“The Great Energy Game In East Mediterranean Sea – OpEd” plus 20 more : Eurasia Review |  |
- The Great Energy Game In East Mediterranean Sea – OpEd
- Access To Higher Education And Value Of University Degree – Analysis
- Hindu Group Wants Apology From French President Hollande For Burial Denial To Roma Baby
- NGOs And Anti-Terror Laws: How To Keep Bank Managers Happy – Analysis
- Integrating EU Defence And Migration Policies In Mediterranean – Analysis
- Lewis Hamilton: A Study In Courage Presiding Over A Race To The Real End – OpEd
- As Three Yemenis Are Freed From Guantánamo, Video Highlights Plight Of 52 Others, Long Cleared For Release – OpEd
- Death Of Irony: US Threatens PA Funding For Joining Criminal Court – OpEd
- Georgia Defense Minister Visits Troops In Afghanistan
- Putin’s Brain: Reading His Mind For Fun And Profit – OpEd
- The ‘Espionage Den': American Ghosts In Tehran – OpEd
- Libya And The Anti-Islamist Struggle – OpEd
- A Decisive Year For Afghanistan: Six Key Trends To Watch For In 2015 – Analysis
- Not All Obese People Develop Metabolic Problems Linked To Excess Weight
- International Envoys For Great Lakes Region Call For Decisive Actions Against FDLR
- Pentagon Confirms High-Ranking Al-Shabab Militant Killed By Drone
- A Happy New Year From Our Leaders? – OpEd
- Maldives: Trivialising The Presidency – Analysis
- Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater Than Pentagon’s Base Budget – OpEd
- Saudi Arabia Prepares To Open Embassy In Iraq
- Israel Freezes PA Tax Funds In Response To ICC Move
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 05:02 PM PST
By Shashwat Tiwari* The recent discovery of natural gas off the Israeli coast in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (the Levant basin) has added a new dimension to the Israel-Palestine conflict zone. Significantly this has transformed the region into a potential energy source, not only for domestic use, but also for the European and Asian markets. […] The post The Great Energy Game In East Mediterranean Sea – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.    |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 04:55 PM PST
Governments sometimes promote reforms that increase access to education for a large share of the population. These reforms may lower the returns to education by altering returns to skills, education quality, and peer effects. This column examines a 1961 Italian reform that increased enrollment in university STEM majors among students who had previously been denied […] The post Access To Higher Education And Value Of University Degree – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 04:49 PM PST
A Hindu group is urging France President Francois Hollande to issue an official apology over refusal of burial space to a few months old Roma (Gypsy) infant by Mayor of Champlan, 14 miles south of Paris. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) released Saturday, said that everybody has a fundamental right […] The post Hindu Group Wants Apology From French President Hollande For Burial Denial To Roma Baby appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 04:42 PM PST
The British government must do more to prevent charities working in high-risk countries from having their finances cut off by banks concerned their operations may fall foul of anti-terror laws, leading charities and bankers have warned. In recent months a growing number of British NGOs working in the Middle East and other dangerous regions have […] The post NGOs And Anti-Terror Laws: How To Keep Bank Managers Happy – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST
By Roderick Parkes* Unparalleled in scale and loss of life, the challenge of cross-Mediterranean migration to the European Union (EU) has rightly received much attention in recent years. Around 165,000 individuals have already crossed to Europe in 2014 so far, twice the figure for 2013, and a testimony to the more than 20,000 people who […] The post Integrating EU Defence And Migration Policies In Mediterranean – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:49 PM PST
By Clairmont Chung* Lewis Hamilton stands as the first obvious African descendant to participate in and to win a Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (F1). On Sunday, 23 November 2014, Hamilton, born in England to a white British mother and an African Grenadian father, claimed his second championship. He won his first in 2008. There […] The post Lewis Hamilton: A Study In Courage Presiding Over A Race To The Real End – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:39 PM PST
I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email. On January 11, […] The post As Three Yemenis Are Freed From Guantánamo, Video Highlights Plight Of 52 Others, Long Cleared For Release – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:36 PM PST
The only way to describe the threats coming from the U.S. government to cut funding for the PA in the aftermath of its application to join the International Criminal Court is: the death of irony (I stole the general idea from the brilliant, Billmon). First, in joining the ICC, the PA is doing what the […] The post Death Of Irony: US Threatens PA Funding For Joining Criminal Court – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:33 PM PST
(Civil.Ge) — Georgia’s Defense Minister, Mindia Janelidze, spent New Year’s Eve with the Georgian troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, MoD said on January 3. 51st light infantry battalion is deployed at Bagram Air Field , where it took over the force protection task in early November, 2014. Georgia also has a company-size unit […] The post Georgia Defense Minister Visits Troops In Afghanistan appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:31 PM PST
