Tag Archive: Middle East

Syria: End Opposition Use of Torture, Executions

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Armed opposition groups have subjected detainees to ill-treatment and torture and committed extrajudicial or summary executions in Aleppo, Latakia, and Idlib, Human Rights Watch said today following a visit to Aleppo governorate. Torture… Read More →

European, US, and Canadian Government Funding Behind Anti-Israel Activism in Mainline Churches

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Since the 2001 NGO Forum at the UN’s Durban Conference, boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) aimed at Israel have developed as a key issue in mainline Christian denominations in the United States, Europe,… Read More →

The network structure of economic output

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Much of the analysis of economic growth has focused on the study of aggregate output. Here, we deviate from this tradition and look instead at the structure of output embodied in the network… Read More →

Middle East:the best articles in the last 24 hours

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The Middle East Channel: The United States faces new allegations of … Foreign Policy (blog) Thursday, September 6, 2012 Follow Facebook · RSS · Twitter · Home; Directory. Channels. National Security · Election… Read More →

International Security Guarantees on the Way to a Permanent Agreement on a Two-State-Solution Israel / Palestine

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From mid-2010 to mid-2011 a working group of Israeli and Palestinian security experts developed concrete proposals and practical steps for international security guarantees in the case of a two state solution between Israel… Read More →

Middle East: the food security issue

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Oleguer Sarsanedas interviews Eckart Woertz, Senior Research Fellow Associate, CIDOB World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008, creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social unrest in… Read More →

The Emerging Order in the Middle East

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After more than a year of Arab uprisings, the emerging political order in the Middle East is marked by considerable shifts within individual countries as well as at the regional level. Domestically and… Read More →

Gaza Five Years On: Hamas Settles In

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As political upheavals spread over much of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, regimes throughout the region were shaken and a few fell. But in both the West Bank and Gaza,… Read More →

Europäische Cybersicherheitspolitik

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Die sich allmählich entwickelnde europäische Cybersicherheitspolitik soll helfen, vereinbarte Mindeststandards in allen ihren Mitgliedstaaten umzusetzen, und zwar bei Prävention, Abwehrbereitschaft (resilience), Reaktion und internationaler Kooperation. Sie soll nationale Sicherheit befördern, jedoch ohne gegen… Read More →

Şimdi açlığa son

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Ticaret ve ekonomi alanlarında yıllarca çalıştıktan sonra, dört yıl önce, kendimi insan kırılganlığının ön saflarında çalışırken buldum. Ve insanların her gün yaşamak için savaştığı ve tek bir öğün dahi kazanamadığı yerlerde buldum. Bu… Read More →

world corruption 2011

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It  was the year when the fight against corruption hit the headlines, and stayed there. In 2011, demonstrations unfurled across the world – from the Middle East to Wall Street – demanding leadership… Read More →

Iraq’s Secular Opposition: The Rise and Decline of Al-Iraqiya

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  Middle East Report N°127, 31 July 2012 The demise of Iraq’s Al-Iraqiya Alliance, at threat of marginalisation, would remove the country’s sole credible political representative of a very important community: the secular,… Read More →

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US World Military Projection ( map)

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Situation at July 2012   WFF ©2012 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE AUTHOR(S) AND THE PUBLISHER

To Keep the Peace with Iran, Threaten to Strike

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While Iran’s nuclear program has been on America’s foreign policy agenda for the last twenty-plus years, one gets the unmistakable feeling that the issue is finally coming to a head. After several years… Read More →

from Syria to London art,geopolitics,health,culture,romanzo

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Dear Readers today … A)     Geopolitics : In Prosumerzen A New Tool for Syria: Pressuring Assad with Preemptive Contract Sanctions The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions   In Westphalia XXI… Read More →

A New Tool for Syria: Pressuring Assad with Preemptive Contract Sanctions

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Countries that throw off a repressive dictator are too often left saddled with illegitimate and odious obligations. To maintain access to international credit markets, legitimate successor governments must honor these debts and comply… Read More →

from art to military nanotechnology or finance the world in 21 articles

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Dear Readers Today …  A) Geopolitcs & Geofinance In Prosumerzen “Mezzogiorno medievale e popolamento rupestre pugliese: aree e luoghi di culto” ,(1/2) Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act: What it Means for Medicaid… Read More →

From New York to Istanbul:geopolitics,life style and more…

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Dear Readers Today in our magazines A- Geopolitics In Prosumerzen : First World Happiness Report Launched at the United Nations Russia and the dilemma of nuclear disarmament Demographics Versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election In… Read More →

First World Happiness Report Launched at the United Nations

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The happiest countries in the world are all in Northern Europe (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands). Their average life evaluation score is 7.6 on a 0-to-10 scale. The least happy countries are all poor… Read More →

Gulf Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Iranian Challenge

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As the world works to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, there is widespread agreement on what failure looks like. It is an Iranian bomb—or, more likely, a number of Iranian bombs—that… Read More →

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