The United States and Australia said Thursday that energy supply and security were issues of mutual interest and should be an ongoing item for bilateral discussion, and identified the first half of 2013 as a target date for the first round of such discussions. The announcement was made in Australia following a meeting in Adelaide, [...]
Australia And U.S. To Hold Energy Supply And Security Talks
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Budget Deadlock Halts €25 Million EU Aid To Jobless Workers In Seven Countries
Almost €25 million in EU aid to help over 5,000 redundant workers in seven EU countries was halted on Thursday because there is no money left in the EU budget to fund it. The Budgets Committee had to postpone its vote to approve the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund aid because the Council has not agreed [...]
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The Ideology Of Hatred – Interview With Niza Yanay
After 9/11, hate began colonizing new spheres, operating as a social and political force that manipulates and mobilizes entire publics in very specific ways. In order to understand the recent events in Gaza you should read Niza Yanay’s new book The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse which may very well change the [...]
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Missiles Fall Near Hamas PM’s House As Israel Intensifies Attacks On Gaza
A targeted missile strike launched from an Israeli Navy warship has hit a vehicle near the home of Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, according to Israeli media. This comes as Israel intensifies its attacks on Gaza. Residents say the strike destroyed an electricity generator near Haniyeh’s house. It was unclear whether he was [...]
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Hamas In The New Middle East – Analysis
By Giorgio Cafiero “I salute all people of the Arab Spring, or Islamic winter, and I salute the Syrian people who seek freedom, democracy and reform.” Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya issued this declaration before a crowd at the Al Azhar Mosque in Cairo on February 24, 2012. In 2011, Hamas withdrew its political headquarters [...]
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Secession Fever Spreading To States Across America – OpEd
Citizens in more and more U.S. states are petitioning the federal government to allow them to secede from the United States, according to news stories aired on Fox News Channel on Thursday. By the time President Barack Obama celebrates Inauguration Day, citizens in all 50 states will be in the process of compiling their petitions [...]
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Throwing The EU Progress Report Into The Rubbish – OpEd
By Ozdem Sanberk If we, as citizens of Turkey, share the common goal of putting human dignity first in our country, then we should not belittle the recent EU Progress Report on Turkey. The EU Commission’s 2012 Report on Turkey received a harsh reaction from the Turkish government. Trampling on the report is to offer [...]
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Unrecognized In Palestine – OpEd
By Melkam Lidet Having lived in Palestine for a few months now, I was starting to feel like I was finally getting down the details of the occupation that I wasn’t able to grasp from my readings on the conflict. After all, I have Palestinian friends who can’t come visit me in Jerusalem because they [...]
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The Trojan Horse In The Debt Debate – OpEd
By Sarah Anderson It’s budget showdown time in Washington. With various tax increases and spending cuts set to kick in at the end of the year, the pressure is on for Republicans and Democrats to make a deal. A major player in this hot debate is a new corporate coalition called “Fix the Debt.” They’ve [...]
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Cambodia: Activists Harassed, Threatened Ahead Of ASEAN Summit
By Hanna Hindstrom Grassroots activists from across Southeast Asia have been harassed and intimidated by Cambodian authorities this week, in what has been described as an effort to silence civil society voices ahead of this weekend’s Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh. At least five different venues set to host civil [...]
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Myanmar And Daw Aung Suu Kyi: The Liberal Pragmatic – Analysis
By Rahul Bhonsle Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson of the National League of Democracy (NLD), the principal opposition party in Myanmar was on a visit to India from November 13-18, 2012. It was in many ways on less than a state visit but for the ceremonials of inspection of guards at arms and a [...]
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CIA Opens Inquiry Into Petraeus
The CIA has opened an investigation into the conduct of its former director, David Petraeus, several days after he resigned. General Petraeus quit his post last week after acknowledging an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. A CIA spokesman says the inquiry by the agency’s inspector general would see if there are lessons to be [...]
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Post-Sandy Look At Gasoline Data Shows Market Stresses In Affected Regions – Analysis
Petroleum data for the week ending November 9 released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) provide the second set of data to assess the impacts of Hurricane Sandy on U.S. petroleum markets. The storm significantly disrupted electricity, natural gas, and petroleum product supply infrastructure in the Northeast and affected millions of consumers. However, [...]
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Implications Of President Obama’s Asian Visit To Buddhist Burma – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge When the US declares a country is of “national interest” it should not be hard to guess the reasons why more so when President Obama himself is to arrive in Burma to start an obvious “US enters Asia” drive on 19 November 2012. The US wishlist is also clear – it wants [...]
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Palestinian Rocket Hits Near Tel Aviv As Egyptian PM Heads To Gaza
Palestinian fighters on Thursday launched a rocket from Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv. The rocket had exploded 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv, in the port of Jaffa. This is the first time a missile reached so near to the heart of Israel. In Tel Aviv, the sirens went off about a minute before the [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: Who Fed Susan The Benghazi Bullhockey? – OpEd
At his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama postured as the young Galahad striding out onto the schoolyard to stop a pair of bullies from beating up a girl. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham had charged U.N. Amb. Susan Rice with misleading the nation when, five days after the Benghazi attack in which Amb. [...]
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Petraeus Testifies On Benghazi Attack
Former CIA Director David Petraeus has told a congressional panel that he believed from the onset that the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists. Lawmakers say the former CIA chief made the comments during Friday’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, regarding the deadly attack that resulted [...]
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Shale Gas Will Be Next Bubble To Pop – An Interview With Arthur Berman
By James Stafford The “shale revolution” has been grabbing a great deal of headlines for some time now. A favourite topic of investors, sector commentators and analysts – many of whom claim we are about to enter a new energy era with cheap and abundant shale gas leading the charge. But on closer examination the [...]
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Explosion, Sirens In Tel Aviv After Long Range Rocket ‘Fired From Gaza’
Residents in Tel Aviv are hearing air raid sirens for a second time in the ongoing crisis after Hamas reportedly fired a long-range rocket at Israel’s second-largest city and capital. Witnesses said a loud explosion was heard in Tel Aviv after the siren went off. Israeli police reported that the rocket caused no injuries and [...]
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Indian Government Would Have Collapsed If It Voted For Sri Lanka At UN Sessions – Interview
Salma Yusuf in candid conversation with Shri Rahpal Malhotra, the distinguished mover-and-shaker in India’s Prime Minister’s Office having advised former Indian leaders including Indhira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He is Executive Vice-Chairman of the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) in Chandigarh, of which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is Chairman. He currently [...]
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