The degree zero of culture Asia Times | Sep 3, 2010 LIFE IN TALIBANISTAN, Part 2 | The degree zero of culture | By Pepe Escobar | This is the second article in a three-part report. | PART 1: | Ten years ago, Taliban Afghanistan - Talibanistan - was under a social, cultural, political and economic nightmare. Ten ...
Stop the War Talk The New York Times | The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, purportedly to be part of the Obama administration’s relaunch of peace negotiations. But the urgent talk is of war, thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg’s much-discussed Atlantic Monthly cover article, which faithfully reproduced th...
Probe Circles Globe to Find Dirty Money Wall Street Journal By CARRICK MOLLENKAMP | A black-market financial investigation spreading from Iran to Sudan, London and Cuba began in a cluttered fifth-floor cubicle in an old-school district attorney's office in Manhattan featuring dark corridors and frosted glass....
Japan approves economic sanctions against Iran The Guardian | TOKYO (AP) — Japan approved fresh economic sanctions against Iran on Friday after the United Nations asked Tokyo to tighten restrictions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear enrichment program, an official said. | The measures approved b...
Japan OKs new financial sanctions against Iran Breitbart | The Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant located in the south of the country... | Japan's cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial...
Japan approves economic sanctions against Iran Herald Tribune | TOKYO - Japan approved fresh economic sanctions against Iran on Friday after the United Nations asked Tokyo to tighten restrictions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear enrichment program, an official said. AC = 1234 | --> | The measures a...
AP / Mark Baker
Take Iranian opposition to the streets The Australian | MINDFUL of the danger of Iran's regime acquiring nuclear weapons, the international community has passed a new round of sanctions. | They aim to persuade Tehran that a negot...
Nuclear Tehran will signal doomsday The Australian | A CHILLING article on the opinion page of the prestigious daily Ha'aretz caught Israel's attention this week. | "There is an 80 per cent probability that within ni...
Opec to invest $40b in refineries Gulf News | Dubai: Members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will be investing heavily in downstream activities over the coming years despite uncertainty about the ...
Japan approves economic sanctions against Iran The Press Democrat | The measures approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan include an asset freeze on 88 entities, 15 banks and 24 individuals, trade ministry official Hideaki Fujisawa said. Japan had previously frozen assets on 75 entities and 41 individual...
Japan approves economic sanctions against Iran The Miami Herald | TOKYO -- Japan approved fresh economic sanctions against Iran on Friday after the United Nations asked Tokyo to tighten restrictions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear enrichment program, an official said. | The measures approved by the ...
FocusIran boosts domestic gasoline output; aroms exports to suffer ICIS | | By Mahua Chakravarty | SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Iran may not have enough supply of aromatics to export this month given its need to boost domestic gasoline production amid the sanctions imposed on importing the fuel, industry sources s...
(photo: US Navy / Petty Officer 2nd Class Miguel Angel Contreras)
The legacy of seven years in Iraq Irish Times | Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA MARLOW , Washington Corresponent | THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION gave four justifications for its invasion...
Efforts to enhance trade ties with Ghana The Hindu | Special Correspondent | BIGGEST BENEFICIARY:Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma (left) with Ghana's | NEW DELHI: India on Friday called upon Ghana to ink the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) to enhance the trade and economic engagement. | India's desire was conveyed by visiting Union Commerce and Industry Mi...
