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Gulf petro-powers to launch pan-Arab currency in latest threat to dollar ...
2 hours ago
by Sage
From Telegraph UK “The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait. The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of their own, greatly increasing their i ...
Command the Raven - commandtheraven.com · 11 references
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Imagine the Middle East in the Year 2500: a Worst Case Climate Scenario
3 hours ago
by Dan Bloom
Dan Bloom, an advocate of polar cities (a prototype for a building above), paints a bleak future for the Middle East. Action against climate change is needed now. Two recent international news stories about climate change (“ How much more proof is needed for people to act?” and “ Ignoring the future ...
Green Prophet - greenprophet.com · Rank: 4,707 · 268 references
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News Links
5 hours ago
by NYkrinDC
For America's men & women returning from Iraq & Afghanistan, transitioning back to civilian life is often a struggle j.mp/7lAtbc # McCain and Cantwell propose resurrecting Glass-Steagall to break up Wall Street! j.mp/8u87WT # Somali Diplomat: Hundreds of Somali refugees are being forced at gunpoint ...
New Yorker in DC - nykrindc.blogspot.com · 15 references
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Obama to Chinese President: “I can’t keep Israel from attacking Iran for ...
6 hours ago
by davidjesse
By Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondents U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer, senior officials in Jerusalem told Haaretz. They said Obam ...
Midnight Approaching - midnightapproaching.wordpress.com
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Safer Than Arafat.
8 hours ago
by modernityblog
I ran across this piece on Salam Fayyad, who is called the Palestinian Ben-Gurion. I don’t know yet, but I thought that the end of this bit was funny: Throughout the 1990s, poverty was endemic in the West Bank, and yet Arafat and his wife, Suha, lived like royalty. The International Monetary Fund es ...
ModernityBlog - modernityblog.wordpress.com · Rank: 53,230 · 126 references
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Reshuffling the Cards? (II): Syria’s New Hand
9 hours ago
by adm
Syria typically, and at times justifiably, brings to mind stagnation and immobility. Yet, over recent years, change has been afoot. In 2008, it agreed to Turkish-mediated talks with Israel. It built ties with the Iraqi government after long depicting it as the offspring of an illegitimate occupation ...
A G O R A - agora-dialogue.com · 2 references
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