The Guatemala ‘Ixil Genocide Trial’: Tests Judiciary Independence And Pushes Military Political Project To The Limit – Analysis

May 2, 2013, 11:01 pm

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By Annie Bird On April 30, 2013, the trial of former General Efraín Rios Montt, and his former Military Intelligence Director José Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, resumed, after having been annulled on April 19 by a pre-trial judge, Carol Patricia Flores. It is still unclear whether the April [...]

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South China Sea Disputes: Strategic Implications And Perspectives On Conflict Resolution – Analysis

May 2, 2013, 11:07 pm

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By Dr Subhash Kapila Introductory Observations “Just as German soil constituted the military frontline of the Cold War, the waters of the South China Sea may constitute the military frontline of the coming decades. Worldwide multipolarity is already a feature of diplomacy and economics, but the South China Sea could show as what multipolarity in [...]

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China: Time For A Change Of Strategy – OpEd

May 2, 2013, 11:11 pm

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It is more than two weeks now since a platoon of the PLA of China moved about 19 kms into Indian-claimed territory in Eastern Ladakh which, according to India, is on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LOAC) and set up a temporary camp with tents. Media reports suggest that the Chinese action [...]

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US, UK Aim To Strengthen Already Strong Alliance

May 2, 2013, 11:14 pm

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By Jim Garamone The United States and the United Kingdom are looking for ways to deepen an already close military-to-military relationship, American and British defense leaders said following a Pentagon meeting today. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond told Pentagon reporters that they discussed the situations in Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. [...]

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US Mulls Arming Syria Rebels

May 2, 2013, 11:16 pm

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(RFE/RL) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Obama administration is reconsidering its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels. Hagel told reporters May 2 that the administration is considering a range of options, including arming the rebels. But he said that he, personally, has not decided yet whether it would be wise to provide [...]

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US, South Korea Summit To Focus On Security, Economic Ties

May 3, 2013, 12:29 pm

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By Steve Herman South Korea’s president, who took office in late February, begins her first official visit to Washington on Sunday. The trip is intended to enhance the economic and security relationship between the two allies. On her six-day visit, President Park Geun-hye will be accompanied by what is billed as the largest-ever South Korean [...]

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Ethiopia: Terrorism Law Decimates Media, Says HRW

May 3, 2013, 12:33 pm

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The Ethiopian government should mark World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, 2013, by immediately releasing all journalists jailed under the country’s deeply flawed anti-terrorism law. On May 2, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld an 18-year sentence under the anti-terrorism law for Eskinder Nega Fenta, a journalist and blogger who received the 2012 PEN Freedom [...]

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Impacts Of Nuclear Iran In The Region – OpEd

May 3, 2013, 12:44 pm

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The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program. The participation of the United States and Western European governments in Iran’s nuclear program continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran regime. After the 1979 [...]

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New Wyoming Lithium Deposit Could Meet All U.S. Demand – Analysis

May 3, 2013, 12:47 pm

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By. John C.K. Daly The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric cars. According to a United States Geological Survey publication on lithium, “The only commercially active lithium mine in the United States was a brine oper ation [...]

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Sri Lanka: Reconciliation Through Art And Dancing – Analysis

May 3, 2013, 12:55 pm

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By Nandana Wijesinghe The office of the Director, Social Development Affairs to the President has been organizing a national programme named Enhancing Knowledge and Virtues: Student Courage (Nena Guna Weduma: Sisu Diriya) national program for six consecutive years, whose main aim is societal development especially in the former conflict ridden areas. The office of the [...]

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No Mayday On May Day For American Politics – OpEd

May 3, 2013, 12:58 pm

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Another May Day gone by… 2013 this time! And as usual, our beloved local politicians, business leaders, peace-enforcers (cops), corporate journalists, and citizenry busy in making the proverbial buck, made sure that the protests taking place were pictured as smallish and un-American as that foreign-sounding International Workers’ Day. And if any incidents occurred – other [...]

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Outcome Of Syria’s Crisis Will Delimit New Middle East – Analysis

May 3, 2013, 1:57 pm

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Western leaders’ conflicting statements underscore the unease about change in the Arab world. Unless one believes that diplomats speak unscripted, an earlier statement by U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry is extremely significant. He contended that the ultimate goal is to “see Assad and the Syrian opposition sitting at the same table to establish a transitional government [...]

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The Housing Shell Game: Prices Up, Ownership Down – OpEd

May 3, 2013, 4:11 pm

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Why are housing prices rising when the homeownership rate has dropped to its lowest level in 18 years? Actually, it’s not as confusing as it sounds. The Fed’s low interest rates have triggered a flurry of homebuying by Private Equity firms and other speculators which has reduced already-tight supply and pushed up prices.  Of course, there is a downside to all this [...]

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Hamas Slams Arab League Peace Initiative

May 3, 2013, 4:21 pm

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Islamist Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip on Friday, May 3 rejected a revised Middle East peace initiative put forward by the Arab League, saying outsiders could not decide the fate of the Palestinians, Reuters reported. In meetings this week in Washington, Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan, acknowledging that Israelis and [...]

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Pentagon Officials Continue To Study Options In Syria

May 3, 2013, 4:25 pm

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By Jim Garamone Pentagon officials followed up today on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s statement yesterday that the United States is looking at arming the Syrian opposition, saying it is important to refine options as the situation on the ground changes. In a meeting with reporters, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little stressed that the situation in [...]

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From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Shame Of Forgetting – OpEd

May 3, 2013, 4:41 pm

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By Vacy Vlazna The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons of WWII went tragically unheeded. The memory of the slaughter of [...]

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Pope Francis Warns Against Lukewarm Faith With Personal Story

May 3, 2013, 8:52 pm

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In keeping with his style, Pope Francis cautioned about the dangers of a lukewarm faith by telling a childhood story on the importance of believing in the physical resurrection of Jesus. “I remember, excuse me, a personal story,” he said during his daily morning Mass on May 3. “As a child, every Good Friday my [...]

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Wall Street Has Record Day After Good Economic News

May 3, 2013, 8:58 pm

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It was another record-breaking day on Wall Street Friday as good news about the U.S. economy and jobs sent the markets to new highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 15,000 for the first time before falling back to close at 14,973. The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high of 1,616. The Labor [...]

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Obama Doesn’t Foresee Sending Ground Troops To Syria

May 3, 2013, 9:01 pm

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US President Barack Obama said he does not yet picture sending ground troops into Syria, while still maintaining that no options will be disregarded if claims of alleged chemical weapons use by the regime are backed up. Obama’s announcement came Friday at a news conference in the Costa Rica capital of San Jose, where he [...]

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Birth Of A Black Hole

May 3, 2013, 9:07 pm

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By Marcus Woo When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense that not even light can escape its gravitational grip. According to a new analysis by an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), just before the black hole forms, [...]

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