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- Rising Ukraine IDPs: Need For Urgent International Help – Analysis
- Sri Lanka: What Kind Of Presidential Election Is This? – OpEd
- China’s Peaceful Rise: Till When? – Analysis
- India’s Foreign Policy Reimagined – Analysis
- The Republican’s Magical Mystery Tour (Starting Next Week) – OpEd
- Saudi Development In Era Of Cheap Oil – OpEd
- Securing India’s Interests In Indian Ocean: New Strategies And Approaches – Debate
- With Room For Improvement, RT Gives Time To Diverse Views – Analysis
- A Palestinian State: Elusions And Illusions Of Sovereignty – OpEd
- Maritime Engagement Strategies Of Japan And China Towards Southeast Asia: An Indonesian Perspective – Analysis
- SpiceJet: Too Many Reds Have Left The Skies In The Red – Analysis
- Google Goes Off The Climate Change Deep End – OpEd
- Libya Risks ‘All-Out War’, UN Says
- Croatia: Josipovic In Narrow Lead In Presidential Polls
- Iran Says IRGC Commander Killed In Iraq
- From ‘Nimbyism’ To ‘Cimbyism': An Indo-Centric Perspective On Rise Of Communist China – OpEd
- NATO Stoltenberg: New Chapter In Relationship With Afghanistan – Statement
- NATO Officially Ends 13-Year Mission To Afghanistan
- Myanmar: Blackwood Says Buddha ‘Insult’ Was Honest Mistake
- Palestinian Authority Dilly-Dallying Must Stop – OpEd
- Gen. Campbell Statement On Afghanistan Transition Ceremony
- Ron Paul: The Real Meaning Of 1914 Christmas Truce – OpEd
- Study Sheds Light On How Mosquitoes Transmit Malaria
- Egypt Arrests 477 Muslim Brotherhood Members
- Search Set To Resume For Missing AirAsia Jet In Java Sea
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:25 PM PST
By Himani Pant* While the world remains engrossed in the debates triggered by Western sanctions on Russia over Ukraine and the countersanctions, a serious humanitarian crisis is building up in Ukraine and the region in this freezing winter. The continuing Ukraine crisis has already resulted in more than 514,000 becoming internally displaced persons (IDPs), according […] The post Rising Ukraine IDPs: Need For Urgent International Help – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:21 PM PST
All the talk on ‘inclusiveness’ ‘peaceful co-existence’ ‘reconciliation’ all need to be questioned given the discussions that reveal the demands being made by minority ethno-political parties in support for Presidential candidates. These ethno-political parties are demanding exclusive separate ethnic-districts for their people while having the right to live and own land throughout the rest of […] The post Sri Lanka: What Kind Of Presidential Election Is This? – OpEd appeared first...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:16 PM PST
China begins the New Year as the world’s largest economic power. Has China risen? Amidst never-ending talks and discussion about a rising China, what are the indicators of a risen China? By Amanda Huan* Since the 1990s, China has been engaged in what it once referred to as a “peaceful rise”. Fast forward to a […] The post China’s Peaceful Rise: Till When? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:13 PM PST
The style and substance of the foreign policies of Narendra Modi’s six-month-old government have been remarkably different from those of his predecessors. Gateway House examines the changes in India’s equations with three critical countries—the US, China and Pakistan—and outlines a foreign policy forecast for 2015. By Neelam Deo* The end of 2014 and the middle […] The post India’s Foreign Policy Reimagined – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:08 PM PST
According to reports, one of the first acts of the Republican congress will be to fire Doug Elmendorf, current director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, because he won’t use “dynamic scoring” for his economic projections. Dynamic scoring is the magical-mystery math Republicans have been pushing since they came up with supply-side “trickle-down” economics. It’s based […] The post The Republican’s Magical Mystery Tour (Starting Next Week) – OpEd appeared first on...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:06 PM PST
By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Just a few weeks prior to the announcement of Saudi national budget for the fiscal year 2015, the oil prices plunged to a five-year low. Since 1938, the price of an oil barrel has been the deciding factor in the Kingdom’s national budgets. Oil exports amount to around 90 percent of the […] The post Saudi Development In Era Of Cheap Oil – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:01 PM PST
ByTeshu Singh The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), has been conducting a series of discussions on the Indian Ocean Region. Based on the insights generated via the discussions, the IPCS hopes to produce a set of policy briefs for India, in 2015. To that end, […] The post Securing India’s Interests In Indian Ocean: New Strategies And Approaches – Debate appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 04:12 PM PST
Of late, RT’s “CrossTalk” has often become more of a show where everyone pretty much agrees with each other. “CrossTalk” typically features three guests and a host. On “CrossTalk”, the likes of Ariel Cohen, Anders Aslund and Taras Kuzio have been outnumbered. This situation has perhaps influenced some people with their views to not appear on that […] The post With Room For Improvement, RT Gives Time To Diverse Views – Analysis appeared...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:21 PM PST
By Anthony Rusonik Despite the enormous pressure, the perceptions of “fairness,” and the predictions of conflict resolution that Western leaders assure would be the outcome of a Palestinian state, there is a remarkable dearth of dialogue as to what a Palestinian state might in fact look like. By “look,” this means to consider beyond the […] The post A Palestinian State: Elusions And Illusions Of Sovereignty – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:50 PM PST
By Rocky Intan* With the ascendancy of China, much attention has been given to the geopolitical competition between China and the United States. The dynamics in the former’s rise and the latter’s relative decline have come to be regarded as the most important bilateral relationship of the century.1 Yet, one should not ignore the relationship […] The post Maritime Engagement Strategies Of Japan And China Towards Southeast Asia: An Indonesian Perspective – Analysis appeared first on...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:32 PM PST
By Prashant Kumar* The colour red seems inauspicious for airlines in India. With the news of the inevitable shutdown of SpiceJet, memories of the Kingfisher Airlines debacle have been refreshed. The warning of history repeating itself may have fallen on deaf ears this time around, as events of 2012 surrounding Kingfisher Airlines seem to be […] The post SpiceJet: Too Many Reds Have Left The Skies In The Red – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:27 PM PST
