As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the “too big to fail” banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits. But when you use debt to potentially…
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Iran hasn’t been in the headlines in recent months, but there’s a lot of talk that 2013 will be the year of decision on Iran—whether a deal will be struck between the U.S. and its…
Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French “intervention” in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria – the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization…
Overbalancing: The Folly of Trying to Contain China Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser As the US reorients its foreign policy toward Asia, with the attendant redeployment of military assets to the region, fears…
Cynthia Goodwin, 46, greets her husband, Richard Ethridge, 39, with a smile as they meet inside the underground storm drain tunnels east of the Las Vegas Strip near Tropicana in Las Vegas, Nevada, on…
“We are expecting a well planned coup d´etat by the US-UK and France in Bamako, Mali by March or April 2013″, says a German West-Africa Specialist to nsnbc. He continues saying that “recruited extremists will…
The new cabinet of Japan´s Primie Minister Abe continues its new nationalist and militarist line. After dispitaching F-15´s to the disputed Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands, to which both Japan, China and Taiwan lay claimes, the…
SEOUL, South Korea — He’s worked all his life to graduate from an elite university this year. But in a tight job market, Kim Jun-sang, 23, is worried about escaping his pileup of debt. Sound familiar? With…
When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hosts bilateral talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday the two leaders are expected to evaluate the progress of the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to…
On October 23, 2012, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja’afari sent a letter to the President of the United Nations Security Council and to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listing 108 foreign individuals arrested in the Syrian Arab Republic . All individuals were engaged in terrorist activities within Syria . Many of these terrorists were members of Al Qaeda in Iraq , others were jihadists from Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Palestine, Egypt and Australia. In an interview I had with Ambassador Ja’afari, he confirmed that this letter was also circulated to all United Nations committees concerned with counter-terrorism. The letter was not translated from the Arabic for several months.