On 2 February 2007, Muhammad Salah of Bridgeview, Illinois and Abdelhaleem Ashqar of Washington D.C. were acquitted “of conspiring to provide funding, recruiting, training and other aid to Hamas, a group responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank in a Chicago federal court,” according to the Chicago Tribune. There [...]
Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow
Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops”—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the “expertise” behind the Iraq war.
Vanity Fair Magazine - March 2007
by Donald L. Barlett and James [...]
The great bridge of China: how energy-hungry Beijing hews its Mideast links
February 12, 2007
Financial Times (London) - Comment and Analysis; Pg. 17
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/59d8b3b2-ba0c-11db-89c8-0000779e2340.html
By ROULA KHALAF, RICHARD MCGREGOR and SUNDEEP TUCKER
On the road leading from Dubai to Oman, deep in the desert, a kilometre-long dragon-shaped building has become a symbol of China’s growing ties with the [...]
French President Jacques Chirac made some interesting remarks earlier last week that has garnered international attention. He stated as outlined in Le Monde:
“Je dirais que ce n’est pas tellement dangereux par le fait d’avoir une bombe nucléaire - peut-être une deuxième un peu plus tard, bon… ça n’est pas très dangereux.”
Translated: “I would say that [...]
On Feb 1 2007, a group of world-renowned physicists, including Nobel Prize winners, led by the American Physical Society sent a petition to Congress regarding the use of nuclear strikes by the US against countries without nuclear weapons. You can find the original letter here http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/physicistslettercongress.html. Please find out more about this by visiting the [...]
Kofi Annan - a gem, born for greatness
The Statesman (of Ghana)
Editorial - 25 Jan 2007
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/editorial_detail.php?newsid=126§ion=0
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Keeping Up With the Chávezes
By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
The Wall Street Journal - COMMENTARY
February 1, 2007; Page A17
Linked from the American Interest Blog: http://the-american-interest.com/contd/?p=605
Dr. Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of the the International Development Program at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University
What is it [...]
What we’re trying to avoid… “would the delegate from Exxon Mobile please approach the dias?”
From the People-Centered Development Forum (PCDF):
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Earlier this week I became involved in a political conversation with my boss who, in addition to proclaiming that the only reason the Irish didn’t colonize is that they were too drunk to do so, suggested that Hillary was going to buy the Democratic party nomination for president in ‘08 and then lose the race. [...]
CSTO will merely watch SCO war games
RIA Novosti
by Viktor Litovkin (RIA Novist Military Commentator)
8 Feb 2007
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070208/60404150.html
MOSCOW - In late February-early March, generals from six member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will meet for a regular, third round of consultations in the training center and shooting grounds of the 34th motor rifle [...]