By John Zaw and Thomas Toe Communal conflict in Myanmar has tarnished the country’s image, President Thein Sein said yesterday, following a wave of anti-Islamic violence that many say the government should have done more to prevent. The riots appear to have calmed since Thein Sein gave a public address on Thursday, vowing to tackle [...]
Burma: President Slams “Opportunists And Extremists”
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Patrick Buchanan: Today, Cyprus, Tomorrow… OpEd
“Government is theft.” The old libertarian battle cry came to mind when the news hit, two weeks ago, that Cyprus was about to confiscate 7 percent of all the insured deposits in the island’s two biggest banks. Nicosia also planned to siphon off 10 percent of uninsured deposits, those above 100,000 euros ($130,000), and use [...]
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UN Set To Vote On Global Arms Trade Treaty
The UN general Assembly will vote on Tuesday on the first international treaty establishing rules for cross-border conventional arms trade as Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked its adoption by consensus last week. The resolution to adopt the treaty will require a two-thirds majority vote of the 193 UN member states, according to UN rules. [...]
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Hagel Hosts Singapore’s Prime Minister At Pentagon
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel hosted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore for a working lunch at the Pentagon today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. “The meeting was an opportunity for Secretary Hagel to hear the Prime Minister’s views on regional security issues, including how nations can work with one another to peacefully [...]
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China Places Military On Highest Alert As Korean Tensions Escalate
China has started mobilizing military forces around the Korean peninsula in response to rising tensions that follow recent threats by North Korea to launch missile attacks against its southern neighbor and the United States. According to US officials, Pyongyang’s declaration of a ‘state of war’ against South Korea has led to the Chinese People’s Liberation [...]
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How To Reduce Unemployment – OpEd
Many of the pundits are once again celebrating the pick-up of the U.S. economy. Unfortunately this upturn, like prior ones, seems to exist more in their heads than in the data. The big bright spot being highlighted is the 200,000 monthly rate of job creation since October. This only sounds like good news for those [...]
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U.S. Will Defend South Korea And Itself, Following North Korea’s Decision To Reactivate Nuclear Program – Kerry
The US will defend itself and its “treaty ally” South Korea in the face of North Korean threats, Secretary of State John Kerry has said. Mr Kerry made the pledge while speaking at a news conference with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se. Pyongyang has taken a series of defiant measures in the wake of [...]
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Washington And Kabul: Time To Partner For Peace – OpEd
By David Cortright At a press conference in Kabul on 11 March 2013, Afghan President Hamid Karzai charged that the United States was working with the Taliban to undermine his government and keep Afghanistan unstable in order to justify maintaining troops in the country. The accusation angered Washington and was promptly dismissed. Yet Afghan officials [...]
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Egyptian Superhero Fights Sexual Harassment – OpEd
By Sophie Anmuth Dressed in floral print clothing, he needs cinnamon chewing-gum to fight against his foes and a long rest after his encounters – It’s Super Makh! Reappearing this year in the Egyptian comic publication Tok-Tok, Super Makh is the Egyptian version of Superman in a popular cartoon where his main mission is to [...]
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Romania Seeks Recovery From Food Scandals
By Paul Ciocoiu Experts told SETimes that the recent scandals in Romania, which involved milk and horse meat that was distributed throughout Europe, were the results of miscommunication, and the country is taking steps to rebound. Prime Minister Victor Ponta replaced Mihai Turcanu, the head of the government food safety agency, last month, accusing him [...]
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North Korea Suspends Access To Crucial Jointly-Run Industrial Zone With South
North Korea has suspended access to the Kaesong industrial zone shared with South Korea, but allowed its workers to return home – the latest move amid escalating tensions on the peninsula. South Korea’s Unification Ministry reports that 446 South Korean workers had been stranded at the facility, waiting to cross back into home territory since [...]
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Israel Ranks Low In OECD Quality Of Life Survey – OpEd
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which monitors key indices of social development among major western nations, published the Better Life index. It is a new survey which asks respondents to indicate their own subjective view of their economic, social, and personal well-being. Though the poll made a point of not offering overall [...]
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Iraq Energy Profile: Has Surpassed Iran In Producing Crude Oil – Analysis
Iraq has the fifth largest proven crude oil reserves in the world, and it passed Iran as the second largest producer of crude oil in OPEC at the end of 2012. Iraq was the world’s eighth largest producer of total petroleum liquids in 2012, and it has the world’s fifth largest proven petroleum reserves after [...]
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Conservatism Is Far From Dead In The US – OpEd
I thought it odd that the Republican National Committee would have labeled its analysis of the 2012 campaign loss an “autopsy.” The GOP is far from dead and, more importantly, neither is conservatism as a political force in the life of the nation. It would be a very serious error for the GOP to abandon [...]
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François Hollande’s First State Visit To Morocco – OpEd
French President François Hollande, begins tomorrow his first state visit to Morocco, accompanied by a large delegation of nine ministers, sixty entrepreneurs, parliamentarians and intellectuals. Hollande’s visit, which comes three months after his first state visit to Algeria, a country with whom Morocco maintains a historic rivalry over the question of the Sahara, will last [...]
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Syrian Civil War Sees Bloodiest Month In March
March 2013 was the bloodiest month recorded in Syria’s two-year civil war, with at least 6,000 people mortally wounded, and one-third of the dead classified as civilians, states a report on Monday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Although the group admits to opposing President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, it has monitored human [...]
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Does Arab League Matter? – OpEd
By Osama Al Sharif Most Arabs will be the first to admit that the Arab League, the 68-year-old organization, is a dysfunctional body that has manifested Arab divisions and deep differences rather than realizing its stated goal which is, according to its charter, to “draw closer the relations between member states and co-ordinate collaboration between [...]
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Sudan’s Arab Spring? – OpEd
By Alsir Sidahmed Cynics have asserted that if the Arab Spring is to be characterized by forces of political Islam taking over power and mismanaging it, then Sudan had its Arab Spring more than two decades ago. However, in reality, Sudan seems to be at a crossroads, poised either for a soft landing through political [...]
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The Rise Of Sinorussia And Its Geopolitical Consequences – Analysis
The fifth summit of the BRICS, held in Durban last month, might go down in history as the birthplace of a multipolar world order in place of US “imperfect unipolarism.” In an interview to the ITAR-TASS news agency ahead of the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin had already described the group as “a key element [...]
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India Responds To The Gwadar Port Transfer: Strategic Signaling In Indian Ocean – Analysis
By Shane Mason In a February 27th communique to a leading member of the Raj Sabha, India’s upper house of parliament, Indian Defense Minister AK Antony outlined a proposal to establish two new missile test sites for its increasingly-sophisticated arsenal of conventional and nuclear-capable missiles. (http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=92660) The first will be constructed on property near the [...]
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