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

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 ...

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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

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 ...

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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 ...

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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

10 hours ago by coto2admin

WAM Abu Dhabi- A UAE paper has said that Israeli reaction to an arrest warrant issued by a British court against former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over her role during the December/January war on the Gaza Strip is typical. Livni faced potential war crimes charges for her role in the Israeli war ag ...

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10 hours ago by bettecox

“Follow the money” is always good advice. Money / power / control… lots to be had in and around the Caspian Sea. It’s not only Middle Eastern nuclear power (weaponry) they’re interested in controlling. Iran to drill Caspian Sea for oil soon Tehran Times 8 Dec 2009 According to estimates, the souther ...

The Tapister - tapister.wordpress.com · 2 references

10 hours ago by Jeff

The state-run media in Iran has been making all kinds of accusations against us for years because we are feminists, while from our point of view feminist means “being a woman” and being proud of it, nothing more. Those who regard themselves as higher than their mothers simply because they are men mu ...

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11 hours ago by volubrjotr

On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wou ...

Political Vel Craft - volubrjotr.com · Rank: 58,336 · 22 references