Look who’s tuning in to Putin’s inner thoughts and schemes. Putin must have one powerful brain. I’ve seen actual evidence that he gives off brainwaves that are apparently being picked up by a variety of mind-sensitive observers. These people are primarily politicians, commentators, and journalists. They in turn tell the rest of us what Putin […] The post Putin’s Brain: Reading His Mind For Fun And Profit – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 03:23 PM PST
The highlight to any trip to Tehran—if you can manage it—is a visit to the scene of the most spectacular hostage-taking in recent history, the US embassy, which Iranian students stormed in November 1979, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, and dumping US diplomatic correspondence on the street in a spectacular premodern WikiLeak. For […] The post The ‘Espionage Den': American Ghosts In Tehran – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 11:12 AM PST
Back in 1969 Muammar al-Gaddafi, universally known as Colonel Gaddafi, led a coup d’état in Libya and subsequently ruled the country for forty-two years. He was overthrown in October 2012, a victim of the so-called “Arab Spring” – the upsurge of the Arab masses, protesting against the corrupt dictatorships under which most had lived for […] The post Libya And The Anti-Islamist Struggle – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:40 AM PST
The year 2014 was a momentous year for Afghanistan. Afghans successfully concluded a presidential election, transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces, peaceful transfer of power from one elected president to another, signed the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States and Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) with NATO and now there is a […] The post A Decisive Year For Afghanistan: Six Key Trends To Watch For In 2015 – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia...
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:27 AM PST
New research demonstrates that obesity does not always go hand in hand with metabolic changes in the body that can lead to diabetes, heart disease and stroke. In a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, researchers found that a subset of obese people do not have common metabolic abnormalities associated with […] The post Not All Obese People Develop Metabolic Problems Linked To Excess Weight appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:25 AM PST
Friday marked the expiration of the six month grace period granted by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the full and unconditional surrender and demobilization of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). A Team of International Envoys noted with concern that […] The post International Envoys For Great Lakes Region Call For Decisive Actions Against FDLR appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:19 AM PST
Pentagon officials have confirmed that a high-ranking member of the al-Shabab militant group in Somalia was killed in a Dec. 29 airstrike. The unmanned U.S. aircraft strike near Saakow, Somalia, killed Tahlil Abdishakur, chief of al-Shabab’s intelligence and security wing, officials said in a statement. Working from actionable intelligence, U.S. forces struck a vehicle carrying […] The post Pentagon Confirms High-Ranking Al-Shabab Militant Killed By Drone appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:16 AM PST
The holidays are a time when our consumer driven economy offers the fantasy of a happier tomorrow in a progressively greater unequal society. Reversing the trend is going to require an assault on the current tax code (particularly with regard to taxes paid by the wealthy) and a concern once again for the welfare, education […] The post A Happy New Year From Our Leaders? – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:14 AM PST
By N Sathiya Moorthy* By letting, if not encouraging, a ruling coalition member to move an amendment to the 2008 Constitution, to fix an upper age-limit of 65 years for contesting presidential election, the ruling combine of President Abdulla Yameen may have contributed to trivialising the nation’s highest office without cause, reason or justification. Worse […] The post Maldives: Trivialising The Presidency – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:12 AM PST
In a recent publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “Defense Spending Extends Beyond the Pentagon’s Budget,” Veronique de Rugy presents a valuable compilation of data for fiscal year 2013, showing how much of the government’s national security spending appears not in the base budget of the Department of Defense, but elsewhere in […] The post Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater Than Pentagon’s Base Budget – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia...
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:10 AM PST
By Ghazanfar Ali Khan A Saudi delegation is set to visit Iraq this week in order to prepare the ground for the reopening of the Saudi Embassy in Baghdad, 24 years after the Kingdom closed its diplomatic mission there. Riyadh has also announced plans to set up a consulate in Erbil. A technical committee from […] The post Saudi Arabia Prepares To Open Embassy In Iraq appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline.  |
|
Posted: 03 Jan 2015 10:08 AM PST
Israeli authorities on Saturday froze the transfer of tax funds collected by Israel for the Palestinian Authority in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to sign the Rome Statute, an official told AFP. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, did not elaborate. The Israeli news site Ynet said Israel froze 500 million shekels […] The post Israel Freezes PA Tax Funds In Response To ICC Move appeared first on Eurasia Review.
To continue reading this article, click on the headline. |
