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- Nepal: The View From The Top Is Not Pretty – OpEd
- Hindus Urge Canada To End Widespread Poverty Among Its Indigenous Children
- Egyptian Soccer Matches Threaten To Foreshadow Mass Anti-Government Protest – Analysis
- Eni And Rosneft Sign Completion Deed For Joint Exploration In Russian Barents Sea And Black Sea
- Repsol Wins Award For Best European Oil And Gas Company For Investor Relations
- Obama Names Bush-Era Official to Head FBI
- US Increases Military Presence In Jordan After Exercises
- Kazakhstan Claims US To Stay Involved In Afghanistan
- Stratcom Will Continue Key Defense Role, Stresses Hagel
- Libya: Benghazi Attack Highlights Media Peril
- Centcom Undertakes Massive Logistical Drawdown In Afghanistan
- Minnesota Declaration: “A Call For Justice For Victims Of Liberia’s Civil War”
- When The Gods Laugh – OpEd
- Croatia Prepares For Influx Of EU Funds
- Obama’s Syrian Press Pass – OpEd
- Cranking Up The Washington Lie Machine – OpEd
- The Big Plunge – OpEd
- Rosneft Signs Agreements To Expand Use Of Natural Gas As Motor Fuel With Six Russian Regions
- Syria: Looming Sunni-Shia Crisis – Analysis
- Fraud Fears Overshadow Albanian Election – Analysis
- Ralph Nader: Corporatizing National Security: What It Means – OpEd
- Sweden Ganesha Hindu Temple Holding 14-Day Festival
- Bolivia Raises Awareness Of The Plata Basin Ecosystem
- Italian Cardinal Urges Strong Support Of Mideast Christians
- Engaging The Moroccan American Diaspora – OpEd
- Xi Jinping’s Decade And The Future Of Sino-American Relations – Analysis
- Brazilian President Unveils Reforms In Wake Of Protests
- Sri Lankan Government: Caught In The Commonwealth Trap – OpEd
Posted: 21 Jun 2013 09:27 PM PDT
On
U.S. military intervention in Syria’s civil war, where “both sides are
slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line
‘Allahu akbar’ … I say let Allah sort it out.” So said Sarah Palin to
the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently
the case, she nailed it. Hours [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 09:03 PM PDT
Introduction
Peoples’ perceptions and views of the world are influenced by both
conscious and unconscious phenomena. The world is a totally socially
constructed reality where the people make sense of it from their
culture, experience and learning. Within the bounds of culture and
experience, each person has some unique interpretation of the
environment and understanding [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:47 PM PDT
By
Sufyan bin Uzayr With the exception of Mt. Everest, Nepal has very
little that the mainstream media finds newsworthy. You cannot really
blame the Western media though — this small land-locked country of South
Asia does not get much coverage in regional Asian press either.
Naturally, anything that is hidden from the eye tends [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:39 PM PDT
Forty
percent of Indigenous children live in poverty in Canada, according to a
new report “Poverty or Prosperity: Indigenous Children in Canada” by
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a
statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was immoral and a sin to
watch these Indigenous children of Canada languish [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:37 PM PDT
Controversial
soccer matches this weekend constitute a potential walk-up to a
watershed mass anti-government demonstration on June 30 that has
Egyptians of all political stripes bracing themselves for political
violence and increased uncertainty The soccer matches and mounting
tension in advance of the protest are likely to be seen by militant,
highly politicized, violence-prone and [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:34 PM PDT
Rosneft’s
President and Chairman of the Management Board, Igor Sechin, and Eni’s
CEO, Paolo Scaroni, in the presence of the Russian President, Vladimir
Putin, signed Friday, at the Saint Petersburg International Economic
Forum, a Completion Deed relating to the agreements for the joint
development by the two companies of exploration activities in the
Russian Barents [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:31 PM PDT
Repsol
has been chosen as the European company offering the best investor
relations in its sector by the specialist publication IR Magazine. As
well as being named top of the oil and gas sector, the company was also
recognised for its crisis communications brought on by the confiscation
of YPF in April 2012. Since then, [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:26 PM PDT
By
Kent Klein President Barack Obama has nominated (Friday) a former
deputy attorney general under Republican President George W. Bush as the
new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. James Comey would
replace longtime FBI chief Robert Mueller. Obama is hoping that Comey’s
Republican ties and deep experience in law enforcement will help
persuade [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:22 PM PDT
Along
US with missiles and fighter jets, about 700 US troops will remain in
Jordan after training exercises which ended this week, US President
Barack Obama said in his letter to the Congress. The troops and military
equipment took part in the Eager Lion exercises in Jordan. “This
detachment that participated in the exercise and [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:18 PM PDT
(RFE/RL)
— Kazakhstan’s presidency says U.S. President Barack Obama has told his
Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbaev, that Washington would remain
“deeply involved in developments in Afghanistan and Central Asia” after
U.S. troops leave Afghanistan. The Kazakh presidency’s website on June
21 posted excerpts from a letter that it said had been sent by Obama to
[...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:16 PM PDT
By
Nick Simeone A day after President Barack Obama proposed deeper cuts in
U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told
service members at U.S. Strategic Command that nuclear deterrence has
kept the peace for nearly 70 years and that Stratcom will continue to
play an important role in national security policy. “This [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:08 PM PDT
By
Essam Mohamed A massive bomb blast completely levelled a police station
in Benghazi’s al-Hadaek neighbourhood on Wednesday (June 19th). Four
days earlier and in the same the same al-Hadaek neighbourhood, Libya’s
first independent TV station suffered a grenade attack. “As the channel
was targeted in a terrorist attack that caused material and moral
damages [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:04 PM PDT
By
Donna Miles Two years ago, as commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq, Army Gen.
