The blogosphere went into a warp speed frenzy when a sports announcer during a NFL football game’s half-time show on Sunday decided to preach about the dangers of Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights. What NBC’s Bob Costas failed to mention is that he was quoting a writer who likened the NRA to the KKK. [...]
Sportscaster Bob Costas Quotes Writer Who Likens NRA To The KKK – OpEd
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India: Niggling Concerns In Tripura – Analysis
By Giriraj Bhattacharjee Counterinsurgency (CI) in Tripura is a model of the most extraordinary success, bringing some of the country’s most virulent and bloody movements to a near complete end in an exemplary, Police-led campaign that began to record major successes in 2004, and had brought the State to peace by late 2006. The steady [...]
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Morocco: Political Reform And Economic Growth, Hand In Hand – OpEd
Social, economic and political rearrangements are still unfolding in Morocco. A country without oil or gas and a large population of 33 million or more, Morocco is betting on the resourcefulness of its people and the stabilizing force of the centuries-old monarchy. The term “monarchy” doesn’t resonate well in the United States because it connotes [...]
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I’ll See Your Economic Collapse And Raise You National Demise – OpEd
Being just weeks away from reaching our debt ceiling and with frightening talk about a fiscal cliff, there’s much sympathy in Washington for tax increases. Even conservatives are wavering. A few Republicans have dumped their anti-tax pledges, and former Nixon official-turned-actor Ben Stein favors taxing the wealthy. He says that we can’t cut our way [...]
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Lay Martyr Beatified, Anti-Nuke Protesters Seek Divine Intervention
Around 100,000 people, including protesters of the Koodankulam nuclear plant, attended the beatification ceremony of the Indian lay martyr Devasahayam Pillai in Kottar diocese of Tamil Nadu yesterday. “It was a historical moment for the Catholics in India and Kottar diocese,” said Fr. Antony Gabriel, who acted as the vice postulator for the causes of [...]
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Obama Hails Disarmament Pact With Russia
US President Barack Obama on Monday hailed a 20-year partnership with Russia and other former Soviet republics to stem the threat of loose nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons after the end of the Cold War—cooperation the Kremlin has decided to end beginning next year. Addressing a symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative [...]
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Iran Claims It Captured US Drone
A U.S. Navy spokesman says no American drones are missing in the Middle East, after Iran state media said the country has “captured” an American drone that entered Iranian airspace over Persian Gulf waters. The Navy spokesman said Tuesday all drones in the region are “fully accounted for.” Media reports in Iran said an unmanned [...]
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Kosovo, Serbia Leaders Set For Third Meeting
By Edona Peci Future of Serb-run north and implementing a deal on control of the borders are likely to dominate talks in Brussels between Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The Prime Ministers of Kosovo and Serbia are to meet on Tuesday for the third time in Brussels with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy [...]
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Most Americans Are Religious – OpEd
Seven in ten Americans are either very religious (40 percent) or moderately religious (29 percent). Consistent with other surveys, Gallup found women to be more religious than men; blacks are more religious than whites; religious identity increases with age; Southerners are the most religious; those in the northeastern and northwestern corners are the least religious; [...]
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Murdoch Wanted To Bankroll Petraeus’ Presidential Campaign
The president of Fox News sent a reporter to Afghanistan with a message for Gen. David Petraeus shortly before he was appointed head of the CIA in 2011: News Corp. thinks you should run for president. Both Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of parent company and media conglomerate [...]
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Marathon Oil Sets 2013 Capital, Investment And Exploration Budget
Marathon Oil Corporation announced Tuesday a $5.2 billion capital, investment and exploration budget for 2013, approximately 65 percent of which is targeted to the company’s liquids-rich growth assets. “Our 2013 capital budget of nearly $5.2 billion highlights Marathon Oil’s continued focus on value growth, which we expect will generate a 6 to 8 percent year-over-year [...]
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A Human Right To Development Rapid Progress And Growing Injustice – Analysis
Attitudes towards human right to development are unusual. There is a general willingness to support such a right in theory, but less enthusiasm in adopting such a right in practice. This does not mean that states ignore the right to development completely in their policies, but rather tend to attach greater focus on the obligations [...]
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Number Of Terrorist Incidents Have Increased Virtually Every Year Since 9/11
The number of terrorist incidents has increased virtually every year since 9/11 according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), which launches today. However, terrorism fatalities have fallen by 25% since 2007, which coincides with the wind down of the Iraq war. Despite this Iraq was still the country most likely to suffer from terrorism in [...]
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NATO To Deploy Patriot Missiles Along Turkey-Syria Border
NATO will deploy Patriot missiles on the Turkey-Syria border, as NATO Foreign Ministers approved Tuesday a request from Ankara for the missiles. Turkey requested the Patriot missiles over concerns of a possible attack from Syria, which it claimed could include chemical weapons. In response to Turkey’s request, NATO said it has decided to augment Turkey’s [...]
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Ukraine Crushed In $1.1 Billion Fake Gas Deal – OpEd
By Jen Alic Certainly the folks at Gazprom are having a good snicker, reveling in the mockery that has been made of what should have been a landmark Ukraine-Spain gas deal that would have loosened Russia’s gas grip on Kiev. Everyone wondered how Russia would respond to Ukraine’s attempt at gas independence. But this is [...]
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Raph Nader: A Simple Way To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff – OpEd
In the debate over the “fiscal cliff,” President Obama and congressional Republicans have returned to the proposals that they were sparring over before the election. They remain at odds over key elements of revenue and spending. Yet both sides are unwilling to consider a minuscule tax on financial transactions that could be a major source [...]
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US: Senate Misses Opportunity On Disability Convention, Says HRW
The United States missed an opportunity to display global leadership on disability rights on Tuesday, as the Senate failed to approve ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Human Rights Watch said. The Senate vote was 61 in favor and 38 opposed, with 66 “yes” votes – two-thirds of the Senate [...]
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Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Online To Be Launched
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström will launch the Global Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Online at a ministerial conference Wednesday, in Brussels. The initiative aims to unite decision-makers all around the world to better identify and assist victims and to prosecute the perpetrators. Participants at the [...]
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Nepal: President Yadav Intervenes, Is It Wise? – Analysis
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan. On 22rd November, President Yadav gave an official call to the political parties to form a consensus government within seven days. He did not spell out what he would do otherwise. It is not that he had not said this before but this is the first time that he has “formally” [...]
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Enrique Pena Nieto And Mexico’s Drug War Opening – OpEd
By Taylor Dibbert On December 1, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) assumed the Mexican presidency amid a flurry of protests against the party, whose previous 70-year rule defined the country’s authoritarian past. Yet it’s difficult to imagine that the new president’s term could be worse than the unmitigated disaster of his [...]
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