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An End to Corporate Impunity: Making Chevron Accountable For Environmental Disaster – OpEd

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By Jade Vasquez At an October 5 conference hosted by the nonprofit, Resources for the Future, economist Joseph E. Stiglitz stated, “We now know why the invisible hand is invisible: because it is often not there.” The Columbia University professor supported this claim by noting that the people with the fewest means pay the highest [...]

Russian Observers Question Fairness Of US Elections

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By Maria Young Election monitors from Russia claimed on Thursday that a report on the just concluded 2012 US elections by an international consortium, failed to mention a number of key problems that they said exist in the American voting process. “There is a double standard,” said Sergey Chumarev, a Senior Counselor with the Russian [...]

New Anglican Head Has Indian Connection

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Bishop Justin Welby of Durham, who is expected to succeed Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, has his roots in India. His great-grandfather Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler was the Governor of Central Provinces of British India between 1925 and 1933. He was the father of noted British politician Rab Butler. There are talks in the [...]

Patrick Buchanan: Is The GOP Headed For The Boneyard? – OpEd

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After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis. Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New [...]

Clinton-Ashton Ukazes: Now What? – Analysis

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Whatever happens, regarding the Balkans as a whole, international notables once again have demonstrated they have no real strategy regarding how to grapple with the region beyond ad hoc, improvisational management of the various twists and turns they often neither anticipate nor efficiently adjust to. By David B. Kanin The US Secretary of State and [...]

Sri Lanka’s Long Road To Reconciliation – Analysis

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Genzia Mary, 10, is fascinated by the buses arriving in northern Sri Lanka, their jovial travellers singing in a language that, until two years ago, was completely foreign to her. Mary lives in Kilinochchi District, part of the country’s northern former war zone popularly known as “the Vanni”. Thousands of southerners, mostly from the majority [...]

Roadside Bombs Kill, Wound Afghan Civilians, Including Women And Children

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In attacks in Helmand and Zabul provinces Thursday, insurgents detonated a number of roadside bombs that killed or wounded more than a dozen Afghan civilians, including women and children. “Our sympathies are with the families and loved ones of those killed and injured today by these blatantly criminal and unjustifiable acts against the innocent people [...]

China Mobilizes Paramilitary To Suppress Tibetan Protest After Another Self-Immolation

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Chinese armed police were mobilized Thursday to suppress protesters calling for freedom in Tibet after the latest self-immolation in eastern Tibet, according to reports. The protests started after 18-year-old Jinpa set himself on fire earlier today. Jinpa died as a result of his injuries. He is the fourth teenager and fifth Tibetan to self-immolate in [...]

US Elections In The Eyes Of Russia – OpEd

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By Habibe Ozdal Electoral campaigns in the U.S., which take nearly a year and therefore are observed for so long by international actors, were finalized with President Obama being reelected. Indeed, when it is the U.S. president who is being elected, the event goes beyond the country’s borders and relates to an international range of [...]

Iran Responds To US Drone Attack Claim

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Iran has repelled an unidentified aircraft violating the country’s airspace, Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Friday, implicitly confirming a US claim that Iranian forces had fired on a US drone recently. Tehran is currently investigating the incident, he was quoted by Press TV as saying. A top military commander said earlier on Friday Iran [...]

Philippines: Radio Host Gunned Down, Motive Unknown‏

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Reporters Without Borders said Friday that it offers its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of DWJJ Radio host Julius Cauzo, who was gunned down by an unidentified man on a motorcycle Thursday in Cabanatuan City, in Nueva Ecija province. “The lack of security for journalists in the Philippines is alarming and impunity is [...]

Obama On Fiscal Cliff And US Economy – Transcript

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By U.S. President Barack Obama Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you very much, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. (Applause.) Well, good afternoon, everybody. Now that those of us on the campaign trail have had a chance to get a little sleep — (laughter) — it’s time to get back to [...]

The First Green City In Morocco: A One-Off Project An Africa‏ – OpEd

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On November 9 King Mohammed VI visited the construction site of the Mohammed VI green city, close to Benguerir, a one-off project in Africa that gives a new royal impetus to a megaproject joining modernity and sustainable development. Today many Moroccans live in towns and cities. Urban areas concentrate most of the environmental challenges facing [...]

Obama Renews State Of Emergency Order Against Iran

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U.S. President Barack Obama extended Friday a state of emergency order against Iran, which has now been in effect since 1979 when an Executive Order was first signed by President Jimmy Carter. The Executive Order allows the President to impose sanctions “to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, [...]

CIA Director Petraeus Resigns After Admitting Extramarital Affair

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CIA Director David Petraeus announced Friday that he is resigning after admitting “extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.” “Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation,” Petraeus said in a statement to CIA employees. [...]

Stuxnet Out Of Control: Chevron Infected By Anti-Iranian Virus, Others Could Be Next

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America’s cyberwar is already seeing collateral damage, and it’s hitting the country’s own billion-dollar companies. Oil giant Chevron says the Stuxnet computer virus made by the US to target Iran infected their systems as well. California-based Chevron, a Fortune 500 company that’s among the biggest corporations in the world, admits this week that they discovered [...]

Chrysler Recalling 919,000 SUVs Worldwide

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Chrysler is recalling more than 919,000 older-model Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs worldwide because the air bags can inflate while people are driving them, AP reported. The recall affects Grand Cherokees from the 2002 through 2004 model years and Libertys from model years 2002 and 2003, according to documents posted Friday, November 9 on [...]

Turkey – Syria Border Clashes Leave At Least 26 Dead

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Fighting between troops and rebels near the Syrian – Turkish border post of Rass Al Ain in the northeast of Syria killed at least 26 people Thursday, including 10 rebels and 16 soldiers, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). For its part, the Turkish press reported that five Turkish civilians were lightly wounded [...]

Obama Wins For Whom? – OpEd

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The Democrats could not have won so handily without the Citizens United ruling. That is what enabled the Koch Brothers to spend their billions to support right-wing candidates that barked and growled like sheep dogs to give voters little civilized option but to vote for “the lesser evil.” This will be President Obama’s epitaph for [...]

Marijuana Tourists May Flock To US Western States

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By Carl Schreck With an average altitude of around 6,800 feet (2,072 meters), Colorado is known as the highest state in the United States. After Colorado residents legalized the recreational use of marijuana last week, tourists may start flocking to the state for a different kind of high. Voters in both Colorado and Washington State [...]
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