Lloyd J. Austin III was marching against a strict Dec. 31, 2011 deadline
to complete the largest logistical drawdown since World War II. It was a
mammoth undertaking, involving troop redeployments and equipment
retrogrades that had peaked at the height of coalition [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:59 PM PDT
The Coalition
for Justice in Liberia (CJL) – comprised of Liberian human rights
advocates in collaboration with international human rights organizations
- unanimously affirmed that in order for genuine peace, reconciliation
and national healing to take place, it is extremely fundamental that the
issue of justice for hundreds of thousands of Liberia’s war victims be
addressed. On [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:57 PM PDT
IF
THE life of Shimon Peres was a play, it would be difficult to classify.
A tragedy? A comedy? A tragicomedy? For sixty years it looked as if he
was under a curse of the Gods, much like the curse of Sisyphus, who was
condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill, and every [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:55 PM PDT
By
Selena Petrovic EU funds that will become available to Croatia upon its
July 1st accession will bring the country 11.7 billion euros from
2014-2020 and a new know-how in EU funds utilisation. The public and
private sectors are preparing to capitalise on this opportunity, while
the government is taking the initial steps to make [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:53 PM PDT
The
existence of a compliant media plays a major role in allowing American
presidents to create so much violence and chaos around the globe. Far
from being a check on officialdom, the press are part and parcel of the
machine which crushes so many lives in this country and abroad. Long
gone are the days [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:49 PM PDT
Just
for the sake of argument, let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment and
pretend (I know it’s a stretch) that the Obama administration and the
apologists for the nation’s spy apparatus in Congress, Democratic and
Republican, are telling us the gods’ honest truth. They have, as the
Wall Street Journal puts it, “amped up” [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:47 PM PDT
Normally,
stocks don’t fall off a cliff unless the economic data suddenly turns
south or there are signs of an emerging crisis, like a run on the shadow
banking system or threat to Middle East oil supplies. But neither of
these played a part in this week’s equities massacre where the Dow Jones
Industrial Average [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:45 PM PDT
Rosneft
said Friday it signed agreements aiming to substitute natural gas for
petrol and diesel as motor fuels in the Krasnoyarsk, Murmansk, Sakhalin,
Irkutsk, Ryazan and Yaroslavl regions during the St. Petersburg
Economic Forum on 21 June. The documents were signed by Rosneft
President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Murmansk
Governor [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:33 PM PDT
By
Dmitry Sedov The government forces are gaining ground almost everywhere
in Syria. Their advance has become an important international game
changer. The anti-government camp has become vibrant applying efforts to
rescue the giant international project, which has already consumed so
much time and effort. President Obama has approved arming Syrian rebels.
The supplies are [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:29 PM PDT
By
Besar Likmeta Allegations of vote buying hang over Albania’s
forthcoming general election – whose result, whatever it is, is likely
to be hotly disputed. Polling stations open on Sunday for what will
undoubtedly be one of the most closely scrutinised elections in
Albania’s recent history. Standing by to ensure a free and fair election
[...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:26 PM PDT
Privacy
is a sacred word to many Americans, as demonstrated by the recent
uproar over the brazen invasion of it by the Patriot Act-enabled
National Security Agency (NSA). The information about dragnet
data-collecting of telephone and internet records leaked by Edward
Snowden has opened the door to another pressing conversation—one about
privatization, or corporatization of [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:23 PM PDT
Sweden’s
Ganesha Temple in Farsta is holding a 14-day annual festival
“Mahotsavam 2013”, which will conclude on June 25. All are welcome to
participate and get blessings during the Festival, which began with
Sathurthi on June 12 and will end with 12th Day Thiruvila (Vairavar
Madai) on June 25. Besides 12 days of Thiruvila, it [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:21 PM PDT
After
the meeting of June 19th, in Sucre, Bolivia, Members of the Working
Group of Public Participation, Communication and Education (GTPPCyE,
acronyms in Spanish), approved the Program Framework of the Plata Basin,
which covers the territories of Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina
and Uruguay. According to Cesar Palacios, a keynote speaker and the
representative of Paraguayan [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:18 PM PDT
By
Estefania Aguirre At a conference of Muslim and Catholic leaders in
Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola encouraged greater support for persecuted
Christians in the Middle East. “We need to help Christians more
strongly,” Cardinal Scola said at the University of Milan, where the
tenth annual meeting of the Oasis International Foundation was held this
week. [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:12 PM PDT
he
development initiatives of so-called ‘diasporas’ have gained the
attention of policy-makers, scholars, NGOs, and migrants themselves.
Migrants and ‘diasporas’ are seen as agents of development, who not only
remit money to their countries of origin, but also transfer ideas of
political, social, and cultural change. The diaspora isn’t only
remitting, they are also returning [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:10 PM PDT
A
recent Heritage report says that America’s total debt has reached $17
trillion that means $53,769 on the head of every citizen. It is eating
up $11,000 from the income of every American family – eliminating
opportunities for career advancement, paralyzing job creation, lowering
wages and salaries and according to President Obama’s former Joint
Chiefs [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:03 PM PDT
Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled a series of reforms in an attempt
to end days of nationwide anti-government protests. In a televised
address she said she would draft a new plan to benefit public transport
and that all oil royalties would be used in education. She also said
that thousands of doctors would be [...]
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Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:02 PM PDT
By
S. I. Keethaponcalan Have the Sri Lankan’s ever given a damn about the
Commonwealth (organization)? The answer is, not much. As a former
British colony and a newly independent nation, Sri Lanka joined the
Commonwealth in 1948. Since it had to do international business through
the British High Commissions, relations with the Commonwealth were [...]
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