters, 50% to 45%. What gives? The Pew poll covered the days immediately following last Wednesday’s presidential debate. It didn’t include last [...]
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Ron Paul: We Must Fiscally Restrain Our Government – OpEd
The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial, but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It’s not that nearly half of Americans are dependent on government; it’s actually more than half. If one includes not just people on food stamps and welfare, but also seniors on Medicare, Social Security [...]
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Astronomers Find Diamond Planet Twice The Size Of Earth
Forget a diamond the size of the Ritz – astronomers have discovered a planet partly made out of diamond, and at an incredible 40 light years away from Earth, it is visible to the naked eye. While visually appealing, with no atmosphere and temperatures reaching 1,648 degrees Celsius it’s hardly habitable. The incredibly hot, rocky [...]
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Heating Oil Markets Are Tight As Winter Approaches – Analysis
In petroleum markets, October is typically the time when attention shifts from transportation fuels to heating fuels. Strong global distillate demand and refinery outages have supported prompt distillate prices relative to those in the future. In its October 2012 Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting that retail [...]
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Mauritania: Security Forces On Alert Over Rumored Al Qaeda Attack
By Jemal Oumar For about a week now, Nouakchott has witnessed intensive security reinforcements at main streets and near embassies, ministries and public departments. A number of armed soldiers were mobilised at the southern and south-eastern border near the areas where armed terrorist groups operate in northern Mali. Mauritanian police, security and gendarme forces have [...]
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Biden, Ryan Square Off On Economy, Middle East
The Republican vice presidential candidate, Representative Paul Ryan, says Americans are watching the “absolute unraveling” of the Obama administration at a time when “problems are growing abroad but jobs aren’t growing at home.” In a nationally televised debate at a small college in the south-central state of Kentucky, Ryan and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden [...]
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Suspects In US Technology Export Case Remain In Custody
A Russian-American businessman accused of illegally exporting sophisticated microelectronics to the Russian military will remain under arrest and be transferred from Houston to New York, a US federal court in Houston, Texas, ruled Thursday. The businessman, Alexander Fishenko, 46, was ordered to remain in custody by US Magistrate Judge George C. Hanks Jr., who called [...]
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US Deploys Military Task Force In Jordan: Wider War? – OpEd
By Bill Van Auken Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Wednesday confirmed the existence of the task force, which was first reported by the New York Times. Speaking to the media at the close of a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, Panetta stated, “We have a group of our forces there working to help build [...]
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LTTE War Crimes: Human Shields – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge How far international laws of war and related punishment apply to terrorist organizations is something that needs far more attention than presently given. No law will have face value when those not-signatory, non-binding and those that purely exist on their ability to inflict fear and terror does not fall into the radar [...]
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Third Pacific Northwest Anarchist Jailed For Refusing To Testify Before Secret Grand Jury
A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt. Leah-Lynn Plante, a mid-20s activist from Seattle, Washington, was ushered out of court by authorities on Wednesday after refusing for a third time [...]
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Dealing With The Legacy Of Dictatorship: Indonesia And Philippines – Analysis
Indonesia and the Philippines recently observed anniversaries of two crucial events, which involved massive human rights violations and led to the establishment of authoritarian regimes in both countries. However, justice for the victims of mass atrocities remains elusive. By Julius Cesar I. Trajano and Yoes C. Kenawas INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES, the biggest democracies in [...]
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Hindus Want Enquiry Into Racism In South Africa Schools After Boksburg Episode
In view of the reported incidents of racism in Boksburg (Gauteng) school, Hindus have asked for nationwide investigation into prevalence of racism in South Africa schools. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was highly disturbing and unacceptable that innocent primary schoolchildren had to go through such racist [...]
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Biden’s Strategy: Be A Jerk – OpEd
Is there a human being on this Earth more obnoxious than Joe Biden? It appears that the following was his strategy in the vice-presidential debate: Okay, I’ll smile wide like a used-car salesman, shake my head and laugh while Paul Ryan is talking. This will give all watching the idea that everything he says is [...]
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Turkey Engages In Reckless Civilian Air Heist – OpEd
By Finian Cunningham The rogue states conducting a criminal war of aggression against Syria went a step further in their roguery this week with the de facto hijacking of a civilian airliner. It must have been a terrifying ordeal for the crew and passengers onboard the Syrian Airlines’ Airbus A-320 en route from Moscow to [...]
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