Washington elites have spent much of the last three decades getting hysterical about budget deficits; however they are outdoing themselves in the current budget standoff which they labeled as “the fiscal cliff.” Their story is that scheduled increases in taxes at the end of 2012, coupled with mandated cuts in spending, will send the economy [...]
Fear Of The Cliff – OpEd
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Is An Israeli-Syrian War Next?
By Benedetta Berti While the eyes of the world are focused on the raging military confrontation between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Israel is dealing with broader instability in its immediate surroundings: from mass-scale anti-government demonstrations in Jordan, to continued insecurity in the Egyptian Sinai, to growing unrest in the West Bank. Lately, even the [...]
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Soiled Sovereignty: Land Issues In The Southern Cone – Analysis
By Kate Hayden “People say you can’t go back. So, well what happens if you get to the cliff and you take one step forward? Do you do a 180-degree turn and take one step forward? Which way are you going? Which is progress?” –Douglas Tompkins, 180 Degrees South Documentary Latin America has had a [...]
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Marketing Putin And Russia To A Foreign Audience – Analysis
An October 22 Komsomolskaya Pravda feature “Russia Should Stop Shying Away From Defending Itself in the Foreign Press“, has been circulated within English language Russia watching circles. This piece emphasizes the opinion that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia in general have been lax towards the negatively inaccurate comments about them. With numerous examples to [...]
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2014 Elections: Give European Voters More Say On Commission, Say MEPs
European political parties should propose candidates for Commission President at the next European elections, which should be moved forward to May 2014, said the Constitutional Affairs Committee on Monday. The committee recommended that each European alliance of political parties should propose a candidate to run for European Commission President and lead their 2014 European election [...]
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Green Growth For Ireland And Europe – Speech
By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment Keynote speech at the Irish Institute for International and European Affairs / Dublin Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me here to Dublin; soon to be the driving seat of the Irish Presidency of the European Union. Today I want to ask the question; can “green” and [...]
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Obama In Burma: Propelling Reform Or Legitimising Abuse? – OpEd
By Francis Wade How times have changed. President Obama arrived in Burma today to become the first sitting US head of state to visit the country, a gesture given added significance in that it comes less than a fortnight after his reelection to office. The president’s Extended Hand Tour 2012 will also take in Thailand [...]
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‘Spain Is More Committed To Brazil Than Ever”– PM Rajoy
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told the President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, that Spain and Spanish companies are ready to collaborate in the process of reforms and investments that Brazil is currently implementing. “Brazil is taking a spectacular leap forward. There is going to be a great deal of investment in [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: Mitt Wasn’t All Wrong About “Gifts”– OpEd
“What the president’s campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote, and that strategy worked.” Thus did political analyst Mitt Romney identify the cause of his defeat in a call to disconsolate contributors. [...]
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Israel Denies Hamas Claim That Egyptian-Brokered Ceasefire Finalized
Arabic news sources cite Hamas official Ayman Taha as saying an Egyptian brokered truce is set to be declared in Gaza at 19:00 GMT, and will go into effect at 22:00 GMT. Israel says that a ceasefire deal has yet to be finalized. A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is yet to be cemented, [...]
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Croatian Ex-PM Sanader Jailed For Ten Years
By Bojana Barlovac Ivo Sanader has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking bribes from two foreign companies. A Zagreb court on Tuesday sentenced Ivo Sanader to three-and-a-half years in prison in the “Hypo Alpe Adria Bank” case and for seven years in the “MOL-INA” case. He was also ordered to pay a [...]
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Morsi: Israeli Operation To End Today
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said Tuesday the Israeli operation in Gaza, launched seven days ago would end today. “The grotesque Israeli aggression will stop today, Tuesday, and efforts to reach a cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis will have positive results in the coming hours,” president Morsi was quoted as saying by the official MENA news [...]
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UN Blasts IDF Fake Video Showing Gaza Schools Used By Hamas To Fire Rockets
A UN relief agency has shot down allegations levied by the IDF via an animated film posted on their official YouTube channel saying Hamas used UN schools and facilities to fire rockets at Israel. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) issued a statement Tuesday expressing its [...]
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Obama In Myanmar: The Reality And The Mirage – Analysis
U.S. President Barack Obama has just completed an eight-hour flying visit to Yangon (Rangoon), the former capital of Myanmar, from Thailand and flown to Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, to attend the East Asia summit before flying back home. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hillary Clinton, his Secretary of State, who had visited Myanmar last year. [...]
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Businesses Urge Cameron To Tame Euroscepticism
(EurActiv) — Britain would damage its fragile economy and risk isolation if it ended its often stormy relationship with the European Union, business leaders said on Monday (19 November) before critical EU budget talks later this week. Britain’s main business lobby group urged Prime Minister David Cameron to resist growing “Eurosceptic” calls to cut the [...]
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The Safer Israel Is, The More Dangerous It Becomes – OpEd
When it’s the season for Israelis to slaughter Palestinians, Barack Obama likes to go on vacation. In 2009, as Israel rained down bombs and missiles on Gaza, the president-elect relaxed on the beaches and played golf in Hawaii. This time the Nobel Peace Prize winner has found time for rejuvenation in the tranquil ambiance of [...]
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Ralph Nader: Israel-Palestine – What Is The U.S. National Interest? – OpEd
Israeli elections are coming up in January so it is Palestinian hunting season again. Israeli cynics call it a time “for mowing the grass.” Out comes the well-worn playbook by Israel’s militaristic government that has worked to silence Israeli politicians and citizens who want a two-state solution. This is an opportunity to use and test [...]
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Why Obama Is Right To Visit Southeast Asian States – OpEd
The stereotype of the ill-informed American tourist afflicts presidents, too, it seems, with the media all too keen to pick up on the “gaffes” of the US head of state on any foreign visit. In the US itself, the conservative media will always seize an opportunity to bash a Democrat President, and, likewise, the Left-wing [...]
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Israel: Perpetrator Or Self-Proclaimed Victim? – OpEd
Besides the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas (Islamist Renitence Movement) a “war of opinions” has broken out over the issue who’s the perpetrator and who is the victim. Western media outlets have already made up their mind and put the sole blame on Hamas. The Israeli military attacks against a defenseless population have [...]
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Pakistan: 14 Year Old Rimsha Masih Found Innocent Of Blasphemy
The case against Rimsha Masih, the teenage Pakistani Christian girl, has today been dropped by the court in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Rimsha, who was arrested in August on suspicion of desecrating Islamic texts, was originally charged in an adult court with blasphemy; there the penalty was life imprisonment. The girl’s case was subsequently transferred [...]
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