On Monday, October 8, the average retail price of regular gasoline in California reached $4.66 per gallon, driving the West Coast average price to $4.41 per gallon, the highest weekly price since the summer of 2008. The sharp price increase came after a combination of refinery and logistical problems stressed a market that had been [...]
An Update On West Coast Gasoline Markets – Analysis
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China’s Defence Aviation Industry: Searching For Innovation – Analysis
Prolonged systemic challenges continue to strain and divide China’s military-aviation industry. Nonetheless the sector’s overall modernisation drive is probably the most prominent among China’s defence industries. By Michael Raska OVER THE past decade, China’s military-aviation industry has been gradually transforming its defence, science, technology, and innovation capabilities, and narrowing the once-wide technological gaps with advanced [...]
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South Korea’s Defence Reform Plan: A Case Of Bad Timing? – Analysis
Having recognised North Korea’s growing threat to its national security, the South Korean government has proposed further defence reform measures. It is, however, a bad time for the Seoul government to push the improvements. By Han Nack Hoon THE SOUTH Korean defence ministry’s announcement last August of another mid- and long-term defence reform plan comes [...]
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Syria: State Brutality Human Agony
From peaceful demonstrations in March 2011 inspired by the atmosphere of hope that swept through northern Africa, to bitter, brutal conflict, war, the human disease is rampaging through Syria. Destroying the lives of innocent men women and children upon their homeland, reducing men to murderers and enemies, a country to rubble. Decades of resentment and [...]
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UK Cops Taser Disabled Man After Mistaking Walking Stick For Samurai Sword
Police tasered and handcuffed a blind two-time stroke victim in northern England, reportedly mistaking his walking stick for samurai sword. Colin Farmer, a retired architect who is 61 and cannot move unaided, was on his own and walking down a street in Chorley, in the county of Lancashire, on a Friday evening, when the incident [...]
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Saudi Arabia To Finance Morocco Projects Worth $1.25 Billion
Yesterday’s Saudi-Moroccan summit talks between Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and King Muhammad focused on the worsening situation in Syria as well as the latest developments on the Palestinian front. “The two leaders discussed major Arab and international issues including Syria and Palestine and explored prospects for strengthening cooperation between the two [...]
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American-Iranian Plotted To Assassinate Saudi Envoy
A Texas man pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, agreeing to hire what he thought was a drug dealer in Mexico last year for $1.5 million to carry out the attack with explosives at a Washington restaurant. Manssor Arbabsiar, 58, entered the plea to two conspiracy charges and [...]
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Hindus Welcome Celebration Of Ganesh-Chaturthi At US Air Force Academy
Hindus have applauded U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) for celebrating Ganesh-Chaturthi at its Colorado Springs (Colorado) campus. Commending the Academy for this historic milestone, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, called it a “step in the right direction”. Thus opening-up the cadets to major world religions and non-believers’ viewpoint would [...]
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Russian Crescent – OpEd
By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed THE visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki to Moscow made the distance between Baghdad and Washington, which forms the current political system, significantly greater. Al-Maliki’s purchase of Russian arms cost him more than $ 4 billion. The purchase of arms besides being a military need also signifies a political identity, and [...]
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France’s Hollande Acknowledges Massacre Of Algerians In 1961
French President Francois Hollande acknowledged on Wednesday, Oct 17, Algerians were massacred during an independence rally in Paris in 1961, ending decades of official silence over one of the darkest chapters of post-war French history, Reuters reported. The statement, which came as Hollande tries to improve relations with Algiers ahead of a visit there in [...]
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India Cyber Security: Need For More Robust Approach – Analysis
By Rahul Bhonsle Even as, “cyber wars,” have become a reality across the globe, India’s security czars have issued a report on Recommendations of the Joint Working Group (JWG) on Engagement with Private Sector on Cyber Security. The pork barreled Report which appears to be designed to benefit the large Information Technology sector in the [...]
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Detracting Justice For Pakistani War Prisoners – OpEd
The Indian Supreme Court is dealing with a myth nowadays. One party says he is a war prisoner, the other says he is nowhere. But, his family and those who are defending his case categorically say that he is present somewhere in India. He was arrested in September 1965, declared dead after two months of [...]
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S&P Cuts Cyprus Rating Into Junk Territory
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services downgraded Cyprus’s sovereign ratings three notches further into junk territory, saying the island nation’s creditworthiness had deteriorated significantly since its ratings were lowered in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. S&P has Cyprus at B, or five levels into junk category, and said the ratings remain on review. The ratings [...]
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Major Publishers Protest Saudi Textbook Content – OpEd
By Nina Shea An appeal to the government of Saudi Arabia to stop publishing hate-filled textbooks was issued today by seven current and former heads of major American publishing houses. Leading it was Robert Bernstein, formerly chairman of Random House and founder of Human Rights Watch, who is now the chairman of Advancing Human Rights. [...]
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Thorny Road Ahead For Middle East Conference – Analysis
By Ramesh Jaura A veil of silence and secrecy has shrouded the fate of a conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction in 2012, since the UN announced on October 14, 2011 that Finland will host it. The veil slowly lifting now [...]
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Press TV Ban Tantamount To Human Rights Violation – OpEd
By Ismail Salami The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel. On Monday, UK-based Eutelsat, which is run by Michel de Rosen, a Zionist Israeli-French, stopped carrying Press TV and some 18 other channels from [...]
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Ignore Syrian Rebels’ Threats – OpEd
Syrian rebels, in a stalemated conflict with the autocratic Bashar al-Assad, predictably are trying every trick to suck more help out of the United States. They are using the same tactic that developing nations used against U.S. policymakers during the Cold War to get more money and assistance: fear of takeover by extremists. The new [...]
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Can A Free Market In US Healthcare Work? – OpEd
As the author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, from time to time I hear policy wonks claim that the market cannot work in healthcare. Usually, they cite a very old article by Stanford University economist Kenneth Arrow, who claimed that the market for medical care is inherently imperfect. True, but most markets are imperfect. The [...]
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Geopolitics, Energy And The Great African Lakes – Analysis
By Shaantanu Shankar The spectres of colonialism are haunting Eastern Africa. A border disute between Malawi and Tanzania over the Lake Malawi/Nyasa have re-emerged after a British corporation was given the green light for hydrocarbon exploration. In the centre of the dispute lies the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 delineating the borders of former colonies. The [...]
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India’s Role In The Muslim World: A Foreign Policy Challenge – Analysis
By Saeed Naqvi Supposing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seated across the table with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, were to say: “The murderous regime in Syria has killed 30,000 of its own citizens. India by itself has no clout in Syria. There is nothing you can do on your own. It is time therefore [...]
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