While he didn’t vilify us by name, Mr. Schmidt was certainly targeting us, the climate scientists who collect and summarize thousands of articles for the NIPCC’s Climate Change Reconsidered reports, the hundreds who participate in Heartland Institute climate conferences, and the 31,487 US scientists who have signed the Oregon Petition. Paul Driessen and Chris Skates* […] The post Google Goes Off The Climate Change Deep End – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:14 PM PST
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned a series of airstrikes on targets in the city of Misrata amid an upsurge in fighting across the war-torn North African country, adding that any further escalation in hostilities could plunge the nation back into “all-out war.” In a statement, UNSMIL deplored today’s airstrikes reportedly […] The post Libya Risks ‘All-Out War’, UN Says appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 11:01 AM PST
By Sven Milekic Incumbent president Ivo Josipovic leads by just 1.5 per cent in first round of Croatian presidential elections, held amid a continuing economic crisis in the newest EU state. Preliminary results from the Croatian presidential elections on Sunday showed that the centre-left incumbent, Ivo Josipovic, from the ruling Social Democratic Party, won 38.5 […] The post Croatia: Josipovic In Narrow Lead In Presidential Polls appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:55 AM PST
ran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement on Sunday December 28 that Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi, a Revolutionary Guard commander, was killed in Iraq “during an advisory mission”. According to the statement, Brigadier General Taghavi was taking part in advisory missions against “Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Samarra, Iraq”. Samarra, which is 110 kilometres […] The post Iran Says IRGC Commander Killed In Iraq appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:49 AM PST
Founded in 1949, Communist China under its Supreme leader Mao Zedong gave the ‘Chinese dream’ of becoming a numero uno Great Power in global power politics. China under Mao charted a different way — unlike erstwhile Soviet Russia — which came to be known as ‘communism with Chinese characteristics’, and which rattled the Kremlin and […] The post From ‘Nimbyism’ To ‘Cimbyism': An Indo-Centric Perspective On Rise Of Communist China – OpEd appeared first...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:23 AM PST
By NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg At the end of this year, we complete our combat mission in Afghanistan and open a new chapter in our relationship with Afghanistan. The security of Afghanistan will be fully in the hands of the country’s 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police. But NATO Allies, together with many partner nations, […] The post NATO Stoltenberg: New Chapter In Relationship With Afghanistan – Statement appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:18 AM PST
After over 13 years, the US and NATO have formally ended their war in Afghanistan. As the Taliban expands its power in the region, fears are growing over whether Afghan forces will be able to maintain security. “Resolute Support [mission] will serve as the bedrock of an enduring partnership” between NATO and Afghanistan, Gen. John […] The post NATO Officially Ends 13-Year Mission To Afghanistan appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:15 AM PST
New Zealander Phil Blackwood told a Rangoon court on Friday that he posted an image of the Buddha on his nightclub’s Facebook page as a promotional item for his business and that he had no intention of insulting the Buddhist religion. “I am not guilty as I honestly posted it without knowing this problem could […] The post Myanmar: Blackwood Says Buddha ‘Insult’ Was Honest Mistake appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:12 AM PST
By Jamal Kanj* On January first, it will be 50 years since the start of the modern Palestinian revolution; and on the 15th it will be 10 years since Mahmoud Abbas was first, and last, elected as the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Two years after becoming a non-member UN state, the PA is […] The post Palestinian Authority Dilly-Dallying Must Stop – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:09 AM PST
By Gen. John F. Campbell, current commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and United States Forces—Afghanistan Good afternoon everyone … especially to our Afghan friends … As-salamu alaykum … National Security Advisor Atmar, thank you for your remarks … and thank you for coming … You honor us with your presence … Thank […] The post Gen. Campbell Statement On Afghanistan Transition Ceremony appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 10:04 AM PST
One hundred years ago last week, on Christmas Eve, 1914, German and British soldiers emerged from the horrors of World War One trench warfare to greet each other, exchange food and gifts, and to wish each other a Merry Christmas. What we remember now as the “Christmas Truce” began with soldiers singing Christmas carols together […] The post Ron Paul: The Real Meaning Of 1914 Christmas Truce – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 09:58 AM PST
An international research team, including researchers from Simon Fraser University, has determined the genetic sequencing of 16 mosquitoes (Anopheles genus)–the sole carriers of human malaria–providing new insight into how they adapt to humans as primary hosts of the disease. Their findings have been published in the Science Express, an electronic publication of selected papers of […] The post Study Sheds Light On How Mosquitoes Transmit Malaria appeared first on Eurasia...
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 09:52 AM PST
Egyptian security forces have detained 477 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in security swoops in the past 12 days, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. “Some 477 members of the ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood group and rioters have been arrested in various provinces,” the ministry said in a statement. According to the statement, 2,013 firearms and 12 […] The post Egypt Arrests 477 Muslim Brotherhood Members appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 28 Dec 2014 09:49 AM PST
The search for a missing AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard is set to resume full force on the Java Sea at daybreak Monday, after rescuers scaled back efforts overnight. The Airbus A320 disappeared Sunday morning, Asia time, on a flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore. Most of the 162 passengers and crew on […] The post Search Set To Resume For Missing AirAsia Jet In Java Sea appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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