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Hizbollah in South America's Tri-Border: The Genesis

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
18-May-12

May 18, 2012 In October 1987 Paraguayan residents were surprised to read in La Tarde, Asuncion’s afternoon newspaper, that plans were afoot to open a huge section of the Paraguayan Chaco to 500 Muslim families. Paraguayans with some knowledge of the isolated Chaco, and the difficulty the settlers would encounter there, felt certain that the proposed Nueva Andalucia settlement...
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The European Crisis

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
18-May-12

Thanks to J. Millard Burr, Jules O., World Affairs, and Elizabeth Pond for item contributions. Today's Digest contains only two topics: the European crisis and the meaning of recent European elections. The content of the articles herein strongly suggests that "the end is nigh" in a couple of senses for Europe as we know it. The financial...
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Greece on brink of collapse. Europes financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greeces economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable e

by Bruno Waterfield, James Kirkup
TELEGRAPH UK
18-May-12

Euro Lies and Italy's Crisis

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
18-May-12

Greeces exit may become the euros envy

by Arvind Subramanian
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-May-12

Germany and the Euro Crisis: Is the Powerhouse Really So Pure?

by John Rosenthal
WORLD AFFAIRS
18-May-12

Muslim Voters Change Europe

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
18-May-12

Democracy and the Euro. Greeks have to face the consequences of their own political choices.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-May-12

A French-Greek wake-up call

by Melanie Phillips
THEJC.COM
18-May-12

Justice for Srebrenica

by Elizabeth Pond
WORLD POLICY REVIEW
18-May-12

None too soon, the moment of truth has come for Ratko Mladic—and, posthumously, for Slobodan Milosevic. This moment fully justifies the controversial United Nations establishment of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) two decades ago. On Wednesday the trial of General Mladic opened at the Hague for crimes of genocide by Serb forces in the...
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The last chance to rescue the euro

by Philip Stephens
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-May-12

Greek Leftist Leader Throws Down Gauntlet on Debt

by James Angelos, Alkman Granitsas
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-May-12

Middle East

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
17-May-12

Thanks to David Frankfurter, Jules O., and Lee Smith for item contributions. Egypt McClatchy Newspapers has produced an article arguing, on the basis of interviews, that Aboul Fotouh has the past chance of winning Egypt’s presidency because he seems to be everyone’s second choice or the lesser of a variety of evils. It would seem that his...
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Algeria bucks Arab Spring: FLN crushes Islamists in legislative polls. Number of elected women rises to 145 from seven in outgoing assembly following introduction of quotas.

by Jean-Marc Mojon
MIDDLE EAST ONLINE
17-May-12

Adviser to Arafat wanted for embezzlement, fraud.

by Khaled Abu Toameh
JERUSALEM POST
17-May-12

Hezbollahs Newest Threat. Lebanons Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who arent eager to serve as human shields again

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
17-May-12

'Khamenei told me that Israel must be burned to the ground' Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar tells crowd in Jerusalem that during meeting with Iran's supreme leader in 2000, Ayatollah Al

by Staff
ISRAEL HAYOM
17-May-12

What Happened to Israel's Reputation? How in 40 years the Jewish state went from inspiring underdog to supposed oppressor.

by Michael Oren
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-May-12

Aboul Fotouh could be Egypt's next president because he's many people's second choice

by McClatchy
KANSASCITY.COM
17-May-12

Islamists in tune with west over economy

by Jane Kinninmont
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-May-12

What to Expect When You're Expecting to Become a Jihadi

by Randy Kreider
ABC NEWS
17-May-12

Iranians Have Democratic Values. New research reveals that Iranian society has a pro-liberal value structure deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime.

by Yuval Porat
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-May-12

Energy, Banking, Latin America

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
16-May-12

Thanks to Jaime Daremblum and Mick Andersen for item contributions. Energy Today’s articles on energy include a Bloomberg piece on the impact of declining oil prices on Dubai and other Persian Gulf stock markets. Qatar invests in Royal Dutch Shell Also, there’s an interesting article on Qatari sovereign wealth...
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Cnooc Deploys Oil Rig as Weapon to Assert China Sea Claims

by Staff
TOPCOEVENTS.COM
16-May-12

Dubai Shares Slump to Lowest in Three Months on Greece, Oil Drop

by Zahra Hankir
BLOOMBERG
16-May-12

Qataris buy stake in Shell

by Staff
ZAWYA.COM
16-May-12

U.S. Probes Lebanon Banking Deals

by Jay Solomon, Devlin Barrett
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-May-12

75% of poor don't have bank accounts

by Anne Renzenbrink
CNN
16-May-12

US banker pleads guilty to China bribes

by Kara Scannell
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-May-12

Beijing's Financial Scapegoat. A tycoon takes the fall for China's flawed banking system.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-May-12

Chinas Big Banks Look More Like Paper Tigers

by Jonathan Weil
BLOOMBERG
16-May-12

Evo Morales's Victims Push Back: As protests against him rise and his popularity falls, the Bolivian president nationalizes another big company.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-May-12

South Americas New Pariah: Yes, Argentina should be kicked out of the G-20.

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
16-May-12

Mexican Jihad

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
16-May-12

FBI Arrests 28 Members of Honduran Drug Ring in Virginia

by Staff
HONDURAS WEEKLY
16-May-12

Europe

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
15-May-12

Thanks to Jules O., Nina Shea, Len Baldyga, Sol Sanders, and The American Interest for their item contributions. The economy(ies) This posting of the Digest carries no less than a half-dozen highly discouraging articles about the state of the European economies. Most preceded the precipitous drop in the U.S. stock market we’ve seen over...
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The Problem with European 'Human Rights'. Judges at the court in Strasbourg have assumed an activist role for too long.

by Jacob McHangama, Aaron Rhodes
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-May-12

How the Swiss 'Debt Brake' Tamed Government. Behold, a good idea from Europe: Spending in Switzerland can't increase by more than trendline tax revenue.

by Daniel Mitchell
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-May-12

A Europe torn asunder?

by Sol Sanders
AUTHORIZED REPOST
15-May-12

Despite the fact Europe is in the Northern Hemisphere, the downward swirl of the Euro into the bowels this month took a reverse direction and started going left/counterclockwise. Maybe it is the first part of the Mayan prediction gravity will fail later this year and we will all go flying off into space. But certainly it indicates the Euro crisis is still very much with us -- and deepening. New...
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Europe Loses Billions to Tax Evasion

by Julio Godoy
IPS NEWS
15-May-12

At What Cost EU Membership? Central and eastern European leaders must acknowledge that liberalization has stalled as regulations have mounted.

by Marian Tupy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-May-12

German police arrest more than 100 Salafist protesters as clashes leave 29 officers injured

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
15-May-12

The EU's Black Holes: Saving the Euro Will Require Banking Sector Reform

by Martin Hesse, et al.
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
15-May-12

Lessons from the French Election: Globalization Is a Killer

by Neil Rogachevsky
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
15-May-12

Spain's Bad Bank: Bankia's rescue could be just the beginning.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-May-12

As European Austerity Ends, So Could the Euro

by Peter Boone, Simon Johnson
BLOOMBERG
15-May-12

Islam Arrives in the Basque Country

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
15-May-12

Europes Brain-Dead Right: Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-May-12

Egypt: Shortage at the Pump

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
14-May-12

May 13, 2012 In May 2012 gasoline and diesel shortages throughout Egypt continued to frustrate motorists and trucking companies alike. Beginning in the early morning drivers line up before gas stations, just as they have done since August 2011. Media illustrations of long lines of vehicles awaiting service has become commonplace, and so too...
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Lugar and Macedonia: End of an Era

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
14-May-12

May 13, 2012 While a majority of Indiana's Republican voters took some pleasure in forcing their senior senator into retirement, that move was cause for some distress in a most unlikely and isolated and landlocked Balkan byway -- the Republic of Macedonia. In June 2009 Senator Lugar was the...
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21st-Century Zurich Gnomes

by Elizabeth Pond
EWI EXCLUSIVE
14-May-12

May 14, 2012 "We are not crooks!" declared my dinner companion as his first sentence after we introduced ourselves at the banquet on a Mediterranean cruise on the storied Sea Cloud a few years back. There was no glint of badinage, only a preemptive defense of his amour-propre. He was a Swiss banker. Inadvertently, my thoughts flew back then to...
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United States, Terrorism & Finance

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
14-May-12

Thanks to Ji Song, Rhoda Rabkin, Elizabeth Pond, and Robert Lieber for their item contributions. United States Terrorists walk free Today’s Digest contains a couple of articles on the subject of terrorists walking free due to U.S. policies. The first regards the release of captured insurgents in Afghanistan for political/diplomatic...
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Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace

by Kevin Sieff
WASHINGTON POST
14-May-12

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations. UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans

by Chris McGreal
GUARDIAN UK
14-May-12

Awarding the Useless

by Brett Schaefer
NATIONAL REVIEW
14-May-12

The Daqduq Fiasco: A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-May-12

The Daqduq Fiasco: A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-May-12

Is American decline real? More and more thinkers are warning that our glory days are over, but their arguments are flawedand old

by Robert Lieber
SALON
14-May-12

Scientific freedom and security. The world

by Staff
ECONOMIST
14-May-12

How Pakistan Lets Terrorism Fester

by Husain Haqqani
NEW YORK TIMES
14-May-12

Al Qaeda's Most Dangerous Franchise. It is from Yemen, not tribal Pakistan, that the group is most likely to strike America next.

by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Peter Neumann
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-May-12

Al Qaeda Double Agent Had Western Roots Supposed Suicide Bomber Held an EU Passport, Grew Up in West; Ruse Drew on Lessons From Failed Christmas Day Plot

by Ellen Knickmeyer, Siobhan Gorman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-May-12

Clear and present danger. Clearing-houses may add danger as well as efficiency

by Staff
ECONOMIST
14-May-12

The Devil in HML's Details

by Clifford Asness, Andrea Frazzini
PAPERS.SSRN.COM
14-May-12

Muslim Brotherhood & Commodities

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
11-May-12

Muslim Brotherhood Opposition to the MB candidate The Guardian UK produces an interesting (although possibly also naïve) argument displaying reasons why Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi isn’t doing well. The writer says, “It is not just Morsi's lack of personal appeal, or his message in rallies that has...
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The Muslim Brotherhood's presidential campaign falters in an evolving Egypt. Egyptian voters want stability but they also fear a return to the old days. The Brotherhood isn't handling this tension ver

by Peter Beaumont
GUARDIAN UK
11-May-12

Egyptian Election Delay Is Unacceptable, Says Brotherhood

by Mariam Fam, Tarek El-Tablawy
BLOOMBERG
11-May-12

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood Divides

by Alaa al-Din Arafat
MIDDLE EAST ONLINE
11-May-12

Osama bin Laden on the Muslim Brotherhood

by Thomas Joscelyn
LONG WAR JOURNAL
11-May-12

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood rise from the ashes

by Staff
EGYPT.COM
11-May-12

Indians charging up for tomorrow's gold buying festival frenzy. Traders are hoping for at least a 25% jump in gold buying tomorrow as consumers head to the shops on Akshaya Tritiya, considered one of

by Shivom Seth
MINE WEB
11-May-12

Follow the money

by Editorial Staff
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-May-12

China Reaches Out to Its Adversaries Over Rare Earths

by Chuin-Wei Yap
WALL STREET JOURNAL
11-May-12

Hedge funds bullish on industrial metals

by Reuters
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-May-12

China Digs It. How Beijing Cornered the Rare Earths Market

by Damien Ma
China Digs It. How Beijing Cornered the Rare Earths Market
11-May-12

Iran accepts renminbi for crude oil

by AFP
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-May-12

Crude tumbles on US recovery fears

by Emiko Terazano
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-May-12

FREE SPEECH: RACHEL EHRENFELD

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
EWI FEATURE
09-May-12

In her annual Speech to British Parliament on May 9, 2012, the Queen announced a libel law reform (see article below). Rachel Ehrenfeld of ACD/EWI issued the following statement: “I am delighted that my actions in the US spurred the free speech reform movement in the UK...
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Corruption, Cyber & Technology, and China

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
09-May-12

Thanks to Ji Song and Sol Sanders for item contributions. Corruption Today’s articles illustrate that bribery and corruption can no longer be segregated off from international economic warfare and treated as simply a country-by-country phenomenon. Worldwide Fund for Nature Strange as it may seem, we begin with...
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How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for Nature bamboozled. WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species.

by Christopher Booker
TELEGRAPH UK
09-May-12

Corporations Win Big in Battle Against Investment Regulation

by Isolda Agazzi
IPS NEWS
09-May-12

Can the Mafia divert the allocation of public transfers?

by Guglielmo Barone, Gaia Narciso
VOX EU
09-May-12

Jamming signals from North Korea have interfered with 250 flights in South, Seoul says

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
09-May-12

The U.N. Wants to Run the Internet: Authoritarian regimes want to prohibit anonymity on the Web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents.

by Gordon Crovitz
WALL STREET JOURNAL
09-May-12

The National Security Risk of Mobile Phones

by Stephen Bryen
TECHNOLOGYSECURITY.WORDPRESS.COM
09-May-12

Chinas princeling generals hit by Bo purge

by AFP
FINANCIAL TIMES
09-May-12

The real frontline of the Chinese in Africa

by Terence McNamee
FINANCIAL TIMES
09-May-12

The muddle in the Middle Kingdom

by Sol Sanders
09-May-12

Follow the money No. 117 Sol Sanders The muddle in the Middle Kingdom Chen Guangcheng and Bo Xilai represent the two poles of the Chinese political spectrum. Chen is a blind, self-taught lawyer and provincial activist for human rights, in a life and death struggle to reinterpret the system. Bo is a pampered scion of a famous Communist family, until recently a successful...
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Shari'a & Shari'a Finance

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
07-May-12

Thanks to Jules O. for his item contributions. Shari'a News on the practice and spread of Shari'a is plentiful and very little of it is good. The "old media," as someone recently referred to nondigital vendors, largely ignores this. EWI will not. It’s been a while since we’ve joined this topic, hence the large number of items....
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The 100% Sharia-Compliant Iranian EMP Nuclear Weapon

by Mark Langfan
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
07-May-12

German Islam Conference Ends in Failure

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
07-May-12

Spotlight on leader of Islamist group in Mali

by AP
MIAMI HERALD
07-May-12

Whitewash of Sharia Climbs the Bestseller Lists

by Bruce Bawer
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
07-May-12

Kuwait Considering Death Penalty for Blasphemy

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
07-May-12

CAIRs Sharia Fog Machine

by Louis Palme
ISLAM WATCH
07-May-12

Best Buy for sharia law?

by Chad Groening
ONE NEWS NOW
07-May-12

Hamtramckstan: Sharia Girls Only Prom Arranged by Public School District

by Debbie Schlussel
DEBBIESCHLUSSEL.COM
07-May-12

Turkey Model OK Minus Secularism

by Serkan Demirtas
HURRIYET
07-May-12

Egypt: Chapter 1 - Presidential Candidates On Religious or Civil State

by Staff
ALL AFRICA (Copyright ﾩ 2012 Africa Confidential.)
07-May-12

Rebels burn Timbuktu tomb listed as U.N. World Heritage site

by Staff
CNN
07-May-12

West must not surrender permanent liberty for temporary tolerance

by Geert Wilders
WASHINGTON TIMES
07-May-12

U.S. Military Bows to Islam & Again

by Clare Lopez
ACCURACY IN MEDIA
07-May-12

Lawyer who suggested Russia set up Sharia courts may be delicensed

by Staff
INTERFAX
07-May-12

Sharia in Moscow

by Daniel Greenfield
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
07-May-12

Nigeria: Islamic police run matchmaking program in Kano

by John Thomas Didymus
DIGITAL JOURNAL
07-May-12

Afghan negotiator seeks to build bridge between US, Taliban

by Martin Kuz
STARS & STRIPES
07-May-12

La Fran￧aise AM launches first Sharia OPCI in France

by Jonathan Boyd
INVESTMENT EUROPE
07-May-12

Sukuk gain as Europe ails, religion thrives

by David Rosenberg
JERUSALEM POST
07-May-12

West looks to the East for growth as Islamic finance comes centre stage

by Fiona Reddan
IRISH TIMES
07-May-12

Highly-paid sharia boards could face shake-up in Islamic finance review. AAOIFI in wide review of Islamic finance standards

by Bernardo Vizcaino
REUTERS
07-May-12

Goldman's $2b sukuk debut puts Islamic scholars on edge Sharia experts call for strict supervision on how proceeds are used

by Bloomberg
GULF NEWS
07-May-12

Libyans stash $12b pending Sharia banking

by Bloomberg
TIMES OF OMAN
07-May-12

Middle East and Nigeria & Latin America

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
04-May-12

Thanks to Mick Andersen and Jaime Daremblum for their item contributions. Egypt New cabinet? On April 29, Egypt’s ruling military agreed to appoint a new cabinet within 48 hours to mollify Islamists in parliament. Why this was done is not clear, but it’s unlikely to end the battle between parliament and the...
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Egypt Military Bends to Islamist Will. Rulers to Appoint New Cabinet After Clash With Brotherhood

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-May-12

Whats Going On in Azerbaijan? The Iran-al Qaeda alliance.

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
04-May-12

Turkey and Iraq Trade Barbs in Growing Diplomatic Spat

by Joe Parkinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-May-12

Egypt Comedian Found Guilty of Offending Islam

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-May-12

South Sudan Expels Sudan Oil Workers

by Nicholas Bariyo
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-May-12

Dr. Morsi: Sinai is Priority in Nahda (Renaissance) Project. Egypts Freedom and Justice Party Chairman assures the people of El-Arish that a quarter of the Nahda Project is dedicated to the developme

by Staff
IKHWANWEB.COM
04-May-12

Secret Arm of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Revealed

by Walid Shoebat, Ben Barrack
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
04-May-12

Iran to develop biggest joint oil field with Saudi Arabia

by Staff
TEHRAN TIMES
04-May-12

Corruption in Nigeria: Hard graft

by Staff
ECONOMIST
04-May-12

The Corruptive Failure of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution

by Jerry Brewer
MEXI DATA
04-May-12

Brazil Funneled Soviet Weapons to Argentina During Falklands War, Says Report

by Fox News Latino
FOX NEWS
04-May-12

The New Narco State: Mexico's drug war is turning Argentina into the new Wild West of the global narcotics trade.

by Haley Cohen
FOREIGN POLICY
04-May-12

Latin America as a Terrorist, Subversive, Criminal Arena for Iran and Hezbollah

by Staff
MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
04-May-12

Chile's Cautionary Lesson for Americans. A free economy is at risk when a demand for equality is not answered by a defense of liberty.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-May-12

From Lima to La Paz

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
04-May-12

Afghanistan, United States, Terrorism

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
02-May-12

Afghanistan Today, we offer a sort of Afghanistan update, although everything precedes Barack Obama’s surprise visit. We learn from the Wall Street Journal that the Afghans wouldn’t allow Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to visit over the weekend. We also learn that Hillary Clinton told him not to go for fear of creating some sort of crisis with Karsai....
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Afghan military recruits found dealing drugs to US soldiers, Army documents show

by Catherine Herridge
FOX NEWS
02-May-12

Congressman Effectively Blocked From Visiting Afghanistan Over Weekend

by Nathan Hodge
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-May-12

Russia slams NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan

by AP
AP
02-May-12

Taliban in Afghanistan make online donations appeal

by Staff
BBC MUNDO
02-May-12

Some Good News from Afghanistan. With a new partnership agreement, the United States has a chance to wind down its mission with its interests intact.

by Zalmay Khalilzad
FOREIGN POLICY
02-May-12

Social Security Fund to Run Out in 2035, Trustees Say

by Brian Faler
BLOOMBERG
02-May-12

The Whole World Is Watching. Obamas Atrocities Prevention Board institutionalizes indifference to mass murder.

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
02-May-12

Backlash builds over 60 Minutes hatchet job on Israel

by Jennifer Rubin
WASHINGTON POST
02-May-12

American Universities Infected by Foreign Spies Detected by FBI

by Daniel Golden
BLOOMBERG
02-May-12

Iran and Obama's Syria Hesitation. The president fears confronting Assad because of the effect it might have on his nuclear diplomacy.

by John Bolton
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-May-12

Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights. It's hard to imagine Lincoln or Eisenhower claiming such credit for the heroic actions of others.

by Michael Mukasey
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-May-12

'The War on Terror Is Over'

by Daniel Halper
WEEKLY STANDARD
02-May-12

U.K. Police Detain 5 Terrorism Suspects

by Cassell Bryan-Low
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-May-12

Al Qaeda Is Far From Defeated

by Seth Jones
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-May-12

Grilling of top Palestinian militant exposes Arafat's link to terror attacks on Israelis, papers show

by Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff
HA'ARETZ
02-May-12

The MeK Mess Continues

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
01-May-12

EDITOR'S NOTE: Over the past few months, Rachel Ehrenfeld and I have been monitoring the news regarding the Mujahhedin-e Khalq (MeK) both in Iraq and, because of MeK's public campaign and court challenges to the State Department to delist it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, in the United States. Our interest was piqued by the free speech issues that were raised by the...
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Official Mudslinging: The defenders of MEK versus the State Department

by K.D.M. Jensen, Rachel Ehrenfeld
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
01-May-12

April 5, 2012 On March 9, Guy Taylor of the Washington Times reported that the Treasury Department earlier in the week began investigating former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for trafficking with terrorists. Josh Rogin of Foreign Policy picked up the story a day earlier. Apart from a New York Times article on March 13, attention to the matter in the major media has been muted....
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A tragic death at Iraq's Camp Liberty as MEK supporters face intimidation

by Rachel Ehrenfeld, K.D.M. Jensen
FOX NEWS
01-May-12

March 27, 2012 On the eve of the Persian New Year, Nowrouz, on March 20, Bardia Amir-Mostofian, a 44 year-old engineer, was praying in preparation for the celebrations, when he died of cardiac arrest in the abandoned, former US military base in Iraq known as Camp Liberty....
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Terrorists or Fall Guys? The MEK puzzle

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
01-May-12

MAY 7, 2012 The Treasury Department has issued subpoenas to the speakers’ agencies of 11 prominent former U.S. officials, including a governor of Pennsylvania, a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and director of Homeland Security, who have given speeches on behalf of...
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Iran Pressing Iraq to Handover Dissidents

by Staff
STOP FUNDAMENTALISM
01-May-12

Monday, 30 April 2012 Stop Fundamentalism – Sources in Baghdad told Kuwaiti Al-Siyasa, that the Iranian regime has asked Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, during his two day visit to Tehran last Sunday to extradite about 166 members of the exiled Iranian...
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Cyber & Technology

by Kenneth D. M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
30-Apr-12

The Abuse of E-Payment Among today’s selections is a piece from the Financial Times reporting that governments are increasingly “embracing” e-payments. ACD/EWI’s Rachel Ehrenfeld gives the following comments about this matter. “The E-payment, also known as M(obile)-payment, is another cause for concern amidst the...
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Obama announces sanctions for tech used in human rights abuses in Iran and Syria

by Scott Wilson
WASHINGTON POST
30-Apr-12

Nah, Iran Probably Didnt Hack CIAs Stealth Drone

by David Axe
WIRED
30-Apr-12

Iran says it hacked into the data banks of a captured CIA stealth drone

by Scott Peterson
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
30-Apr-12

Assad intensifies cyberwar against Qatar

by AFP
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Apr-12

The U.N., Internet Regulator? Private governance has the flexibility and competence needed to keep the Internet dynamic and free.

by Andrea Renda
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Apr-12

The Iranian Cyber Threat To The U.S. Homeland

by Ilan Berman
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
30-Apr-12

Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies and Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence April 26, 2012 Congressman Lundgren, Congressman Meehan, distinguished members of the Subcommittees: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before...
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Governments embrace e-payments

by Nicole Bullock, Teiis Demos
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Apr-12

Chinese Hackers Stole Plans for America's New Joint Strike Fighter Plane, Says Investigations Subcommittee Chair

by Christopher Goins
CNS NEWS
30-Apr-12

Russian Cyber Criminals Rake in Billions

by Kirit Radia
ABC NEWS
30-Apr-12

Chinese Espionage: The Risks Within U.S. Companies

by Peter Toren
FORBES
30-Apr-12

Apple, Nokia, Nippon Steel, AIG: Intellectual Property

by Victoria Slind-Flor
BLOOMBERG
30-Apr-12

China

by Kenneth D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
26-Apr-12

China Today's Blog will be short due to the death of a close friend and former associate. I have a backlog of articles that I need to get out to you. Bo Xilai and corruption Today's Digest focuses on China. There is a spate of articles on the Bo Xilai scandal, which has broadened considerably. Whereas previous attention zeroed...
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Murder Of A British Businessman Offers A Glimpse Into The Scale Of Chinese Corruption

by Sarah Feitas
FINANCIALTASKFORCE.ORG
26-Apr-12

Three Questions for Beijing: The current system favors politicians with powerful patrons, little talent and no scruples.

by Minxin Pei
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Apr-12

Inside Chinas Gross Domestic Product Data

by Tom Orlik
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Apr-12

Rotting From Within: Investigating the massive corruption of the Chinese military.

by John Garnaut
FOREIGN POLICY
26-Apr-12

Bo Xilai 'responsible for two more deaths': In a bid to quash an investigation into his wife for the murder of Neil Heywood, Bo Xilai had at least seven people seized and tortured two to death, accord

by Malcolm Moore
TELEGRAPH UK
26-Apr-12

China: The Patron of Global Buddhism?

by Elizabeth Pond
WORLD POLICY REVIEW
26-Apr-12

China is making its strongest bid yet to establish a reputation as the patron of global Buddhism. It will follow up its third World Buddhist Forum in Hong Kong (April 25-28) by sponsoring an international peace conference in the Gautama Buddha's Lumbini birthplace in Nepal (April 28-30). Beijing faces a formidable hurdle, however, in explaining to international Buddhists why more than 30...
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U.S. Saw Top Cop as Risky Asylum Candidate

by Jay Solomon, Devlin Barrett
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Apr-12

China's Corporate Leninism

by John Lee
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
26-Apr-12

China Escalates Crackdown On Internet Amid Scandal

by Loretta Chao, Josh Chin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Apr-12

Middle East & Africa

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
25-Apr-12

Sudan-South Sudan As EWI Fellow J. Millard Burr fairly predicted in his recent exclusive, things are heating up between Sudan and South Sudan. The Sudanese government has been using the strongest rhetoric it can while denying bombing the South from the air. We include assessments from the Economist, the Guardian UK, and the Washington Post....
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10 Reasons Americans Should Celebrate Israel's Independence Day

by Arsen Ostrovsky
HUFFINGTON POST
25-Apr-12

On April 25, that tiny country Israel, burdened with decades of unremitting attacks on its very legitimacy and existence, celebrates her 64th year of independence. There are good reasons why Americans should celebrate that. We could talk about the historical bond between the two nations. A bond that is underpinned by a shared commitment to freedom, liberty, democracy and the rule of...
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Sudanese warplanes bomb town in South Sudan

by Sudarsan Raghavan
WASHINGTON POST
25-Apr-12

Three American Professors: Useful Idiots of the Tehran Regime

by Ron Radosh
PJMEDIA.COM
25-Apr-12

Tunisia's Religious Persecution

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
25-Apr-12

The Sudans: Jaw jaw or war war?

by Baobab
ECONOMIST
25-Apr-12

The Economic Vision of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Millionaires

by Suzy Hansen
BUSINESS WEEK
25-Apr-12

Iran Says Virus Has Hit Oil Sector

by Benoit Faucon, Farnaz Fassihi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Apr-12

History Lessons from Abbas

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
25-Apr-12

Sudan and South Sudan close to war

by James Copnall, David Smith
GUARDIAN UK
25-Apr-12

Iran Targets Yemen

by Michael Segall
JCPA.ORG
25-Apr-12

Foreigners on hunger strike in Dubai jail

by Camilla Hall, Simeon Kerr
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Apr-12

Irans Missing Nuclear Fatwa. Hillary Clintons State Department policy relies in part on Ayatollah Khameneis supposed anti-nuclear fatwa. But the edict may not even exist.

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
25-Apr-12

Shari'a Finance & Shari'a

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
24-Apr-12

Shari'a Finance Today's Digest selections include three on Shari'a finance. Two of them are good examples of how the advocates of Shari'a banking and investment promote their undertaking. It's interesting to note how natural promoters make it seem that financial regulation in non-Muslim countries should be modified to accommodate Shari'a banking peculiarities....
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Government barring Australia from a trillion dollar global market

by Staff
ABC.NET.AU
24-Apr-12

DIB: Benchmark remains high

by Staff
WORLD FINANCE
24-Apr-12

Analysis: Political divisions slow Islamic finance in Egypt

by Ahmed Lotfy, Bernardo Vizciano
REUTERS
24-Apr-12

Ten men, woman publicly caned in Indonesia for 'immorality' under Islamic law

by Staff
DNA INDIA
24-Apr-12

Sharia bylaws ineffective and may trigger conflicts

by Bagus BT Saragih
JAKARTA POST
24-Apr-12

Sharia bylaws at discretion of regional administrations: Minister

by Bagus BT Saragih
JAKARTA POST
24-Apr-12

Tunisia debate turns personal: 'Pray more and turn down that Metallica'

by John Thorne
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
24-Apr-12

Yemen: Sharia Supporters Behead 'Sorceress'

by Raymond Ibrahim
RAYMONDIBRAHIM.COM
24-Apr-12

ALFC Appeal Taxpayer Funded Sharia Finance Ruling

by Pamela Geller
ATLAS SHRUGS
24-Apr-12

Mali bishops warn of Sharia imposition

by Staff
CATHOLIC CULTURE
24-Apr-12

Fighting Sharia Law MUST be a Strategic Objective for the US

by Tawfik Hamid
TAWFIKHAMID.COM
24-Apr-12

Islamic Law and Justice for All?

by Nervana Mahmoud
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
24-Apr-12

Sharia in the UK: Church banned from using public market stall after distributing leaflet criticizing Islam

by Staff
JIHAD WATCH
24-Apr-12

Free Speech Found Guilty by Europe

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
24-Apr-12

Britain: Muslim 'Cultural Sensitivity' Runs Amok

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
24-Apr-12

Energy and Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
23-Apr-12

Energy The most important of today's article selections on energy issues focus on Argentina's renationalization of YPF, Spain's Repsol group's operation in the country. Articles from the Financial Times and by Christopher Caldwell in the Weekly Standard treat the economic and political ramifications. Let’s see: recently Christina Kirchner got ahold...
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Turkey cuts 20% of oil purchases from Iran

by Daniel Dombey et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Apr-12

The End of the Saudi Oil Reserve Margin. Riyadh is less and less able to cushion supply shocks as it consumes more and more of its own oil.

by Jim Krane
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Apr-12

Repsol accuses Argentina of illegal act

by Miles Johnson, Jude Webber
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Apr-12

Obama seeks curbs on oil markets

by Anna Fifield, Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Apr-12

Russia faces challenge to gas supremacy

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Apr-12

Oil and Trouble: Cristina Kirchner renationalizes an industry.

by Christopher Caldwell
WEEKLY STANDARD
23-Apr-12

France Versus the ECB. The Presidential candidates are busy bashing the central bank instead of promoting pro-growh reform.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Apr-12

Greece Must Stay on the Side of Europe. Only a pro-European government will be able to build international trust and proceed with the necessary reforms.

by Kostas Bakoyannis
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Apr-12

Pressure on Spain Builds as Bonds Face Key Auction. Madrid Warns It May Seize Local Finances; Bond Yields Surpass High in December

by Jonathan House
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Apr-12

Abu Qatada arrested pending new extradition. Hate cleric Abu Qatada has been arrested and returned to custody pending a fresh attempt to deport him to Jordan.

by Tom Whitehead
TELEGRAPH UK
23-Apr-12

Hizballah Head Is First Guest On Assange Talk Show

by Staff
RFE/RL
23-Apr-12

Response to Charges of Hate Speech

by Lars Hedegaard
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
23-Apr-12

Extremism in Britain's House of Lords

by Alan Johnson
WORLD AFFAIRS
23-Apr-12

Abu Qatada free in days after Theresa May got the date wrong

by Tom Whitehead, James Kirkup
TELEGRAPH UK
23-Apr-12

Time for the U.S. to Stop Funding the Palestinian Authority

by Arsen Ostrovsky
ALGEMEINER.COM
20-Apr-12

The U.S. funding policy towards the Palestinians could best be described by Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In the last five years, the U.S. government has poured at least $4 billion in aid to the Palestinians, with very little to show in return – except more terror and...
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Middle East & Mali/Azawad

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
20-Apr-12

Iran UAE-Iran dispute The UAE and Iran are at odds over three Persian Gulf Islands, one of which (Abu Musa) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had the presence of mind to visit recently. These islands, though small, are located near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. The UAE wants to settle the matter sooner rather than later. Says its foreign minister,...
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How to Help Iraq: Liberate Iran, in Order to Liberate Iraq

by Harold Rhode
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
20-Apr-12

Between War and a Warm Embrace

by Shoshana Bryen
AMERICAN THINKER
20-Apr-12

U.A.E. Urges Swift Solution in Dispute With Iran

by Reuters
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Apr-12

Iran Says No

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Apr-12

Iran's Armenian Connection

by Emanuele Ottolenghi
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Apr-12

Meet Azawad, Africas Newest Country. A secular Berber, pro-Western nation in the middle of the Sahara.

