Eurasia Review: News & Analysis
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- No More Hiroshima, Nagasaki! – OpEd
- US Neocons Pushing America’s Endgame In Syria – OpEd
- Iraq’s Secular Opposition: The Rise And Decline Of Al-Iraqiya
- Syria’s Mutating Conflict
- Morocco: Report Lauds Interfaith Efforts
- Tunisia: Prisoner Compensation Raises Eyebrows
- Rosneft And ITERA Group Close Deal To Create Joint Venture To Produce And Sell Gas
- The Two Faces Of A Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers And Money Launderers While Policing The Citizens – OpEd
- India: Anna Hazare Disbands Team
- US–Israel Missile Defense Cooperation: Building On Success Of Iron Dome – OpEd
- Azerbaijan: Upcoming Iran Trial Placing Fresh Strain On Relations
- China Bids High For Foreign Oil – Analysis
- Burma: Demonstrators Back Rohingya Resettlement Proposal
- Grabbing Bigger Slices Of Pie – OpEd
- World According To Romney – Analysis
- China Intensifies Its Engagement With Africa – Analysis
- US-Tajik Relations: A Dangerous Liaison – Analysis
- Will Morsi’s Sphinx-Like Moves Bury Him In Egypt’s Sand? – Analysis
- Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Blames Attack On Mossad, Army On Gaza Militants
- Iran To Unplug From Web To Escape West’s ‘Internet Monopoly’
- I Spy With My Little Car: The First ‘Social Network’ For Automobiles
- RIMPAC: Are Moscow And Washington Forging Naval Shield? – OpEd
- Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? – OpEd
- Beat GSA! – OpEd
- Terrorism By Any Reasonable Definition – OpEd
- Hamas Steps Up Border Security After Sinai Attack
- India – Pakistan: A Peep Into Pandora’s Box – Analysis
- India: CPI-Maoist Anxious Course Correction – Analysis
- Standard Chartered Bank ‘In $250 Billion Scheme With Iran’
- Muslims In France After The Elections – OpEd
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:51 PM PDT
By
Rebecca Johnson Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium
bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of
TNT. Tens of thousands were killed by the blast and fireball that
engulfed the city, and a similar number died of radiation sickness and
injuries in the days and months [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:49 PM PDT
The
neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them
irrelevant in the region, Western intervention in Libya signaled a new
opportunity. Now Syria promises to usher a full return of
neoconservatives into the Middle East fray. “Washington must stop
subcontracting Syria policy [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:45 PM PDT
The
demise of Iraq’s Al-Iraqiya Alliance, at threat of marginalisation,
would remove the country’s sole credible political representative of a
very important community: the secular, non-sectarian middle class.
Iraq’s Secular Opposition: The Rise and Decline of Al-Iraqiya, the
latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the
declining fortunes of the cross-confessional, predominantly Sunni and
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:43 PM PDT
As
fighting rages in Aleppo, the combination of a regime morphing into a
formidable militia and an Alawite community fearing for its survival
leaves Syria’s opposition – itself threatened with radicalisation – with
a difficult task: to tackle its own demons, reach out to the Alawites
and focus on restoring strife-torn institutions. Syria’s Mutating
Conflict, [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:41 PM PDT
By
Hassan Benmehdi Morocco is becoming a trailblazer in the Arab world in
terms of countering extremist ideology and promoting “tolerance, respect
and dialogue among religious groups”, according to a just-published
report. In its latest study on religious freedoms around the world, the
US Department of State noted that Moroccan law guarantees freedom of
religion. [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:39 PM PDT
By
Mona Yahia A proposal to pay recompense to more than 12,000 former
political prisoners in Tunisia is facing sharp criticism from political
and human rights activists. Outgoing Finance Minister Houcine Dimassi
said July 27th that the bill compensating political prisoners would cost
the public budget more than one billion dinars and claimed that it
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:36 PM PDT
Rosneft
and ITERA Group have closed a deal to create a joint venture on the
basis of ITERA Oil and Gas Company to produce and sell gas in line with
the terms of a strategic cooperation agreement signed on 28 February
2012. Rosneft obtained 51% in the joint venture in exchange for a 100%
stake [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:33 PM PDT
Never
in the history of the United States have we witnessed crimes committed
on the scale and scope of the present day by both private and state
elites. An economist of impeccable credentials, James Henry, former
chief economist at the prestigious consulting firm McKinsey &
Company, has researched and documented tax evasion. He found that [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:28 PM PDT
Anti-corruption
crusader Anna Hazare Monday disbanded his team, saying it will hold no
more talks with the government on the issue of the Jan Lokpal Bill. “We
are stopping the activities of Team Anna today. We have also decided not
to have any more talks with the government. From today, there will be
no Team [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:20 PM PDT
By
Baker Spring On July 27, President Obama signed into law the United
States–Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which is designed to
strengthen the qualitative edge of Israeli military forces over its
current and future enemies. While the law serves to strengthen this edge
in a variety of areas, it pays special attention to improving [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:16 PM PDT
By
Shahin Abbasov Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev during a visit in 2009. Aliyev, who has been
increasingly at odds with Ahmadinejad over issues ranging from
geopolitical to religious, has asked Iran to release two Azerbaijani
poets recently arrested there for “initiating a crime.” (Photo courtesy:
President of Iran.) Iran’s intention [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:12 PM PDT
By
Michael Lelyveld China’s deal to buy Canadian oil company Nexen has
renewed questions about the country’s practice of paying high prices for
overseas assets, analysts say. The $15.1-billion offer by China
National Overseas Oil Corp. (CNOOC) to acquire the Calgary-based company
for $27.50 a share on July 23 topped the market’s previous closing
price [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:03 PM PDT
By
David Stout About 15 people protested in front of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees’ offices in Rangoon’s Sanchaung township
last Friday to express their support of President Thein Sein’s plan to
resettle the Rohingya minority in third countries. The protesters held
placards that read “We wholeheartedly support President Thein Sein’s
courageous and [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 10:01 PM PDT
By
Sam Pizzigati What happens when nations cut taxes for their richest
citizens? Economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, two of the
world’s most respected authorities on the incomes of rich people, have a
straightforward answer: In nations that slash tax rates on high
incomes, the rich significantly increase their share of national income.
