A massive effort is under way along the northeastern U.S. coast to pump water from flooded buildings, restore power to millions of residents, and resume public transportation in one of the nation’s busiest cities as the region struggles to recover from the deadly Atlantic “superstorm” called Sandy. Hard-hit New York City showed signs of life [...]
US East Coast Perseveres With Intense Storm Cleanup
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Israel Admits Killing Arafat Deputy In 1988
Israel has de-classified an interview with a military commando about the 1988 assassination of Khalil al-Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad. The candid interview has given a rare insight into how Israel conducts its special ops. Israel was long suspected – and accused by the Palestinians – of killing Yasser Arafat’s [...]
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IDF Unit 8200: Coming Soon To A Theater Near You – OpEd
The U.S. Army ad slogan may be: “The Army needs a few good men.” But IDF Unit 8200′s slogan is: “The IDF needs a few good hackers.” Actually not a few, more like hundreds if not thousands. As I’ve reported here, Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent to the NSA, is undergoing a massive expansion. Recent events–including [...]
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Hurricane Sandy Influenced By Global Warming, Climate Scientist Says
(EurActiv) — Anthropogenic climate change has contributed to sea surface warming, influencing the intensity of storms like Hurricane Sandy, a leading climate scientist has told EurActiv. Sea surface temperatures off the American East Coast were nearly 3º warmer than usual this autumn – a near record – and 0.6º of that could be linked to [...]
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Emails Contradict Obama As Energy Loans Investigation Widen – OpEd
In yet another allegation of a serious lack of transparency on the part of the Obama White House, lawmakers on Wednesday delved into evidence of misuse of taxpayer dollars for green technology programs that were run by supporters and friends of the current President and that ended up throwing millions upon millions of dollars down [...]
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New Winter Storm Could Hit US Next Week
Hundreds of thousands of people in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey may not have their power return for up to 10 more days, officials warned Thursday. Meanwhile, weather forecasters said a winter storm could hit the Northeast next week. In New York City, the utility ConEd said the 228,000 customers in Manhattan [...]
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Clinton Urges Free, Fair Elections In Albania
By Besar Likmeta In a speech to Albania’s parliament on Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Albanian leaders to hold free and fair elections, fight corruption and respect independent institutions. “Your next elections should be free and fair in order for the Albanian people to trust you as their leaders, while sending a [...]
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Half Of Internet Sales May Occur Via Social Media By 2015
Although some brands over the years have been skeptical about how social media can bring in revenue, a new infographic reveals social commerce sales are expected to bring in $30 billion each year by 2015, with half of web sales to occur through social media, Mashable reports. Cloud marketing software provider Vocus has put together [...]
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Gunmen Storm Libya Parliament
Around 200 gunmen have stormed and occupied Libya’s parliament, according to media reports. According to the latest reports, the gunmen broke through security forces late Wednesday to gain access to the parliament. Local reports say the gunmen are backed by additional forces surrounding the parliament, with around a dozen trucks with anti-aircraft guns patrolling nearby [...]
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What’s Behind Russia’s Eurasian Assembly – Analysis
Closer cooperation between Moscow, Minsk and Astana will mean that a supranational parliament, the Eurasian Assembly, will be established says Armen Oganesyan, editor-in-chief of the Russian policy magazine Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn. The immediate reason for the creation of the Assembly is, ostensibly, that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are currently preparing to launch the Eurasian Economic Union [...]
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Searching For China’s Concept Of Joint Development In The South China Sea – Analysis
The mantra of joint development (JD) in disputed maritime areas had been gaining ground of late. The impetus to defuse tensions, avert conflict, enhance confidence-building, aside from the obvious shared economic benefit, are raising the relevance of JD as a concept that can maritime disputants can ponder on. In East Asia alone, several countries have [...]
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From Chaos To A New World Order: Words Of Hope At The United Nations – OpEd
Living at this time is to bear witness to a world in acute turmoil Noam Chomskyi describes the current climate, saying, “we are living in an era of irrationality, deception, confusion, anger, and unfocused fear an ominous combination, with few precedents.” Existing political/economic structures that serve not the people are in decay, a new world order based [...]
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American Presidential Elections And The Post Arab Spring Youth Generation – OpEd
This year the 2012 US presidential race is of particular interest to a very special new constituency—Arabs, and especially the young Arabs, who helped ignite the fires of revolution that became the Arab Spring. Beginning with Barrack Obama’s inspirational speech two years and a half years ago in Cairo, Arabs have been scrupulous in analyzing [...]
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Violence Targeting Christians Increasing In Syria
The targeting of Christians in war-torn Syria is increasing, according to Open Doors sources. “The car bomb in Jaramana was targeting the Christian and Druze community as a group, since the area has no political ties or buildings,” a local Christian source explained about the large bomb blast in the Damascus suburb on Monday. According [...]
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Iran: Mass Arrests At Tehran Writers’ Event
Scores of Iranian political activists were arrested in Tehran on Tuesday night, October 30, at a gathering of writers at Seray Ahl-e Ghalam. The Kaleme opposition website reports that “close to 50 people” were arrested last night, including dissident physician and blogger Mehdi Khazali and former MP Ghassem Sholeh Saadi. Mehdi Khazali’s blog had indicated [...]
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Sumptuous Counterterrorism Spending Must End – OpEd
More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks, the American public is still barraged with sensational media coverage of the occasional uncovering of a terrorist plot. Many of these are so-called sting operations, which, rather than saving America from significant destruction from terror attacks, have the primary effect of showing off to the public how [...]
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Pakistan’s Military: Infiltration By The Hizbut Tahrir? – Analysis
By Rana Banerji Recent disclosures in the Pakistani media indicate that the penetration of Hizbut Tahrir (HuT) within Pakistani Defence services may be more extensive than hitherto believed. In August 2012, a Military Tribunal convicted Brig Ali Khan, who belonged to a military family and four others- Majors Sohail Akbar, Jawad Basher, Inayat Aziz and [...]
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China’s Wukan Uprising: Is The Honeymoon Over? – Analysis
By Namrata Hasija The author’s last article analyzed the Wukan uprising in September 2011 over land grabs. The villagers were able to win extraordinary concessions including their right to elect a new village committee on 3 and 4 March 2012. In his speech after the election to the village committee, one of the young leaders [...]
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US Economy Adds 171,000 Jobs As Unemployment Edges Up To 7.9 Percent – Analysis
The establishment survey added 171,000 jobs in October. This increase coupled with sharp upward revisions to the prior two months of data brought the average over the last three months to 170,000. In spite of this increase, the unemployment rate slipped up to 7.9 percent, reflecting the fact that the September drop was an aberration. [...]
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Mohammed VI: A Popular Reform Minded King – OpEd
The accession of King Mohammed VI to the Throne on July 23 1999 was welcomed with great comfort and enthusiasm among Moroccans and all political trends including the hard liners of the Islamist movements. The new King is known to be very close to his people and always ready to answer their needs. Hundreds of [...]
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