by Michel Gurfinkiel
PJMEDIA.COM
20-Apr-12

Why Syria is Still a War Zone

by Michael Totten
WORLD AFFAIRS
20-Apr-12

A Diagnosis of Arab Political Culture

by Zvi November
Unknown
20-Apr-12

Mordechai Kedar is one of Israel’s most insightful experts on Arab culture and society. His articles appear frequently in the Hebrew press. On Friday, 13 April 2012 he related to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’ (aka Abu Mazen) latest threat to dissolve the PA as a starting point to explore the underlying facts that...
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Egypt Candidate Warns on Islamists. As Race Takes Shape, Former Foreign Minister Says a Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Victory Could Imperil Democracy

by Matt Bradley, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Apr-12

Who Is Derailing Egypt's Transition to Democracy?

by Thanassis Cambanis
THE ATLANTIC
20-Apr-12

Why Is Jordan Keeping Out Palestinian Refugees?

by Khaled Abu Toameh
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
20-Apr-12

Sympathy for the Leftist Devil

by David Goldman
PJMEDIA.COM
20-Apr-12

Mystery Ship to Syria Raises Questions

by Shoshana Bryen
AMERICAN THINKER
20-Apr-12

Obamas Secret Plan on Irans Nuclear Weapons Issue and Why (Even the Saudis Tell You) It Will Fail

by Barry Rubin
PJMEDIA.COM
20-Apr-12

A Potpourri of Issues

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
18-Apr-12

Today’s Digest is a potpourri of important pieces I don’t want to get stale. For example, Bolivia is apparently planning to take its flag off Iranian ships (nice of them to put them on in the first place, what?); there are now shari’a compliant electronic money transfer services; China may have pulled the Great Firewall Switch; U.S. losses to cyber attacks may be as much as...
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The IMF on the bleak near-future of the safe asset shortage

by Cardiff Garcia
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Apr-12

What's Behind Brazil's Slow Growth? Politicians in Bras￭lia are depressing investment by placating manufacturers.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Apr-12

Bolivia poised to de-flag Iranian ships

by Daniel Fineren
REUTERS
18-Apr-12

Birmingham-based Islamic Bank launches Sharia-compliant electronic money transfers

by Staff
AHLUL BAYT NEWS AGENCY
18-Apr-12

Swing Low Sweet Sharia

by Nidra Poller
NEW ENGLISH REVIEW
18-Apr-12

China's internet users temporarily blocked from foreign websites/ Unexplained, hour-long incident sparks speculation about changes to 'great firewall' net censorship system

by Tania Branigan
GUARDIAN UK
18-Apr-12

Several nations trying to penetrate U.S. cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official

by Ellen Nakashima, Joby Warrick
WASHINGTON POST
18-Apr-12

Thieving politicians imperil Afghanistan

by Matthew Green
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Apr-12

Pakistan's Message to the West

by Thomas Joscelyn
Pakistan's Message to the West
18-Apr-12

State Department Barred Inspection of Muslim Brotherhood Delegation

by Steve Emerson
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT
18-Apr-12

Japan Nears China as Biggest Treasury Holder

by Ian Talley, Michael Crittenden
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Apr-12

THE TWO SUDANS: THE DANGEROUS INCURSION

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
16-Apr-12

"South Sudan, which seceded from Sudan in July, seized the disputed Heglig oilfield on Tuesday, edging the two former civil war foes closer to full-blown conflict than any time since the South gained independence." Reuters ***** News that forces of the nascent Government of South Sudan have occupied the Heglig Oil Field operated by the Government of the...
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China & Northeast Asia, Western Europe, Southeast Asia

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
16-Apr-12

China & Northeast Asia China’s biggest political story in two decades? But what does it all mean? The Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai story continues. This posting of the EWI Digest provides both an update on events (e.g., Gu’s detention in the Heywood case, Bo Guagua’s “disappearance” from Harvard) and further speculation on...
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Autopsies, Oligarchs, and Chongqing

by Evan Osnos
NEW YORKER
16-Apr-12

The limits of technology

by Sol Sanders
http://EconWarfare.org
16-Apr-12

Technology is politically and ideologically neutral. It would be comforting to believe increasing levels of technology alone could solve social and political problems and make the world a better place. But history has proved that false, alas! again and again. When German scientists with their traditional leadership in chemistry invented a new gas to murder Jews more efficiently in Nazi...
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Democracy: the Real Winner in the Bo Xilai Scandal

by Elizabeth Pond
WORLD POLICY REVIEW
16-Apr-12

Democracy: the Real Winner in the Bo Xilai Scandal April 13, 2012 - 4:17pm By Elizabeth Pond Suddenly, a generation after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, democracy, or at least proto-democracy, is again in the air in China. Space has been created for reformists like outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao and Guangdong party chief Wang Yang. This time around, the...
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Neil Heywood death: Bo Xilai's son 'escorted from his home near Harvard university by US officials'

by Raf Sanchez, et al.
TELEGRAPH UK
16-Apr-12

Swedens Damn Jew Problem: Wearing a yarmulke is no longer safe in the city of Malm￶. The mayor blames the Jews, while other Swedish politicians point to social inequality.

by Paulina Neuding
TABLETMAG.COM
16-Apr-12

Germany: A Koran in Every Household

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
16-Apr-12

George Soros: eurozone crisis has entered a 'more lethal phase'

by Jill Treanor
GUARDIAN UK
16-Apr-12

Asean Seeks United Front on Seas Dispute

by James Hookway
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Apr-12

Why Burmas Free Election Wasnt All It Was Cracked Up To Be

by Joshua Kurlantzick
THE NEW REPUBLIC
16-Apr-12

Malaysia Proposes More Limited Security Law

by James Hookway, Shibani Mahtani
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Apr-12

Middle East

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI Blog
15-Apr-12

Middle East Egypt The Muslim Brotherhood charm offensive in the U.S. Eric Trager, in The New Republic, reports on the Muslim Brotherhood’s recent visit to Washington. Calling it a “charm offensive,” Trager reveals a trail of mendacity (to be polite about it). Read him for the evidence. While I...
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The Muslim Brotherhood's Mendacious Charm Campaign in Washington

by Eric Trager
THE NEW REPUBLIC
15-Apr-12

Feckless fiddling while Syria bleeds

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
15-Apr-12

Syria Demands New Conditions

by Maria Abi-Habib, Joe Parkinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Apr-12

Turkey's Shiites Fear Contagion

by Ayla Albayrak, Joe Parkinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Apr-12

Iraqi Kurdistan as U.S. Ally and Partner in the Middle East: Featuring Masoud Barzani

by Staff
WINEP
15-Apr-12

If Assad Survives: A tragedy for Syrians, and a major defeat for U.S. interests.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Apr-12

Libya's De-Professionalized Army Needs Help

by Ann Marlowe
WORLD AFFAIRS
15-Apr-12

Saturdays nuclear talks an Iranian trick, warns Israels last envoy to Tehran Uri Lubrani, now a top adviser to the vice prime minister, says US is being duped

by Mitch Ginsburg
TIMES OF ISRAEL
15-Apr-12

Egypt MPs challenge Suleiman presidency bid

by Staff
REUTERS
15-Apr-12

Egypt court rules Islamist's mother not U.S. citizen

by Sarah El Deeb
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
15-Apr-12

Battle for Bahrain: What One Uprising Meant for the Gulf States and Iran

by Brandon Friedman
WORLD AFFAIRS
15-Apr-12

Israel's Other Temple. Research Reveals Ancient Struggle over Holy Land Supremacy

by Matthias Schulz
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
15-Apr-12

Comments on Der Spiegel Article

by Solomon Golomb
EWI EXCLUSIVE
15-Apr-12

This account is full of half-truths. 1) It is true that the first altar that Joshua built to the God of Israel, according to the book of Joshua, after crossing the Jordan from the East, was on Mt. Ebal. But this was not the much much later Samaritan Temple on neighboring Mt. Gerizim. 2) The Samaritans are also not the people of the 10 Northern Tribes, as such,...
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Shari'a & Shari'a Finance/ Terrorism & Terrorist Funding/Commodities/Energy

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
13-Apr-12

Shari’a & Shari’a Finance Deportation problems in the UK As David Cameron told us down in Salzburg a while back, European human rights agencies are making it difficult for Britain to deal with Islamist undesirables. ‘Lest their rights be abridged, many, like Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, cannot be held, tried, imprisoned or deported...
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Theresa May humiliated by judge over attempted deportation of Palestinian activist

by Martin Beckford
TELEGRAPH UK
13-Apr-12

Asian heavyweights join sukuk race

by John Weaver, et al.
IFRE.COM
13-Apr-12

Turkeys top Muslim cleric slams Saudi mufti over his call to destroy churches

by Mehmet Gormez
TODAY'S ZAMAN
13-Apr-12

The New Mastermind of Jihad. A recently freed Islamist thinker has long advocated small-scale, independent acts of anti-Western terror

by David Samuels
WALL STREET JOURNAL
13-Apr-12

Bombers on B1 million incentives

by Staff
BANGKOK POST
13-Apr-12

Gold crash on Fed tightening and euro salvation looks premature

by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
TELEGRAPH UK
13-Apr-12

Global Reserve Currencies, the Triffin dilemma and gold's role

by Richard Mills
MINE WEB
13-Apr-12

Qatar SWF builds 5% Xstrata stake ahead of Glencore deal

by Dinesh Nair
MINE WEB
13-Apr-12

Short Supply, Not Middle East Tensions, Push up Oil Prices

by David Goldman
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
13-Apr-12

Pipeline to Nowhere: The Beijing-Moscow Dance Continues

by Stephen Blank
WORLD AFFAIRS
13-Apr-12

Latin America and Cyber & Technology

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
12-Apr-12

Latin America Summit of the Americas: War on drugs failed The Guardian UK reports that the Summit of Americas in Colombia is being seen by foreign policy experts “as a watershed moment in the redrafting of global drugs policy in favour of a more nuanced and liberalised approach.” The President of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, has...
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'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders. Watershed summit will admit that prohibition has failed, and call for more nuanced and liberalised tactics

by Jamie Doward
GUARDIAN UK
12-Apr-12

Drug Lords and Vicious Criminals put Mexico on its War Footing

by Jerry Brewer
MEXIDATA.INFO
12-Apr-12

The India of Latin America? The United States should improve relations with Brazil

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
12-Apr-12

Ostreicher Says His Only Guilt is in Being Naive

by Frank Bajak, Paola Flores
TIMES OF ISRAEL
12-Apr-12

The Financial Arm of the FARC: A Threat Finance Perspective

by Thomas Cook
SCHOLARCOMMONS.USF.EDU
12-Apr-12

Brazil Leader Slams U.S. Money Policy

by John Lyons, Tom Barkley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Apr-12

Mexican town celebrates Easter with burning of the Jews

by Nathan Burstein
TIMES OF ISRAEL
12-Apr-12

TIME: Who is Waging Cyberwar Against the Jihadi Networks?

by Lisa Abend
TIME
12-Apr-12

GPS 'spoofers' could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud

by Olivia Solon
WIRED.CO.UK
12-Apr-12

Germ warfare: the new generation of drugs that could blast any viral disease

by Carl Zimmer
WIRED.CO.UK
12-Apr-12

Cybercrime Rises In Online Banking

by slavash
CYBERWARZONE.COM
12-Apr-12

China & Northeast Asia

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
10-Apr-12

China and Northeast Asia China’s economic Liberalization Today’s Digest contains three articles on China’s recent, although very modest, fiscal reforms. They have to do with lowering tariffs and capital controls, widening the yuan trading band, loosening the monopoly of state-controlled banks, and tripling the total amount foreign...
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China's Reform Race Against Time. As growth slows, Beijing lowers tariffs and capital controls.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

China 'No Comment' Rule Prompts Plenty of Online Chatter

by Loretta Chao, Josh Chin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

Satellite pictures show signs of North Korean rocket launch preparations. US academics say Pyongyang's groundwork for launch more extensive than previously thought

by AP
GUARDIAN UK
10-Apr-12

Wen Appeals to Shake Up Bank System

by Dinny McMahon, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

China Raises Foreign Investment Quota

by Dinny McMahon, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

Be Unashamedly Wary of Chinas Rise

by Thomas Donnelly
WEEKLY STANDARD
10-Apr-12

Beijing's nightmare scenario

by Sol Sanders
WASHINGTON TIMES
10-Apr-12

Authoritarian governments are paranoid, but just because they are, as the saying goes, doesn’t mean they aren’t threatened. The Chinese regime is no exception. We currently see a demonstration in shadowy but slashing decisive action by a normally ultracautious regime to purge a leading member. This political drama results from China’s pursuit of an alternative strategy...
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How China Made Its Great Leap Forward

by Ronald Coase, Ning Wang
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

Koreans Raise a Glass to Unintended Consequences. Since free-trade deals haven't brought down wine prices as much as promised, Seoul is now under pressure to deregulate further.

by Joshua Hall
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

'Jackie Kennedy of China' at Center of Political Drama

by Jeremy Page, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

Japan Readies Response to Pyongyang's Launch

by Kelly Olsen
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Apr-12

The dragons new teeth. A rare look inside the worlds biggest military expansion

by Staff
ECONOMIST
10-Apr-12

United States, Russia & East Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
09-Apr-12

United States Obama’s missing detainees The Wall Street Journal, after opening with a not-so-ridiculous-as-it-first-sounds statement that using drones to kill terrorists is a way to avoid having to interrogate them, points out that the Obama administration has stuck to its guns in keeping terrorists out the hands of the U.S. Military and away...
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Obama's Missing Detainees: Killing terrorists means never having to interrogate them.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
09-Apr-12

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US draws up plans for nuclear drones. Technology is designed to increase flying time 'from days to months', along with power available for weapons systems

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GUARDIAN UK
09-Apr-12

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Canada Beats America. And we don't mean in hockey. Try taxes, spending and energy.

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09-Apr-12

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Memo shows US official disagreed with Bush administration's view on torture

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GUARDIAN UK
09-Apr-12

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US weapons 'full of fake Chinese parts'. Thousands of United States' warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Se

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TELEGRAPH UK
09-Apr-12

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US justice department indicts former CIA officer over leaks to journalists. John Kiriakou, who questioned waterboarding during the Bush administration, allegedly shared covert officer's name

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GUARDIAN UK
09-Apr-12

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"Banker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

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NEW YORK TIMES
09-Apr-12

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Economic Crisis Poses Threat To Global Stability

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NPR
09-Apr-12

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NPR
09-Apr-12

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Former Soviet KGB spy chief commits suicide

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REUTERS
09-Apr-12

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Obama's 'Space' for Russia

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JEWISHPOLICYCENTER.ORG
09-Apr-12

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In former Communist states, populations are shrinking fast. Of Romania's 19 million population, fewer than five million are workers paying tax

by Ioana Patran, Sam Cage
INDEPENDENT UK
09-Apr-12

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Kudrin's Game: The Man In The Middle

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RFE/RL
09-Apr-12

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Russia Puts Antimissile System In Kaliningrad

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RFE/RL
09-Apr-12

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Russia's Chechnya Invites Azerbaijan To Explore Oil Fields. Chechnya's known hydrocarbon reserves are estimated at some 60 million tons of oil and 3 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

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RFE/RL
09-Apr-12

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Russia Furious Over Bout Sentence

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RFE/RL
09-Apr-12

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Middle East & Africa

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
08-Apr-12

Middle East Arab fighters attack Berber city of Zwara Ann Marlowe reports that Qaddafi loyalists are still fighting in Libya. Arab fighters have been lately shelling the Berber (Amazigh) town of Zwara, a Mediterranean port city in the far northwest. Marlowe says that no one seems to know what the Qaddafi loyalists want. Apparently, the Libyan...
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Obamas Cut to Israeli Missile Defense Aid Reflects Larger Policy

by Gabriel Max Scheinmann
DEFENSE NEWS
08-Apr-12

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Africa's Forgotten War: The Bloody, Invisible Battle for South Kordofan

by Horand Knaup
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
08-Apr-12

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House members push Reid to allow tougher Iran sanctions

by Josh Rogin
FOREIGN POLICY
08-Apr-12

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Arab Fighters Attack Libya's Berber City of Zwara

by Ann Marlowe
WORLD AFFAIRS
08-Apr-12

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Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, Israel Day 29: Mossad-Saudi Cooperation

by Lakkana Nanayakkara
ALGEMEINER.COM
08-Apr-12

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Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, Israel Day 30: Iran Already Has Nukes

by Lakkana Nanayakkara
ALGEMEINER.COM
08-Apr-12

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A Crack In Europe's Consensus On Iran

by Ilan Berman
ILANBERMAN.COM
08-Apr-12

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Syria's WMD Threat

by James Farwell
NATIONAL INTEREST
08-Apr-12

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Iran Able to Make Nuclear Weapons

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Apr-12

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Gunmen Shut Down Yemen Airport

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Apr-12

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After Friend's Arrest, Saudi Youth Fear Crackdown

by Ellen Knickmeyer
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Apr-12

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Shuffle of Candidates Shakes Up Egypt Presidential Poll

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Apr-12

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Turkey warns over surge in Syria refugees

by Borzou Daragahi, Daniel Dombey
FINANCIAL TIMES
08-Apr-12

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Pressure in Nigeria for Boko Haram talks

by Xan Rice, William Wallis
FINANCIAL TIMES
08-Apr-12

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Latin America & Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
05-Apr-12

Latin America Cuba Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal interviewed Sen. Marco Rubio in Washington last week at a conference titled "Cuba Needs a (Technological) Revolution: How the Internet Can Thaw an Island Frozen in Time." Rubio opined that the reason people in Cuba don’t have access to the Internet is...
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Why Socialist Cuba Prohibits Social Media. The regime fears Cuban-to-Cuban chatter even more than it does communication with the outside world.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Apr-12

Kirchner Grabs the Central Bank. Argentina's monetary policy is now subject to the fiscal demands of the government. Citizens can look forward to more inflation.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Apr-12

The Significant Little War. Declassified documents show that the Falklands War really did matter.

by John O'Sullivan
NATIONAL REVIEW
05-Apr-12

Can Brazil Stop Iran?

by Bernard Aronson
NEW YORK TIMES
05-Apr-12

A Tale of Two Countries: How Colombia and Cuba have changed (or not changed) over the past decade.

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
05-Apr-12

Italy: "Mosques Springing Up like Mushrooms"

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
05-Apr-12

Mohamed Merah and the New Breed of 'Nike Terrorists' Rather than trying to carry out spectacular attacks on the scale of 9/11, the next generation of terrorists are encouraged to use any means at thei

by Con Coughlin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Apr-12

France Dismantles Alleged Terror Group

by Inti Landauro
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Apr-12

The UK's Forced Marriage Unit protected a 5 year-old girl from a forced marriage in 2011, their youngest victim yet.

by Poonam Taneja
BBC MUNDO
05-Apr-12

The time bomb no one can defuse

by Gideon Rachman
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Apr-12

Britain's Multicultural Nightmare

by Soeren Kern
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
05-Apr-12

Victory: ICC Rules that Palestine is Still Not a State

by Arsen Ostrovsky
HUFFINGTON POST
04-Apr-12

Posted: 04/ 3/2012 4:13 pm In a massive defeat for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' campaign to delegitimize Israel, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that Palestine is not a "state" and it therefore does not have jurisdiction to investigate alleged "war crimes" committed by Israel in the "territory of Palestine since 1 July 2002."...
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South Asia & Cyber

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
04-Apr-12

South Asia Taliban negotiations We reported previously on the suspension of talks in Qatar between the United States and the Taliban, and the fact that Qatar allowed the Taliban to open an office in Doha to facilitate the conversation. Now, RFE/RL reports, the Qataris are trying to act as facilitators again, this time by opening and embassy in Kabul....
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Problematic Peace Talks with the Taliban

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
04-Apr-12

U.S. and Pakistani Military Leaders Meet

by Tom Wright
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Apr-12

Ambassador Crocker Objects to Strategic Retreat

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
04-Apr-12

Hedge Funds Try New Approach in India

by Shefali Anand
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Apr-12

US puts $10m bounty on Pakistan militant

by Reuters
FINANCIAL TIMES
04-Apr-12

Qatar To Open Kabul Embassy In Bid To Reinvigorate Peace Process

by Staff
RFE/RL
04-Apr-12

Hacking group claiming to be LulzSec targets US military dating website. Post on Pastebin claims LulzSec is 'reborn' and that militarysingles.com has had 171,000 emails hacked

by Charles Arthur
GUARDIAN UK
04-Apr-12

MasterCard and Visa warn of data breach

by Nicole Bullock, Teiis Demos
FINANCIAL TIMES
04-Apr-12

Al-Qaedas online forums go dark for extended period

by Ellen Nakashima, Joby Warrick
WASHINGTON POST
04-Apr-12

Can We Live With High-Speed Trading? The alternative is to place politics above innovation.

by Holman Jenkins
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Apr-12

The World's No. 1 Threat to Internet Freedom: It's America.

by Rebecca MacKinnon
FOREIGN POLICY
04-Apr-12

Middle East (and Mali)

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
03-Apr-12

Special thanks to Elizabeth Pond for making a distillation of her fine Survival article on the Wukan protests available to us. Israel-Iran “Perry-tales” in Foreign Policy? The trouble with blogging more or less every day is blogging more or less every day. The more timely one tries to be, the more likely it is...
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The Wukan Protests

by Elizabeth Pond
EWI EXCLUSIVE
03-Apr-12

April 3, 2012 Dear Ken, Last December, when Chinese villagers in Wukan, Guangdong Province, protested against corruption and land grabs by local officials—and even chased the officials out of their village—some Western analysts stressed “adaptive authoritarianism” or "adaptive governance" and dismissed the protests as nothing new. [i] This...
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Perry-tales in Foreign Policy Mark Perrys assertion that Israel could use airbases in Azerbaijan to attack Irans nuclear installations does not stand up to even rudimentary scrutiny

by Ehud Yaari
TIMES OF ISRAEL
03-Apr-12

Erdogan, Iran, Syrian Alawites, and Turkish Alevis

by Steve Schwartz
WEEKLY STANDARD
03-Apr-12

Egypts Elections: Why the Islamists Won

by Samuel Tadros
WORLD AFFAIRS
03-Apr-12

The Free Syrian Army vs. the Syrian National CouncilWhich Should We Support?

by David Schenker
NEW REPUBLIC
03-Apr-12

"Targeted Assassination" by the U.S. Security Establishment?

by Shoshana Bryen
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
03-Apr-12

Joint Greek-Israeli Military Drill

by A. Papapostolou
GREEK REPORTER
03-Apr-12

A Quiet Transformation in Chinas Approach to Israel

by Carice Witte
JCPA.ORG
03-Apr-12

Yemen after Saleh: What Next for Yemen?

by Bernard Haykel
MAJALLA.COM
03-Apr-12

The Very Model of a Modern Muslim Brother: Meet Khairat Al Shater, poster boy of 'moderate' Islamist politics.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
03-Apr-12

Coptics Pull Out From Key Egyptian Panel

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
03-Apr-12

Mali Faces Sanctions Over Coup

by Drew Hinshaw
WALL STREET JOURNAL
03-Apr-12

Iraq Lashes Out at Kurds for Halting Oil Exports

by Hassan Hafidh, Ali Naghan
WALL STREET JOURNAL
03-Apr-12

U.S. Joins Effort to Equip and Pay Rebels in Syria

by Steve Lee Myers
NEW YORK TIMES
03-Apr-12

Iraqi Leader Visits Qatar in Defiance of Baghdad

by Jack Healy, Duraid Adnan
NEW YORK TIMES
03-Apr-12

Europe, United States, Southeast Asia & Commodities

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
02-Apr-12

Europe China to contribute to Europe rescue efforts The Wall Street Journal reports that China now is “keen” to contribute to a fund to bail out the eurozone. This came from its trade minister at the recent BRICS conference in India. The article says flatfootedly that Europe needs a $1tr bailout, “for which the...
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Review of Roosters of the Apocalypse: How the Junk Science of Global Warming Nearly Bankrupted the Western World by Rael-Jean Isaac

by George Clowes
AMAZON
02-Apr-12

History Repeats: In Europe, They Want Jewish Blood

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
02-Apr-12

China to Contribute to Europe Rescue Efforts

by Mukesh Jagota
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

After Killings in France, Muslims Fear a Culture of Diversity Is at Risk

by Scott Sayare
NEW YORK TIMES
02-Apr-12

Norway wealth fund to cut European exposure

by Richard Milne
FINANCIAL TIMES
02-Apr-12

French Police Detain 19 in Raid After Killings

by Inti Landauro, Geraldine Amiel
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

Obama and the Eisenhower Standard: When crafting foreign policy, the late president didn't 'give a damn how the election goes.'

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

How About Some World Governance Goals? Progress against poverty requires measuring countries by the rule of law, judicial independence and free speech.

by Mark Palmer, Patrick Glen, Paul Wolfowitz
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

Dont we have anything better to do than bash the Jews?

by Abdul Haleem Abdul Rahiman
MALAYSIA INSIDER
02-Apr-12

Indonesia Delays Fuel-Price Increase

by Eric Bellman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

Deadly Thai Blasts Follow Tense Weeks

by James Hookway
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Apr-12

Commodity markets algorithmic challenge

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
02-Apr-12

UN moves to curb farmland grabs

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
02-Apr-12

Farmers corn push to hit soyabeans

by Gregory Meyer, Emiko Terazono
FINANCIAL TIMES
02-Apr-12

Middle East & Mali

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
01-Apr-12

Israel-Iran The Azerbaijan leaks Today’s EWI Digest contains three articles on recent U.S. leaking on Israel’s relationship with Azerbaijan and the role that Azerbaijan might play in an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Included is Mark Perry’s piece from Foreign Policy that reported the leaks in the first place. FP seems...
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Israel's Secret Staging Ground

by Mark Perry
FOREIGN POLICY
01-Apr-12

Bolton accuses administration of leaking story on Israeli planning along Iran border

by Staff
FOX NEWS
01-Apr-12

Attacking Iran: Did US just torpedo Israeli deal for a base in Azerbaijan?

by Brad Knickerbocker
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
01-Apr-12

State Department Spin on Jerusalem Meltdown is Already Wrong

by Omri Ceren
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
01-Apr-12

Egyptian army takes on Islamists to retain power

by Reuters
MAANNEWS.NET
01-Apr-12

Barack Obama's latest sanctions against Iran designed to cut its oil exports. President's move to punish Iran is designed to pressure nation into abandoning nuclear program and keep Israel at bay

by Ewen MacAskill
GUARDIAN UK
01-Apr-12

Syria crisis: US urges Saudis to support diplomacy to end bloodshed

by Ian Black
GUARDIAN UK
01-Apr-12

The Annan plan will bring more violence

by Michael Young
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
01-Apr-12

Fearful of a nuclear Iran? The real WMD nightmare is Syria

by Charles Blair
BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
01-Apr-12

Muslim Brotherhood aims for Egyptian presidency

by Heba Saleh
FINANCIAL TIMES
01-Apr-12

Syrian regime defies UN-Arab League peace plan

by Borzou Daragahi
FINANCIAL TIMES
01-Apr-12

Clinton Confirms Iran Talks, Warns Tehran

by Jay Solomon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Apr-12

Mali Rebels Attack Northern Town of Gao

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Apr-12

Middle East & Africa

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
30-Mar-12

Syria NATO’s Syria Misstep Even if you see no way that the United States and Europe can intervene in Syria, you would have to agree with Jamie Kirchick, who jumps all over Ander Fogh Rasmussen of NATO for announcing that the organization has no intention of intervening in Syria. Kirchick asks “whatever happened to strategic ambiguity?”...
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Jihadist March on Jerusalem

by Arsen Ostrovsky
HUFFINGTON POST
30-Mar-12

When it comes to publicity stunts designed to demonize Israel and attack the legitimacy of the Jewish state, the Palestinians are the undisputed media manipulators par excellence. Today's "Global March to Jerusalem" (GMJ) is a prime example. Just like the 2010 Gaza terror flotilla and the 2011 Nakba Day protests before it, the GMJ's sole purpose is to confront and provoke the...
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NATOs Syria Misstep

by Jamie Kirchick
WORLD AFFAIRS
30-Mar-12

China moves up value chain in Africa

by Simon Rabinovitch, Katrina Manson
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Mar-12

Treasury Department moves to clamp down on Iranian arms exports

by Josh Rogin
FOREIGN POLICY
30-Mar-12

Obama's Over-Hasty Withdrawal: Iraq Is Neither Sovereign, Stable nor Self-Reliant

by Bernhard Zand
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
30-Mar-12

The Global March for Jerusalem

by Jonathan Schanzer
WEEKLY STANDARD
30-Mar-12

Iran Seeks to 'Send Monkey Into Space in Early 2012'

by Daniel Halper
WEEKLY STANDARD
30-Mar-12

Iran flies thousands of pro-Palestinian activists to Syria. IDF fortifies borders

by Staff
DEBKA
30-Mar-12

Syria's suffocating economic reality: Value of its currency continues to drop, entire establishments are closing down and businessmen are moving out

by Sami Moubayed
GULF NEWS
30-Mar-12

Kofi Annan's plan is destined to fail

by David Schenker
GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE, CNN
30-Mar-12

Peacekeepers on Standby After Mali Coup

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Mar-12

White House Backs Israeli Anti-Missile System

by Nathan Hodge
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Mar-12

South Africa to Probe Iran Trade Link

by Devon Maylie
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Mar-12

Iran Must Be Stopped

by John Bolton
NEWSMAX.COM
30-Mar-12

Energy, Banking, Russia & United States

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
29-Mar-12

Energy In energy news there’s not much positive. Martin Wolf in the Financial Times predicts and era of oil shocks but, to my surprise, he puts a significant part of the blame for the current problem on the oil sanctions on Iran. That’s not quite accurate of me. Of course, he goes into all the other variables, and it’s true that...
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Prepare for a new era of oil shocks

by Martin Wolf
FINANCIAL TIMES
29-Mar-12

Sudan Oil Fields Recaptured as Ground Fighting Subsides

by Nicholas Bariyo
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

Total Dismisses Explosion Concerns

by Inti Landauro, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

Seoul Talks Offer U.S. an Opening on Pakistan

by Carol Lee, Evan Ramstad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

France Considers Releasing Oil Reserves

by William Horobin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

India Said to Propose BRICS Bank to Fund Emerging Nations

by Unni Krishnan and Arnaldo Galvao
BUSINESS WEEK
29-Mar-12

The Doom Loop: Equity and the Banking System

by Andrew Haldane
LRB.CO.UK
29-Mar-12

Women bankers linked to rise in risk-taking

by Ralph Atkins
FINANCIAL TIMES
29-Mar-12

Canadian Military Leak to Russia Riles Allies

by Alistair MacDonald, Siobhan Gorman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

Share Deals Open Window on Kremlin: Putin Lieutenant Shuvalov Seen as Profiting on Stock Investments Made Through Russia Tycoons

by Gregory White
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

Polish Ex-Official Charged With Aiding C.I.A.

by Joanna Berendt, Nicholas Kulish
NEW YORK TIMES
29-Mar-12

The Ex-Im Bank Keeps Americans in Business

by Robert Rubin, Vin Weber
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

The Open-Mic Second Term: Parsing President Obama's private chat with Dmitry Medvedev.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Mar-12

A tragic death at Iraq's Camp Liberty as MEK supporters face intimidation

by Rachel Ehrenfeld, K.D.M. Jensen
FOX NEWS
28-Mar-12

On the eve of the Persian New Year, Nowrouz, on March 20, Bardia Amir-Mostofian, a 44 year-old engineer, was praying in preparation for the celebrations, when he died of cardiac arrest in the abandoned, former US military base in Iraq known as Camp Liberty. Baradia died after 48 excruciating hours of repeated "inspections" by Iraqi troops, during his transfer -- together with several...
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Russia, Middle East, International Organizations & Cyber

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
28-Mar-12

Russia “The Bolsheviks had Iskra: we have Facebook” Today’s selections on Russia begin with an entertaining piece by Matthew Kaminski about the online antics of Putin’s opposition. As we saw even before the fall of the Soviet Union, Russians have never been without a sense of humor even the darkest times. Now that sense of...
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Russia's Online Democracy: At least they can laugh at Putin.

by Matthew Kaminski
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Mar-12

Russia Seems To Soften Its Support For Syria

by Ellen Barry
NEW YORK TIMES
28-Mar-12

Pro-Kremlin Think Tank Sees End of the Road for Putin

by Vladimir Kara-Murza
WORLD AFFAIRS
28-Mar-12

How Washington Encourages Israel to Bomb Iran Israel knows sanctions aren't likely to work and is increasingly aware of the poor quality of U.S. intelligence.

by Reuel Marc Gerecht
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Mar-12

Arab Media Clash Over Syria

by Sam Dagher
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Mar-12

Egypt Ruling Council Says Brotherhood Is Trying to Undermine It

by Kareem Fahim
NEW YORK TIMES
28-Mar-12

US Criticized by Tunisian Secularists for Backing Islamists

by Michael Totten
WORLD AFFAIRS
28-Mar-12

Obama's About-Face on Syria

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
28-Mar-12

A Tale of Two Egyptian Armies

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
28-Mar-12

UN Human Rights Council exposed

by Yoram Ettinger
ISRAEL HAYOM
28-Mar-12

World Bank: Is There a Doctor in the House?

