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  • Wanted, for crimes against the state
    31 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For many years, Azmi Bishara has been one of the most prominent voices representing the 1.5 million Arabs living in Israel. But now he is a fugitive, facing some of the most serious allegations ever made against an Israeli MP. What happened? In a rare interview, he talks to Rory McCarthy
    When war broke out in Lebanon last summer there were few dissenting voices in Israel. Opinion polls showed unprecedented public support for the conflict. Politicians and pundits crowded television studios (…)

  • Swollen rivers still threaten millions of Chinese lives
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Continuous rainstorms have continued to raise the water levels of many rivers across China, putting the lives of millions of people at risk and causing huge economic losses.
    The water level of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river has continued to rise quickly with many sections exceeding the danger line.
    Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is on high alert as the level of the Hanjiang river, a main tributary of the Yangtze that passes (…)

  • New Zealand, Australian Dollars Plunge as Carry Trades Dumped
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David McIntyre
    July 27 (Bloomberg) — New Zealand’s dollar slumped the most versus the yen since 2005 and Australia’s by the most in almost five months as a rout in global stocks prompted investors to cut holdings of higher-yielding assets bought with Japan’s currency.
    The two currencies are favorites of the so-called carry trade because their interest rates are among the highest of major economies. New Zealand’s dollar dropped to a six-week low and Australia’s to the least in almost (…)

  • Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine
    23 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ali Abunimah
    "Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan, whose US- and Israeli-backed forces were routed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip last month, in a 13 July 2003 letter to then Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz and published on Hamas’ website on 4 July (…)

  • Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country
    22 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...while there is growing recognition that global warming is a problem, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. In this new book, William Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, provides the first ever estimates of the impact on agriculture by country, with a particular focus on social and economic implications in China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the (…)

  • Fear and fury in shadow of Japan’s damaged nuclear giant
    22 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David McNeill in Kashiwazaki
    Published: 21 July 2007
    One wonders what the pitch was: building the planet’s largest nuclear power plant on one of its most seismically unstable plots of real estate.
    Yet, somehow here the plant squats on the outskirts of this town of 93,000 people, a seven-reactor, 8,200 megawatt monster, ringed by roads that are cracked and buckled from this week’s deadly earthquake.
    Inside, in the seconds after the quake - which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale (…)

  • Communists, Leftists Defy Indian Politics of Liberal Economics
    19 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    India’s Non-Alignment on the Balance, Communists on Alert
    By Nicola Nasser*
    The accelerated pace of India’s liberal economics and pragmatic ties with the United States and Israel risks polarizing Indian domestic politics and invoking a deep-seated communist as well as Islamist anti – Americanism with a realistic potential for a foreign policy strategic shift leading unintentionally and indirectly to creating an internal political environment that could be receptive for the first time to (…)

  • The Baltimore Examiner Is Wrong About the Iraqi War
    17 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It is quite possible that we are now descending into an age in which two and two will make five when the Leader says so.” — George Orwell
    Until April 5, 2007, Baltimore, Maryland was a one-daily-newspaper town. “The Sun” monopolized the print scene. Now, it has competition with the arrival of the feisty “Baltimore Examiner.” It’s a tabloid and a freebee, too, relying on ads to support itself. So far, it has been doing a competent job on the local news coverage, including its sports and (…)

  • Ready, aim, fire and rain
    16 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Pallavi Aiyar
    BEIJING - After weeks of watching the mercury soar, hardening the already cracked earth of their wilting orchards and farms, a group of farmers on the outskirts of Beijing gather in the Fragrant Hills that line the western fringe of China’s capital city. Unlike their ancestors, they do not assemble to perform a rain dance or gather in a temple to pray to the Lord Buddha to bring the rain.
    Instead, they grab rocket launchers and a 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun and begin (…)

  • Roger Waters (PINK FLOYD) Talking About The Wall In Israel
    14 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)