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Ron Paul: No More Covert Wars And Coups In Foreign Lands – OpEd

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Earlier this month we learned that the Obama Administration is significantly expanding the number of covert Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agents overseas. From just a few hundred DIA agents overseas today, the administration intends to eventually deploy some 1,600 covert agents. The nature of their work will also shift, away from intelligence collection and more [...]

MENA Oil And The (Hidden) Political Price Europe Pays For It – OpEd

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By Anis H. Bajrektarevic There is a claim currently circulating the EU, both cynical and misleading: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of European identity – to the wing-parties, recently followed by the several selective and contra-productive [...]

Obama’s Walt Disney Energy Policies – OpEd

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Wishes upon stars won’t make energy dreams come true – but will bring nightmares By Paul Driessen In Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film “Pinocchio,” woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy. Geppetto’s hopes are immortalized in the song “When You Wish Upon a Star,” which begins: “When you wish [...]

UN’s Doha Climate Meeting Disappoints Environmentalists – OpEd

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An attempt by some of the world’s leading leftists to enhance their international environmental agenda met with disappointing results even after attempting to emulate President Barack Obama’s successful class-warfare political model, according to a GOP political consultant who attended the meeting. The world’s news media reported that the United Nations climate talks in Doha, the [...]

The Basque Country: A Window Of Opportunities – OpEd

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Following successful elections in the Basque Country at the end of October – the first to take place without violence by ETA – the time has come for the parties to work together to drive the peace process forward. By Lokarri Elections were held in the Basque Country on October 21st. They represented a great [...]

China’s Power Transition: The Challenges Ahead – Analysis

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By Billy Tea After months of being groomed, Xi Jinping, unsurprisingly, was named China’s General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party last November. Many analysts have described China’s new Standing Committee as a “conservative line up.” In addition, the Standing Committee has shrunk from 9 to 7 members. In theory, this smaller group will streamline [...]

The Situation In Mali Is Of Great Concern To The 5+5 Countries‏ – OpEd

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On December 10 the Ministers of Defense of the 5+5 Initiative held a meeting in Rabat to assess the current situation in Mali and to seek ways of how to resolve the insecure situation prevailing in that part of Africa. Apparently the situation in Mali and the entire Sahel region is of great concern to [...]

Social Networks Battle Over Photo Sharing

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Twitter and rival Facebook’s newly acquired photo sharing application Instagram, are in the midst of what some are calling a “photo war” as the tech giants make behind the scenes changes that affect the way users can share photos between the sites. Photos from Instagram, which Facebook recently purchased for $715 million, are no longer [...]

The End Of The World: Salvation Solutions – OpEd

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By Nikita Sorokin Only days are left until December 21, the end of the Mayan calendar and alleged end of the world. While doomsday-mongers are predicting Armageddon some are trying to avert it. On December 8, extravagant Russian actor Nikita Dzhigurda put on a kilt and danced under PSY’s Gangnam Style techno-hit right in the [...]

Obama’s Second Term: A 21st Century Lincoln? – OpEd

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By Jayantha Dhanapala The US Presidential Inauguration ceremony will be held in Washington DC on Jan. 21. The official theme for the 2013 inauguration is “Faith in America’s Future”. For many Americans, and indeed for many international observers, that faith is in desperate need of reaffirmation not only because of the domestic economic crisis, and [...]

Somali Security Forces ‘Evict’ Al Shabaab From Biggest Town‏ – OpEd

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Somali and African Union security forces drove members of a powerful Islamic terrorist group out of the town of Jowhar on Sunday, according to a report from a counterterrorism expert in Israel. The government and AU troops surprisingly encountered little or no resistance from the members of Al Shabaab who retreated from Jowar, said the [...]

Assessing Turkish-Bulgarian Relations In The Wake Of New Year – Analysis

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By Muzaffer Kutlay Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has carried out some contacts in Ankara and Istanbul in the scope of the two days official visit to Turkey (28-29 November 2012). During the official declarations and committee meetings, several significant issues have been discussed including proposed nuclear power plant project which will be constructed in İğneliada, [...]

Turkey-Russia Relations: Putin’s Turkey Visit – OpEd

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I am reading 1949 Lebanese-born French writer Amin Maalauf’s latest novel, “Far East”. I draw parallels with today’s Syria, Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East. I believe that we have to take lessons through the similarities, leading present world situations between Israel and Gaza. In the past I spent a lot of time for marketing industrial installations [...]

Help The Family: Privatize And Depoliticize – OpEd

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In the United States, the American family has never before been confronted with such powerful threats to its standing and stability. While many scholars agree that a loving mother and father in a healthy marriage are vital to the well-being of children, the nuclear family is under enormous assault in the academic and popular cultures, [...]

Switzerland: Illegal Residents To Get Vocational Training

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Young foreigners living illegally in Switzerland will be allowed to undertake apprenticeships, but only if they are well integrated and if they have attended school for at least five consecutive years. The change to the legislation on foreigners working in Switzerland, announced by the cabinet on Friday, comes in response to a 2010 parliamentary decision. [...]

Strauss-Kahn Settles With Hotel Maid

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(RFE/RL) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to a financial settlement with the New York City hotel maid who accused the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief of sexual assault. In a December 10 court hearing in New York, a judge announced that Strauss-Kahn and the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, had agreed on a settlement of Diallo’s [...]

South China Sea: Cost Of Island Dispute Climbs For China And Japan – Analysis

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By Michael Lelyveld China and Japan will suffer economic damage from their border dispute for many more months, even if the two sides try to ease tensions soon, analysts say. The latest industry and trade reports suggest that the impact over conflicting island claims between the two Asian neighbors could be profound. Japan’s auto exports [...]

Regaining Initiative: Palestinians Must ‘Seize Their Destiny’ – OpEd

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By Stuart Littlewood Some commentators have been saying that Israel’s latest land-grab has effectively killed off the two-state solution (if such a thing was ever truly feasible). And this has led to questions like, what should the Palestinians do next? Palestinians must have been asking themselves the same thing for the last 64 years. They [...]

Contesting Egypt – OpEd

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By Mustafa Salama Watch western TV news features on Egypt; you will find an almost identical discourse that de-contextualizes current events. It always emphasizes President Morsi’s declaration that gave him unmatched powers and fomented outrage, and that’s it. Morsi’s constitutional declaration was obviously met with some reservations from his closest people, which include his deputy, [...]

As Washington Fiddles Over Fiscal Cliff, The Real Battle Over Inequality Is Happening In Heartland – OpEd

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Washington has a way of focusing the nation’s attention on tactical games over partisan maneuvers that are symptoms of a few really big problems. But we almost never get to debate or even discuss the big problems because the tactical games overwhelm everything else. The debate over the fiscal cliff, for example, is really about [...]
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