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
28-Mar-12

Worry About the Hackers You Don't See: 'Hacktivism' falls victim to the ease of police infiltration and the Internet's telltale data trail.

by Holman Jenkins
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Mar-12

New counterterrorism guidelines permit data on U.S. citizens to be held longer

by Sari Horwitz, Ellen Nakashima
WASHINGTON POST
28-Mar-12

China & Northeast Asia, Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
27-Mar-12

China & Northeast Asia North Korea Barack Obama is in Korea, that I know, and he’s holding another “nuclear-security summit.” I also know what he said to Dmitri Medvedev today about “having more flexibility” on the anti-missile business after the election. John Bolton, writing in the New York Post,...
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North Korea invites IAEA's nuclear inspectors to return: Pyongyang makes overture to International Atomic Energy Agency as it announces plans to launch satellite on rocket

by AP
GUARDIAN UK
27-Mar-12

P.T. Barnum & the nuke talks

by John Bolton
NEW YORK POST
27-Mar-12

Beijing Tightens Grip After Purge

by Brian Segele
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

China Warns on North Korea

by Andrew Brown, Evan Ramstad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

Fortescue Joins China Spot-Trading Platform

by Chuin-Wei Yap
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

Beijing on edge amid coup rumours

by Jamil Anderlini
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Mar-12

Corruption threatens Chinas future

by Edward Chancellor
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Mar-12

North Koreas dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight

by Fred Hiatt
WASHINGTON POST
27-Mar-12

U.K. Seeks Probe Into China Death. Chinese Leadership Purge Takes New Turn; Police Chief Sought Asylum From U.S.

by Jeremy Page
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

Businesses See Risks to Growth in China

by Carlos Tejada
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

Suspect in France Shootings Seen as Homegrown Militant

by Dan Bilefsky, Maia de la Baume
NEW YORK TIMES
27-Mar-12

Sarkozy reminds the French voters what hes made of. The events in Toulouse allowed President Sarkozy to show his authority over naive political opponents.

by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
TELEGRAPH UK
27-Mar-12

Europe According to Hayek: Twenty years after his death, the Austrian thinker still offers the most compelling explanation for the meltdown of the welfare state.

by Alberto Mingardi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

France Focuses on Suspect's Brother Abdelkader Merah Faces Terrorism Investigation, Preliminary Charges as Accessory in Shooting Deaths

by Nadya Masidlover
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Mar-12

Toulouse shootings: Mohamed Merah sent video of killings to al-Jazeera. Broadcaster receives USB memory stick containing 25 minutes of video and a letter claiming responsibility for the murders

by Kim Willsher
GUARDIAN UK
27-Mar-12

Middle East & Africa, United States

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
25-Mar-12

Alert Keep your heads down but your eyes and ears open on Monday and Tuesday. Hillary Clinton has to either take the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MeK) off the Foreign Terrorist List or explain to the D.C. Court of Appeals why not. The fewmets are already in the windmill on this, what with Treasury subpoenaing MeK supporters Ed Rendell, Gen. Hugh Shelton, and former FBI director...
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Egypt Designates Israel Its Top Enemy Obama Restores Military Aid

by Robert Spencer
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
25-Mar-12

Iraq PM 'monopolising power:' Kurdish leader

by Prashant Rao
AFP
25-Mar-12

Iran and Syria are Getting Blown Up. And Sometimes Shot.

by Michael Ledeen
PJMEDIA.COM
25-Mar-12

Africa's Belt of Misery: Religion and Climate Change Fuel Chaos in Sahel

by Horand Knaup
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
25-Mar-12

Federalism and fragmentation in Libya? Not so fast . . .

by Sean Kane
FOREIGN POLICY
25-Mar-12

What Replacing Pope Shenouda III Entails, And The Difficult Task Of Representing Egypt's Coptic Christians

by Kurt Werthmuller
HUFFINGTON POST
25-Mar-12

The Egyptian NGO Case: Politics and Diplomacy

by William Rugh
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
25-Mar-12

Leader of Mali military coup trained in U.S.

by Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON POST
25-Mar-12

Another African Democracy Goes Under

by Roger Kaplan
WEEKLY STANDARD
25-Mar-12

The Follies and Illusions of Peter Beinart

by Ron Radosh
PJMEDIA.COM
25-Mar-12

A Faulty Intelligence Report Lives On

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
25-Mar-12

Fixing Whats Broken in the Army: Part One

by Ann Marlowe
WORLD AFFAIRS
25-Mar-12

Hezbollah Donors, Agents Operating in U.S.

by Alana Goldman
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
25-Mar-12

NYPD says Iran has conducted surveillance in NYC

by Eileen Sullivan
AP
25-Mar-12

Obama Tells Secrets To Russia

by Dick Morris
DICKMORRIS.Com
25-Mar-12

Shari'a & Islamism, Latin America, Tax Evasion, and Companies, Markets

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
23-Mar-12

Shari'a & Islamism Yes, there is a democratic opposition in Malaysia, but . . . Free Malaysia Today reports that opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim declined to attend a forum in New Delhi because writer Salman Rushdie was supposed to be there. Other opposition leaders felt this was wrong. Whether Ibrahim declined...
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Anwar should engage Rushdie, not avoid him

by G. Vinod
FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
23-Mar-12

Jihadists "Liberating" Spain for Islam

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
23-Mar-12

Kosovo Continues Fight Against Wahhabi Infiltration

by Steve Schwartz
WEEKLY STANDARD
23-Mar-12

Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for "Destruction of All Churches in Region"

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
23-Mar-12

How al-Qaeda tried to control the media

by David Ignatius
WASHINGTON POST
23-Mar-12

The Thought Police. Review of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea

by Paul Berman
NEW REPUBLIC
23-Mar-12

Venezuelan police shoot dead Chilean consul's daughter

by Staff
GUARDIAN UK
23-Mar-12

UAE, Brazil seek to bolster relations: Abdullah leads delegation to Sao Paulo

by Staff
GULF NEWS
23-Mar-12

The Pope's Cuba Gamble: Ignoring those who have suffered for their faith may win some favor for the Church, but it risks alienating the island's faithful.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Mar-12

A Lesson from Ecuador: While international pressure helped save an opposition newspaper, free speech and democracy are still at risk.

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
23-Mar-12

Brazil's European Dream: Why Brasilia sees the euro crisis as a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

by Eduardo Gomez
FOREIGN POLICY
23-Mar-12

The Mullahs in the Americas: Yes, Iran's growing regional footprint represents a real significant threat.

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
23-Mar-12

GFI PRESS RELEASE: February 7, 2012 U.S. Senate Bill Introduced to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Abuse Legislation Would Require Country-by-Country Reporting of Sales, Profits, Employees and Tax Payments

by Staff
GFI
23-Mar-12

GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRITY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2012 U.S. Senate Bill Introduced to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Abuse Legislation Would Require Country-by-Country Reporting of Sales, Profits, Employees and Tax Payments by Multinationals WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today applauded the introduction of a bill, which would close...
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International Financial Centres and the US Government

by Richard Horowitz
IFCREVIEW.COM
23-Mar-12

Hedge Funds off to Good Start in 2012 with Apple

by Stephen Taub
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR
23-Mar-12

European Banks Turn to Repo Trades for Cash

by David Turner
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR
23-Mar-12

Energy, Commodities & Europe: The Toulouse School Shootings

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BOG
22-Mar-12

Energy China goes for shale gas, too Shale gas is everywhere. The assumption in China is that its shale gas reserves are enormous, but the Chinese seem to know less than others as to whether its extraction can be done to commercial advantage. Nonetheless, China has its first five-year plan for shale gas development, which interestingly emphasizes...
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China sets target for shale gas development

by Leslie Hook
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Saudi Arabia moves to calm oil market

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Lukoil chief aims to shake up Arctic oil

by Guy Chazan
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Move Over, OPECHere We Come: In energy, North America is becoming the new Middle East. The only thing that can stop it is domestic politics.

by Ed Morse
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Mar-12

Talks Set in Sudan Oil Standoff

by Nicholas Bariyo
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Mar-12

Israel Capable of Producing 250 Billion Barrels of Oil

by Ben Bresky
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
22-Mar-12

IMF's Lagarde Flags Oil Price Threat

by Mukesh Jagota
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Mar-12

Keystone XL pipeline: Obama to oil progress as pump prices rise. On two-day energy tour, US president is expected to hasten building of southern section of tar sands line out of Canada

by Suzanne Goldberg
GUARDIAN UK
22-Mar-12

US sets tariffs for Chinese solar cells

by James Politi, Jeremy Lemer
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Central banks pounce on falling gold

by Jack Farchy
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Rusal profit hit by Norilsk writedown

by Enid Tsui
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Glencore agrees C$6.1bn Viterra deal

by Jack Farchy
BLOOMBERG
22-Mar-12

Edible oil prices rally sharply on drought

by Gregory Meyer, Leslie Hook
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Mar-12

Toulouse school shooting: killer may have used camera equipment suggested by Anders Behring Breivik

by AFP
TELEGRAPH UK
22-Mar-12

Mohammed Merah, French shooting suspect, exchanges gunfire with police in standoff

by Edward Cody
WASHINGTON POST
22-Mar-12

Killings Could Stall Elections Nationalist Turn

by Steven Erlanger
NEW YORK TIMES
22-Mar-12

Woman went to police about Merahs radicalism two years ago

by Raphael Ahren
TIMES OF ISRAEL
22-Mar-12

The Jihad in France

by Michel Gurfinkiel
PJMEDIA.COM
22-Mar-12

The Middle East: Syria, Iran, Egypt & Other Matters

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
20-Mar-12

Syria “Mafia cartel” Although not a whole lot of the information is new, Der Spiegel has done a pretty good job of characterizing the Syrian regime. The simile chosen is “like a Mafia cartel.” The point is, that like the mafia, the regime will never give up defending its turf, nor will it hold back in the methods it...
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IMF team arrives in Cairo for loan talks

by Heba Saleh
FINANCIAL TIMES
20-Mar-12

Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood Leader Weighs In On UAE/MB Conflict

by Staff
GLOBAL MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REPORT
20-Mar-12

Iran: The leading state sponsor of int'l terrorism

by Irwin Cotler
JERUSALEM POST
20-Mar-12

Hopeless Diplomacy: Syrian Regime Resembles Mafia Cartel

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
20-Mar-12

What Are Our Military Options in Syria?

by Michael O'Hanlon
NEW REPUBLIC
20-Mar-12

Status of Women in 'Reformist' Morocco

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
20-Mar-12

Russian Anti-Terror Troops Arrive in Syria

by Kirit Radia, Ry Momtaz
ABC NEWS
20-Mar-12

Our Latest Arms Control Delusion

by Ilan Berman
FORBES
20-Mar-12

History, they say, has a funny way of repeating itself. During the decades of the Cold War, it became something of an article of faith within the Washington Beltway that strategic arms control with the Soviet Union was a key guarantor of global security. This was so despite ample evidence that the intricate "balance of terror" erected between Moscow and Washington as a result...
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Nir East

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Mar-12

The Message From Egypt's Generals: Doubling down on thuggishness with help from U.S. money.

by Maikel Nabil Sanad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Mar-12

The Message From Egypt's Generals: Doubling down on thuggishness with help from U.S. money.

by Maikel Nabil Sanad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Mar-12

The Bogus Iran Intelligence Debate: Ignore the media leaks. Tehran's nuke program is hiding in plain sight.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Mar-12

Russia, Europe & The United States

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
19-Mar-12

Russia What about the opposition? As the Wall Street Journal reports, post-presidential election Russia is running true to form, with jail sentences and fines for protestors and the opposition. The most severe sentence was given to Alexei Kozlov. It was five years for business fraud, which his supporters claim is trumped up. Some say it was...
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Russian Courts Sentence Activists

by Gregory White
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Mar-12

Russia's WTO Entry a Chance to Push Human Rights

by Julia Pettengill
WORLD AFFAIRS
19-Mar-12

Russias Scandalous It Girl Remakes Herself as an Unlikely Face of Protest

by Ellen Barry
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Mar-12

Russias Scandalous It Girl Remakes Herself as an Unlikely Face of Protest

by Ellen Barry
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Mar-12

Russia's Stake in Syria and Iran: If Tehran returns to a pro-Western orientation, Moscow's stranglehold on the central Asian republics will be over.

by Melik Kaylan
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Mar-12

After Jackson-Vanik: A bipartisan challenge to Obama's blind spot on rights in Russia.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Mar-12

Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government

by Dave Barrett
TELEGRAPH UK
19-Mar-12

Four reported dead in shooting at Jewish school in France

by Staff
JTA
19-Mar-12

Toulouse school shooting: same gun was used in killing of soldiers

by Angelique Chrisafis
GUARDIAN UK
19-Mar-12

Afghan Retreat, Cont. Neither Karzai nor the Taliban seem to believe President Obama.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Mar-12

A common-sense deficit in the face of global problems

by Sol Sanders
WASHINGTON TIMES
19-Mar-12

Drones at Issue as U.S. Rebuilds Ties to Pakistan

by Declan Walsh, et al.
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Mar-12

Hawks Steering Debate on How to Take On Iran

by Eric Lichtblau, Mark Landler
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Mar-12

Middle East, United States & Money Laundering

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
18-Mar-12

Middle East Decline in Muslim birthrate I don’t believe that I’ve already run Nick Eberstadt’s piece on the accelerating drop in birthrate in Muslim societies. If I have, it doesn’t hurt to read it again. What is causing this decline? The bottom line seems to be that Muslim women want fewer children....
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The Islamic World's Quiet Revolution: Forget politics. Muslim countries are poised to experience a new wave of change -- but this time it's all about demographics.

by Nick Eberstadt
FOREIGN POLICY
18-Mar-12

The Mainstream Media Finally Notices the Muslim Population Implosion But Still Doesnt Get It

by David Goldman
PJMEDIA.COM
18-Mar-12

Hamas no longer the major player in Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh
JERUSALEM POST
18-Mar-12

To Retaliate or Not: Hizballah's Calculation Following a Strike

by David Schenker
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE ON NEAR EAST POLICY
18-Mar-12

Democracy Has Failed, "Caliphate is the Answer"

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
18-Mar-12

Bedouin Standoff Raises Tensions in Egypt

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Mar-12

Propaganda, property and privilege the London life of Assads fixer

by Laura Pitel
TIMES UK
18-Mar-12

Al-Qaeda aims to take power in Yemen with charity and propaganda

by Iona Craig Sanaa
TIMES UK
18-Mar-12

Israeli Official: Gaddafis Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles Are Now Pointed at Israel

by Staff
ALGEMEINER.COM
18-Mar-12

Secret Assad emails lift lid on life of leader's inner circle

by Robert Booth, et al.
GUARDIAN UK
18-Mar-12

Intel: 'Iranians are now running the show' in Syria to protect Assad

by Staff
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
18-Mar-12

Mission impossible

by Ruthie Blum
ISRAEL HAYOM
18-Mar-12

In the Persian Gulf, A Vulnerable Fleet. The Navy's capabilities are impressive. But we need more ships.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Mar-12

The U.S. Is Number One: On April 1, Japan cedes the highest corporate tax rate to America.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Mar-12

Dishonorably Disarmed: Marines Insulted by Sec. Panetta. The episode revealed much about our administration, none of it good.

by Shoshana Bryen
JEWISH POLICY CENTER
18-Mar-12

HSBC could face US criminal charges and 'significant' fines over 'money-laundering'

by Richard Blackden
TELEGRAPH UK
18-Mar-12

Whistleblower Explains ABCs of Money Laundering

by Jerome Corsi
WND.COM
18-Mar-12

China, South Asia, Commodities, Energy & Terror

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
16-Mar-12

China Reform in the Air in Beijing? Maybe Not. Considering yesterday’s and today's news, Gordon Chang missed something big in trying to prepare us for the annual meeting of the National People's Congress. Chang is right that the usual rubber stamp event is more important now that the 18th Party Congress is coming up. Not only will the...
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Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance

by Andrew Jacobs, Penn Bullock
NEW YORK TIMES
16-Mar-12

The Fall of Bo Xilai: The Communist Party purges a populist leader.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Mar-12

Bo Xilai Is Down, But Is Heand What He Stood forDown for the Count?

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
16-Mar-12

Reform in the Air in Beijing

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
16-Mar-12

Karzai accuses U.S. of blocking investigation into shooting rampage

by Richard Leiby, Ernesto Londono
WASHINGTON POST
16-Mar-12

US Officials Debate Speeding Afghan Pullout

by Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt
NEW YORK TIMES
16-Mar-12

Pentagon Downplays China's Rare-Earths Controls

by James Areddy, Nathan Hodge
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Mar-12

Opponents of Newmont Peru Mine Detain Workers

by Ryan Dube
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Mar-12

Oil, gas discovered off Tel Aviv coastline

by GLOBES
JERUSALEM POST
16-Mar-12

Spain Approves Canary Islands Oil Exploration

by Ilan Brat
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Mar-12

Osama bin Laden 'ordered al-Qaeda to kill Barack Obama and David Petraeus'

by Barney Henderson
TELEGRAPH UK
16-Mar-12

Financing Terror

by Chase Madar
NATIONAL INTEREST
16-Mar-12

Egypt: Here Comes the Judge

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
15-Mar-12

In mid-March the Egyptian media was replete with reports that Salafi Nour Party and the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) would coordinate in choosing a candidate for the presidential election scheduled for 23-24 May 2012. Candidate applications for Prime Minister could be submitted anytime between 10 March and 8 April, and thus the time was at hand for both political movements to reach a...
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Middle East & Africa, Europe, United States

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
15-Mar-12

Middle East & Africa I make no comment on J. Millard Burr’s most excellent piece and, of course, commend it. MB in Egypt: Is the Presidency Next? Aidan Clay reports that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ahmed Fahmey was elected speaker by the member of the Shura Council. That followed the selection of Mohamed Saad al-Katani as...
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Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Is the Presidency Next"

by Aidan Clay
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Mar-12

Tensions erupt between UAE and Muslim Brotherhood: Comments from Youssef Qaradawi and Brotherhood spokesperson over Syrian activists in the UAE create tensions between the Gulf state and the Brotherho

by Staff
AHRAM ONLINE
15-Mar-12

Narco-States: Africa's Next Menace

by Davin O'Regan
NEW YORK TIMES
15-Mar-12

Worlds mecca for sex drugs? Saudi Arabia. Nearly 12 percent of Saudi Arabia's 20 million men are believed to be suffering from impotence. Great news for Viagra.

by Iva Roze Skoch
GLOBAL POST
15-Mar-12

Small business failures devastating for economy (South Africa)

by Geordin Hill-Lewis
POLITICSWEB.CO.ZA
15-Mar-12

Egyptian FM: US aid distorts bilateral relations

by Staff
EGYPT.COM
15-Mar-12

Lessons About Iran from Hitler

by David Goldman
PJMEDIA.COM
15-Mar-12

Weakness on the Part of Democracies Discourages Those Who Strive for Freedom

by Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea
HUFFINGTON POST
15-Mar-12

We Won & the Oil Stopped

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
15-Mar-12

Not really so smart: Where Iran sanctions go wrong

by Amir Taheri
NEW YORK POST
15-Mar-12

U.S. State Department Actively Promoting Islam in Europe

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Mar-12

Sinaloa Cartel now operating in Europe

by Dave Gibson
EXAMINER
15-Mar-12

Wake Up, Panetta: UN, U.S. Have Opposing Interests: I should know: I helped infiltrate the UN for Ceaucescu.

by Ion Mihai Pacepa
PJMEDIA.COM
15-Mar-12

Obama the Bluffer: The president says hes got Israels back regarding Iran. So, why hasnt the White House readied the American public for a possible military strike?

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
15-Mar-12

Terrorism, Sharia & Islamism, South Asia, Finance, United Nations, and Cyber

by K.D.M. Jensen
http://EconWarfare.org
13-Mar-12

As you might imagine, EWI does not find or receive equal helpings of all the things that mean something to us on any given day. What appears in the Digest pretty accurately reflects the volume on any given topic in the international media. On any given day, however, we receive splendid pieces on a wide range of topics. If today's unusual variety of articles appear to be a...
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Boko Haram strikes again

by Augustine Madu-West, Aza Msue
NATIONAL MIRROR ONLINE
13-Mar-12

What Boko Haram Wants

by Elizabeth Dickinson
WORLD AFFAIRS
13-Mar-12

Review of Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollahs Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel by Nicholas Blanford

by Michael Totten
CITY JOURNAL
13-Mar-12

Sharia Law, Secular Law and Rabbinical Courts

by Michael Curtis
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
13-Mar-12

Dutch Holocaust Survivor - "I Saw How The Mufti Of Jerusalem Paid A Visit To Auschwitz-Monowitz"

by Emerson Vermaat
MILITANT ISLAM MONITOR
13-Mar-12

Free Speech vs. Islamists: Why the West Is Losing A steady retreat worldwide.

by Adam Turner
PJMEDIA.COM
13-Mar-12

Afghanistan Now: The People Do Not Want to Go Back

by Shorab Ahmari
WORLD AFFAIRS
13-Mar-12

Afghanistan joins railroad era 100 years late

by Kay Johnson
HUFFINGTON POST
13-Mar-12

Financial Repression Has Come Back to Stay

by Carmen Reinhart
BLOOMBERG
13-Mar-12

Time to foreclose on the World Bank

by Sol Sanders
WASHINGTON TIMES
13-Mar-12

UN Scandal in Afghanistan

by Staff
UNDP WATCH
13-Mar-12

UN Employees Targeting in Cigarette Customs Swindle

by Staff
GENEVA LUNCH
13-Mar-12

UN to propose planetary regulations of water, food

by Kelley Vlahos
FOX NEWS
13-Mar-12

Cyberhackers are the most sinister of troublemakers

by Christopher Caldwell
FINANCIAL TIMES
13-Mar-12

Electromagnetic Pulse and American Security

by Eric Hannis
AFPC
13-Mar-12

Middle East & Africa (i.e., Mali)

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
12-Mar-12

Israel "The excurciating task of discerning where the lesser evil lies" Alan Johnson, writing in World Affairs, does a very thorough job of dealing with the difficulties of Israel's Iran dilemma. The most striking thing about the piece is the extent to which Johnson has evaluated the wide range of opinions on the various ramifications of an...
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Idealism Without Illusion: Israel's Iran Dilemma

by Alan Johnson
WORLD AFFAIRS
12-Mar-12

Insight: Catch me if you can - oil sanctions against Iran

by Peg Mackey
REUTERS
12-Mar-12

Obama Seeks to Delegitimize Israeli Concerns over Iran: The president is attempting to undermine the legality of an Israeli strike.

by Anne Bayefsky
PJMEDIA.COM
12-Mar-12

Mischief On Maliand the Amazigh

by Ann Marlowe
WORLD AFFAIRS
12-Mar-12

Iran Endgame: The regime must be stopped from achieving nuclear military capability.

by Conrad Black
NATIONAL REVIEW
12-Mar-12

Israel puts off attack on Iran until after American election

by Uzi Mahnaimi
SUNDAY TIMES UK
12-Mar-12

Talks Between the U.N.'s Annan and Syria's Assad End Without Deal

by Nour Malas
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Mar-12

EU Looks to Iran Nuclear Talks

by Laurence Norman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Mar-12

Obamas Alarming View on Who Wills the US Military

by Rick Moran
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
12-Mar-12

Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians: Just as Jews were once expelled from Arab lands, Christians are now being forced from countries they have long inhabited.

by Michael Oren
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Mar-12

Iran Steps Up Rights Abuses, U.N. Says

by Farnaz Fassihi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Mar-12

Politicizing Intelligence on Syria

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
12-Mar-12

Libya, R.I.P. (19512012): The New York Times finally discovers the dangers of partition in post-Qaddafi Libya.

by Adam Garfinkle
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
12-Mar-12

In Tunisia, press freedoms are in the crosshairs

by Elliott Abrams
WASHINGTON POST
12-Mar-12

Al-Qaeda makes alarming advances in Yemen, U.N. envoy warns

by Colum Lynch
WASHINGTON POST
12-Mar-12

Tunisia, Libya join forces to create jobs

by Monia Ghanmi
ZAWYA.COM
12-Mar-12

Saudi Arabia Reluctant To Replace Iranian Crude-Official

by Summer Said
WALL STREET JOURNAL
12-Mar-12

Iran sets $75 billion target for non-oil exports for next fiscal year

by Staff
ZAWYA.COM
12-Mar-12

Azerbaijan will not allow Iran attack

by Reuters
MAANNEWS.NET
12-Mar-12

Mexico & Central America

by K.D.M. Jensen
http://EconWarfare.org
11-Mar-12

Here follows the second installment trying to catch up with events in the Western hemisphere outside Canada and the United States. Today's articles concern Mexico and Central America. News from Mexico is mixed, but any good news there seems to have put Central America in jeopardy. Mass Arrest of Galeano Clan Members in Colombia Insight Crime reports that...
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Colombia Makes Mass Arrest of Gang Linked to Sinaloa Cartel

by Christopher Looft
INSIGHT CRIME
11-Mar-12

Annual report reveals: Cocaine abuse above world average in Caribbean region

by Staff
GUARDIAN.CO.TT
11-Mar-12

Mexico's Economic Growth Strong, Offers Lessons for U.S. and Europe

by Staff
IBTIMES
11-Mar-12

Mexico's migrants return as the American dream fades

by Ignacio de los Reyes
BBC MUNDO
11-Mar-12

Mexico's off-the-book street vendors an economic force

by Daniel Hernandez
LA TIMES
11-Mar-12

Cocaine seizures drop in Mexico as traffic moves to Central America, international board says

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
11-Mar-12

Critics: Mexico losing drug war

by Staff
UPI
11-Mar-12

The Mexican government reported an average of six kidnappings a day in the second half of 2011, up more than 23 percent compared to the same period in 2010.

by Staff
INSIGHT CRIME
11-Mar-12

U.S. Gangs are a force in Central American prisons

by Elliott Sgagat
AP
11-Mar-12

Nicaraguan FM Demands End to U.S. Blockade on Cuba

by Staff
INSIDE COSTA RICA
11-Mar-12

El Salvador Re-Militarizes to Address Rising Crime Rate

by Frederick Mills
CUTTING EDGE NEWS
11-Mar-12

Unjustly Ignored Latin America

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI Blog
10-Mar-12

For months, other matters have so occupied the EWI Blog and Digest that I must confess to losing track of events in Latin America, Mexico & Central America. I thank regular contributors Mick Andersen and Jaime Daremblum for continuing to send us a wealth of useful information despite my lack of performance. I begin to make up for this today. As usual, there are too many...
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Unjustly Ignored Latin America

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI Blog
10-Mar-12

Official: Iran, Latin America Play Effective Role in Regulating New World Order

by FNA Staff
FARS NEWS AGENCY
10-Mar-12

Iran-Uruguay joint economic commission to meet soon

by Staff
IRNA.IR
10-Mar-12

In search of the 'Islamic menace' in Bolivia. One US congresswoman is convinced that the Iranian government is a danger to Latin American countries such as Bolivia.

by Belen Fernandez
AL JAZEERA
10-Mar-12

Colombia continues to be #1 cocaine producer: Report

by Christan Leonard
COLOMBIA REPORTS
10-Mar-12

Bolivia's Morales May Seize More Oil Firms, La Razon Says

by Alex Emergy
BLOOMBERG
10-Mar-12

Kidnapping bad for business? Why the FARC may actually mean what it says.

by Steven Dudley
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
10-Mar-12

Peru coca crops on the rise for fifth consecutive year

by Manuel Vigo
PERU THIS WEEK
10-Mar-12

Falklands War: China learns from Argentina's mistakes

by Staff
AVIONIC-INTELLIGENCE.COM
10-Mar-12

A Chinese beachhead? New investors on Americas doorstep

by Staff
ECONOMIST
10-Mar-12

Ex-official slain in Haiti after his son helps Miami feds in Aristide bribery probe

by Jay Weaver
MIAMI HERALD
10-Mar-12

Brazil may boost debt buybacks to tame real

by Luciana Otoni, Tiago Pariz
REUTERS
10-Mar-12

Tracking the Rise of Paraguay's Rebel Army

by Geoffrey Ramsey
INSIGHT CRIME
10-Mar-12

Obamas drug war is in disarray

by Jos￩ R. C￡rdenas
FOREIGN POLICY
10-Mar-12

Argentinas Slow-Motion Disaster: Massive capital flight and high inflation presage a future economic crisis.

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
10-Mar-12

Potpourri: Sharia & Sharia Banking, the U.S., China, Energy, and WikiLeaks

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
08-Mar-12

Today's EWI Blog and Digest offerings are a bit of a potpourri. However, there is important stuff here. Shari'a & Shari'a Banking Goldman Sachs Rescued? Banking first. Our several reports on Goldman Sach's $2bn sukuk bond issue problems have strongly suggested that GS didn't know what it was doing, or at least proceeded without...
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Islamic finance Industry too Parochial and insular

by Mushtak Parker
ARAB NEWS
08-Mar-12

Mahathir urges countries to achieve 50% market share for Islamic banking

by Mushtak Parker
ARAB NEWS
08-Mar-12

Why Erykah Badu Wont be Playing in Malaysia

by Celine Fernandez, Shibani Mahtani
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

Sharias Global Reach: A Liberal Muslim Extradited to Possible Beheading

by Phillip Smyth
PJMEDIA.COM
08-Mar-12

Ray Kelly's War: New York's elites put the antiterror cops on trial.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

Bringing 'Alien Torts' to America. A court case that could invite specious international damage claims to the U.S.

by David Rivkin, Lee Casey
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

China Foothold in U.S. Energy

by Ryan Dezember, James Areddy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

The 'Party Mood' in Tibet. Beijing forces mourning Tibetans to sing and dance for New Year's.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

Hong Kong Was Better Under the British. Democracy is the only form of government that can match the hybrid form of political accountability Hong Kong enjoyed as a colony.

by Hugo Restall
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

Double-digit rise for China's defence spending

by AFP
ASIA ONE
08-Mar-12

Iraqi South Oil Official Allegedly Took Bribes

by Hassan Hafigh
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power. There's no evidence that low doses of radiation are harmful and no reason to paralyze our economy out of fear of nuclear power.

by William Tucker
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Mar-12

India ships will lose insurance due to Iran sanctions, may look to China

by Nidhi Verma, Randy Fabi
REUTERS
08-Mar-12

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

by Staff
WIKILEAKS
08-Mar-12

Cyberspat Erupts As Baku-Tehran Relations Become Increasingly Strained

by Staff
RFE/RL
08-Mar-12

The Middle East & Africa: From Iran, Syria and Egypt to Israel and the United States, to African Kleptocracy and Mischief in Mali

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOB
07-Mar-12

Iran Iranian supertanker at Karimun Island An online entity called TEMPO Interactive, for which I can find no URL but which comes from a reliable source, reports that on February 23 the Iranian supertanker Delvar anchored at Karimun Island in the Singapore Strait. The Karimun Island site is Asia's biggest oil trading hub and a place where...
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'100 Percent Iranian' Kentucky Fried Chicken Opens In Iran

by Golnaz Esfandiari
RFE/RL
07-Mar-12

On same team, but signaling different plays

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK PAST
07-Mar-12

The Road From Damascus: Hamas finally comes out against the Assad regime, its longtime patron, striking a major blow against Irans bid for Shia regional dominance

by Lee Smtih
TABLETMAG.COM
07-Mar-12

Forget the Palestinians; The Future of Land-For-Peace Depends On Egypt

by Evelyn Gordon
Unknown
07-Mar-12

Elites Loot Africa While Foreign Debt Mounts. International banking laws help African elites borrow big, then shift funds to personal accounts

by James K. Boyce, L￩once Ndikumana
YALE GLOBAL
07-Mar-12

Threatened

by David Remnick
NEW YORKER
07-Mar-12

Womens empowerment key to progress, historian Lewis says

by Staff
HURRIYET
07-Mar-12

A political model in post-Assad Syria

by Mir Mengi
KURDISH GLOBE
07-Mar-12

Brotherhood threatens Camp David accord over US aid, NGO dispute

by Staff
DEMOCRACY DIGEST
07-Mar-12

The Rapper Who Defied the King of Morocco

by Amel Chraibi
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
07-Mar-12

Good-Bye, Middle East! Liberals and Minorities are Fleeing

by Barry Rubin
PJMEDIA.COM
07-Mar-12

From Bad to Worse in Egypt: The repression of civil society is far worse than anything seen under Hosni Mubarak.

by Daniel Calingaert
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Mar-12

Containment Won't Work Against Iran. Mutually assured destruction might be more of an incentive than a deterrent for Ahmadinejad and those around him.

by Daniel Schwammenthal
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Mar-12

The Case for Arming the Syrian Opposition: The U.S. secretary of state should have more to say than simply that anti-Assad forces will 'somewhere, somehow, find the means to defend themselves.'

by Mark Palmer, Paul Wolfowitz
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Mar-12

Mischief in Mali: A model African country confronts subversionwith U.S. help.

by Roger Kaplan
WEEKLY STANDARD
07-Mar-12

The 'Jewish' President: Don't believe Obama when he says he has Israel's back.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Mar-12

Updates on Russia, Europe, and Commodities

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOB
06-Mar-12

Russia The Presidential Election While we hardly need to acknowledge—or analyze—the outcome of Russia's presidential election on Sunday, a few things need to be said about the protests on Monday and related developments. Perhaps the best commentator on Monday's protests is Julia Ioffe in Foreign Policy. Gennady Gudkov, a Duma...
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This Is How You Elect a F*cking President? Putin cracks down on Moscow's protesters before the victory tears are dry on his face.