Here [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:58 PM PDT
By
C. Raja Mohan The contrast between the international images of the US
president, Barack Obama, and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt
Romney, has become starker in the last few days. When presidential
candidate Barack Obama travelled to Europe in 2008, he wowed the world
with his sweeping rhetoric and uplifting ideas. Four years later, [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:55 PM PDT
By
H.H.S.Viswanathan The fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on
China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held on July 19 and 20 in Beijing.
The event was used by China to reinforce its engagement with Africa. The
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called the Conference a success
which “forged consensus and enhanced mutual trust”. It is significant
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:52 PM PDT
By
Georgiy Voloshin As the eyes of the world were riveted to the ongoing
battle between Syrian rebels and government forces in Syria’s largest
city of Aleppo, the government of Tajikistan decided to carry out a
military operation against its own rebels in the country’s south. This
operation was launched in the wake of a [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:45 PM PDT
Figuring
out Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is not an easy task. It is an
exhausting process to understand his politics. As soon as one thinks
they have him pinned, he surprises the world again. Morsi made no
compromises coming to power. The American-educated doctor of engineering
treated the power struggle with the generals as a [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:18 PM PDT
Egypt’s
Muslim Brotherhood said on their website Monday that the attack that
killed 16 Egyptian police in Sinai late Sunday “can be attributed to the
Mossad,” the Israeli intelligence service. The Brotherhood said that
this operation was an attempt to destabilize the Islamic regime of
President Mohamed Morsi, who was elected in June According to [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:15 PM PDT
Tehran
plans to remove its key ministries and state bodies from the Internet
next month, calling the worldwide web “untrustworthy.” The action is the
first phase in a planned Iranian project to replace the Internet with a
domestic intranet. The country’s key ministries will be unplugged from
the global network as early as September, in [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:52 PM PDT
Social
networks have become a well-established way of exchanging information
quickly and easily. Now, one of the largest ever field trials of
car-to-X communication (C2X) is set to show how this concept can be
adapted in order to increase the road safety and efficiency of motor
cars. The trial consists of 120 vehicles that will [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT
By
Ilya Kramnik With the main part of the RIMPAC-2012 war games
successfully completed, a detachment of ships of the Russian Navy
Pacific Fleet – including the large anti-submarine ship Admiral
Panteleev, tanker Boris Butoma, and rescuer-tugboat Photius Krylov – has
sailed into Pearl Harbor. After this visit to the main base of the US
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 02:06 PM PDT
By
Ehsani Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel
stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country. How did we
get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly
unravel and enter what seems to most like a black hole? Things could not
look more differently back in [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT
Navy’s
biofuel program vanquishes GSA in battle for wasteful spending
supremacy By Paul Driessen If America had a “Spend Like a Drunken Sailor
Award,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12
million on biofuel for Navy ships. Even as the armed services face
drastic budget cuts under “automatic sequestration” and other proposed
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT
Sixty-seven
years ago, on August 6, 1945, the Truman administration dropped an
atomic bomb on Hiroshima, instantly killing tens of thousands of men,
women, and children, and causing a nuclear catastrophe that took
thousands of more lives in the weeks and years that followed. Three days
later, on August 9, the U.S. followed up by [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT
Hamas
began implementing a series of security measures in the Gaza Strip on
Monday after an attack in the Sinai a day earlier which left at least 15
Egyptian police officers dead. All smuggling tunnels under the shared
border have been closed and extra security personnel have been deployed
along the border, deputy foreign minister [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 11:31 AM PDT
By
Sanchita Bhattacharya At a time when Islamabad is planning to close the
cases against the perpetrators of the November 26, 2008, (26/11) Mumbai
terrorist attacks, and to set them free, the deportation of one of the
principal handlers of the 26/11 operation, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
operative Syed Zaibuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal from Saudi Arabia [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 11:29 AM PDT
By
Ajit Kumar Singh After nearly eight years of its formation on October
14, 2004, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), admitted
that the party had ‘considerably weakened’. In a statement issued by its
Central Committee (CC), dated July 5, 2012, the group acknowledged,
“Our failures and shortcomings in studying the deceptive strategy of the
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT
(RFE/RL)
— Standard Chartered Bank has been accused by New York state regulators
of hiding $250 billion in allegedly illegal transactions with Iran over
nearly 10 years. The London-based global bank was threatened with
possible suspension of its license to operate in New York, the hub of
the U.S. financial industry, if it could not [...]
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 11:15 AM PDT
By
Aude Jehan For 3.5 million French Muslims, Ramadan began on Friday, 20
July. Enthusiasm for fasting seems stronger than ever this year, with 71
per cent of Muslims in France observing Ramadan as opposed to 60 per
cent 20 years ago, according to the newspaper La Croix. And
fast-breaking iftar dinners, such as the [...]
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