By R. S. Kalha For reasons that are conceptually weak and militarily untenable, the top Chinese military decision making body—the Central Military Commission—took a surprising decision last Sunday to post about 1,200 PLA soldiers in the so-called Sansha City; a collection of a few huts on an island with an area of about 2.13 square [...]
China’s Forward Policy In The South China Sea – Analysis
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Mitt The Twit – OpEd
Mitt Romney is now going about the business of inflating Israeli expectations as being their most staunch of friends. He had just been in London for the Olympics opening ceremony. He saw fit, on his visit to Blighty, to comment on the inadequacy of security preparations and for that matter preparations in general. “It’s hard [...]
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Public Key To Overcoming Corruption
Corruption is a common fact of life in many places, but it can be fought and conquered by the right combination of political will and a full dose of understanding about how corruption inevitably pays off for the few, not the many. That was a central message of Prof. Robert Klitgaard, a leading expert on [...]
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Why Is Mali Spiraling Out Of Control? – OpEd
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic reality is that Mali – a large but sparsely populated country, with around 15.5 million inhabitants – was until a few months [...]
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Europe And US Richly Reward Israel For Pariah Status – OpEd
By Jonathan Cook Israel has barely put a foot right with the international community since its attack on Gaza more than three years ago provoked global revulsion. The right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu has serially defied and insulted foreign leaders, including US President Barack Obama; given the settlers virtual free rein; blocked peace talks with [...]
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Private Association Fines Government, And Government Will Pay! – OpEd
Much has been written about Penn State and the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, but I want to mention two aspects about it that have been on my mind. The first one is the idea of institutional culpability. Jerry Sandusky has already been convicted for his actions, and when they came to light, the [...]
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Smoldering Planet – OpEd
By Saul Landau As fires raged in Arizona last summer, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) discovered the culprits. “There is substantial evidence,” the former Republican presidential candidate told reporters, “that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally.” That’s right. Illegal immigrants, so he claims, set those fires to [...]
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Faith, Civic Engagement And The 2012 US Elections – OpEd
By Altaf Husain One trend to watch in the presidential elections will be whether Muslim American civic engagement will translate into votes in November 2012. While there has been a strong Muslim American voting contingent among African Americans, unresolved grievances rooted in race, rather than religion, have tended to be motivating factors for civic engagement [...]
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Team Obama Fines Oil Companies For not Using Fantasy Fuel – OpEd
There is no such thing as “cellulosic” ethanol, but EPA fines companies for not using it By Deroy Murdock Why does America’s economy feel like an SUV that is running on fumes? The Obama Administration’s laughably rigid enforcement of a Baby Bush-era ethanol mandate typifies today’s regulatory climate. When Uncle Sam governs with a tire [...]
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Libor Scandal And Weak Results Weigh On UBS
By Matthew Allen Swiss bank UBS attempted to fend off persistent questions over its role in the global Libor scandal as it announced a disappointing set of second quarter results in Zurich on Tuesday. Chief executive Sergio Ermotti denied that his bank played a central role in the interest rate rigging affair that has already [...]
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Syria: Clashes In Damascus And Aleppo As 48 Iranian Pilgrims Abducted
Clashes intensified since Friday night in Damascus and Aleppo. These two key cities were the scene of heavy fighting in what seems to be the decisive battle between insurgents and government forces. The sounds of shelling and small arms fire were heard throughout the night in Damascus, and witnesses said that the army had launched [...]
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Obama: Celebrating The Summer Olympics And Paralympics – Transcript
By President Barack Obama Hi, everybody. Today, I want to take a break from the back-and-forth of campaign season, and talk about something that’s brought us all together this week – the Summer Olympics. These games remind us that for all our differences, we’re Americans first. And we could not be prouder of the men [...]
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What Does The Hacking Of Reuters Reveal? – OpEd
As has been widely reported, a Reuters blog was hacked yesterday and bogus articles were posted claiming that rebel forces had withdrawn from Aleppo. What observations can we make about the hacking? Firstly, the hackers have no sympathies with the Free Syrian Army since the reporting clearly had the potential (even if not the actual [...]
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Commercially Viable Truth: India Deserves Less Attention Than US – OpEd
By John Robles A month ago a storm in the United States left approximately 200 million people without power for a week in ten states covering an area from Washington to Indiana. The news was covered extensively in the Western media, with news flashes and non-stop stories sympathetic to those left in the dark. The [...]
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Understanding The Standoff In Mali – Analysis
By Giorgio Cafiero The standoff between Mali’s government and the armed Islamists who control two-thirds of the country is unlikely to resolve peacefully, and the prospects for a new war in the Sahel appear increasingly probable. In January, a disciplined Tuareg separatist group, the Movement for the National Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), initiated a rebellion [...]
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India’s Blackout: A Case Of Rotten Infrastructure – Analysis
Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth For an aspiring economic superpower, there can be few more chastening events than electricity cuts as massive as those that struck northern and eastern India this week. India suffered two massive power failures in as many days. More than 600 million people were affected, with disruptions not only in electricity, but [...]
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My Black Dad And Chick-fil-A – OpEd
I jump on every opportunity to respectfully challenge my 84 year old black dad’s loyalty to Obama. Dad has been a Christian pastor over 50 years. He lives in Maryland and I live in Florida. I called Dad to ask if he participated in Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. He said, no he had not heard about [...]
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iPhone 5 September Release Rumors Gain Speed
Apple’s new iPhone is on-track for a September launch and recently leaked images of the handset are “very likely authentic”, Digital Spy said citing a source. Apple Insider reports a “trusted industry insider” as saying that the sixth generation of the iPhone – often referred to as the iPhone 5 due to the numerical run [...]
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Great Britain 3rd In Olympic Gold Tally; China, US Lead
Great Britain took their gold medal tally to 10 with two rowing victories putting them third in the overall medals table at the London Olympics, BBC Sport said. Britain’s medal count is now 10 golds, seven silvers and eight bronzes. The first medal came as the men’s four of Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed, Andy [...]
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Sri Lanka: Massacre Of Aid Workers Goes Unpunished
The Sri Lankan government’s failure to hold accountable those responsible for the execution-style slaying of 17 aid workers six years ago is indicative of its deeper unwillingness to prosecute soldiers and police for atrocities, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite compelling evidence of participation by state security forces in the killings, government inquiries have not [...]
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