by Julia Ioffe
FOREIGN POLICY
06-Mar-12

Russia's Chariot Calls at Iran

by Claudia Rosett
FORBES
06-Mar-12

Putin Shrugs Off Election Protests

by Geoffrey Smith, Ira Isobashvili
WALL STREET JOURNAL
06-Mar-12

Khodorkovsky given hope of jail release amid diversion claims

by Tony Halpin
TIMES UK
06-Mar-12

The oil leash and other under-noticed things about Putin's re-election

by Steve LeVine
FOREIGN POLICY
06-Mar-12

Russias Rusnano Pours Rubles into Tech Start-ups Abroad

by Craig Mellow
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR
06-Mar-12

The Hundred-Billion-Euro Bomb: Euro-Zone Central Bank System Massively Imbalanced

by Stefan Kaiser
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
06-Mar-12

The Rich Peoples President: Will Frances Nicolas Sarkozy be the next European leader to fall?

by Christopher Caldwell
WEEKLY STANDARD
06-Mar-12

Capital Flight: Southern European Money Migrating North to Safety

by David Bocking, et al.
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
06-Mar-12

Counter-Intuitive Nationalism: Re-Defining Greek Security Interests in Southern Europe

by Daniel Little
RIEAS.GR
06-Mar-12

Polands KGHM Enters Major League in Copper

by Marcin Sobczyk, Patryk Wasilewski
WALL STREET JOURNAL
06-Mar-12

Lukoil Advertises Archangel Diamond Mine for Sale

by John Helmer
JOHNHELMER.NET
06-Mar-12

Yesterday's Top Story: What the Greek bailout means for gold and silver. For Julian Phillips, the Greek debt crisis is a symptom of a longer-term, larger currency problem that will inevitably be a bo

by Julian Phillips
MINE WEB
06-Mar-12

Demand for key rare earths, niobium and ferroalloys soaring: Handwerger

by Interview with Jeb Handwerger
MINE WEB
06-Mar-12

Updates on the Middle East and Energy

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
05-Mar-12

Middle East Syria Today’s EWI Blog and Digest lead off with three pieces on Syria. Fouad Ajami argues that we can either help the tyrannized people or risk turning the country into a devil’s playground of religious extemism. When it comes to giving excuses for doing nothing, Ajami divides the parties to it into the Friends of...
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America's Alibis for Not Helping Syria: We can lend a hand to its tyrannized people or risk turning the country into a devil's playground of religious extremism.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Mar-12

America's Iranian Self-Deception. Let's admit the facts about its nuclear program and then have an honest debate about what to do.

by Fred Kagan, Maseh Zarif
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Mar-12

Spotlight

by Staff
MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
05-Mar-12

Between Iran and a Hard Place: Forced to choose between high gas prices and a nuclear Iran, Barack Obama could very well remake himself into a war president.

by Gal Luft
FOREIGN POLICY
05-Mar-12

U.S.-Egyptian Relations

by Victoria Nuland
STATE.GOV
05-Mar-12

How to Kill an Economy: Egypt sours on its (lucrative) gas deal with Israel.

by Lee Smtih
WEEKLY STANDARD
05-Mar-12

Saudi dentist invents new dental surgery technique

by Staff
ARAB NEWS
05-Mar-12

Only 5% Saudis in construction jobs

by Staff
ZAWYA.COM
05-Mar-12

UAE FM makes surprise visit to Iran

by AFP
ZAWYA.COM
05-Mar-12

Non-Interventionist David Rieff is Wrong on Syria

by Jamie Kirchick
WORLD AFFAIRS
05-Mar-12

The Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

by Elizabeth Ferris
BROOKINGS
05-Mar-12

Abbas Temple Denial

by Dore Gold
ALGEMEINER.COM
05-Mar-12

Biggest anti-Israel conference evah? Americans there; UN, Europe in official attendance

by J.E. Dyer
HOTAIR.COM
05-Mar-12

Mr Obama must take a stand against Israel over Iran

by John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Mar-12

Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say

by Eric Lichtblau
NEW YORK TIMES
05-Mar-12

US crude oil imports fall to 12-year low

by Ed Crooks
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Mar-12

Oil leaps to highest level since mid-2008

by Gregory Meyer, Guy Chazan
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Mar-12

World can replace oil lost to Iran sanctions: U.S.

by Roberta Rampton
REUTERS
05-Mar-12

Turkish Petroleum Corporation to Begin Land Drilling in TRNC

by Staff
AA.COM.TR
05-Mar-12

Updates on Russia, Commodities, and China & Northeast Asia

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
04-Mar-12

Russia Front Page Symposium News from Russia these days is no better or worse than expected. As the presidential election approaches, anti-Americanism is much accelerated, perhaps to an all-time high. Front Page Magazine recently put out a symposium on Putin vs. Russians involving an all-star cast of contributors: Jim Woolsey, Evgeny Legedin, Yuri...
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Symposium: Russians vs. Vladimir Putin?

by Jaime Glazov
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
03-Mar-12

Kremlin Moves to Silence Independent Radio

by Vladimir Kara-Murza
WORLD AFFAIRS
03-Mar-12

The Anti-Putin Crowd Is Growing: The Ticker

by Mark Whitehouse
BLOOMBERG
03-Mar-12

Only vaccine can prevent HIV pandemic

by Olga Sobolevskaya
RUVR.RU
03-Mar-12

Woman in Moscow sets herself ablaze

by Staff
LA TIMES
03-Mar-12

Russia: A Kremlin of crude calculations

by Charles Clover
FINANCIAL TIMES
03-Mar-12

Global suicide 2020: We cant feed 10 billion. Commentary: Create a new agriculture or capitalism self-destructs

by Paul Farrell
MARKET WATCH
03-Mar-12

Russia Wheat Exports Restricted by Price, SovEcon Says

by Marina Sysoyeva
BLOOMBERG
03-Mar-12

Gates attacks outdated UN food agencies

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
03-Mar-12

The international monetary system. The role of gold

by Staff
ECONOMIST
03-Mar-12

More Hollow Threats from North Korea?

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
03-Mar-12

China wants say in World Bank choice

by Simon Rabinovitch
FINANCIAL TIMES
03-Mar-12

Power Struggle in China

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
03-Mar-12

New China landing vessels point to Pacific rivalry

by David Lague
WTAQ.COM
03-Mar-12

Latin America and Cyber News

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
29-Feb-12

Latin America Chavez, Henrique Capriles, and Anti-Semitism Today's suggested readings include two by regular contributor Jaime Daremblum, former ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States. Both concern Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles. Daremblum's principal point in addressing the Capriles candidacy is that it...
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The Man Who Could Save Venezuela. Will Henrique Capriles end the long reign of Hugo Ch￡vez?

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
29-Feb-12

Study: BACRIMs Continue Steady Expansion Across Colombia

by Christopher Looft
INSIGHT CRIME
29-Feb-12

Chavez says he will go to Cuba for surgery

by Staff
CNN
29-Feb-12

Cuban corruption video warns of Canadian company's 'cancer' Tight security at screenings of 'Metastasis'

by Reuters & JPOST.COM Staff
OTTAWA CITIZEN
29-Feb-12

Leahy heads Congressional delegation to Cuba, Haiti and Colombia

by Press Release
VTDIGGER.ORG
29-Feb-12

Jamaica Act against money laundering snaring drug lords

by Stabroek Editor
STABROEK NEWS
29-Feb-12

Peru: Tacna turns down $690 million mining offer

by Manuel Vigo
PERU THIS WEEK
29-Feb-12

Ghana: Brazil to Fund Food Purchasing in African Countries

by Staff
ALL AFRICA (Copyright ﾩ 2012 Africa Confidential.)
29-Feb-12

Why Jews Are Fleeing Venezuela. Government anti-Semitism, Ch￡vez style.

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
29-Feb-12

The internet is broken - we need to start over

by Alan Woodward
BBC
29-Feb-12

Anonymous movement claims attack on U.S. tear gas company

by AP
USA TODAY
29-Feb-12

Cyber-patriot games

by Guy-Philippe Goldstein
HA'ARETZ
29-Feb-12

Anonymous Hacks Greek Ministry Website, Demands IMF Withdrawal, Threatens It Will Wipe Away All Citizen Debts

by Tyler Durden
ZERO HEDGE
29-Feb-12

The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom: Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model.

by Robert McDowell
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Feb-12

Using Internet 'Crime' Laws, Authorities Ensnare Journalists

by Danny O'Brien
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
29-Feb-12

WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails

by Staff
REUTERS
29-Feb-12

So, Who Was the 'Asian Head of State' Who Supported Al-Qaeda (plus updates on Shari'a and Shari'a banking and U.S. Policies)?

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
28-Feb-12

So, Who Was the 'Asia Head of State' Who Supported Al-Qaeda? Find immediately below the URL for the latest story on the super-injunction controversy in which the Asian head of state's support of Al-Qaeda came up. It differs very little from the piece that originally appeared in the EWI Digest....
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Torontos million-dollar radical mosque

by Stewart Bell
NATIONAL POST OF CANADA
28-Feb-12

Goldman Sachs caught in a Sharia Catch-22

by Joy Brighton
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
28-Feb-12

British Muslims recruited to fight for 'al-Qaeda' in Somalia

by Sean Rayment, Colin Freeman
TELEGRAPH UK
28-Feb-12

Fresh strife looms for Lebanon

by Joseph Kechichian
GULF NEWS
28-Feb-12

The State Dept has embraced the Islamist Agenda at home and abroad

by Ted Belman, Steve Emerson, Essam Abdallah
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT
28-Feb-12

20,000 Muslims Attempt to Kill Pastor and Torch Church in Egypt

by Staff
AINA
28-Feb-12

Qatar Charity opens $200K Java madrassa

by Staff
MONEY JIHAD
28-Feb-12

Was Bangkok Just the Start?

by Staff
THE DIPLOMAT
28-Feb-12

Muslims in the South are slaughtering Buddhists in order to ethnically cleanse the area

by Staff
BARE NAKED ISLAM
28-Feb-12

Mullahs, millions and missing gold bars

by Tarek Fatah
TORONTO SUN
28-Feb-12

Is Sharia Law Compatible with Democracy?

by Michael Curtis
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
28-Feb-12

How to Halt the Butchery in Syria

by Anne-Marie Slaugher
NATIONAL REVIEW
28-Feb-12

Kelly a Ray-cist? What a smear

by Tom Ridge, Jim Woolsey
DAILY NEWS
28-Feb-12

Records detail mosque spying; NYPD defends tactics

by Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo
GOOGLE.COM
28-Feb-12

Has a Certain Asian Head of State Supported Al-Qaeda? (and Other Matters, i.e., Terrorism, Illegal Drugs, Europe)

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
27-Feb-12

Terrorism Has a Certain Asian Head of State Supported Al-Qaeda? One of EWI's correspondents sent us a fragment of a TELEGRAPH UK article on Friday evening, February 24 (EST), claiming to reveal that the members of an Asian head of state's family have funded al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the July 7 terrorist attacks in London. The article...
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Head of state 'funded al-Qaeda and knew of 7/7 terror attacks'. Members of an Asian head of state's family have funded al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the July 7 terrorist attacks on London, acc

by Staff
TELEGRAPH UK
27-Feb-12

'Hezbollah's powerbase in w. Africa growing'. Israeli Ambassador to the UN urges international community to join forces against terror activity backed by criminal organizations

by Yitzhak Benhorin
YNET NEWS
27-Feb-12

World Vision to investigate terror link

by Chip Le Grand
THE AUSTRALIAN
27-Feb-12

Sydney's Iranian drug network

by Ilya Gridneff
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
27-Feb-12

Colombian authorities seize 2.5 tons of cocaine

by Staff
COLOMBIA REPORTS
27-Feb-12

North Korea feared to flood South with drugs. Lawmaker says half of illegal drugs here are produced in NK

by Kim Young-jin
KOREA TIMES
27-Feb-12

Opium: Afghanistan's new front line. War torn and ravaged by division, Afghanistan has become the focus for the worldwide fight against child drug addiction

by Lianne Gutcher
INDEPENDENT UK
27-Feb-12

Eurozone industrial output shrinks

by Ralph Atkins
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Feb-12

Spanish village goes back to peseta: Residents turn to old money they'd held on to in case the euro folded

by Lee Moran
DAILY MAIL UK
27-Feb-12

French court clears Israeli doctor in al-Dura defamation case

by Boaz Bismuth, et al.
ISRAEL HAYOM
27-Feb-12

A Growing Following in Germany: The Dangerous Success of Radical Young Clerics

by Matthias Bartsch, et al.
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
27-Feb-12

Global Caliphate Conference Planned for Austria Next Month

by Sharona Schwartz
THE BLAZE
27-Feb-12

Britain Launches War on Multiculturalism

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
27-Feb-12

Muslims Plan "Parallel Parliament" In Switzerland

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
27-Feb-12

Israel, Iran and the United States (and the Rest of the Middle East)

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
24-Feb-12

Israel, Iran and the United States Beat the Clock Among the worthy articles recommended for reading today, one of the most useful is by Lee Smith in Tablet. Smith points out that from the U.S. point-of-view it appears as though we've finally gotten serious about Iran sanctions. While it is indeed good news, as he reports, that SWIFT...
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Israel's Business Elite Weigh Iran's Nuclear Threat

by Jason Gewirtz
CNBC
24-Feb-12

Beat the Clock: The White House has put the squeeze on Iran with a serious sanctions regime in the past few months. But for Israel, it may be too little, too late.

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
24-Feb-12

Irans relentless nuclear quest. Nothing has slowed regimes race to build the bomb

by John Bolton
WASHINGTON TIMES
24-Feb-12

David Cameron insisted yesterday that Somalia should get a second chance to rebuild itself

by Macer Hall
EXPRESS UK
24-Feb-12

The United Nations' Rogue Agency

by Joseph Harriss
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
24-Feb-12

Ex-IAEA Chief Urges Talks to Defuse Threat of Attack on Iran

by Jasmin Ramsey
IPSNEWS.NET
24-Feb-12

Wife Admits: Slain Iranian Nuke Scientists Ultimate Goal Was the Annihilation of Israel

by Sharona Schwartz
THE BLAZE
24-Feb-12

Land Day, March 30, 2012

by Staff
TERRORISM-INFO.ORG
24-Feb-12

AIPAC and the Push Toward War

by Robert Wright
THE ATLANTIC
24-Feb-12

The Egyptian Bearded Police

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
24-Feb-12

Iran Cracks Down On Satellite Dishes As U.N. Body Bans Signal Jamming

by Ali Gharib
THINKPROGRESS.ORG
24-Feb-12

Dear General Dempsey

by Michael Ledeen
PJMEDIA.COM
24-Feb-12

The Mystery of Irans Wandering War Ships

by Claudia Rosett
PJMEDIA.COM
24-Feb-12

How Come No One Wants to Help Gaza?

by Khaled Abu Toameh
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
24-Feb-12

Playing Down the Iranian Threat

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
24-Feb-12

Updates on Energy and Finance

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
23-Feb-12

Energy Iran's Fuel Rods I suppose the biggest energy news lately has to do with Iran's announced capacity to create its own nuclear fuel rods. Although destined for a research reactor, the signal is clear enough that Iran is marching along in the enrichment process toward a threatening end. At the same time Ahmadinejad was shown loading a fuel...
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Iran begins loading own nuclear rods into reactor

by AP
TIMES OF ISRAEL
23-Feb-12

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Turkey sticks with Iran oil after Saudi talks

by Humeyra Pamuk, Evrom Ergin
REUTERS
23-Feb-12

IEA downgrades Saudi Arabias output capacity

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Feb-12

Dollar bears in for shock if US cuts energy imports

by Mansoor Mohi-uddin
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Feb-12

What's the Hold-Up on Alaskan Oil? My state's ANWR region could produce one million barrels of oil per day if only Washington let us.

by Sean Parnell
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Feb-12

Sechin Orders Boarding Party Against Summa at Novorossiysk

by John Helmer
JOHNHELMER.NET
23-Feb-12

CNBC: Saudi Arabia Will Not Let Oil Go Above $100: Prince

by Margo Beller
CNBC
23-Feb-12

Americans Gaining Energy Independence With U.S. as Top Producer

by Rich Miller, etc.
BLOOMBERG
23-Feb-12

"A Japan without nuclear industry is almost impossible" Japan's "Nuclear Village": too big to fail?

by Rudolf ten Hoedt
EUROPEAN ENERGY REVIEW
23-Feb-12

Saudis Investing in Sudan Petroleum

by Staff
SUDAN VISION DAILY
23-Feb-12

Developments in Latin America include big gains for renewables and wind

by REM
RENEWABLE ENERGY MAGAZINE
23-Feb-12

Why profit-led growth is a myth. A profit-led economic strategy did not work even during the boom. What the world needs is job-based growth

by Staff
GUARDIAN UK
23-Feb-12

UN calls for overhaul of global financial system to benefit the poor. Liberalisation and deregulation adversely affect potential gains from trade for developing countries, says UNCTAD report

by Mark Tran
GUARDIAN UK
23-Feb-12

Record $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. Bonds Seized

by Elisa Martinuzzi
BLOOMBERG
23-Feb-12

SEC May Ticket Speeding Traders: High-Frequency Firms Face Fees on Canceled Transactions

by Scott Patterson, Andrew Ackerman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Feb-12

Why We Can't Believe the Fed. The bank's predictions of its own behavior are only as good as its predictions of the economy. It has a poor track record.

by Benn Steil
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Feb-12

The Middle East and South Asia

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
22-Feb-12

Middle East Fatah-Hamas The Fatah-Hamas deal is apparently in trouble, the Wall Street reports. This is just as well, given the Obama administration's tacit approval of a reconciliation that would clearly be in Hamas's favor. Gaza leader Mahmoud al-Zahar criticized the agreement during the week of February 6 by Khaled Meshal to end the rift with...
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Hamas Rift Opens Over Fatah Deal

by Joshua Mitnick
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Feb-12

Save Us from the Liberal Hawks. Syria's a tragedy. But it's not our problem.

by David Rieff
FOREIGN POLICY
22-Feb-12

Strategic and Economic Roles of Defense Industries in Israel

by Yaacov Lifshitz
BESA Center Perspective Paper No. 164
22-Feb-12

Iran increases presence in Syria: Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah operatives aiding Assad's brutal crackdown on protesters now number in the hundreds

by Ron Ben-Yishai
YNET NEWS
22-Feb-12

Taking Sides (Israel-Syria)

by Ehud Yaari
TIMES OF ISRAEL
22-Feb-12

Interference: Washington should back the Free Syrian Army in its insurgency against Bashar al-Assad, since toppling his regime would strike a blow against Iran

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
22-Feb-12

Can al Qaeda tap into Syria rage?

by Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank
CNN
22-Feb-12

Power blackout in Gaza as Egypt stops fuel smuggling

by Staff
EGYPT.COM
22-Feb-12

The Disquieting Treatment of Christians by the Palestinians

by Michael Curtis
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
22-Feb-12

Top U.S. intelligence officials confirm al Qaida role in Syria

by Jonathan Landay
MCCLATCHY DC
22-Feb-12

Logistics of an Israeli Strike on Iran: An Informed View from Germany

by David Goldman
PJMEDIA.COM
22-Feb-12

Saudis aid Al Qaeda move from Iraq to Syria

by Staff
DEBKA
22-Feb-12

Stopping Iran: Still Too Much Noise and Too Little Action

by Eytan Gilboa
BESA Center Perspective Paper No. 166
22-Feb-12

Sanctions against Iran are not an option

by Yoram Ettinger
ISRAEL HAYOM
22-Feb-12

India must tell US where to get off on its attack on Irans oil, financial system

by Staff
INDIA TIMES
22-Feb-12

Scientists say well thought strategy needed to catch up with China

by Staff
INDIA TIMES
22-Feb-12

Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down

by Daniel Davis
ARMED FORCES JOURNAL
22-Feb-12

Boom time for Afghanistan's people smugglers. The increase in Afghans leaving for Europe fuels a lucrative business in fake passports and Taliban death threats

by John Boone, Nooruddin Bakhshi
GUARDIAN UK
22-Feb-12

Iranians fail to pay Indian rice exporters

by James Lamont
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Feb-12

India to step up ties with Tehran; unfazed by US sanctions

by Staff
INDIA TIMES
22-Feb-12

The elephant in the region: Competition with China is making it nicer, but India could do still more to sweeten relations with its neighbours

by Staff
ECONOMIST
22-Feb-12

United States: Worries, Threats and Policies

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
21-Feb-12

This blog is devoted to U.S. worries, threats and policies. Of course, all threats and policies are worries, as well; but there are three items that qualify as special worries. Worries U.S. Military Presence and Economic Growth Abroad Amity Shlaes, writing in Bloomberg, notes that the conventional wisdom on cutting defense spending is...
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U.S. Space Science Confronts New Economic Reality

by Adam Mann
WIRED.COM
21-Feb-12

Rep. Peter King Announces Priorities For Homeland Security Committee

by Mickey McCarter
HSTODAY.US
21-Feb-12

CBP Announces Final Rule For Global Entry Trusted Travelers

by Mickey McCarter
HSTODAY.US
21-Feb-12

Big NASA Budget Cuts to Slash Mars Missions, Experts Say

by Mike Wall
SPACE.COM
21-Feb-12

Admiral Seeks Freer Hand in Deployment of Elite Forces

by Eric Schmitt, et al.
NEW YORK TIMES
21-Feb-12

Obama budget puts Los Alamos facility on hold

by AP
CANADIAN BUSINESS
21-Feb-12

U.S. Government Moves To Protect GPS

by Graham Warwick
AVIATION WEEK
21-Feb-12

U.S. can't locate MANPAD missiles missing in Libya

by Lynn Herrmann
DIGITAL JOURNAL
21-Feb-12

Iran and Obamas Delaying Game

by Yedidya Atlas
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
21-Feb-12

Obamas Dilemma: How will He Deal with Israel Over What the U.S. Will Do to Stop Iran Getting a Nuclear Bomb?

by Ron Radosh
PJMEDIA.COM
21-Feb-12

Treasury Issues Guidance Concerning National Defense Authorization Act Sanctions on Iran

by U.S. Depart of the Treasury
CYPRESS TIMES
21-Feb-12

If U.S. Troops Pull Out, Economic Growth May Slow

by Amity Schlaes
BLOOMBERG
21-Feb-12

Why Did Petraeus Fire the Auditor Charged With Stopping Flow of Pentagon Funds to Taliban?

by Ralph Lopez
TRUTH-OUT.ORG
21-Feb-12

Assessing U.S. Policy Towards China

by Staff
FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE
21-Feb-12

Air Force takes aim at DART intell system expansion

by David Hubler
DEFENSESYSTEMS.COM
21-Feb-12

Foreign Aid and American Priorities

by Shoshana Bryen
JEWISH POLICY CENTER
21-Feb-12

We need a new world order at the World Bank. Robert Zoellick's replacement should reflect changes in global politics the US has controlled the top position for too long

by Jayati Ghosh
GUARDIAN UK
21-Feb-12

UN Global Compact Expels Thousands of Companies

by Gina-Marie Cheeseman
TRIPLEPUNDIT.COM
21-Feb-12

Latin America Update

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
20-Feb-12

I believe this is my first Latin America blog. As usual, I couldn't do this sort of thing without the assistance of Rachel Ehrenfeld and contributors like Jaime Daremblum and Mick Andersen. And then I still can't do it, you’ll say. Mick, incidentally, has started a "Latin" America digest. I think "Latin" is in quotes because Mick attends to the fate of...
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The Obama Effect in Latin America: Placating enemies instead of strengthening partnerships with friends.

by Jaime Daremblum
PJMEDIA.COM
20-Feb-12

Mexico's Illicit Economy Is Worth $50 Billion Per Year: An unintended effect of NAFTA, the informal economy's growth is about more than just drugs

by Staff
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
20-Feb-12

Is Mexico's drug war strategy working?

by Mariano Castillo
CNN
20-Feb-12

Peru's place in the triangle of Asia-Pacific security: Harold Forsyth, Peru's ambassador to the US, discusses diplomatic issues in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.

by Eddie Walsh
AL JAZEERA
20-Feb-12

Crime soars as police go on strike in Brazil

by Staff
EURO NEWS
20-Feb-12

Fraud Lawsuit Details Bribery in Venezuela

by AP
ABC NEWS
20-Feb-12

Bolivian president says NGOs spy on his country for US

by Staff
PRESS TV (IRAN)
20-Feb-12

Venezuela Denounces Support to Syrian Opposition Armed groups

by Staff
Prensa Latina
20-Feb-12

How Brazil Deals with Dictators. President Rousseff has gotten tougher on Iran. But will she actively promote human rights in Cuba?

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Feb-12

Iran's Influence And Activity In Latin America

by Ilan Berman
ILANBERMAN.COM
20-Feb-12

February 16, 2012 Chairman Menendez, Senator Rubio, distinguished members of the Subcommittee: It is a privilege to appear before you today to discuss an issue of growing importance to the national security of the United States: that of Iran's activities and influence in the Americas. Although Iran's inroads into the Western Hemisphere have recently garnered...
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Ch￡vez Stirs Up Anti-Semitism Against Rival. Henrique Capriles Radonski isnt Jewish, but that hardly matters in Venezuela

by Matthew Fishbane
TABLETMAG.COM
20-Feb-12

'Iran cultivating L. American ties beyond Venezuela'

by Hilary Leila Krieger
JERUSALEM POST
20-Feb-12

Brazil Moves Away from Iran

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
20-Feb-12

Brazil and UAE keen to develop trade relations

by Staff
GULF NEWS
20-Feb-12

Markets, Finance, and Banking

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
19-Feb-12

Markets Markets, finance, and banking, the subjects of today's blog, don't disaggregate easily for me. Nor is it easy for me to analyze what happens in them. Thank God for this world that I'm not part of it. Nonetheless, what goes on there is interesting and important as it forms the frames in which economic crime and warfare are set. Why...
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Why Analysts Can't Properly Value Stocks And Bonds

by Jerry Bowyer
FORBES
19-Feb-12

Stock market network reveals investor clustering

by Lisa Zyga
PHYSORG.COM
19-Feb-12

A hair of the dog: A bit more debt keeps the recovery on track

by Staff
ECONOMIST
19-Feb-12

False dawns and public fury: the 1930s are not so far away

by Martin Taylor
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Feb-12

EU agrees deal on derivatives overhaul

by Alex Barker, Jeremy Grant
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Feb-12

Saudi Arabias new role in world finance

by Matein Khalid
KHALEEJ TIMES
19-Feb-12

by Ahmed Feteha
AHRAM ONLINE
19-Feb-12

Russia Dumps Treasurys For 14 Consecutive Months; China Slashes Holdings To Lowest In Over A Year

by Tyler Durden
ZERO HEDGE
19-Feb-12

Bank lending probe lights up dark financial corners

by Gillian Tett
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Feb-12

Rate Probe Keys On Traders: Investigators Suspect Employees at Some Banks Tried to Manipulate Rates

by Jean Eaglesham, etc.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Feb-12

International Financial Centres and the US Government

by Richard Horowitz
IFCREVIEW.COM
19-Feb-12

China Update, Terrorism & Terrorist Funding

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
18-Feb-12

CHINA Defense Budget The Financial Times reports that the Chinese defense budget will double by 2015. Despite IHS Jane's expectations of continuing shrinkage of the U.S. military budget, it will still be three times as large as China's by that time. Double-digit increases in Chinese defense spending have been annual fare for years, and this, the...
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Chinese defence budget set to double by 2015

by Carola Hoyos, Kathrin Hille
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Feb-12

Chinese media analysts highlight Irans role as a major energy supplier

by Political Desk
TEHRAN TIMES
18-Feb-12

China could teach India about power politics as Western pressure impacts trade with Iran

by Harsh Pant
JAPAN TIMES
18-Feb-12

Obama welcomes China's heir apparent, says US-China ties help rest of world

by AP
FOX NEWS
18-Feb-12

The myth of China as a harmless tiger

by Yu Jie
WASHINGTON POST
18-Feb-12

Chinese imports fall sharply in January

by Simon Rabinovitch
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Feb-12

McCain to Beijing: Revolution is Coming

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
18-Feb-12

China Risks 4-Point Growth-Rate Cut in Case of Europe Worsening: Economy

by Bloomberg News
BLOOMBERG
18-Feb-12

China Needs to Change Mideast Policy

by James Dorsey
BLOOMBERG
18-Feb-12

Half-baked terror: Irans bungled assassinations

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
18-Feb-12

In Kenya, Securing Cash on a Cell Phone. Without access to banks, the poor stash savings in virtual wallets, keeping it safe from thievesand marauding elephants

by Brendan Greeley, Eric Ombok
BUSINESS WEEK
18-Feb-12

Feds Seek Assets From 5 Connecticut Car Companies In Terrorism Probe

by Jessie Leavenworth
HARTFORD COURANT
18-Feb-12

From Beirut to Argentina - the life of a global terrorist. A look at the life of Hezbollah mastermind Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in 2008.

by Staff
HA'ARETZ
18-Feb-12

Threat from enemy within makes anti-terrorism laws indispensable

by Staff
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
18-Feb-12

Pax Islamica: Sharia in Public International Law

by Ganesh Sahathevan
EWI EXCLUSIVE
17-Feb-12

The case of the Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari who was deported from Malaysia to Saudi Arabia provides some insight into how sharia is being used in relations between Muslim countries such that sharia becomes part of public international law, applicable to both Muslims and non-Muslims. Kashgari tweeted doubts about Muhammad on the prophet's...
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Iran, Europe & Shari'a

by K.D.M. Jensen
ECONOMIC WARFARE INSTITUTE BLOG
17-Feb-12

IRAN Anti-Israeli Attacks in India and Georgia Today, I commend three pieces on the anti-Israeli attacks in Tiblisi (thwarted) and Delhi (successful). One is a long Times of India article on what happened in Delhi, with speculation of Iranian retaliation for the assassinations of Iran nuclear scientists. The second, by Yaakov Katz, poses the question of...
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Israel embassy car blast: Indian intelligence hints at Iran's hand

by Indrani Bagchi
TIMES OF INDIA
17-Feb-12

Analysis: Was this an act of war?

by Yaakov Katz
JERUSALEM POST
17-Feb-12

The Israel-Iran Moral Equivalence Trap

by Jonathan Tobin
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
17-Feb-12

Syria documents show Iran helping Assad to sidestep sanctions. Documents leaked following cyber-attack by hacker group Anonymous, show Tehran has given Assad more than $1b in effort to overcome oil e

by Barak Ravid
HA'ARETZ
17-Feb-12

How an Obama shift helps unstable regimes get nuclear weapons

by John Bolton, Edward Markey
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
17-Feb-12

Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War

by Naill Ferguson
THE DAILY BEAST
17-Feb-12

Britain frees radical cleric Abu Qatada

by Peter Griffiths
THE STAR (MALAYSIA)
17-Feb-12

Europe's Winter: What Will Be the Economic Consequences?

by Robert
ICEAGENOW.INFO
17-Feb-12

Merkel leading Europe in wrong direction: Soros

by Tom Fairless
MARKET WATCH
17-Feb-12

German exports fall at fastest rate in three years, sparks fears over Europe's bulwark economy

by Louise Armistead
TELEGRAPH UK
17-Feb-12

BBC tells its staff: dont call Qatada extremist

by Neil Midgley and James Kirkup
TELEGRAPH UK
17-Feb-12

Germany: Muslim car-pool service

by Staff
ISLAMINEUROPE.BLOGSPOT.COM
17-Feb-12

It is time to banish wishful thinking about Islamism

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-Feb-12

The Problem of Sharia Law in Britain

by Michael Curtis
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
17-Feb-12

Islam and Free Speech: OIC vs. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Michael Curtis
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
17-Feb-12

Islamic banks misleading: clients. Some suffered losses on bank investments

by Staff
EMIRATES 24/7
17-Feb-12

Israel Is Not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States: Get Used To It

by Barry Rubin
RUBIN REPORTS
16-Feb-12

Israel urges world to reject Palestinian unity gov't

by Herb Keinon
JERUSALEM POST
16-Feb-12

US says won't oppose Fatah-Hamas deal: London's Al-Hayat newspaper suggests Washington willing to accept Palestinian reconciliation deal; PA decides against resuming Amman talks

by Elior Levy
YNET NEWS
16-Feb-12

One Year Later, Egypts Many Revolutions Rage On

by Roger Owen
BLOOMBERG
16-Feb-12

Gaza Begins Exporting Tomatoes to Saudi Arabia. Amid reports of an impending "electricity crisis", Gaza begins exporting tomatoes to Saudi Arabia...with Israel's help of course.

by Elad Benari
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
16-Feb-12

It's Saudi Arabia, Stupid!

by Haggai Carmon
HUFFINGTON POST
16-Feb-12

Qatar's attempt legitimize Hamas

by Ekaterina Kudashkina
MOSCOW TIMES
16-Feb-12

Violence in Bahrain escalates ahead of February 14 anniversary

by Andrew Hammond
REUTERS
16-Feb-12

Economic balance shifts over Middle East

by Antonio Fatas, Ilian Mihov
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-Feb-12

Might the Turkish Military Intervene in Syria?

by Can Kasapoglu
BESA CENTER PERSPECTIVES PAPER NO. 163
16-Feb-12

Necmettin Erbakan, the D-8 and the tightening relations between the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
15-Feb-12

February 8, 2012 In March 2011, the largest gathering of the Muslim Brotherhood international members (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) in more than fifty years congregated in Istanbul to attend the funeral of Turkish politician Necmettin Erbakan (b.1926). ...
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Middle East & Africa Update

by K.D.M. Jensen
ECONOMIC WARFARE INSTITUTE BLOG
14-Feb-12

My file folders contain a substantial backlog of worthwhile articles on a wide range of topics. Today, as I'm a bit under the weather, I'm sending out pieces on the Middle East & Africa without comment. The title of this item is a bit deceptive: there is only one piece on Africa (on Nigeria).
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When Talk of War Transcends Idle Chatter

by Ethan Bronner
NEW YORK TIMES
13-Feb-12

Hundreds protest living costs across West Bank

by Staff
MA'AN NEWS
13-Feb-12

Obama or the Israelis: Whom Do You Believe?

by J. Robert Smith
AMERICAN THINKER
13-Feb-12

Egypt Et Cetera: When the Moderates are Radicals Youre in Trouble

by Barry Rubin
GLORIA CENTER
13-Feb-12

Assads evil enablers: Why US cant leave Syria to UN

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
13-Feb-12

Why Russia is willing to sell arms to Syria. Russia, which has weapons contracts with Syria worth $5 billion, is increasingly resisting international pressure to punish its ally. Yesterday it did not

by Fred Weir
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
13-Feb-12

Planting Trees is Racist?!

by Staff
IPT NEWS
13-Feb-12

Nigeria: Never so divided, never so united

by Staff
IRIN NEWS
13-Feb-12

The Taliban and the PLO

by Shoshana Bryen
AMERICAN THINKER
13-Feb-12

Hacked Syrian E-mails Advise Pres. Assad That 'American Psyche Is Easily Manipulated'

by Staff
FORBES
13-Feb-12

Hostage Crisis: The Egyptian government is preparing a show trial for 19 American pro-democracy organizers. Is this what life after Hosni Mubarak looks like?

by Lee Smith
TABLET
13-Feb-12

Cyber Update, Terrorism, and Shari'a & Islamism http://EconWarfare.org

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
12-Feb-12

CYBER UPDATE Anonymous There are a couple of pieces today on Anonymous, one by Saki Knafo from Huffington Post and another from ABC News. The latter reports that the latest Anonymous caper involves hacking into an FBI-Scotland Yard conference call on, well, hacking, on January 17. The group published online a recording of the call,...
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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet (Part II)

by Saki Knafo
HUFFINGTON POST
11-Feb-12

The US national cyber-security threats

by Staff
DNI.GOC
11-Feb-12

China offers alternative to U.S. GPS system

by Windsor Genova
GANT DAILY
11-Feb-12

European Alternative to GPS Lifts Off Tomorrow From South America, Via Russian Rocket

by Rebecca Boyle
POPSCI.COM
11-Feb-12

Anonymous Listens in on FBI-Scotland Yard Hacking Call

by Lee Ferran, Jason Ryan
ABC NEWS
11-Feb-12

China-Based Hackers Target Law Firms to Get Secret Deal Data

by Michael Riley, Sophia Pearson
BLOOMBERG
11-Feb-12

FBI: Cyber threat might surpass terror threat

by Andrew Stuttaford
CBS NEWS
11-Feb-12

Drug money fuelling terror: Rehman

by Staff
PAKISTAN TODAY
11-Feb-12

A Toolbox for Countering Extremist Religious Doctrines

by Shmuel Bar
HERZULIYA CONFERENCE
11-Feb-12

God, Nations and Deterrence: The Impact of Religion on Deterrence

by Shmuel Bar
HERZiLIYA CONFERENCE
11-Feb-12

A clear-eyed view of danger

by Emma Jacobs
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-Feb-12

The NDAA Makes it Harder to Fight Terrorism: Military Custody is Counterproductive

by Brian Michael Jenkins
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
11-Feb-12

Sharia Law 'by Force' Enabled by the UK and the US

by Shiraz Maher
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
11-Feb-12

The Inevitable Islamist Domination in the New Arab Democracies

by Christopther Reeve
HUFFINGTON POST
11-Feb-12

Ayatollah: Kill All Jews, Annihilate Israel: Iran lays out legal case for genocidal attack against 'cancerous tumor'

by Reza Kahlili
WND.COM
11-Feb-12

Drugs, Energy, and Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
09-Feb-12

ILLEGAL DRUGS Drugs and Arms Flows on the Oceans VOA recently reported that SIPRI (the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) had released a new study that "indicates trafficking in drugs and weapons is flourishing on the world's oceans with relatively little control, and that much of the illegal material is shipped by companies based in...
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Study: Drugs, Arms Flow Virtually Unchecked on World's Oceans

by Lisa Bryant
VOA NEWS
08-Feb-12

Drug, arms smuggling increased fivefold in 2011: Regional instability creates opportunities for traffickers customs director

by Zain Khasawneh
JORDAN TIMES
08-Feb-12

Hell to pay if terrorists link to drug cartels isnt checked

by Guy Taylor
WASHINGTON TIMES
08-Feb-12

The ambitions of Gottfried Steiner, CEO of Austria's Central European Gas Hub: 'This will be a heaven for traders'

by Alexander Bakst
EUROPEAN ENERGY REVIEW
08-Feb-12

The exciting future of LNG and how it will transform the global gas market

by Alex Forbes
EUROPEAN ENERGY REVIEW
08-Feb-12

Sudan: The South Goes for Sovereignty

by Staff
ALL AFRICA (Copyright ﾩ 2012 Africa Confidential.)
08-Feb-12

North Sea Oil Exports to Asia at 8-Year High: Energy Markets

by Bloomberg
BUSINESS WEEK
08-Feb-12

Saudis Set to Tap Fuel Oil Boom With Latest Pricing for Crude

by Ramsey Al-Rikabi
BUSINESS WEEK
08-Feb-12

The Mafia has become Italys largest bank

by Olga Dubitskaya
ENGLISH.RUVR.RU
08-Feb-12

A Bridge, but Leading Where? Ponzi at the European Central Bank.

by Andrew Stuttaford
WEEKLY STANDARD
08-Feb-12

ￜber Alles After All: Europes German future.

by Christopher Caldwell
WEEKLY STANDARD
08-Feb-12

Middle East Potpourri

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
07-Feb-12

Today's EWI Digest and Blog gather together a variety of pieces on the Middle East that have been piling up in my laptop. Each is well worth the read and beg no extended commentary from me. However, I can't resist making a few comments. Partners in Taqiyya David Horowitz describes Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the Obama administration as "partners...
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Muslim Brotherhood and Obama: Partners In Taqiyya

by David Horowitz
WWW.HOROWITZFREEDOMCENTER.ORG
06-Feb-12

The problem with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not sharia

by Sara Khorsid
GUARDIAN UK
06-Feb-12

The problem with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not sharia

by Sara Khorsid
GUARDIAN UK
06-Feb-12

Crushing the Radical Axis

by Benedetta Berti, Yoel Guzansky
NATIONAL INTEREST
06-Feb-12

The Islamic Paradise of the Needle and Powder

by Daniel Greenfield
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
06-Feb-12

The West's Imprudent Investment in Islamist Movements

by Raghida Dergham
HUFFINGTON POST
06-Feb-12

A Leaner, Meaner Brotherhood

by Michael Totten
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
06-Feb-12

Hezbollah guarded al-Assad during rally appearance - Ahmad Hariri

by Yousef Diab
ASHARQ-E.COM
06-Feb-12

Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim: 'U.S. Policy Is the No. 1 Security Threat' to the Gulf States; America Has 'Realized the Dreams Of Iran' in Iraq, 'Is Now Embracing' the Muslim Brotherhood, and

by Staff
MEMRI
06-Feb-12

Wagon Pars, an Iranian manufacturer of train locomotives and cars, is thinking of building an assembly plant in Algeria to cover the North African and African markets.

by Staff
MAGREB CONFIDENTIAL
06-Feb-12

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tells Egyptians: Look To The Constitutions of South Africa or Canada, Not To The U.S. Constitution

by Staff
MEMRI
06-Feb-12

Israel warns against Syrian WMD transfer to Hezbollah

by Yoav Limor, Yoni Hirsch, Daniel Siryoti, etc.
ISRAEL HAYOM
06-Feb-12

Loose Libyan missiles threaten air traffic

by Jemal Oumar
MAGHAREBIA
06-Feb-12

News from Russia & East Europe, South Asia, Australasia, and the United States

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI BLOG
05-Feb-12

RUSSIA & EAST EUROPE Russia and East Europe are never far from EWI's attention. The patterns of Russian "threats" to the world energy market seem well established: one could follow GAZPROM on a daily basis, to be sure, but without learning much new about what state companies are doing and how it relates to political developments....
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Russia Accelerates Its Development of Stealth Aircraft. Sources in Israel say that Russia "has managed to catch up to the US in a big way. The T-50 model aircraft will likely enter service in 2015

by Arie Egozi
WWW.ISRAELDEFENSE.COM
04-Feb-12

No Lucky Ducky - Berezovski Court Trial Ends in Oligarch Shoot

by John Helmer
JOHNHELMER.NET
04-Feb-12

George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America

by Staff
RT.COM
04-Feb-12

Musings On The Former Yugoslavia And Former Soviet Union Analysis

by Micheal Averko
EURASIA REVIEW
04-Feb-12

Man On A Mission: Bill Browder vs. the Kremlin

by Michael Weisss
WORLD AFFAIRS
04-Feb-12

What Belarus should Expect from Elections in Russia?

by Staff
TELEGRAF.BY
04-Feb-12

The bear is back: Why Russia plumps for Assad

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
04-Feb-12

Pakistan is helping Afghan Taliban, says Nato report

by Staff
BBC
04-Feb-12

U.S. assessing risks of Taliban transfer: Petraeus

by Mark Hosenball, Susan Cornwell
REUTERS
04-Feb-12

Reading the Taliban

by "Clausewitz"
ECONOMIST
04-Feb-12

People Smuggling: Did Australia's National Security Adviser learn anything in Malaysia?

by Ganesh Sahathevan
REALPOLITIKASIA
04-Feb-12

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 The Sydney Morning Herald reported on April 25,2009: WAVES of Australia-bound asylum seekers crossing from Malaysia to Indonesia have prompted the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to send the national security adviser, Duncan Lewis, to talk with Malaysian officials about counter measures. Mr Lewis was accompanied by the...
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Of films and fear: The Times buys Islamist lies

by M. Zuhdi Jasser
NEW YORK POST
04-Feb-12

U.S. spies to rely more on allies due to budget austerity

by Tabassum Zakaria
REUTERS
04-Feb-12

Australias Islamic Index-The Muslim lobby at work with an index looking for reason

by Ganesh Sahathevan
EWI EXCLUSIVE
03-Feb-12

Thomson Reuters, and Australian Islamic investment manager, Crescent Wealth, launched on 1 February 2012 what they have described as “ the first research-based Islamic index for the Australian market”. The Thomson Reuters Crescent Wealth Islamic Australia Index screens ASX-listed companies for compliance with Islamic investment principles, and will initially span 143...
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Commodities & Iran

by K.D.M. Jensen
http://EconWarfare.org
03-Feb-12

COMMODITIES When it comes to economic threats/warfare, commodities need to be watched, of course. Today's offerings cover developments regarding diamonds, gold, EU wheat, corn, soybeans, food (generally) and mining wheel loader/dozers. John Helmer does an admirable job of watching things in Russia, and the editorial staff of the New York Sun takes a look at...
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Sex Change in the Diamond Business - Alrosa Now Wears the Pants, After the Oppenheimers Sell Their Balls, I Mean the Crown Jewels

by John Helmer
JOHN HELMER.NET
02-Feb-12

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This Man is Bad for Mikhail Prokhorov's Health - The China Gold Standard Has Become High-Risk for Russian Goldminer Share Prices

by John Helmer
JOHN HELMER.NET
02-Feb-12

Down Fedinka! Sit! - Alrosa Share Sale Off Until 2017

by John Helmer
JOHNHELMER.NET
02-Feb-12

Mahathirs Progress

by Editorial Staff
NEW YORK SUN
02-Feb-12

EU wheat pricing transformed by Black Sea hiccups

by Staff
AGRIMONEY.COM
02-Feb-12

Corn Heads for Biggest Weekly Gain in 5 Weeks; Soybeans Little Changed

by Maria Kolesnikova
BLOOMBERG
02-Feb-12

Chinese acquire Polish mining wheel loader/dozer manufacturer. Major Chinese wheel loader manufacturer has made its first foreign acquisition by buying Poland's HSW and Dressta loader and dozer manuf

by John Chadwick
MINE WEB
02-Feb-12

Tracking microclimates could help feed the world

by Rinat Harash, Ari Rabinovitch
NEWS.YAHOO.COM
02-Feb-12

Swift Sanctions on Iran. The global financial network provides a loophole for Tehran.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Feb-12

When Did the War Start? Or Did It?

by Michael Ledeen
PJMEDIA.COM
02-Feb-12

Iran's Terror Proxy

by Staff
JERUSALEM POST
02-Feb-12

Syrian opposition council accuses Iran of role in bloody crackdown

by Staff
AL ARABIYA
02-Feb-12

Ahmadinejad lauds launch of Irans Spanish-language satellite TV as blow to US dominance

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
02-Feb-12

Before We Thank Iran's Tanker Fleet . . .

by Claudia Rosett
FORBES
02-Feb-12

China, Cyber Update & Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
01-Feb-12

MEA CULPA (NOT AGAIN!) When I reported Bob Reilly's interesting response to Elliott Abrams' "Forward Strategy" article, I inadvertently called Elliott "Elliott Cohen." Thanks to Rhoda Rabkin for catching that. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. CHINA Foreign Investment Scrutinized? Perhaps...
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Davos Turn Eye To China's Investments Abroad

by Frank Jordan
AP
31-Jan-12

AP: Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese Buy Dairy Farms

by Nick Perry
ABC NEWS
31-Jan-12

F.B.I. Looks Into Adviser on Chinese Reverse Mergers

by David Barboza
NEW YORK TIMES
31-Jan-12

F.B.I. Looks Into Adviser on Chinese Reverse Mergers

by David Barboza
NEW YORK TIMES
31-Jan-12

Rethinking China's might

by Minxin Pei
HINDUSTANI TIMES
31-Jan-12

China's Great Challenge to U.S. in Latin America

by Staff
THECUTTINGEDGENEWS.COM
31-Jan-12

The Alpine village of the Far East: Chinese build bizarre replica of Austrian town (only problem is, no-one wants to live there)

by Simon Parry
DAILY MAIL UK
31-Jan-12

Oil Industry Open to Cyberattacks

by Admin
INFOSECREVIEW.COM
31-Jan-12

Advisory, December 19, 2011 Subject: Account Takeover Activity

by Staff
FINCEN.GOV
31-Jan-12

N. Korea May Commit Terrorism This Year, Souths Police Say

by Sangwon Yoon
BUSINESS WEEK
31-Jan-12

Battlefield of the future

by Phil Taylor
NEW ZEALAND HERALD
31-Jan-12

China's Cyber Thievery Is National PolicyAnd Must Be Challenged. It is more efficient for the Chinese to steal innovations and intellectual property than to incur the cost and time of creating their

by Mike McConnell, Michael Chertoff, William Lynn
WALL STREET JOURNAL
31-Jan-12

Europe Plans Significant Expansion in Data Protection Rights

by Robert Stankey and Adam Shoemaker
PRIVSECBLOG.COM
31-Jan-12

China's Cyber Thievery Is National PolicyAnd Must Be Challenged. It is more efficient for the Chinese to steal innovations and intellectual property than to incur the cost and time of creating their

by Mike McConnell, Michael Chertoff, William Lynn
WALL STREET JOURNAL
31-Jan-12

DNA Tagging: Secret Weapon Against Industrial Espionage

by Bruce Rayner
EBN
31-Jan-12

Chinese Industrial Espionage Makes Inroads in the US and Europe

by Sean Noonan
THECUTTINGEDGENEWS.COM
31-Jan-12

Britain's Rising Tide of Islam

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
31-Jan-12

How London became the censorship capital of the world

by Ed West
TELEGRAPH UK
31-Jan-12

Why Wasnt France Downgraded Sooner? Everybody with a brain knew that France was broke. Nobody paid attention.

by Michel Gurfinkiel
PJMEDIA.COM
31-Jan-12

Blog Responses, Terror, China & Cyber

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
30-Jan-12

BLOG RESPONSES As of now the EWI Blog is not set up for readers to comment on. However, there's always email (see above). Bring the comments on! Mea Culpa...
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Qatar fosters anti-Syria terrorism

by PRESS TV
INFOWARS.COM
29-Jan-12

Preventing Terrorism Requires Collaborative Relationship Between Federal and Local Resources

by Scott Erickson
BLOG.HERITAGE.ORG
29-Jan-12

David Cameron: human rights laws stop Britain protecting against terrorism. David Cameron has claimed human rights laws are stopping Britain from protecting its citizens from terrorists in a landmark

by Rowena Mason
TELEGRAPH UK
29-Jan-12

Scores dead in northern Nigeria as Islamist militants terrorise the country. Group bidding to impose sharia law claims responsibility for wave of attacks in city of Kano

by Monica Mark
GUARDIAN UK
29-Jan-12

ASIO boss says we need more Muslim recruits to combat terror threats in Australia

by Simon Benson
DAILY TELEGRAPH AU
29-Jan-12

Is Obama Getting Serious about China Trade?

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
29-Jan-12

Chinas Iran dilemma

by Minxin Pei
BBC
29-Jan-12

Europeans welcome Chinese investors

by Leslie Hook, Anousha Sakoui
FINANCIAL TIMES
29-Jan-12

The paradox of prosperity: For Chinas rise to continue, the country needs to move away from the model that has served it so well

by Staff
ECONOMIST
29-Jan-12

Why SOPA Is Inevitable (but fighting it still matters)

by Damir Marusic
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
29-Jan-12

Cybersecurity in America and Europe: Freedom and security in cyberspace

by "Charlemagne"
ECONOMIST
29-Jan-12

Recent Thoughts on Iran and the Middle East

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
28-Jan-12

IRAN Here We Go Again There are several recent reports that Iran still remains at a considerable distance from having nuclear weapons. Particularly attended to is a report from the Institute for Science and International Security, founded by David Albright. The...
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Iran won't build nuclear weapon in 2012, says draft Isis report. Analysis by Institute for Science and International Security says sanctions and threat of Israeli attack are having effect

by Staff
GUARDIAN UK
27-Jan-12

EU Oil Embargo: Sanctions Benefit Iran's Revolutionary Guards

by Christoph Sydow
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
27-Jan-12

China Chides EU Over Iran Ban

by Carlos Tejada
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Jan-12

Iran Mulls Pre-empting EU Oil Embargo

by Benoit Faucon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Jan-12

Republic of Fear: Sanctions against Iran are a necessary step against an aggressive and brutal regime

by Editorial Staff
TIMES UK
27-Jan-12

Bank panic sparks fights after oil sanctions

by Hugh Tomlinson
TIMES UK
27-Jan-12

Obama, Netanyahu & the Iranian Bomb

by Yedidya Atlas
RIGHTSIDENEWS.COM
27-Jan-12

Islamic centre redefines political role

by Staff
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Jan-12

Supremely Irrelevant: Iran tried to take advantage of the Arab Spring. It failed, miserably.

by Colin Kahl
FOREIGN POLICY
27-Jan-12

Egypt indices soar on peaceful protests

by Stefan Wagstyl
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Jan-12

Egypt Bans LaHood, Other Americans From Leaving

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Jan-12

Egypt's Revolt and the American Model: The Arab revolutionaries didn't look to China or Russia as examples of good government.

by Ed Husain
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Jan-12

A return to Andalusia

by Yoram Ettinger
ISRAEL HAYOM
27-Jan-12

A Forward Strategy of Freedom: It's neither perfect nor pretty, but the Arab Spring proves that neoconservatives were right all along.

by Elliott Abrams
FOREIGN POLICY
27-Jan-12

Egypt: Natural Gas, Pipelines, and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
26-Jan-12

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The Middle East, Sharia, and Miscellanous Stuff

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
26-Jan-12

MIDDLE EAST Less Food, Less Thought David Goldman (Spengler) reported on the grim Egyptian economy once again recently. The latest bad news is that investors bought less than a third of Egyptian Treasury bills offered on January 22. This despite the fact that the 9-months' yield was 16 percent. And the Egyptians themselves will not invest....
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Despite Criticism, Russia Stands By Syria

by James Brooke
VOA NEWS
25-Jan-12

America and the Arab Spring

by Caroline Glick
JERUSALEM POST
25-Jan-12

Failed treasury auction portends Egyptian disaster

by Spengler
ASIA TIMES
25-Jan-12

Os stand-up envoys: Ambassadors face down thugs

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
25-Jan-12

Smuggler's Paradise: Iran Sanctions Good for Business in Tiny Omani Port

by Juliane von Mettelstaedt
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
25-Jan-12

Why The President Should Speak Out Against Religious Persecution

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
25-Jan-12

Planning Genocide in Plain Sight

by Lawrence Kadish
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
25-Jan-12

Flogging Lingerie in Jeddah

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
25-Jan-12

Pascal Bruckner and the Tyranny of Guilt

by Alan Johnson
WORLD AFFAIRS
25-Jan-12

Americas Dirty War Against Manufacturing

by Carl Pope
Bloomberg
25-Jan-12

Downgrade the rating agencies

by Philip Stephens
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Jan-12

Shari'a, Energy, and Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
24-Jan-12

SHARI'A Today's articles on Shari'a contain good news and, well, mostly bad news. The report that the Al-Nour party will not ally with secular parties in Egypt must be very good news for the Muslim Brotherhood. Those who think the distance between the MB and Al-Nour means something had better think again. Richard Burtick has done an interesting piece on...
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Salafi party opposes coalition with forces who reject Sharia

by Staff
ALMASRALYOUM.COM
23-Jan-12

The Golden Age of Islam - A Second Look

by Richard Burtick
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
23-Jan-12

Muslim campaigner backs Bill tackling Sharia councils. The Bill aims to tackle the problems caused by Sharia councils operating in England and Wales.

by Staff
CHRISTIAN.ORG.UK
23-Jan-12

How Circumstance Dictates Islamic Behavior. Preach Peace When Weak, Wage War When Strong

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
23-Jan-12

Islam's OIC: The World's Thought Police

by Mudar Zahran
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
23-Jan-12

Alabama Considering Anti-Sharia Constitutional Amendment Authored By Radical David Yerushalmi

by Alex Seitz-Wald
THINKPROGRESS.ORG
23-Jan-12

Islamic centre redefines political role

by Borzou Daragahi
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Jan-12

Why Obama Turned Down the Keystone XL Pipeline

by Ron Radosh
PJMEDIA.COM
23-Jan-12

Niger to pursue nuclear energy despite Fukushima - president

by Staff
MINEWEB
23-Jan-12

The Dash for Gas: The Golden Age of an Energy Game-Changer

by Tom Ghelten
WORLD AFFAIRS
23-Jan-12

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Strike Oil

by Ali Alfioneh
MEFORUM.ORG
23-Jan-12

Debt as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Staff
RIEAS,GR
23-Jan-12

Muslims Converting Empty European Churches into Mosques

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
23-Jan-12

Time For More Eurofudge?

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
23-Jan-12

January 22, 2012 Digest

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
22-Jan-12

I present the items below without commentary this time. It is more important that you the pieces than hear from me. Please pay special attention to J. Millard Burr's piece on Egypt's Islamic banking. Otherwise today's offerings are updates on cyber, commodities, and Southeast Asia.
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Egypt's Islamic Banking -- The National Development Bank Example.

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
21-Jan-12

January 21, 2012 EWI EXCLUSIVE The genesis of modern Islamist banking can be found in the writing of Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida and other 19th and early 20th century polemicists who sought a return to the religious purity that attended the movement immediately following the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Among their most important demands was the implementation of the...
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'Cyber warfare on Israel is a serious threat'

by Gil Shefler
JERUSALEM POST
21-Jan-12

Check Point CEO Says Hackers Used Israeli Computers in Attacks

by Shoshanna Solomon, Gwen Ackerman
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Jan-12

They Just Don't Get Amazon!

by Marek Fuchs
THE STREET
21-Jan-12

SOPABlackout And the Internet Spring

by "Harold"
TALES OF THE SAUSAGE FACTORY
21-Jan-12

Israel cyber warfare: Hamas opens cyber front on Israel

by Staff
SCOTSMAN
21-Jan-12

Hackers Attack Israeli Stock Exchange In Escalating Mideast Cyber-Throwdown

by Staff
GAWKER.COM
21-Jan-12

New battlelines drawn in cyber-space

by Victor Kotsev
ASIA TIMES
21-Jan-12

Speaking the same language on cyber threats

by Kevin Coleman
DEFENSESYSTEMS.COM
21-Jan-12

Pakistan: Cyber Warfare and Internet Hacking

by Alamzeb Khan
SIMPLE-TALK.COM
21-Jan-12

Reversal of Fortune: Soros Said to Buy Gold Again Late Last Year

by Forrest Jones
MONEY NEWS
21-Jan-12

Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich calls for U.S. Gold Commission

by Dorothy Kosich
MINEWEB
21-Jan-12

Gold, Currencies and Commodities: Axel Merk's Outlook

by Lewis Braham
BLOOMBERG
21-Jan-12

Copper rises a third day; Chinese demand eyed

by Jane Lee (Reuters)
MINEWEB
21-Jan-12

China announces its largest rough diamond discovery in 30 years

by Dorothy Kosich
MINEWEB
21-Jan-12

Talking to the Taliban: Are Afghanistan's insurgents really serious about peace talks with Washington and Kabul?

by Con Coughlin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jan-12

Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Killing VOA Reporter

by Staff
VOA NEWS
21-Jan-12

Malaysia Prosecutors Appeal Anwar Acquittal

by James Hookway
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jan-12

Indonesia Sees Surge in Foreign Investment

by Eric Bellman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jan-12

Updates on Iran, the Middle East, and Energy

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
20-Jan-12

IRAN A long time ago (it now seems), economic warfare was all about sanctions and the debate (e.g., on sanctioning Saddam Hussein) was about the suffering of people while leaving evil regimes in place. Find below some of the current chatter about Iran sanctions. Missing from the discussion, it seems to me, is the fact that the inclination to impose more and more...
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On Iran, sanctions are not the answer

by John Bolton
USA TODAY
19-Jan-12

Spotlight on Iran

by Staff
THE MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
19-Jan-12

Spotlight on Iran

by Staff
THE MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
19-Jan-12

Spotlight on Iran

by Staff
THE MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
19-Jan-12

The Dead Man and His Long Shadow

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Oskar Svadkovsky
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
19-Jan-12

War with Iran: A Conflict Obama Hopes to Avoid May Be Imposed on Him

by Tony Karon
TIME
19-Jan-12

Bams Iran dilemma: Atomic ayatollahs vs. $5 gas

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
19-Jan-12

Body Politics: Irans birthrate has fallen. Is it because Iranian women have greater opportunity? Or is it a reaction to the Islamist regime?

by Michelle Goldberg, Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
19-Jan-12

Fatah's Top Religious Authority Calls for Genocide of Jews

by Itamar Marcus, Nan Jacques Zilberdik
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
19-Jan-12

The Two Faces of Al Jazeera

by Oren Kessler
MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY
19-Jan-12

U.S. - Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference, January 16-18, 2012 - FACT SHEET

by Office of the Spokesperson
WWW.STATE.GOV
19-Jan-12

Enough: Israel Crushes Extremism. Others Promote It. Israel is overwhelmingly rallying against extremists targeting my daughters friend Naama. Are you paying attention?

by Rabbi Dov Lipman
PJMEDIA.COM
19-Jan-12

How Israels Gaza Pullout Radicalized Sinai

by Evelyn Gordon
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
19-Jan-12

Egypt's next parliament to be led by Islamist

by Leila Fadel, Ingy Hassieb
WASHINGTON POST
19-Jan-12

Oil climbs past $100 in Europe on Saudi ministers comments about embargo on Iran crude

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
19-Jan-12

Saudi, Chinese oil giants ink deal

by Staff
CHANNELNEWSASIA.COM
19-Jan-12

Naked Oil

by Chris Cook
NAKED CAPITALISM
19-Jan-12

ILLEGAL DRUGS -- EGYPT -- TERRORISM

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
18-Jan-12

Illegal Drugs Last spring we heard from an international conference (I've forgotten which one) that participants were leaning toward drug legalization as the wave of the future in the fight against the trade in illegal drugs. The strangest thing about the reporting on this was that there was no particular concern, either on the part of the participants or the...
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Cocaine: The New Front Lines. Colombia's success in curbing the drug trade has created more opportunities for countries hostile to the United States. What happens when coca farmers and their allies a

by John Lyons
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Jan-12

The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions

by Ashley Frantz
CNN
17-Jan-12

Value of Afghan opium soars 133 percent in 2011 to about $1.4 billion, 10th of GDP

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
17-Jan-12

Chavezs Narco-Tyranny and Accomplices

by Carlos Ponce
FOX NEWS
17-Jan-12

Iran in Latin America is no laughing matter

by Jose Cardenas
FOREIGN POLICY
17-Jan-12

Egypt tourism earnings fall 30 percent in 2011

by AFP
THEDAILYNEWSEGYPT.COM
17-Jan-12

Egyptian hopes for post-revolution jobs

by Mahalla el Kubra
BBC
17-Jan-12

Egyptian Liberals Against the Revolution Free societies mean more than just free elections.

by James Kirchick
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
17-Jan-12

Pakistan Taliban leader believed dead: intelligence officials

by Jibran Ahmad
REUTERS
17-Jan-12

Thais Hunt Terrorist Aiming to Target Jews

by Staff
FORWARD
17-Jan-12

Causes of Rain and Sources of Violence in Nigeria

by Robert Reilly
THECATHOLICTHING.COM
17-Jan-12

AUTHORIZED REPRINT This past Christmas, an Islamist group in northern Nigeria, Boko Haram, bombed two Christian churches, killing more than forty people, including thirty-seven parishioners as they came out of the packed Christmas morning Mass in St. Theresa Catholic Church in...
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Shari'a & Shari'a Banking -- Iran -- Europe

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
16-Jan-12

SHARI'A & SHARI'A BANKING Today's Blog and Digest takes a quick look at Shari'a and Shari'a banking issues and at Shari'a and the developing character of new Middle Eastern regimes. The problem with Shari'a banking is obvious: potential Islamist influence in/on finance and banking, what kind of money is moving where, and resulting abuses. Every once in a...
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Goldmans bold dip into Islamic bond market

by Una Galani, Margaret Doyle
GLOBE AND MAIL UK
15-Jan-12

2011: Sharia bank spent zakat on jihad

by Staff
MONEY JIHAD
15-Jan-12

Sharia and the Constitution in Post-Revolution Tunisia

by Edsel Tupaz, Joan Martinez
JURIST.ORG
15-Jan-12

Egyptian Islamists Demand "Morals Patrols"

by Irfan Al-Alawi
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Jan-12

Muslim Brotherhood Declares 'Mastership of World' as Ultimate Goal

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
15-Jan-12

The dangers of wishful thinking in the Middle East: Projecting Western ideas onto the Arab Spring seriously underestimates the danger of Islamism.

by Bob Reilly
MERCANTORNET.COM
15-Jan-12

AUTHORIZED REPOST Robert R. Reilly | Wednesday, 11 January 2012 The dangers of wishful thinking in the Middle East Projecting Western ideas onto the Arab Spring seriously underestimates the danger of Islamism. Last July Matthew Kaminski opined in the Wall Street Journal that the...
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The Liam OFlahertys of Today

by David Pryce-Jones
NATIONAL REVIEW
15-Jan-12

False Flag: A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.

by Mark Perry
FOREIGN POLICY
15-Jan-12

Iran Seeks Lifeline in Latin America. An increasingly desperate regime hunts for friends.

by Jaime Daremblum
PAJAMAS MEDIA
15-Jan-12

Iran, Venezuela Plotting Attacks "Worse than 9/11"

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Jan-12

Oil refiners sever links to Iran

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Jan-12

Rationale: The question policy-makers should focus on isnt whether Iran would use a nuclear weapon, but how a bomb would embolden an already reckless regime

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
15-Jan-12

Beijing And Tehran's Coming Divorce

by Ilan Berman
ILANBERMAN.COM
15-Jan-12

AUTHORIZED REPOST Beijing And Tehran's Coming Divorce by Ilan Berman Wall Street Journal January 11, 2012 Is China finally coming around on Iran? For years, Beijing's steady backing has helped the Iranian regime frustrate international efforts to isolate and penalize it for its nuclear ambitions. This month, however, there are heartening signs that...
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The war with Iran has already begun

by Con Coughlin
TELEGRAPH UK
15-Jan-12

'Car bomb kills nuclear scientist near Tehran university'

by REUTERS & JPOST.COM Staff
JERUSALEM POST
15-Jan-12

Ill see you -- and raise you?

by Sol Sanders
WASHINGTON TIMES
15-Jan-12

One Market, One Currency, One People? The Faulty Logic of Europe

by Jakub Grygiel
FPRI
15-Jan-12

AUTHORIZED REPOST ONE MARKET, ONE CURRENCY, ONE PEOPLE? THE FAULTY LOGIC OF EUROPE by Jakub Grygiel January 9, 2012 Jakub Grygiel is the George H.W. Bush Senior Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC. He is a senior fellow...
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Germany Attempts to Silence Criticism of Islam

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Jan-12

"Andalusia Spring:" Reclaiming "Occupied" Spain for Islam

by Soeren Kern
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
15-Jan-12

Egypt: The Salafist Tendency

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
14-Jan-12

Cairo, 4 January 2012: The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party has won 41% of the seats in lower house elections. The ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party followed with 21%. A 4 February 2009 cable (#202) from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, ("Salafism on the Rise in Egypt") sounded the warning that over the past two decades an "Increasing religious...
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Terrorism Update/Cyber News

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
14-Jan-12

Of recent pieces on terrorism from the commentariat, one of the most thoughtful is by William Shawcross, who examines the issue of dealing justly with terrorists. This comes in anticipation of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed this spring and summer. Shawcross, whose father was British prosecutor at Nuremberg, usefully compares those proceedings and contemporary terrorist trials. He...
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Islamic narcoterrorism

by Yoram Ettinger
ISRAEL HAYOM
13-Jan-12

Terror on Trial: Legal proceedings against violent extremists are a crucial defense of our civilization, writes William Shawcross, whose father was a prosecutor at Nuremberg.

by William Shawcross
WALL STREET JOURNAL
13-Jan-12

Al-Qaeda Members Gripe Over Cash Crunch as U.S. Targets Funding

by Ian Katz, John Walcott
BLOOMBERG
13-Jan-12

Ex-Michigan congressman sentenced to more than a year in prison in terrorism financing case

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
13-Jan-12

Al Qaeda in Yemen targets more American recruits

by Catherine Herridge
FOX NEWS
13-Jan-12

Nigeria's descent into holy war: A wave of terrorist violence across Nigeria has raised fears of an alliance between the Islamist Boko Haram movement and al-Qaeda's franchise in the Sahara.

by Colin Freeman
TELEGRAPH UK
13-Jan-12

Ad Site Crimes: Shutdown Isn't the Solution

by Robert McGarvey
INTERNETEVOLUTION.COM
13-Jan-12

U.S. To Twitter: Stop Sleeping With The Enemy

by Daniel Freedman
FORBES
13-Jan-12

U.S. Ousts Venezuela Diplomat Over Cyber-Terrorism Plans

by Janet Maragioglio
MOBILEDIA.COM
13-Jan-12

Supremacy in cyberspace: New strategy by US

by Igor Panarin
RT.COM
13-Jan-12

Navy Warships Brace For Cyber Attacks

by Carlo Munoz
DEFENSE.AOL.COM
13-Jan-12

Cyberwarfare: N. Korea commands 3,000-strong cyber warfare unit: defector

by Reza Rafati
CYBERWARZONE.COM
13-Jan-12

Sophisticated cyberattacks became the norm in 2011: A look back at a year when cyberattacks and responses reached a new level

by John Edwards
DEFENSESYSTEMS.COM
13-Jan-12

Kaspersky Lab provides Cyberthreat forecast for 2012

by Staff
ITNEWSAFRICA.COM
13-Jan-12

Big Hack Attack on Israel Inevitable, Say Experts

by David Rosenberg
THEMEDIALINE.ORG
13-Jan-12

War 2.0: Attack of the Saudi hacker

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
13-Jan-12

Economic Warfare and "Capitalism in Crisis"/Energy Update

by K.D.M.Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
12-Jan-12

Please find below three articles—by Frank Fukuyama, David Ignatius, and Larry Summers—on "Capitalism in Crisis." In looking at the ways in which, since 9/11, international politics and warfare has shifted increasingly toward the use of economic weapons on the part of terrorists and state actors as well, it is important to consider as context the various public...
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American Exceptionalism

by Frank Fukuyama
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
11-Jan-12

The danger in a declining middle class

by David Ignatius
WASHINGTON POST
11-Jan-12

Current woes call for smart reinvention not destruction

by Lawrence Summers
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-Jan-12

Taking Energy Independence Seriously

by Lawrence Kadish
SACRAMENTO BEE
11-Jan-12

Two Birds with One Pipeline

by Gal Luft
HA'ARETZ
11-Jan-12

Shale Storm

by Andrew Michta
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
11-Jan-12

China Is Expected to Resist Oil Shift

by Bob Davis et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
11-Jan-12

India seeks oil alternatives to Iran

by James Lamont
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-Jan-12

Chinese premier to bolster Gulf energy ties

by Michael Peel, Leslie Hook
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-Jan-12

Middle East News: So What's New? Is 2012 the Year of the 'Four Nos'?"

by K.D.M.Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
05-Jan-12

One of the most startling articles to appear lately is by Michael Ledeen on Pyjamas Media. Ledeen has, of course, predicted the end of the Iranian regime for a good long while. Now he has convinced me that the end is nearer than the sympathetic-but-less-optimistic might think. His two points are that a) a 35% decline in the rial since September indicates a big threat to the Iranian...
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Establishment factions to face off in Iranian elections

by Thomas Erdbrink
WASHINGTON POST
04-Jan-12

Sir Jeremy Greenstock whitewashes Hamas in Turkey.

by Staff
ISRAELTHE VIEW FROM HERE. COM
04-Jan-12

Sir Jeremy Greenstock whitewashes Hamas in Turkey.

by Staff
ISRAELTHE VIEW FROM HERE. COM
04-Jan-12

Jumblatt urges Russia, Iran to reconsider approach on Syria

by Staff
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
04-Jan-12

Syria's Regime Involved in the Damascus Bombings?

by Michael Weisss
WORLD AFFAIRS
04-Jan-12

In Middle East, best news is no news

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
04-Jan-12

The Implications of the Final US Withdrawal from Iraq for Israel

by Dore Gold
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
04-Jan-12

US and EU Funding Palestinian Efforts to Stop "Normalization" with Israel

by Khaled Abu Toameh
STONEGATEINSTITUTE. COM
04-Jan-12

Egypt Vows to End Crackdown on Nonprofits. Germany summoned the Egyptian ambassador on Friday after Egyptian authorities raided the Cairo office of a German civil-society foundation.

by Steven Myers and David Kirkpatrick
NEW YORK TIMES
04-Jan-12

Arab Democracy Is the Best Bet for a Muslim Reformation. When the state isn't hostile to religion, Islam isn't a bankable political issue.

by Matthew Kaminski
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Jan-12

Egypt: A religious revival

by Roula Khalaf, Hebe Saleh
FINANCIAL TIMES
04-Jan-12

Saudi Kings Reform Step vs. Crown Princes Ambitious Wahhabism

by Irfran Al-Alwai, Steve Schwartz
WEEKLY STANDARD
04-Jan-12

Bursting the Taittinger's Bubble

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
NEW YORK SUN
31-Dec-11

Bursting the Taittinger's Bubble New York Sun by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld 31-Dec-03 It took 50 years after the war ended for President Chirac to issue an apology for France's actions against the Jews during the Vichy government and the German...
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End of Year Potpourri

by K.D.M.Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
31-Dec-11

FYI, we repost Rachel Ehrenfeld’s 2003 article on anti-Semitism in France because it’s appropriate for New Year’s Eve, given the involvement of champagne-maker Pierre Taittinger in their history (that is, the history of anti-Semitism and that of New Year’s Eve). Anyone for reliving 2011? No? I didn't think so. Accordingly, the EWI Digest and Blog here...
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Al-Qaeda's Newest Outpost

by Ilan Berman
ILAN BERMAN.COM
31-Dec-11

When it released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism back in June, the Obama administration had a lot to crow about. Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden had been killed a month earlier by U.S. special forces in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Persistent operations by the United States and its Coalition partners over the preceding year had succeeded in degrading the organization's...
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US $10m bounty for 'al-Qaeda man' based in Iran

by Staff
BBC
31-Dec-11

The New Nexus of Narcoterrorism: Hezbollah and Venezuela

by Vanessa Neumann
FPRI
31-Dec-11

December 2011 Vanessa Neumann is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and is co-chair, with FPRI Trustee Devon Cross, of FPRI’s Manhattan Initiative. Press stories, as well as a television documentary, over the past two months have detailed the growing cooperation between South American drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists, proving that the...
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Islamic scholar casts a skeptical eye on the emerging Egypt

by Jeffrey Fleishman
LA TIMES
31-Dec-11

Egypt: El-Badawi 'Joining a Coalition Government With the Muslim Brotherhood Is Not Ruled Out'

by Aswat Masriya
ALL AFRICA
31-Dec-11

Arab Apartheid

by Khaled Abu Toameh
HUDSON NY
31-Dec-11

Are Egypt's Islamic Parties Planning to Nullify the Peace Treaty with Israel?

by Jonathan Halevi
JCPA
31-Dec-11

Muslim Brotherhood: Movement puts emphasis on pursuit of social justice

by Borzou Baragahi
FINANCIAL TIMES
31-Dec-11

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV

by Paul Sonne, Farnaz Fasini
WALL STREET JOURNAL
31-Dec-11

Wow, Theyre Still Blowing Up Iran

by MiChael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
31-Dec-11

The Center for American Progress Jihad Against the Free World

by Daniel Greenfield
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
31-Dec-11

Hezbollah Comes to the U.S.

by Staff
POWERLINEBLOG.COM
31-Dec-11

New York Times Ridicules Gingrich on Sharia

by Ryan Mauro
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
31-Dec-11

Thomas Friedmans Hezbollah Breakfast?

by Staff
ALGEMEINER.COM
31-Dec-11

The Federal Reserve's Covert Bailout of Europe. When is a loan between central banks not a loan? When it is a dollars-for-euros currency swap.

by Gerald O'Driscoll
WALL STREET JOURNAL
31-Dec-11

Iran's Islamist Regime and the American Helping It

by Manda Zand Ervin
HUDSON NY
31-Dec-11

Moshe Sharon: 'Radical Islamic elements are on the ascent'

by Staff
ISRAEL HAYOM
31-Dec-11

Saudi firm buys farmland in Argentina to secure animal feed

by Adam Schreck
USA TODAY
31-Dec-11

Saudi Arabia posts huge budget surplus

by Staff
BBC
31-Dec-11

Saudi Arabia: Coping with Indigenous Unemployment and the Nitaqat Program.

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
23-Dec-11

December 20, 2011 In May 2011 the Saudi Arabia Minister of Labor Adel Fakieh announced that his Ministry would very soon introduce a program (the Nitaqat) that would drastically reduce the overall number of sponsorship visas (the Iqama) granted to expatriates seeking work in Saudi Arabia's private sector. Fakieh, an engineer, the former mayor of Jeddah, Chairman of the Savola corporation...
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December in the Middle East

by K.D.M.Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
21-Dec-11

What was the biggest story on the Middle East this month? U.S. withdrawal from Iraq? The very bad news about the Egyptian economy? The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's ridiculous claim to being only "moderately Islamist" and pundits and the media taking this as a good sign? Newt Gingrich's statement that the Palestinians are an "invented people"? None of the...
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What Obama Left Behind in Iraq. There's no need to fear the deference of Iraq's Shiites toward Iran.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Dec-11

Iraq in the Rearview Mirror

by Jed Babbin
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
20-Dec-11

Saudi prince buys $300 mn stake in Twitter

by Staff
EGYPT.COM
20-Dec-11

Federal judge: Iran shares responsibility for 9/11 terror attacks

by Kenneth Timmerman
DAILY CALLER
20-Dec-11

Congress moves to restrict aid to Egypt, Pakistan

by Staff
EGYPT.COM
20-Dec-11

Hamas sets up rocket production line in Sinai

by Yaakov Katz
JERUSALEM POST
20-Dec-11

The Failure of Secular and Liberal Egyptians

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
20-Dec-11

Report: Hezbollah in dire financial straits

by Staff
YNET NEWS
20-Dec-11

How Iran's Rulers Think about the Nuclear Program

by Harold Rhode
HUDSON NY
20-Dec-11

Gingrich Gets It Right

by David Horowitz
HUDSON NY
20-Dec-11

Beirut Bank Seen as a Hub of Hezbollahs Financing

by Jo Becker
NEW YORK TIMES
20-Dec-11

Mileage and Jobs: Fisker

by Robert Chapman
EWI EXCLUSIVE
19-Dec-11

December 17 The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Fisker, an American automobile manufacturer in Anaheim, California, $529,000,000 to build a car in Uusikaupunk, Finland. It is a start-up endeavor, starting from scratch with taxpayer money. Appropriately, the car is called a “Fisker.” The over a half billion...
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Iran in Convulsion (the death spiral continues)

by Michael Ledeen
PJGAMAS.MEDIA
14-Dec-11

MANPADS and The Muslim Brotherhood

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
13-Dec-11

Before beginning my commentary, I need to draw your attention to a recent Christian Science Monitor piece by my colleague Rachel Ehrenfeld. Since 2002, the Israeli's have been concerned with the threat of shoulder-fired missiles to its civilian aircraft—concerned enough to consider providing those aircraft with electronic countermeasures. In November, the news went out that this project has now...
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Libya's missing missiles: a threat to US airline passengers.

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
12-Dec-11

Islamists, elections and the Arab spring: And the winner is . . . Political Islam is on the march. The West should keep its nerve

by Staff
ECONOMIST
12-Dec-11

Egypt Radicalizing Through Ballots, as Historic Election Begins. Egypt's military leader calls on citizens to vote in Monday's elections, as protesters continue to demand his resignation.

by Elad Benari
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
12-Dec-11

Political Islam poised to dominate the new world bequeathed by Arab spring

by Peter Beaumont
GUARDIAN UK
12-Dec-11

A French minister of Arab origin says there is no such thing as moderate Islam

by Staff
AFP
12-Dec-11

Democracy in the Brotherhood's Birthplace

by Nicolas Kristof
NEW YORK TIMES
12-Dec-11

Hamas joins Global Muslim Brotherhood

by Elior Levy
YNET NEWS
12-Dec-11

Appeals court affirms Muslim Brotherhood not 'moderate'. Judges uphold Hamas-financing conviction of CAIR leader, others

by Staff
WND
12-Dec-11

Muslim Brotherhood withdraws from SCAF 'advisory council'

by Staff
AHRAM ONLINE
12-Dec-11

Coptic Liberal: The Obama Administration Is Supporting the Islamists in the Middle East at the Expense of the Secular Democrats

by Staff
MEMRI
12-Dec-11

Dear Muslims: Which "House" is America to You?

by Amil Imani
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
12-Dec-11

Can the triumph of Islamists in Egypt backfire against them?

by Tawfik Hamid
http://www. tawfikhamid.com
12-Dec-11

A Weimar moment for the Arab world. Unhappily, the early years of Nazi Germany may be the appropriate analogy for the dangers following the Arab spring.

by Rober Reilly
MERCATORNET.COM
12-Dec-11

Tunisia's Religious Police: "Is This the Fate of Tunisia?"

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
HUDSON NY
12-Dec-11

Muslim Brotherhood Ideology in Egypt

by Itamar Marcus, Nan Jacques Zilberdik
HUDSON NY
12-Dec-11

Egypts Descent: Two-thirds of the Arab worlds largest nation is voting for sharia.

by Mark Steyn
NATIONAL REVIEW
12-Dec-11

Egypt's Trade-Off

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
06-Dec-11

November 30, 2011 Egypt’s Trade-Off By J. Millard Burr* It is sad to find that Egypt's tourist economy and the tourism giant Thomas Cook & Sons have simultaneously hit rock bottom. Since the opening of the Suez...
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Constraining Iran In The Strait

by Ilan Berman
ilanberman.com
04-Dec-11

The past two weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in Iran's war of words with the West. Last Wednesday, Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told Iran's official news agency, IRNA, that new economic pressure currently being contemplated by the West would come at a steep cost. According to Rahimi, "not a drop of oil" will pass through the Strait of Hormuz — a key strategic...
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Show of strength ends ten days of military games

by Martin Fletcher
TIMES UK
04-Dec-11

Iran Warns U.S. Over Aircraft Carrier

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Dec-11

Military action isnﾒt the only solution to Iran

by Bill Luers, Tom Pickering
WASHINGTON POST
04-Dec-11

Iran Scientists Produce Nuclear Fuel Rod

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Dec-11

The Middle East & North Africa

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
02-Dec-11

I have neglected saying much lately about the Middle East and Iran, in part because the EWI readership follows things there so closely. But, lately, there's been a good deal of insightful writing that shouldn't be missed. Those on Egypt include J. Millard Burr's most recent exclusive to EWI "Egypt's Trade-Off," which I've already sent out and posted. Burr's attention...
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Moroccan Madness

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
01-Dec-11

TIMES UK: A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise between the West and Tehran

by Sheera Frenkel
TIMES UK
01-Dec-11

Beat Iran Back

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
01-Dec-11

Not an Islamist wave: Reading the Arab elections

by Amir Taheri
NEW YORK POST
01-Dec-11

Praise Arab Spring, Except for Anti-Semitism

by Jeffrey Goldberg
BLOOMBERG
01-Dec-11

Army finds rocket launch pads after exchange of fire with Israel

by Mohammad Zaatari
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
01-Dec-11

Fallible: Infiltrated by up to a dozen CIA spies, Hezbollah, the official party of God, is taking hits to its prestigeand revealing its weakness

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
01-Dec-11

Whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood: Nobel Peace Prize for a "Muslim Sister"

by Valentina Colombo
HUDSON NY
01-Dec-11

Obama Administration Bans Knowledge of Islam

by Raymond Ibrahim
HUDSON NY
01-Dec-11

The Christians of Egypt, Part II

by Michael Totten
PAJAMAS MEDIA
01-Dec-11

Hezbollah denounces Arab League sanctions on Syria

by Staff
TEHRAN TIMES
01-Dec-11

The Counterintelligence Imperative

by John Schindler
NATIONAL INTEREST
01-Dec-11

Report: Blast at Isfahan damaged nuclear facility. Based on satellite images of Iranian city, British paper The Times says Monday's explosion damaged uranium conversion site. Israeli officials say bl

by Staff
YNET NEWS
01-Dec-11

Another Tehran Embassy Siege: The 'students' were the basij militia.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Dec-11

Egypt Votes

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
01-Dec-11

Egypt and the Fruits of the Pharaohs: What we are witnessing is not the consequence of democracy but rather a half-century of authoritarianism.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Dec-11

Who's Blowing Up Iran?

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
01-Dec-11

Moroccan Crime in the Netherlands & the Myths of Multiculturalism "Because They Do Not Want To"

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
01-Dec-11

Looting the Egyptian Currency: Democracy in Action: The Obama administration, the mainstream media, and the liberal punditeska sit insensate before this hideous spectacle

by David Goldman
PAJAMAS MEDIA
01-Dec-11

How Civilizations Die: Interview with David Goldman

by Jamie Glazov Interview with David Goldman
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
01-Dec-11

Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews. Muslim Brotherhood holds venomous anti-Israel rally in Cairo mosque Friday; Islamic activists chant: Tel Aviv, judgment day has come

by Eldad Beck
YNET NEWS
01-Dec-11

Americans Abroad

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
01-Dec-11

The United Nations: The Devil's Jury

by David Goldman
HUDSON NY
01-Dec-11

Egypt and Turkey: Middle East Basket Cases

by David Goldman
PAJAMAS MEDIA
01-Dec-11

Brussels: The New Capital of Eurabia

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
01-Dec-11

Egypt's Economy: Falling Leaves

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
30-Nov-11

HEADLINE, OCTOBER 27, 2011: Egypt had its government bond ratings cut for the third time this year by Moody's Investors Service, which cited ongoing economic weakness' after the revolt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. (Bloomberg) Prior to the fall of the Mubarak government Egypt was receiving more United States foreign aid (civilian and...
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White House Review Threatens Counter-Terrorism Operations

by Staff
WESTMINISTER INSTITUTE WEBSITE
27-Nov-11

White House Review Threatens Counter-Terrorism Operations The White House has initiated a secretive review of all federal law enforcement and military counter-terrorism training. This process has already blacklisted several recognized authorities and is expected to forbid future use of terms such as “jihad” or “Islamist terrorism.” Counter-terrorism...
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Major CIA network unraveled by Hezbollah, Iran

by CBS/AP
CBS NEWS
23-Nov-11

Two men charged with selling heroin to fund Hezbollah weapons

by Mark Rockwell
GSN MAGAZINE
23-Nov-11

American spies outed, CIA suffers in Lebanon

by Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo
BIG PEACE
23-Nov-11

Al-Qaeda 'lone wolf' was hours away from completing bombs for US attacks

by Jon Swaine
TELEGRAPH UK
23-Nov-11

Muslims protest counter-terrorism

by Staff
JIHAD WATCH
23-Nov-11

Terrorism Expert Sought $10 Million From Gaddafi, Used TV Appearances To Push Advice

by Staff
HUFFINGTON POST
23-Nov-11

The LWOT: Norway's anti-terrorism laws tested in conspiracy case

by Jennifer Rowland
FOREIGN POLICY
23-Nov-11

Is Citibank Being Used by the Government of Iran?

by Avi Jorisch
BIG PEACE
23-Nov-11

U.S. slaps Iran with more sanctions. The Obama administration's harshest step will be a move to identify Iran as a source of 'primary money-laundering concern.'

by Paul Richter
LA TIMES
23-Nov-11

Stop Iran Now

by Khaled Abu Toameh
HUDSON NY
23-Nov-11

Israels Secret Iran Attack Plan: Electronic Warfare

by Eli Lake
DAILY BEAST
23-Nov-11

Pentagon Successfully Tests Flying Bomb. A warning to Iran? The Pentagon held a successful test of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound.

by Elad Benari
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
23-Nov-11

How to Topple the Ayatollahs. Western strikes should target Tehran's military and paramilitary forces, crippling the regime's machinery of domestic repression.

by Jamsheed Choksy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Nov-11

Cyber warfare: Duqu mystery deepens as Iran admits infection

by Staff
HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS
23-Nov-11

U.S. probes cyber attack on water system

by Jim FInkle
REUTERS
23-Nov-11

Hackers attack US water system new age of cyber terror begins

by Staff
SILICONREPUBLIC.COM
23-Nov-11

Cyber Spies Are Winning: Time To Reinvent Online Security

by Anup Ghosh
FORBES
23-Nov-11

Cyberwar Most Likely to Take Place Among Smaller Powers, Experts Say

by Jesse Emspak
MSNBC
23-Nov-11

Pentagon lays out cyberwarfare policy

by Sophie Quinton
NATiONAL JOURNAL
23-Nov-11

New Computer Malware May Presage Another Cyberattack, Potentially on Iran

by Ross Schneiderman
DAILY BEAST
23-Nov-11

DOJ wants to prosecute cyber criminal activity under racketeering law

by Mark Rockwell
GSN MAGAZINE
23-Nov-11

After Stuxnet: Iran Detects Another Computer Virus. Just one day after the mysterious blast at a missiles base, Iran claims it has foiled a cyber-attack by the Duqu virus.

by Elad Benari
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
23-Nov-11

Failing to Deal, Dealing to Fail

by Rachel Ehrenfeld, K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
22-Nov-11

The past few days have seen yet another round in the "last straw" dithering about Iran. This time the huffing seems heavier. The IAEA suddenly wakes up and finds that Stuxnet wasn't much of a setback to the Iranian nuclear program, and is finally prepared to recognize Ahmadinejad’s weaponization effort. This IAEA report followed on the heels of a highly detailed...
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This Week in Terrorism & Terrorist Funding

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
21-Nov-11

I find it hard to believe, as the experts have it, that Al Qaeda isn't what it was ten years ago. Perhaps they mean that its structure and communications have been severely damaged or destroyed. A look at this week's terrorism news is once again a flood of reports on the killing of Al Qaeda operatives and affiliates. I wonder if someone can tell us the total number of Al Qaeda kills...
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Funders Behind NYPD

by Eli Clifton, Ali Gharib
THINKPROGRESS.ORG
20-Nov-11

MI6 spies died in battle against al-Qaeda, William Hague to say

by Robert Winnett
TELEGRAPH UK
20-Nov-11

British investigator tells court of contacts with terrorists. Still no evidence presented to show Mehanna acted

by Milton Valencia
BOSTON GLOBE
20-Nov-11

Hezbollah chief: Israeli-U.S. strike on Iran will lead to regional war

by Jack Khoury
HA'ARETZ
20-Nov-11

Israel agrees deal to help Kenya fight al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants. Israel has promised to help Kenya in its battle against Somalia's Islamists and in the international fight against piracy off

by Mike Pflanz
TELEGRAPH UK
20-Nov-11

The Secret War: How U.S. Hunted AQ in Africa: Part I

by Sean Naylor
ARMY TIMES
20-Nov-11

The Secret War: How U.S. Hunted AQ in Africa Part II

by Sean Naylor
ARMY TIMES
20-Nov-11

The Secret War: How U.S. Hunted AQ in Africa Part III

by Sean Naylor
ARMY TIMES
20-Nov-11

Report says Hezbollah on high alert

by Staff
UPI
20-Nov-11

Hezbollah's wallet

by Ana Maria Luca
NOW LEBANON
20-Nov-11

After the US pulls out, will CIA rely more on Afghan mercenaries?

by Julius Cavendish
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
20-Nov-11

CAIR Slams Muslim Foes of al-Shabaab

by Staff
RIGHT SIDE NEWS
20-Nov-11

Tour Guide Convicted in Plot to Kidnap, Sell Tourists to Al Qaeda Affiliate

by AP
FOX NEWS
20-Nov-11

Nigeria Moving to Confront Boko Haram Terrorism

by Scott Stearns
VOA NEWS
20-Nov-11

Editorial: Terrorist war, Islamist peace. Obama ignores the nonviolent extremists

by Editorial Staff
WASHINGTON TIMES
20-Nov-11

Appeals Court Examines First-Ever Narco-Terrorism Conviction

by Staff
LEGAL TIMES
20-Nov-11

Transportation Security Administration Worthless Against Terrorism: Congress Report

by Audrey Hudson
HUMAN EVENTS
20-Nov-11

Israel beware: China arms Hezbollah. Beijing weapons proliferation benefits Iran and Islamic terrorist groups

by Brett Decker, William Triplett
WASHINGTON TIMES
20-Nov-11

Feds in NYC announce extradition for 2 charged in DEA sting operation; both plead not

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
20-Nov-11

Shari'a and Islamism, Shari'a Banking and Finance

by K.D.M. Jensen
ECONWARFARE EXCLUSIVE
17-Nov-11

Today's articles include a good sampling of thoughtful pieces on Shari'a and Islamism. There is also some troubling news from Britain, Canada, Malaysia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Libya. And, yes, the United States, too—including a potential security breach. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council member Mohamed Elibiary is alleged to have leaked sensitive law enforcement...
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The Concept of Brotherhood in Islam: How Muslims View Each Other and How They View Non-Muslims

by Harold Rhode
HUDSON NY
16-Nov-11

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How Muslims Against Crusades Can Benefit From Theresa May's Ban

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HUFFINGTON POST
16-Nov-11

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Protecting Muslim honour at the price of freedom of speech: Bruce Crumley, Time and Charlie Hebdo

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TELEGRAPH UK
16-Nov-11

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Malaysian States To Force Homosexuals To Appear Before Sharia Courts For Added Punishment

by Jonathan Turley
JONATHANTURLEY.ORG
16-Nov-11

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The Case for Banning Sharia Law in America

by JanSuzanne Krasner
AMERICAN THINKER
16-Nov-11

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Islam Was Not For Me

by Amil Imani
ANALYST-NETWORK.COM
16-Nov-11

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UK Muslims: New Names, Old Groups: "Transforming Muslim Communities into Islamic Emirates"

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HUDSON NY
16-Nov-11

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Nigerias Christian Persecution

by Frank Crimi
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
16-Nov-11

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U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Alleged To Have Leaked Sensitive Law Enforcement Documents

by Staff
GLOBAL MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REPORT
16-Nov-11

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Post-Islamists in the Arab world (or, Islamists mugged by reality). Islamist groups have had to face a stark reality: conform to the changing environment or fade into irrelevance

by Ghaffar Hussain
GUARDIAN UK
16-Nov-11

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The Libyan Revolution: Democracy or Purity of Islam? Its long been clear that the movement has strong Islamist roots.

by John Rosenthal
NATIONAL REVIEW
16-Nov-11

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Muslim Brotherhood: Only Drunks, Druggies, and Adulterers Reject Sharia. Egypts Muslim Brotherhood just made a few assertions that have ruffled the nations secular and Christian populace.

by Staff
JIHAD WATCH
16-Nov-11

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Indonesia's Islamic banking assets grow near 47 pct in Sept.

by Xinhua
SHANGHAI DAILY
16-Nov-11

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Indonesia Sharia Banks' Growth Significant. The total average growth of sharia banking assets is 40% within the last five years."

by Syahid Latif, Nina Rahayu
VIVANEWS.COM
16-Nov-11

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Sharia mortgage racket fails, leaves 200 Canadian Muslim families in limbo

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CREEPING SHARIA
16-Nov-11

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Deutsche Bank predicts Islamic finance boom

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FINANCIAL NEWS
16-Nov-11

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Indonesia Sells $1 Billion Sukuk at Half 2009 Yield Level

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BUSINESS WEEK
16-Nov-11

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Abu Dhabi banks tap international bond markets: UNB raises $400m in note issue

by Himendra Mohan Kumar
GULF NEWS
16-Nov-11

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US expert: We must wage all-out financial war on Iran. Former Treasury official Avi Jorisch talks to Ynet about US' efforts to stifle Iran's economy and what is stopping Obama administration from taki

by Yitzhak Benhorin
YNET NEWS
16-Nov-11

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Islamic banking is not growing fast enough, says Noor CEO

by Staff
CPIFINANCIAL.NET
16-Nov-11

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The Murkier Side of Cyber

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
11-Nov-11

To keep us better informed (more likely, only slightly less disinformed), I offer up some articles today that are from the "dark side" of cyber. Well, maybe "dark" is the wrong word, except in the sense that it's not easy to access the "cultures" therein. So, let's just say "murky." I would not have it said that readers of the EWI Digest/Blog...
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Anonymous cancels operations against drug cartel, say kidnapped member has been found

by Elizabeth Flock
WASHINGTON POST
10-Nov-11

Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz

by Quinn Norton
WIRED
10-Nov-11

The security industry that cried wolf

by Lysa Myers
SCMAGAZINEUS.COM
10-Nov-11

US should not attack cyber-capable foes, former official says

by Staff
DEFENSESYSTEMS.COM
10-Nov-11

Chinas cyber armies likely to include social battalions

by Staff
SILICONREPUBLIC.COM
10-Nov-11

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DARPA pleads with hackers for help in cyberspace war

by Lisa Vaas
NAKED SECURITY
10-Nov-11

Why the U.S. is losing the cyberwar against China

by Joseph Steinberg
VENTUREBEAT.COM
10-Nov-11

Cyberspace: A battlefield where the old rules don't apply

by William Jackson
GCN.COM
10-Nov-11

Beleaguered Britain Braces For More

by Staff
STRATEGYPAGE.COM
10-Nov-11

Pentagon looks for weapons to wage cyber warfare

by AFP
AFP
10-Nov-11

A Precursor to War? As Washington Renews Military Threats Against Iran, Cyber Attacks Escalate

by Tom Burghardt
DISSIDENT VOICE
10-Nov-11

Chinas Cyberwarfare Capabilities are Rudimentary???

by Scott Terban
INFOSECISLAND.COM
10-Nov-11

What Does China Want? No Answers from AP.

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
09-Nov-11

"Thumbsucker, n.: A serious piece of journalism that concentrates on the background and interpretation of events rather than on the news or action." I disagree with the definition above. To me, a "thumbsucker" is not a serious piece of journalism, but a piece that tells you nothing about what competent analysts who have acute takes on issues think. You get...
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Chinese investors in Zambia copper and mining industry are flouting labor laws by abusing workers

by Staff
STEELGURU.COM
08-Nov-11

Chinese cities fret as land sales fall

by Aileen Wang, Don Durfee
REUTERS
08-Nov-11

WALL STREET JOURNAL: PepsiCo to Sell China Bottling Operations

by Alison Tudor, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Nov-11

China As Savior or Predator in Europe?

by Sophie Meunier
HUFFINGTON POST
08-Nov-11

Rising tide of China investments in Malaysia

by Bilqis Bahari
BUSINESS TIMES (MALAYSIA)
08-Nov-11

Chinese Financials: Is the Glass Half Full?

by Kapitall
BUSINESSINSIDER.COM
08-Nov-11

AP: Senators: US losing sway in Africa as China rises

by AP Staff
AP
08-Nov-11

GUARDIAN UK: China is more Wile E Coyote than Superman, professor warns Europe. Economic observers believe China is riding for a fall amid rising debts, illicit loans and increasing social unrest

by Tania Branigan
GUARDIAN UK
08-Nov-11

BP's $7 Billion Argentina Asset Sale Collapses as Bridas Cancels Talks

by Taos Turner
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Nov-11

Walter Russell Mead: China Balks At Argentina?

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
08-Nov-11

Chinas Iranian Gambit: Beijing is using the Islamic Republic to foil American interests in the Middle East. It's time we wised up to this dangerous game.

by Michael Singh, Jacqueline Newmyer Deal
FOREIGN POLICY
08-Nov-11

Man Group hires top China businesswoman

by Kathrin Hille
FINANCIAL TIMES
08-Nov-11

Chinas elite have new international outlook

by Jamil Anderlini, Patti Waldmier
FINANCIAL TIMES
08-Nov-11

The Chinese president displays an Elizabeth Taylor-like gift for lateness. President Sarkozy was given a masterclass at the G20 in the art of pointedly making people wait.

by Nigel Farndale
TELEGRAPH UK
08-Nov-11

Why We Need Not Envy China: Would we honestly trade our problems for theirs?

by Jonah Goldberg
NATIONAL REVIEW
08-Nov-11

Rise Of An Economic Superpower: What Does China Want? Other countries unnerved, despite Beijing's efforts to assuage their fears.

by Staff
AP
08-Nov-11

The Usual Suspects and Grumpy Old Terrorists?

by K.D.M. Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
07-Nov-11

For the most part, today's twenty items are updates on what we already knew was going on. But there are important exceptions. Of the greatest interest, at least to me, is a piece from the Scrapbook section of the new Weekly Standard. Scrapbook reports on a Mother Jones story regarding Walid Phares and his position as an advisor to Mitt Romney. Phares served as a member of a psyops...
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Lady Al-Qaeda sentenced to 15 years in prison

by MD Al-Sulami
ARAB NEWS
06-Nov-11

Drones kill al-Qaeda, Taliban leaders in Pakistans tribal region

by Joby Warrick, Haq Nawaz Khan
WASHINGTON POST
06-Nov-11

'Safe havens in Pakistan remain the insurgency's greatest enabler': DoD report

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
06-Nov-11

Al Qaeda Plants Its Flag in Libya

by Sherif Elhelwa
VICE.COM
06-Nov-11

WMD: Terrorists join organized crime in trafficking of nuke and bio-material

by Jim Kouri
EXAMINER
06-Nov-11

Judge Rejects Extraterritoriality Objection in Terrorism Prosecution

by Robert Chesney
LAWFAREBLOG.COM
06-Nov-11

Global Nature of Terrorism Drives Biosurveillance

by Cheryl Pellerin
DEFENSE.GOV
06-Nov-11

Grumpy Old Terrorists? The FBI Says 4 Seniors Plotted Bio Attack

by Staff
THE ATLANTIC
06-Nov-11

Statement of Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

by Lanny Breuer
EURASIA REVIEW
06-Nov-11

Two evils don't make a right: The unholy alliance of the Assad family with the Muslim Brotherhood would create a tag-team of evil to rob Syrians of their freedom.

by Farid Ghadry
JERUSALEM POST
06-Nov-11

Time for Latin America to roll up Iran welcome mat. Anti-American linkages that facilitate terror plots must exact price

by Roger Noriega, Jose Cardenas
WASHINGTON TIMES
06-Nov-11

US slaps terrorism sanctions on Haqqani network commander

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
06-Nov-11

Haaretz poll: 80% of Israelis believe Iran strike will lead to war with Hamas, Hezbollah

by Ofir Bar-Zohar
HA'ARETZ
06-Nov-11

U.S. Officials Reveal Al-Qaeda Breakthrough in Super Explosives

by Matthew Nasuti
KABUL PRESS
06-Nov-11

Al-Qaeda's spy killers spread terror in Pakistan

by Nadeem Sarwar, Safiullah Gul Mehsud
MONSTERS AND CRITICS
06-Nov-11

Islamist Terrorism in Bosnia as Turkish Interference Continues in the Balkans

by Steve Schwartz
WEEKLY STANDARD
06-Nov-11

Arab Party Under Fire for Funding Marmara Terrorists. MKs from both right and left call to disqualify Ra'am faction over State Comptroller's finding that it used tax money to fund terrorists.

by Elad Benari
ARUTZ SHEVA
06-Nov-11

Gov. Quinn Appoints Muslim Linked to Terror Groups to State Advisory Council

by Warner Todd Huston
CHICAGO NOW
06-Nov-11

Illicit Financial Flows

by K.D.M. Jensen
ECONWARFARE.ORG
05-Nov-11

NOTE Before I get into anything else, I want to do a brief follow-up on the Charlie Hebdo story of the other day. You may already have read what happened after the French satirical magazine got the Prophet Mohammed to be editor-in-chief for its next ("Sharia Hebdo") issue "celebrating" the Islamist political victory in Tunisia. That's right: a firebombing of the...
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Russian, Chinese Companies 'Most Likely' To Offer Bribes

by Staff
RFE/RL
05-Nov-11

Switzerland Offers U.S. Multibillion-Dollar Settlement Over Tax Evasion Controversy

by Lynnley Browning
HUFFINGTON POST
05-Nov-11

Tax: G20 countries strengthen international tax co-operation

by Staff
OECD.ORG
05-Nov-11

Gambia: Money Laundering - The Financial Muscle for Jammeh

by An Insider
FREEDOM NEWSPAPER
05-Nov-11

U.S. Witness in Azeri Bribe Case Faces New Laundering Claims

by David Glovin
BUSINESS WEEK
05-Nov-11

Money Laundering

by Dr. Tom O'Connor
DRTOMOCONNOR.COM
05-Nov-11

Tax Evaders Face Greater Scrutiny as National Debts Pile Up

by Julia Werdigier
NEW YORK TIMES
05-Nov-11

Is Switzerland Losing Its Status As an International Tax Haven?

by John Giokaris
POLICYMIC.COM
05-Nov-11

Is Switzerland Losing Its Status As an International Tax Haven?

by John Giokaris
POLICYMIC.COM
05-Nov-11

G20 summit and bribery: Is the anti-corruption effort for real? A G20 summit of world leaders on Thursday will judge its year-long effort against corruption. With Greece as an example of what dishones

by Editorial Board
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
05-Nov-11

FATF Removes Ukraine From Blacklist, Updates On Argentina

by Samuel Rubenfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Nov-11

World Bank shames EU on money laundering

by Andrew Rettman
EU OBSERVER
05-Nov-11

U.S. Sets Sights on al Qaeda Bomb Maker

by Siobhan Gorman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Nov-11

Recent Readings on Shari'a & Islamism

by Ken Jensen
ECONWARFARE EXCLUSIVE
04-Nov-11

The selection of readings for November 3 is really a sampling of a number of things, not just shari'a and shari'a finance. There are, for example, pieces about Islamic politics in North Africa (i.e., Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) and the challenge of Islamic Jihad to Hamas in Gaza. Especially thought-provoking is Lee Smith, in Tablet, making the argument that "Despite their name,...
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Arab Spring, Islamic Harvest: Tunisia Goes to the Polls

by Charles Cogan
HUFFINGTON POST
03-Nov-11

Islam or Islamist? Is our trouble with a religion or an ideology?

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
03-Nov-11

Joseph DeCaro: Sudan to Introduce Strict Islamic Law, Activists Warn

by Joseph DeCaro
BOSNEWSLIFE.COM
03-Nov-11

Leading From Behind in Libyas Aftermath: Sharia Law and Al-Qaedas Flag

by Kevin Pinner
DEATH AND TAXES
03-Nov-11

Tunisia: the main political parties

by Staff
TELEGRAPH UK
03-Nov-11

After Gaddafis Rule, Libya Gets Sharia Law

by Tarek Fatah
FRUM FORUM
03-Nov-11

Islam and politics in the new Middle East

by Rep. Keith Ellison
WASHINGTON POST
03-Nov-11

Sharia 101

by Reid Smith
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
03-Nov-11

Islamic banking in Kenya

by Hussein Jiva
UPIU
03-Nov-11

Islamic Foundations: a new financial model

by Humayon Dar
PAKISTAN TODAY
03-Nov-11

Experts eye impact of Sharia law on Maltese business with Libya

by Joanna Ripard
TIMES OF MALTA
03-Nov-11

Credit Agricole may issue Islamic bond

by Shaheen Pasha, Rachna Uppal
REUTERS
03-Nov-11

Top Muslim Declares All Christians 'Infidels'

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORM.ORG
03-Nov-11

How Islamic Jihad is becoming a threat to Hamas

by Khaled Abu Toameh
JERUSALEM POST
03-Nov-11

The Sharia-Math Of Women's Divorce Rights

by Hasan Mahmud
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
03-Nov-11

Group calls for Sharia Law in Copenhagen

by Staff
ICE NEWS (ICELAND)
03-Nov-11

Copts Murder a Test of Egypts New Anti-Discrimination Law

by Kurt Wethmuller
NATIONAL REVIEW
03-Nov-11

Sharia in the new Middle East

by Reza Aslan
WASHINGTON POST
03-Nov-11

Why Islamists Are Winning: When secular politics fail, Islamism is the last big idea standing.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
03-Nov-11

French weekly magazine Charlie Hedbo [sic] names Prophet Mohammed as editor-in-chief

by Correspondents in Paris
HERALD SUN (AUSTRALIA)
03-Nov-11

Egyptian scholar criticizes Salafist vote-ban fatwa

by Staff
AL ARABIYA
03-Nov-11

Another no-go area in Londonistan

by Melanie Phillips
DAILY MAIL UK
03-Nov-11

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Libya Plans Law to Pave Way for Islamic Bond Sales: Arab Credit

by BLOOMBERG
BUSINESS WEEK
03-Nov-11

Eclipsed: U.S. policymakers fear a Shia crescent, a regional alliance led by Iran. A dawning Muslim Brotherhood crescent is far more threatening.

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
03-Nov-11

Alexandria's Islamist Activists: Then and Now

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
01-Nov-11

On the third day following the outbreak of war in the Sinai, all was chaos in Alexandria. The Israeli Airforce was known to have destroyed the Egyptian airbases in both the Western Desert and the Cairo region, and Israeli planes controlled the skies. In Alexandria harbor nervous Egyptian warships fired off their guns in expectation of a momentary attack. Mobs of...
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Don't reward the Palestinians' 'lawfare' campaign with statehood: Make peace with Israel first

by Rory Lancman, Rachel Ehrenfeld
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
31-Oct-11

The United Nations' potential blessing of a Palestinian state in an end run around direct negotiations with Israel will add a dangerous new dimension to the Palestinians' decades-long campaign of conventional and unconventional war against the Jewish state - the commencement of a full-blown "lawfare" campaign against Israel and its allies. UN-sanctioned lawfare against Israel is...
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Cyber This and That at the Moment

by Ken Jensen
EWI EXCLUSIVE
31-Oct-11

The other day I tried an exercise to see if I could characterize the various parts of the current discussion on cyberwarfare. I went through around two days worth of English-language articles on cyber events, cybercrime, and cyberwarfare. Looking at perhaps 70 in all from diverse sources, I found that only 16 were worth reading. Most of those not worth one’s time were variations of...
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Anarchy in Egypt: Whose Embassy is Next?

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
30-Oct-11

The leading role played by the Muslim Brotherhood in the street and in the Egyptian political system can no longer be denied. The mass demonstrations that continued after the fall of Mubarak’s regime weakened of the military leadership’s power, and led to attacks on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, and escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, a...
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Security Is Sexy

by Darlene Storm
COMPUTER WORLD
30-Oct-11

Analysis - Agreement seen distant at London cyber conference

by Peter Apps
REUTERS
30-Oct-11

Cyber War and the Expanding Definition of War

by Sean Lawson
FORBES
30-Oct-11

The Next Generation Jammer Will Not Be Used For Cyber Warfare

by Loren Thompson
DEFPRO.COM
30-Oct-11

U.S. Naval Academy: First to teach cybersecurity as requirement

by Cameron Camp
SCMAGAZINEUS.COM
30-Oct-11

Supply chains remain vulnerable to cyber crime and cyber terrorism. Dennis Omanoff, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at McAfee, says it takes a preemptive strategy to ensure aga

by Patrick Burnson
SCMR.COM
30-Oct-11

Israel Censors Details Of Eilat Terror Attack Implicating Iran OpEd

by Richard Silverstein
EURASIA REVIEW
30-Oct-11

Clausewitz and Cyber War

by Jeffrey Carr
JEFFREYCARR.BLOGSPOT.COM
30-Oct-11

Balancing act: Cybersecurity vs. cuts

by Jennifer Martinez
POLITICO
30-Oct-11

Cyber Warfare, Massive "Hacker-like Penetration": The U.S. in Search of an Absolute Weapon

by Boris Volkhonsky
VOICE OF RUSSIA
30-Oct-11

China tightens grip around social media

by CBR Staff Writer
COMPUTER BUSINESS REVIEW
30-Oct-11

China accused of attacking US satellites: Report points the finger for 2007, 2008 interruptions

by Gareth Halfacree
THINQ
30-Oct-11

Cyber-attackers hack into Tokyos embassies around the world

by Richard Lloyd Parry
TIMES UK
30-Oct-11

Cyber Attacks Threaten U.K. Manufacturing Status

by Nick Clayton
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Oct-11

Janet Napolitano: Hackers have come close to major cyberattack

by Ed O'Keefe
WASHINGTON POST
30-Oct-11

Virtual War

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
30-Oct-11

How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
WIRED
30-Oct-11

This Middle East Update

by Ken Jensen
EXCLUSIVE TO THE EWI BLOG
28-Oct-11

Exclusive to the EWI BOG The purpose of posting a wide variety of items on the EWI Digest/EWI Blog is to keep readers apprised of what's out there in the media, among policy makers and opinion makers. This Middle East update is occasioned by the notion that one cannot understand economic warfare outside the context of regional "secular" and religious politics....
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Jordan Courts Islamists

by Khaled Abu Toameh
HUDSON NY
27-Oct-11

Russia Tries to Block Report on Iran Nukes

by Jonathan Tobin
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
27-Oct-11

A Fighting Chance: Why Obama's Support For Syria's Non-Violent Protests Isn't Enough

by David Schenker
WINEP
27-Oct-11

A Pattern of Appeasement and Retreat

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
27-Oct-11

Life In The Fast Lane For Iran's Well-Connected Super-Rich

by Staff
RFE/RL
27-Oct-11

Islamists in Tunisia: Not Progressive, Backed by Saudi Arabia

by Robert Dreyfuss
THE NATIONAL (KENYA)
27-Oct-11

How Might Saudi Arabia Retaliate Against Iran For Alleged Plot?

by Hossein Aryan
RFE/RL
27-Oct-11

Saudi Arabia to limit how much expats can send home

by Eman El-Shenawi
AL ARABIYA
27-Oct-11

Syria's Resilient Revolt: The uprising that began in March is supported by virtually all religious and ethnic communities.

by Amir Taheri
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Oct-11

In Tunisia Vote, Hints of New Model: Secular Parties That Vowed Cooperation With Islamists Mount Surprise Showing

by Charles Levinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Oct-11

Secular Egyptians Fret at Poll Results

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Oct-11

U.S. Indicts Four Over Alleged Shipments to Iran

by Devlin Barrett
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Oct-11

Iran Arrests More in Massive Fraud Case

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
27-Oct-11

The Terrorists' War in Iraq Continues

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
27-Oct-11

Victory for Ennahda: Why Tunisians Voted for the Islamists

by Mathieu von Rohr
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
27-Oct-11

Arab states debt favoured over Europes worst

by Camilla Hall
FINANCIAL TIMES
27-Oct-11

Outside the Law: From flawed beginning to bloody end, the NATO intervention in Libya made a mockery of international law.

by Eric Posner
FOREIGN POLICY
27-Oct-11

For Russia, Qaddafi's Downfall Is No Cause For Celebration

by Tom Balmforth
RFE/RL
27-Oct-11

Top U.S. Treasury Official In Europe For Talks On Sanctioning Iranian Central Bank

by Golnaz Esfandiari
RFE/RL
27-Oct-11

U.S. modules used to trigger IEDs in Iraq, officials say

by Peter Finn
WASHINGTON POST
27-Oct-11

MAD deterrence is being foiled by mad leaders

by Raphael Israeli
JERUSALEM POST
27-Oct-11

Japan, France Agree to Bolster Information-Sharing on Terrorism

by BLOOMBERG
BUSINESS WEEK
25-Oct-11

French forces join fight against militants in Somalia; thousands flee camp, fearing clash

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
25-Oct-11

Al-Shabab claims peacekeepers' killings. Somali anti-government

by Staff
AL MASRY AL YOUM
25-Oct-11

Turkish Police Detain Member of Hezbollahs Armed Wing in Raid

by Emre Peker
BLOOMBERG
25-Oct-11

British forces and Al-Qaeda fighters side-by-side in Libya

by Sappho
ROADSTORIRAG.COM
25-Oct-11

AQAP regains control of Zinjibar: report

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
25-Oct-11

Merhebi: Hezbollah is building security islands in North Lebanon

by Staff
NOW LEBANON
25-Oct-11

Al-Shabab claims peacekeepers' killings. Somali anti-government fighters display what they say are bodies of more than 70 Burundian soldiers killed in battle.

by Staff
AL JAZEERA
25-Oct-11

Turkish Police Detain Member of Hezbollahs Armed Wing in Raid

by Emre Peker
BLOOMBERG
25-Oct-11

An end to the Iraq war? Only for the U.S.

by Editorial Staff
WASHINGTON POST
25-Oct-11

An end to the Iraq war? Only for the U.S.

by Editorial Staff
WASHINGTON POST
25-Oct-11

British forces and Al-Qaeda fighters side-by-side in Libya

by Sappho
ROADS TO IRAQ
25-Oct-11

AQAP regains control of Zinjibar: report

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
25-Oct-11

Q&A: Gilles de Kerchove, EU's anti-terrorism coordinator. 'Why don't India, EU go for a mutual extradition pact?'

by Pallavi Aiyar
BUSINESS STANDARD (INDIA_
25-Oct-11

Terrorists fight terrorism . . .

by Paul Balles
GULF DAILY NEWS
25-Oct-11

The New Second Front in the War Against Terrorism. Incoming President of Brazil Supports Terrorism and Will Implement Anti-American Policies

by David Pyne
THE MORAL LIBERAL
25-Oct-11

Sharia law surprise for secular-minded Libyans

by Mary Fitzgerald
IRISH TIMES
25-Oct-11

Sharia ber Alles versus Western Justice

by Andrew Bostom
THE AMERICAN THINKER
25-Oct-11

Department of Justice's Muslim Brotherhood Seminars in Sharia

by Pamela Geller
ATLAS SHRUGS
25-Oct-11

Is Islamic banking missing its main chance in wake of protests against conventional banking?

by Mushtak Parker
ARAB NEWS
25-Oct-11

Sharia banking industry sees 46.55% rise in assets

by en.bisness.com
ISLAMIC FINANCE INDONESIA
25-Oct-11

Review of The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly

by Raymond Ibrahim
RAYMONDIBRAHIM.COM
25-Oct-11

Fears and Smears: Islamophobia is not an irrational fear, nor is it the fear of Islam.

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
25-Oct-11

Britons Demand Immigration Restrictions

by James Heiser
THE NEW AMERICAN
25-Oct-11

This Week at War: Waiting For The Cyberbarbarians

by Robert Haddick
SMALL WARS JOURNALS
25-Oct-11

Boomerang! Is the Pentagon Field-Testing 'Son of Stuxnet'?

by Tom Burghardt
PACIFICA FREE PRESS
25-Oct-11

Major push to combat cyber terrorism

by Staff
Information and Communications Technology Agency (Sri Lanka)
25-Oct-11

Family, a bulwark against cyber-terrorism in the Maghreb

by Iqbal Al Gharbi
ZAWAYA.MAGHAREBIA.COM
25-Oct-11

New Cyber Wars Possibly On The Horiz

by Burke Dawson
TECHNOLOGY
25-Oct-11

Experts discuss cyber operations

by Sasha Dudding
THE DARTMOUTH
25-Oct-11

'Son of Stuxnet' hits European computer networks

by Staff
Deutsche Welle
25-Oct-11

China's Cyber Militia

by George Wittman
SPECTATOR.ORG
25-Oct-11

Draft National Plan to Combat Terrorism in Armenia is approved

by Staff
NEWS.AM (ARMENIA_
25-Oct-11

Cyber Terror Cell Attacks Occupy Protesters

by Staff
WHITE OUT PRESS
25-Oct-11

The Arab Spring's First Democratic Election. Tunisians go to the polls this Sunday and again can serve as a model for the region.

by Joe Lieberman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Oct-11

The Arab Spring has Yet to Begin: An interview with Boualem Sansal.

by John Rosenthal
WEEKLY STANDARD
24-Oct-11

Gaddafi is dead. We must now forget him. We now have the task of rebuilding Libya until there is no sign that Gaddafi or his parasitic family and entourage ever existed

by Alaa al-Ameri
GUARDIAN UK
24-Oct-11

Mogadishu on the Mediterranean? Muammar al-Qaddafi is dead. Now comes the hard part -- preventing Libya from turning into another Somalia.

by Christian Caryl
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Oct-11

Re: What Will Qaddafis Death Teach Our Enemies?

by Mark Steyn
NATIONAL REVIEW
24-Oct-11

Gaddafi burial row as mystery deepens over cause of death

by Philippe Naughton
TIMES UK
24-Oct-11

US troops to leave Iraq as talks fail

by Michael Evans
TIMES UK
24-Oct-11

Gadhafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship: We needn't dispatch our forces to all lands of trouble, but our burden of celebrating liberty on foreign shores endures.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Oct-11

Australian Jihad: Radicalisation And Counter-Terrorism Analysis

by Sam Mullins
EURASIA REVIEW
24-Oct-11

Iranian commercial airline sanctioned for terrorism connections

by David Perera
FIERCE HOMELAND SECURITY
24-Oct-11

Hezbollah delegation visits Russian deputy speaker in Moscow

by Staff
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
24-Oct-11

Saudi ambassador assassination plot suspect linked to Hezbollah and Bahrain unrest

by Saud Al-Zahed
AL ARABIYA
24-Oct-11

The Occupy Wall Street Movement & Islamism

by Daniel Sayani
THE NEW AMERICAN
24-Oct-11

Guilty verdicts for both women in terror case in Minneapolis

by Allie Shah
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
24-Oct-11

Eta declares definitive end to armed struggle

by Graham Keeley
TIMES UK
24-Oct-11

Somali militia claims slaughter of African Union soldiers

by Staff
LA TIMES
24-Oct-11

The cyberwars have already started

by Uhro van der Pluijm
RADIO NETHERLANDS
24-Oct-11

UK seeks 'consensus' at cyberspace conference

by Gavin Stamp
BBC
24-Oct-11

The Case for Cyberwarfare Why the electronic wars of the future will actually save lives.

by Tim Mauer
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Oct-11

U.S. to Define Cyber-Warfare "Rules of Engagement"

by Kendra Srivastava
MOBILRFIA.COM
24-Oct-11

When anonymice attack

by Jack Shafer
REUTERS
24-Oct-11

'New Stuxnet' worm targets companies in Europe

by Nick Hopkins
GUARDIAN UK
24-Oct-11

Cone of silence surrounds U.S. cyberwarfare

by Chris Carroll
STARS & STRIPES
24-Oct-11

Hacker With Aspergers Faces Cyberterrorism Charges in the US

by Kristina C.
CARE2.COM
24-Oct-11

Internal Security Conference Tackles Cyber Privacy

by Staff
ESTONIAN PUBLIC RADIO
24-Oct-11

China ups investment in Africa's manufacturing

by Janice Roberts
BUSINESS LIVE (ZAMBIA)
24-Oct-11

A new way to buy gold with redbacks

by James McKeigue
MONEY WEEK
24-Oct-11

Nomura Sets Deal in China: Purchase of GE Capital Unit Could Let Japanese Bank Offer Yuan-Denominated Products for the First Time

by Alison Tudor
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Oct-11

The real danger of China buying the old world

by Michael Pascoe
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
24-Oct-11

US Investors Head to China

by Paul Ebeling, Jnr.
LIVE TRADING NEWS
24-Oct-11

U.S. Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas, Visitors Add More Than $5 Billion to US Economy

by Staff
DIPLOPUNDIT
24-Oct-11

China municipalities to issue bonds

by Jamil Anderlini
FINANCIAL TIMES
24-Oct-11

Why Chinas leaders fear looking in the 1911 mirror

by David Pilling
FINANCIAL TIMES
24-Oct-11

The Global Costs of American Ethanol

by Rosamond Naylor, Walter Falcon
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
24-Oct-11

The Geopolitics of Energy in the 21st Century: The second installment of an interview with Daniel Yergin.

by David Rothkopf
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Oct-11

Zalmay Khalilzad's not-so-excellent Afghan oil adventure

by Steve LeVine
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Oct-11

Presidential adviser: Russia uses Gazprom as a foreign policy tool

by Petras Vaida
BALTIC COURSE
24-Oct-11

From Russia With Greed: British Petroleums Other Crisis

by Stephen Blank
WORLD AFFAIRS
24-Oct-11

Boom! Welcome to the shale gas revolution!

by Sol Sanders
WASHINGTON TIMES
24-Oct-11

Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store. Libyans queue to see dictator's body as wounds appear to confirm he was killed in cold blood

by Andrei Netto, etc.
GUARDIAN UK
24-Oct-11

Libya is back on the map. With its rich cultural heritage, Gaddafi's former fiefdom could one day be the jewel of Africa.

by Richard MIles
TELEGRAPH UK
24-Oct-11

Farewell To The Great Loon

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
24-Oct-11

Leaving Iraq Behind: The total U.S. troop withdrawal will make Iran's day.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Oct-11

Iran's assassination plot compels a tough response

by John Bolton
GUARDIAN UK
24-Oct-11

How We Failed in Afghanistan and How We Can Do Better

by Dov Zakheim
FPRI
24-Oct-11

Exodus: Is there a place for Christians in the new Middle East?

by James Traub
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Oct-11

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz dies

by Lucinda Beaman
TIMES UK
24-Oct-11

Lithuanians jail Real IRA gunrunner who fell for an MI5 sting

by Sean O'Niell
TIMES UK
24-Oct-11

Protests Close St. Paul's Cathedral

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Oct-11

Germany and the Euro: Currency Crisis Heightens Trans-Atlantic Tensions

by Charles Hawley
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
24-Oct-11

Merhebi: Hezbollah is building

by Staff
NOW LEBANON
24-Oct-11

Here begins the daily dismal story. The United States is knocking off Al Qaeda leaders left and right (Osama's computers must have yielded all sorts of good stuff). Meanwhile, however, the rank-in-file are doing very well in Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula, thank you. Hezbollah continues its threat in Lebanon, and, supporting Iran, threatens to attack Tel Aviv if Israel attacks...
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Gaddafi shot with his own golden pistol

by James Bone, etc.
TIME UK
23-Oct-11

Putin Aide Cites Brezhnev as 'Plus' for Russia

by Gregory White
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Oct-11

RFE/RL: Four Scenarios For Putin 2.0

by Brian Whitmore
RFE/RL
21-Oct-11

Vladimir Putin is trying to take Russia back in time. The Russian prime ministers aim of recreating the zone of influence of the former Soviet Union in a 'Eurasian Union is doomed to failure.

by Alex Spillius
TELEGRAPH UK
21-Oct-11

Russia urged to improve bank monitoring

by Courtney Weaver
FINANCIAL TIMES
21-Oct-11

Putins Kremlin Return May Lead To Unrest, Steelmaker Prospectus Says

by Nadia Popova
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Oct-11

Russia Lends Venezuela $4 Billion in Return for Oil Projects

by Daniel Cancel
BLOOMBERG
21-Oct-11

Gazprom finds new field near Sakhalin

by STAFF
UPI
21-Oct-11

Israel Looks to Expand Navy to Protect Gas Interests

by Gavriel Queenan
ARUTZ SHEVA
21-Oct-11

Russia May Oppose Gazprom Bid for Waiver on Transfer-Pricing Law

by Staff
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

Russia Will Not Subsidize China on Gas Price, Gazprom Says

by Staff
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

Dutch Authorities Arrest Four Over Fraud Scheme

by Archie Van Riemsdijk, Archibald Preuschat
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Oct-11

Transaction Taxes and Transparency

by "London Banker"
ECONOMONITOR.COM
21-Oct-11

Georgia Seizes Ivanishvili Bank Millions in Laundering Sting

by Staff
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

Transparency rules to sweep across Europe

by Alex Barker, Jeremy Grant
FINANCIAL TIMES
21-Oct-11

Money laundering probe finds 37 suspicious transactions

by Staff
THE JOURNAL (IRELAND)
21-Oct-11

Plunder boys: Mubarak sons $340M stash

by Tamim Elyan
NEW YORK POST
21-Oct-11

UniCredits Profumo Faces Probe as Banks Assets Seized

by Elisa Martinuzzi, Donal Griffin
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

Cayman tax info treaty is near

by Staff
JAPAN TIMES
21-Oct-11

United in Disdain for Dodd-Frank, Wall Street Is Split on the Details

by Ben Protess
NEW YORK TIMES
21-Oct-11

Quirk Of US Commodities Law Poses Hurdle For Regulators

by Jerry A. DiColo and Dan Strumpf
NASDAQ
21-Oct-11

CFTC approves new caps on speculators

by Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
21-Oct-11

CFTC Votes 3-2 to Approve Limits on Commodity Speculation

by Asjylyn Loder, Silla Brush
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

Position Limits, Bank Living Wills, Antitrust: Compliance

by Carla Main
BUSINESS WEEK
21-Oct-11

EU May Impose Limits on Commodity Swaps, High-Frequency Trading

by Staff
BLOOMBERG
21-Oct-11

Egypts Copts, Egypts Winter

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
20-Oct-11

Are the generals stealing Egypt?

by Spengler
ASIA TIMES
20-Oct-11

Syrias Alawites go on arms shopping spree

by Arieh O'Sullivan
THE MEDIA LINE
20-Oct-11

Globally Isolated and Economically Crippled: Why Hamas is Losing Gaza

by Karl Vick
TIMES OF INDIA
20-Oct-11

Israel's Difficult Decision

by Elliott Abrams
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Oct-11

Iranian Murders in the West

by Steve Schwartz
WEEKLY STANDARD
20-Oct-11

Israel's Deals With the Devils. What explains its lopsided prisoner exchange with the terrorist group Hamas, which will save one life now but endanger many lives in the future?

by Robert Mnookin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Oct-11

Looming Threat: By refusing to directly confront Irans provocations, the United States has become the Islamic Republics key ally in its march toward a nuclear bomb

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
20-Oct-11

Growing Concern Over the NYPD's Counterterrorism Methods

by Staff
STRATFOR
20-Oct-11

From Tehran to Tijuana: Time to notice Iran's decades-old infiltration of Latin America.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Oct-11

As'ad Abukhalil: America's Hezbollah Propagandist

by John Hajjar
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
20-Oct-11

Review of The Black Banners: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda by Ali H Soufan with Daniel Freedman

by Sameer Rahim
TELEGRAPH UK
20-Oct-11

Minnesota terror funding trial heads to jury

by Amy Forliti
AP
20-Oct-11

Three Cheers for the African Union

by Michael Burleigh
DAILY MAIL UK
20-Oct-11

Irans shadow army: Qods Corps are plotting more than that DC assassination

by Amir Taheri
NEW YORK POST
20-Oct-11

State Sponsored Terrorism in Iran and Pakistan

by Elise Cooper
AMERICAN THINKER
20-Oct-11

Tanks, guns, and jets: Kenyan military moves into Somalia to attack al-Shabab militants

by Staff
AP
20-Oct-11

America Discovers Iran In Its Backyard

by Dore Gold
ALGEMEINER.COM
20-Oct-11

Al-Qaeda after Awlaki

by Rohan Gunaratna
NATIONAL INTEREST
20-Oct-11

This is how wars will be fought in the future: covertly

by Staff
FIRST POST
20-Oct-11

Terrorism arrests in UK show steep fall. Suspects held in Britain in 2010/11 drop to 121, far below annual average of 206 since 9/11, as stop and searches decrease 90%

by Alan Travis
GUARDIAN UK
20-Oct-11

Hizbul Mujahideen almost wiped out in Kashmir

by Staff
TIMES OF INDIA
20-Oct-11

Gaddafi tastes his own medicine

by Chege Mbtriru
THE NATIONAL (KENYA)
20-Oct-11

Sharia Banking Goes Bankrupt

by Tarek Fatah
HUFFINGTON POST
20-Oct-11

Al Hilal Bank teams up with Deloitte to fulfil professional aspirations of Emiratis

by Staff
WAM
20-Oct-11

The Saudi enigma: Many questions, few answers

by Ashfuqur Rahman
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
20-Oct-11

Ignored for ten years...abandoned wife's pleas to deport immigrant husband who flouted law. Woman speaks out after learning that partner can stay in the UK

by Simon Walters
DAILY MAIL UK
20-Oct-11

Our First Concession to Sharia Law: Slavery

by Bryan Fischer
RIGHT SIDE NEWS
20-Oct-11

Jakarta Futures Exchange to start Sharia-backed commodity products

by Staff
THE PENINSULA (QATAR)
20-Oct-11

The Occupy Wall Street Movement & Islamism

by Daniel Sayani
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Oct-11

Trade finance to propel Islamic banking industry

by Zeenat Moorad
BUSINESSLIVE.COM
20-Oct-11

China Cuts Fuel Prices

by Aaron Back
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

China Takes Note As Wall Street Gets Occupied

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

New Central Bank Rule Inches China Away From Dollar

by Kenneth Rapoza
FORBES
19-Oct-11

Investors Trust in Chinas Government Falters

by John Foley, Edward Hadas, Martin Hutchinson
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Oct-11

Is China's Economy Headed for Trouble? A double-dip recession abroad is the only serious threat.

by Yiping Huang
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

Shaken investors losing appetite for China's 'dim sum' bonds

by Laurent Fievet
USA TODAY
19-Oct-11

Taiwan will open to more Chinese investment: President

by CNA
FOCUS TAIWAN
19-Oct-11

Move Over, China: Why India May Be the Better Partner for Latin America

by Tim Padgett
TIMES UK
19-Oct-11

Is China practising what it preaches on protectionism? If anything, the openness' of recent years has given way to an insidious increase of state control

by Suranjana Roy Bhattacharya
GULF NEWS
19-Oct-11

China Currency Message May be Stronger Than Likelihood of U.S. Sanctions

by James Rowley
BLOOMBERG
19-Oct-11

China Currency Message May be Stronger Than Likelihood of U.S. Sanctions

by James Rowley
BLOOMBERG
19-Oct-11

China Gets Growth Help From Domestic Demand

by Aaron Back
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

Real-Name System Proposed for Chinas Rowdy Microbloggers

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

Largest rare earths producer halts output

by Leslie Hook
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Oct-11

"China’s largest rare earths producer, Baotou, has suspended production for one month in an effort to prop up falling prices, in the clearest signal yet that Chinese producers are intent on supporting prices at high levels. China is the world’s biggest producer of rare earths, but tightening government controls and stockpiling has sent rare earths prices rocketing this year,...
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Japan's FSA Is Investigating Citigroup Japan Unit For Lax Compliance--Sources

by Atsuko Fukase
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Oct-11

Swiss Bid to Settle U.S. Tax-Evasion Dispute After U.K. Accord

by Klaus Wille
BUSINESS WEEK
19-Oct-11

Money laundering hits U.S. $73 billion in West Africa, etc.

by Staff
Xinhua
19-Oct-11

Swiss tax cheats now exposed to prosecution

by Gary Howes
DOFONLINE.CO.UK
19-Oct-11

Money laundering made difficult

by Caroline Binham
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Oct-11

"The uprisings across the Arab world this year have focused the minds of regulators and prosecutors on money laundering. They may have rich pickings: a recent survey of 600 compliance officers around the world by Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists revealed that 50 per cent of respondents found anti-money...
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Expert reveals latest ways villains clean up dirty cash

by Staff
CAYMAN NEWS SERVICE
19-Oct-11

Chinese military mobilises cybermilitias

by Kathrin Hille
FINANCIAL TIMES
19-Oct-11

Virtual War

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
19-Oct-11

U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya

by Eric Schmidt, Thom Shanker
NEW YORK TIMES
19-Oct-11

Now in groups, cyber crooks!

by Nobert Rego
TIMES OF INDIA
19-Oct-11

Frying tonight: Warfare is changing as weapons that destroy electronics, not people, are deployed on the field of battle

by Staff
ECONOMIST
19-Oct-11

The End of the Age of America?

by Shmuel Bar
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE
17-Oct-11

An important article, despite its appearance on September 14,
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U.S. State Dept. prevented ban on Qatar charities with terror links

by Staff
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
17-Oct-11

U.S. Kills Haqqani Militant in Pakistan

by Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Oct-11

Iran Plots WikiLeaks Link

by Eli Lake
THE DAILY BEAST
17-Oct-11

Drugs and Terror Mix in Case: DEA Informant Plays Star Role as Agency Expands National-Security Portfolio

by Devlin Barrett, Evan Perez
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Oct-11

US hits Greek anarchist group with terrorism sanctions

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
17-Oct-11

A state sponsor of terrorism gets a taste of its own medicine and doesn't like it

by Fariborz Saremi
WORLD TRIBUNE
17-Oct-11

Iranian Terrorism and the Border

by Mark Krikorian
NATIONAL REVIEW
17-Oct-11

Maghreb Countries Tackle Terror Funding

by Jemal Oumar
MAGHAREBIA
17-Oct-11

The Terrorism Endgame: Lessons from the War on Anarchy (Parts I & II)

by Brent Ranalli
THE GLOBALIST
17-Oct-11

Blind Sheikh's son killed in US airstrike in Afghanistan

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
17-Oct-11

Why send US troops against African bush fighters? Political payback for Somalia a possibility

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
17-Oct-11

Intelligence panel head: U.S. must confront 'intolerable' Chinese cyberespionage

by Josh Smith
NATIONAL JOURNAL
17-Oct-11

Drones Hit by Virus?

by Daniel Halper
WEEKLY STANDARD
17-Oct-11

China blog site shuts accounts in 'rumour' crackdown as government tightens Internet controls

by Joe McDonald
AP
17-Oct-11

Cyberspace is made of silicon. It can break

by Hugo Rifkind
TIMES UK
17-Oct-11

BlackBerry Service Restored, Company Says

by Will Connors, Ben Worthen
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Oct-11

Cyber terrorism is the next big threat, say experts

by Staff
DNA INDIA
17-Oct-11

Welcome to the World of Cyber-Terror Vulnerability

by Judy Miller
FOX NEWS
17-Oct-11

Spy agency lists Australia's nasty side

by Greg Ansley
NEW ZEALAND HERALD
17-Oct-11

Reduce Cyber Attacks by Protecting and Rewarding Secure Networks On the Internet

by Staff
SCIENCE DAILY
17-Oct-11

NSAs Sager on cyberwarfare, likelihood of digital Pearl Harbor

by Staff
SEARCH SECURITY
17-Oct-11

Thousands of NZ computers infected by malware

by Staff
NEW ZEALAND HERALD
17-Oct-11

Terrorists yet to turn to cyberattacks

by Austin Smith, Laurene Wallman
SPACEWAR/UPI
17-Oct-11

Timeline: Cyberwarfare and cybercrime

by Staff
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-Oct-11

"The market for cyberarms is thriving, driven by a spate of high-profile incidents, such as Russia’s alleged attack on Estonian government websites in 2007 and last year’s Stuxnet hit on Iran’s nuclear programme. Defence companies are investing heavily to create a cyberwar industrial complex, a development likely to have far-reaching consequences for the future of the...
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Egyptian Tourism and the American Dollar

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
16-Oct-11

(September 13, 2011) In August Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, Secretary General of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Freedom and Justice Party, sent a shiver of fear through his nation's tourist sector when he announced, "We need to place regulations on tourists...
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The Sinai Situation

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
15-Oct-11

(September 7, 2011: This is the second report on the Sinai prepared by J. Millard Burr*) Israel Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to have made it clear to attendees at a Likud party forum held on 28 August that despite recent incidents in the Sinai Peninsula Israel should not seek to amend its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Netanyahu remarked that the...
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Egyptians Threaten Ballot Boycott: Coalition Dominated by Muslim Brotherhood Demands Legal Shift to Keep Members of Old Regime From Inching Back

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Discord Riddles Libyan Factions

by Charles Levinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

If capitalism does fail, the alternative is far, far worse. Calls for greater state supervision of the economy must be resisted, however tempting they sound.

by Alasdair Palmer
TELEGRAPH UK
15-Oct-11

If women wont spend their way out of the financial crisis, then were doomed. The only way to stimulate the economy is to return real money to the people who control the purse strings.

by Janet Daley
TELEGRAPH UK
15-Oct-11

The Fall of the French Senate. Another defeat for Sarkozy. And maybe the last good reason to vote for him in 2012.

by Michel Gurfinkiel
PAJAMAS MEDIA
15-Oct-11

Warsaw: Legia 'Jihad' at Europa League match: Jihad banner displayed by the non-Muslim fans of Legia Warszawa

by Staff
POLISH RADIO
15-Oct-11

Poland: 19 Are Arrested in Sweep Tied to Inquiry on Norway Attacks

by AP
NEW YORK TIMES
15-Oct-11

Getting Serious About Europe's Banks. Nations that regulate their banks should recapitalize them.

by EDITORIAL STAFF
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Slovakia Says No to Europe's Bailouts: The country has made painful reforms and is now asked to pay the bills of countries like Greece, which haven't.

by Mats Persson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

EU Eases Visa Rules for Turks

by Ayla Albayrak
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Germany urges treat rewrite to strengthen bloc

by Quentin Peel, Jamie Smyth
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Oct-11

Russia Hits Back at EU Gas Policy

by William Mauldin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Taking a Cue from Wall Street. Will Frankfurt See Birth of 'Occupy Germany' Movement?

by Stefan Schultz
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
15-Oct-11

Business and the euro crisis: A turn for the worse

by Tony Barber
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Oct-11

Green Lipstick On A Europig

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
15-Oct-11

Islamic banks outstrip high street rates

by Elaine Moore
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Oct-11

Malaysian Obedient Wives Club Launches Sex Guide to Fight Judaism

by James Hookway
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Regional banks push for share of Islamic product marketplace

by Staff
AMEINFO.COM
15-Oct-11

Al Qaeda leader releases video calling for Islamic rule in Libya

by Staff
DIGITAL JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Al Qaeda leader releases video calling for Islamic rule in Libya

by Staff
DIGITAL JOURNAL
15-Oct-11

Minister embraces 'much-needed' sharia commodity trading

by Staff
JAKARTA POST
15-Oct-11

Tunisia: Islamist Al-Nahda comes to power with 'modern' outlook. On the eve of elections in Tunisia, Ahram Online spoke to Rashed Al-Ghanoushi, whose Islamist party Al-Nahda appears set to lead the ne

by Staff
AHRAM ONLINE
15-Oct-11

SBP and sharia compliant money

by Humayon Dar
PAKISTAN TODAY
15-Oct-11

Book Review: Burned by Thomas Enger

by Regis Schilken
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
15-Oct-11

Can Islamic finance maintain its pace of growth?

by Staff
KIPP REPORT
15-Oct-11

Muslims in Spain Declare Jihad on Dogs

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
15-Oct-11

A Real Syria Policy, Anyone?

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
14-Oct-11

Yemens President: I will leave power in the coming days

by Iona Craig
TIMES UK
14-Oct-11

Iraq, siding with Iran, sends essential aid to Syrias Assad

by Joby Warrick
WASHINGTON POST
14-Oct-11

U.S. seeks to redraw Iraq training plan

by Dan Zak
WASHINGTON POST
14-Oct-11

State Department readies Iraq operation, its biggest since Marshall Plan

by Mary Beth Sheridan, Dan Zak
WASHINGTON POST
14-Oct-11

Bloody Sunday in Cairo

by Samuel Tadros
NATIONAL REVIEW
14-Oct-11

Israel and Hamas Agree to Swap Prisoners for Soldier

by Ethan Bronner
NEW YORK TIMES
14-Oct-11

Gaddafi birthplace falls to revolutionary forces

by Tom Coghlan
TIMES UK
14-Oct-11

The Arab World's Unknown Son: 'If you want another Steve Jobs, stop the killing of Syrian children.'

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Oct-11

Egypt's Silhouette of Fire: Sectarian violence flares on the streets of Cairo.

by Bret Stephens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Oct-11

Inside Cairo's Bloodletting: The Egyptian Junta's True Colors

by Rania Abouzeid
TIME
14-Oct-11

Egypt: Destroying Churches, One at a Time

by Raymond Ibrahim
MIDDLE EAST FORUM
14-Oct-11

Forced to choose between Iran and Assad, Hamas faces fiscal crisis

by Staff
GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
14-Oct-11

Israels soft belly: 1,000 terrorists for one soldier?

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
14-Oct-11

Iranian bomb plotter boasted of money for nothing

by Jenny Booth
TIMES UK
14-Oct-11

Iran's Act of War: The Islamic Republic is becoming more dangerous, not less, as it ages.

by Reuel Marc Gerecht
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Oct-11

The Copts Will Fight: But they won't win.

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
14-Oct-11

The Iranian Connection: What's the link between the plot to bomb the Saudi ambassador and the Gilad Shalit release deal? Iran's looking weak -- and that's scary.

by Martin Indyk
FOREIGN POLICY
14-Oct-11

A History of Violence: Is there anyone who still doubts that Iran is a terrorist state?

by Matthew Levitt
FOREIGN POLICY
14-Oct-11

Iran Plot

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
14-Oct-11

Tehrans Foes, Unfairly Maligned

by Louis Freeh
NEW YORK TIMES
14-Oct-11

Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt

by Leila Fadel
WASHINGTON POST
14-Oct-11

When Tehran Attacks: Iran's secretive Qods Force is rogue, but no more so than the regime that directs its actions.

by Emanuele Ottolenghi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
13-Oct-11

Hiring Narcos to Murder the Saudi Ambassador? If It's True, Tehran Is Pretty Dumb

by Tim Padgett
TIME
13-Oct-11

U.S. accuses Iran of plot to kill Saudi ambassador

by Brian Bennett
LA TIMES
13-Oct-11

Iranians see Ahmadinejad as disconnected from alleged plot

by Thomas Erdbrink
WASHINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Investigators initially doubted plot had Iran ties

by Joby Warrick
WASHINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Nigerian man pleads guilty to trying to blow up plane over Detroit with bomb in his underwear

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Underwear bomber' pleads guilty, says he was following Islamic law'

by Elizabeth Tenety
WASHINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Egyptian Generals Defend Actions

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
13-Oct-11

Terrorism Trial of 3 NC Men Set to Go to the Jury

by Michael Bern, AP
ABC NEWS
13-Oct-11

Brad Pitts New Film Raided by Counter-Terrorism Police; Weapons Seized

by Kevin Dolak
ABC NEWS
13-Oct-11

Tehran's Tango: Iran's Terror Beachhead South of the Border

by Marc Ginsberg
HUFFINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Lawmakers Look at Narco-Terrorism Risks for U.S.

by Staff
ALL HEADLINE NEWS
13-Oct-11

Funding Evil - 2011 Updated Edition

by Deborah Hamilton
RIGHT TRUTH
13-Oct-11

Afghan Authorities Bust al-Qaeda, Haqqani Plot to Kill Karzai

by Eltaf Najafizada, James Rupert
BUSINESS WEEK
13-Oct-11

Social networks used to counter al Qaeda: Team tries to impede jihadi recruiters

by Shaun Waterman
WASHINGTON TIMES
13-Oct-11

The Al Qaeda Brand Died Last Week

by Lisa Merriam
FORBES
13-Oct-11

After al-Awlaki: Can America de-friend his Facebook friends from hell? NR Interview with Catherine Herridge

by Kathryn Jean Lopez
NATIONAL REVIEW
13-Oct-11

The Mounting Hezbollah Threat in Latin America

by Roger Noriega, Jose Cardenas
THE AMERICANO
13-Oct-11

Koch and N.Y.U. Clash Over Terrorism Report

by Richard Perez-Pena
NEW YORK TIMES
13-Oct-11

U.S.-Yemen ties strained over fighting terrorism

by Sudarsan Raghavan,Karen DeYoung
WASHINGTON POST
13-Oct-11

Al Qaeda releases lecture by leader thought killed with Kashmiri

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
13-Oct-11

Peace Prize Winners Troubling Affiliation

by Michael Rubin
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
13-Oct-11

Ten Years In, Afghan Myths Live On

by Benjamin Hopkins, Magnus Marsden
NEW YORK TIMES
13-Oct-11

US: Al-Shabaab planning to bomb Kampala stadium

by Tabu Butagira, Lydia Bakumpe
AFRICA REVIEW
13-Oct-11

WikiLeaks: Khazen recommended severance of FPMs relation with Hezbollah

by Staff
NOW LEBANON
13-Oct-11

Comment: Bankrolling and broadcasting terror

by Staff
JAKARTA POST
13-Oct-11

Comment: Bankrolling and broadcasting terror

by Staff
JAKARTA POST
13-Oct-11

Iran will be site of the next Chernobyl

by Martin Fletcher
TIMES UK
07-Oct-11

West scrambles to retrieve dirty secrets of Libya deals

by Tom Coghlan, Hugh Tomlinson
TIMES UK
07-Oct-11

Panetta: Libya Mission Should Continue

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

Gadhafi Urges Resistance to Libya's New Leaders

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

In Tripoli Blacklist, Fears of Purge to Come: Desires for Revenge and Reconciliation Collide at Gadhafi's Prized University

by Yaroslav Trofimov
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

Will Egypt Have A Revolution?

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
07-Oct-11

The Price of Failure: How much has the collapse of Somalia cost the world? $55 billion -- and here's where it went.

by John Norris, Bronwyn Bruton
FOREIGN POLICY
07-Oct-11

We Did Mean Well: Peter Van Buren's account of the foibles of the Iraq PRTs doesn't tell the whole story.

by Stephen Donnelly
FOREIGN POLICY
07-Oct-11

We need to act as six states with one nation, President Gl says

by Staff
ANADOLU AJANSI
07-Oct-11

U.S. 'Paid a Price' on Egypt

by Staff
DAILY BEAST
07-Oct-11

Turkey's House of Cards

by Caroline Glick
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
07-Oct-11

Victory Could Be Ours, If Only We Want It

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
07-Oct-11

German Multiculturalists Declare War on Critics of Islam

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
07-Oct-11

Europe and Its Money: The way to save the euro is to return to its founding principles.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

Europe Must Share the Burden of Saving Its Banks. Banking markets have integrated but the public safety net is still fragmented along national borders.

by Jose Maria Aznar
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

EU Court: Airline Carbon Law Is Legal

by Daniel Michaels, Alessandro Torello
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

The Ticking Euro Bomb: How the Euro Zone Ignored Its Own Rules

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
07-Oct-11

The Trojan Horse

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
07-Oct-11

The Euro: "A Monument to Collective Folly"

by Peter Martino
HUDSON NY
07-Oct-11

The Defectors Tale: Inside North Koreas Secret Economy

by Kim Kwang Jin
WORLD AFFAIRS
07-Oct-11

Pentagon Says China Hold on Key Elements Is Risky

by Nathan Hodge
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

Top IT Regulator Ponders the Lesson of Jobs

by Jaeyeon Woo
WALL STREET JOURNAL
07-Oct-11

What's Behind Congress Taking on China's Currency Policy

by Damien Ma
THE ATLANTIC
07-Oct-11

Chinese investments are coming in Tajikistan together with Chinese migrants

by Staff
BAKU TODAY
07-Oct-11

Trade, investment and the Dalai Lama

by Jonathan Wheatley
FINANCIAL TIMES
07-Oct-11

Look at GE As a China Investment

by Dan Radovsky
MOTELY FOOL
07-Oct-11

Anwar Al-Awlakis American Journey: He was born in a land of freedom, tolerance and opportunity. He wanted none of it.

by Clifford May
NATIONAL REVIEW
07-Oct-11

Is Sharia Compatible With Australian Law?

by LAW Wells
GATES OF VIENNA
07-Oct-11

Uganda: Arab Investors Pump Shs12 Billion Into Local Bank

by Robert Muhereza
ALL AFRICA
07-Oct-11

Indonesias Sharia Divorce Courts Draw Complaints of Uneven Justice

by Brian Padden
VOA NEWS
07-Oct-11

Arabs and the Sixth of October

by Ed Husain
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
07-Oct-11

Panettas Pointless Warning to Israel

by Jonathan Tobin
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
06-Oct-11

Egypt's Petroleum Minister: We'll raise gas prices. Abdullah Ghorab: Israel's party at the expense of the Egyptian people is over.

by Fadi Mualem
GLOBES
06-Oct-11

Erdogan playing with fire: Op-ed: Turkeys recent military moves, rhetoric have shifted from cursing to war games

by Alex Fishman
YNET NEWS
06-Oct-11

What Does Egypt Lack?

by Alaa Al Aswany
WORLD AFFAIRS
06-Oct-11

The Middle East Circa 2016

by Martin Kramer
FPRI
06-Oct-11

Assad Warns to Set Fire on Middle-East in Case of US Attack

by Staff
FARS NEWS AGENCY
06-Oct-11

Clashes in Saudi Arabia leave 14 wounded

by Michael Peel
FINANCIAL TIMES
06-Oct-11

Loner: Leon Panetta says Israel is increasingly isolated. But the big problem is that Washington is running away from its influence in the Middle East.

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
06-Oct-11

Natos Libyan triumphs conceal deeper malaise

by James Blitz
FINANCIAL TIMES
06-Oct-11

Goldstone Returns: Richard Goldstone

by Claudia Rosett
NATIONAL REVIEW
06-Oct-11

Iran's Bahraini Ambitions. Tehran has been seeking to destabilize and annex the island nation for decades.

by Mitchell Belfer
WALL STREET JOURNAL
06-Oct-11

Protocols of the Elders of Crazy: On anti-Semitism in the Arab world

by Eric Justin
Harvard Crimson
06-Oct-11

Iran's Well-Attended "International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada"

by Khaled Abu Toameh
HUDSON NY
06-Oct-11

Turkey's house of cards

by Caroline Glick
JERUSALEM POST
06-Oct-11

Will Abbas Allow Hamas To Fool Him Again?

by Khaled Abu Toameh
HUDSON NY
06-Oct-11

Victory Could Be Ours, If Only We Want It

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
06-Oct-11

Libya: Al-Qaeda urges rebels to establish Islamist rule

by AKI
ADNKRONOS.COM
06-Oct-11

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Libya-Al-Qaeda-urges-rebels-to-establish-Islamist-rule_312512589555.html

by Staff
GULF TODAY
06-Oct-11

Islamic finance forum focuses on Shariah in banking

by Barbara Ferguson
ARAB NEWS
06-Oct-11

Unicorn Unveils New Global Brand Identity

by Arthur Macdonald
GULF DAILY NEWS
06-Oct-11

In Aceh, Enforced Sharia Law Has Outsized Impact: Indonesian Province Has Strictest Morality Regulations in the Country

by Brian Padden
VOA NEWS
06-Oct-11

Islamic (Sharia) Law in Germany, Holland and Britain

by Staff
BLAZING CAT FUR
06-Oct-11

New global brand identity for leading Islamic investment bank

by Staff
BAHRAIN NEWS AGENCY
06-Oct-11

Islamic Banking To Take Off In 2012

by Staff
NAIJA-ONLINE.COM
06-Oct-11

Islamic (Sharia) Law in Germany, Holland and Britain

by Emerson Varmatt
PIPELINENEWS.ORG
06-Oct-11

Political correctness continues to stifle debate on multiculturalism

by Abhijit Prandya
DAILY MAIL UK
06-Oct-11

Who Will Question Iranian Terror Financier in Canada?

by Michael Rubin
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
06-Oct-11

Droning Awlaki

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
06-Oct-11

What Could We Have Learned From Awlaki? With interrogations and even Guantanamo detention 'off the table,' drone strikes are the default option in our war against al Qaeda.

by Michael Mukasey
WALL STREET JOURNAL
06-Oct-11

What Could We Have Learned From Awlaki? With interrogations and even Guantanamo detention 'off the table,' drone strikes are the default option in our war against al Qaeda.

by Michael Mukasey
WALL STREET JOURNAL
06-Oct-11

The United States has designated Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

by Staff
RTT NEWS
06-Oct-11

Analysis: U.S. strikes on al Qaeda hallmarks of stealthier war

by Phil Stewart
REUTERS
06-Oct-11

Object Lessons in Defeating Terrorism

by James Carafano
AIM.ORG
06-Oct-11

NYCs Top Business Leaders Beg Congress Not To Cut Security Funding

by Staff
CBS
06-Oct-11

NYCs Top Business Leaders Beg Congress Not To Cut Security Funding

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
06-Oct-11

Woman in Somali militant funding trial held in contempt

by David Bailey
REUTERS
06-Oct-11

17 killed in central Somalia after Al Shabaab attacks Dhusamareb

by Staff
GAROWEONLINE.COM
06-Oct-11

Zuhdi Jassers Counter-Jihad. The administration refuses to utilize a strong opponent of radical Islam.

by Jim Woolsey, Seth Leibsohn
NATIONAL REVIEW
06-Oct-11

The Arab Spring countries: Religious and civil debates

by Adel Al-Toraifi
AL ARABIYA
06-Oct-11

Pillar of the Intelligence Community

by The Scrapbook
WEEKLY STANDARD
06-Oct-11

China Urges Myanmar to Protect Its Firms

by Brian Spegele
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Small Companies Teeter as Beijing Tightens Lending

by Lingling Wei
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Whispers of hope amid Chinas doom and gloom

by Neil Hume
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

The Obama-Romney Tariff: The U.S. Senate slouches toward a trade war with China.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Chinese Policies Put Squeeze On the Banks

by Steven Davidoff
NEW YORK TIMES
05-Oct-11

China Gets a Lesson in Realpolitik

by Daniel Wagner
HUFFINGTON POST
05-Oct-11

Internet investors brace for hit to Chinese IPOs. Ownership structure popular with tech companies under threat.

by Staff
MARKET WATCH
05-Oct-11

Growing China fears blur lines between debt and equity

by UMESH DESAI
REUTERS
05-Oct-11

Burma dam disruption concerns China

by Kathrin Hille
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

China Rips U.S. Senate Vote on Yuan

by Shen Hong
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Putin Pledges to Follow Gazprom Antitrust Inquiry

by Ellen Barry
NEW YORK TIMES
05-Oct-11

Gazprom: Cracks Are Appearing

by Staff
SEEKING ALPHA
05-Oct-11

Tiny Qatars Big Plans May Change Mideast

by Meghan O'Sullivan
BLOOMBERG
05-Oct-11

EU Move to Deepen Oil-Sands Row

by Alessandro Torello
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Heritage Oil Buys Early Start In Libya For $19M

by Alexis Flynn, Beniot Faucon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
05-Oct-11

Brent vs. WTI: A crude oil smackdown

by Eric Reguly
GLOBE AND MAIL UK
05-Oct-11

World has turned to US dollar by default

by Henny Sender
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Goldman set to be LME sale winner

by Jack Farchy
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Qatar in $750m European Goldfields deal

by Christopher Thompson, Anousha Sakoui
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Grain prices tumble after US inventory jumps

by Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Gold price suppression is 'conspiracy theory' only to those who won't look at facts

by Chris Powell
NEWS.GOLDSEEK.COM
05-Oct-11

The Great Commodities Heist

by Jeff Nielson
THESTREET.COM
05-Oct-11

Currency Manipulation is NOT the Biggest Chinese Threat

by John Mariotti
FORBES
05-Oct-11

Crude oil falls below $100 a barrel

by Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Qatar Holding to create standalone investment vehicle

by Anousha Sakoui, William MacNamara
FINANCIAL TIMES
05-Oct-11

Is the Assassination of Obama Legal?

by Staff
MUSLIMSAGAINSTCRUSADES.COM
05-Oct-11

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Profile of the "underpants bomber"

by Emanuelle Degli Esposti
TELEGRAPH UK
05-Oct-11

Should the U.S. Deem Pakistan a State Sponsor of Terrorism?

by Ishaan Tharoor
TIMES UK
05-Oct-11

Counter-terrorism, Common Sense and Words Of Wisdom

by John Miller
RIGHT SIDE NEWS
05-Oct-11

Five Arrested in Spain for Funding Terrorism

by Staff
IPT NEWS
05-Oct-11

Bahraini princess accused of torturing detainees during unrest

by Staff
TIMES UK
04-Oct-11

Arab Spring expected to be recognised in Nobel prizes

by Roger Boyes
TIMES UK
04-Oct-11

Rag-tag revolutionaries see victory as a piece of cake

by Tom Coghlan
TIMES UK
04-Oct-11

Saudi Arabia in Jerusalem?

by David Keyes
ISRAEL HAYOM
04-Oct-11

Saudization of Egypt

by Ali Alyami
HUDSON NY
04-Oct-11

Time to Get Real in Iran and Syria

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
04-Oct-11

Mongolian mine projects face political hurdles

by Leslie Hook
FINANCIAL TIMES
04-Oct-11

How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia: Harold Hamm, discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, on America's oil future and why OPEC's days are numbered.

by Stephen Moore
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

Egypt Fears Israel Plans to Seize Control of Sinai

by Chana Ya'ar
AURTZ SHEVA
04-Oct-11

EU searches Gazprom part-owned Lietuvos dujos in antitrust probe

by NOVOSTI
EN.RIAN.RU
04-Oct-11

Gazprom Vows to Fully Comply in EU Raids

by Roland Oliphant
MOSCOW TIMES
04-Oct-11

Moderation, Saudi-Style: Women will always be serfs under sharia.

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
04-Oct-11

Former Pakistani Intel.Gul: 'As Muslims, We Are Militant by Nature'

by Staff
MEMRI
04-Oct-11

Operational in America Sharia Law (Part 1)

by Christopher Wager
DIGITAL JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

Report: US Diplomats Met with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

by Kate Hicks
TOWN HALL
04-Oct-11

Sharia Law has led to the legislation of child marriage in 6 countries

by Roddy Newman
RAWA News
04-Oct-11

Running for Their Lives

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORM.ORG
04-Oct-11

Muslim group disapproves of polygamy trend in the UK

by David Sapsted
THE NATIONAL (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
04-Oct-11

Killing Awlaki: The drone campaign is legal and a national security success.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

The General Who Would Try KSM: This Army lawyer tried to bring a justice system to Afghanistan. Next assignment: chief prosecutor at Guantanamo.

by Matthew Kaminski
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

Why Awlaki Mattered: Through his sermons, Awlaki mobilized Western Muslims and projected al Qaeda's ideology.

by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

Al-Qaeda Speaks Spanish: Advances to Mallorca and the Western Sahara

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
HUDSON NY
04-Oct-11

Eloquent voice of anti-US jihad is silenced

by Dale McFeatters
KOREA TIMES
04-Oct-11

Yemeni al-Qaeda took a blow but remains a threat to U.S.

by Peter Finn, Sudarsan Raghavan
WASHINGTON POST
04-Oct-11

Al Qaeda's View Of The Arab Spring

by Gilad Stern, Yoram Schweitzer
FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
04-Oct-11

Al Qaeda plays major role in Russias insurgency: US think-tank

by REUTERS
OMAN TRIBUNE
04-Oct-11

US women accused of funneling money in 'deadly pipeline' to Somali terror group set for trial

by AMY FORLITI
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
04-Oct-11

Saudi Arabia Versus Evil

by Staff
STRATEGYPAGE.COM
04-Oct-11

Terrorism isn't a crime - it's a war

by Gregory Kane
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
04-Oct-11

Indonesian extremists turn to Twitter to fuel acts of terrorism

by Staff
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
04-Oct-11

Erdogan: German foundation indirectly financing PKK, Germany indifferent

by Staff
TODAY'S ZAMAN
04-Oct-11

Thai Leader's Twitter Account Is Hacked

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
04-Oct-11

U.S. Utilities, Industries Hounded by Cyber Terrorism

by Joseph Alan
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES (AUSTRALIA)
04-Oct-11

Denial of Service: Lawyers are crippling America's ability to defend against cyberwar with arcane rules and regulations. But war waits for no man.

by Stewart Baker
FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
04-Oct-11

Flaw in software puts online savers at risk: NatWest, the Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Santander, first direct, The Co-operative Bank and Nationwide are all using the software

by Billy Kenber
TIMES UK
04-Oct-11

Last Man Standing: Is America Fading in the New Middle East?

by Hillel Fradkin, Lewis Libby
WORLD AFFAIRS
01-Oct-11

Saudi Women Driven to Distraction

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
01-Oct-11

First Revolution, Now Democracy: The world is watching Libya's transition.

by Jason Pack, Sami Zaptia
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Saudi Arabia and the Arab spring: absolute monarchy holds the line. To imagine it can immunise itself from the political change that has ousted three dictators is folly, but this is what it is trying

by Staff
GUARDIAN UK
01-Oct-11

Where is Ahmadinejads Closest Aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei?

by Golnaz Esfandiari
RFE/RL
01-Oct-11

Time to Kill the Law of the Sea TreatyAgain. If the Senate ratifies it, China will have its best weapon yet to limit U.S. action in Asia.

by John Bolton, Dan Blumenthal
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Beijings Governance Triggers Land Protests

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
01-Oct-11

Shift in Sentiment Toward China's Internet Darlings

by Owen Fletcher, Dinny McMahon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

China Pullout Deals Blow to Pakistan: Mining Company Abandons $19 Billion Pact; Move Is Setback to Islamabad's Effort to Establish Beijing as Foil to U.S.

by Tom Wright, Jeremy Page
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

The U.S. Politics of Dealing With China

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

China's Wenzhou City Moves to Ease Funding Crunch

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Myanmar to Stop Construction of Controversial Dam

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Will China Ever Be Safe Again?

by Rich Aristotle Munarriz
MOTELY FOOL
01-Oct-11

Gazprom raided in EU antitrust investigation

by Alex Barker, et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
01-Oct-11

Polish Firm Lobbies against EU-Wide Shale Gas Ban

by Marcin Sobczyk
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

The Lessons of the Shale Gas Revolution: North American oil production can double by 2035.

by Lucian Publiaresi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Gazprom on defensive after EU raids

by Staff
UPI
01-Oct-11

European Commission opens probe into Bulgaria's gas market

by WWW.DNIEVNIK.BG
SOFIAECHO.COM
01-Oct-11

Gaza and Gas

by Stephen Brown
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
01-Oct-11

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and China: The Axis of Pain. Wealth, Power, and Prosperity is Moving from Us to Them

by Christian DeHaemer
ENERGYANDCAPITAL.COM
01-Oct-11

Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State

by Anthony Shadid, David Kirkpatrick
NEW YORK TIMES
01-Oct-11

Islamizing the Curriculum in Georgia

by Pamela Geller
AMERICAN THINKER
01-Oct-11

Muslim Polygamists Exploiting British Welfare System

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
01-Oct-11

A Rational Fear of Islamism: Not all fears are irrational, nor criticism unwarranted.

by Robert Spencer, David Horowitz
NATIONAL REVIEW
01-Oct-11

Anwar al-Aulaqi, U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda, killed in Yemen

by Sudarsan Raghavan
WASHINGTON POST
01-Oct-11

A proud traitor: Samir Khan reported dead alongside Aulaqi

by Alice Fordham
WASHINGTON POST
01-Oct-11

Anwar al-Aulaqis death reopens wounds for Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church

by Michelle Boorstein, Kafia Hosh
WASHINGTON POST
01-Oct-11

The Romeo and Juliet tragedy of young lovers driven to suicide by Iranian regime

by Martin Fletcher
TIMES UK
01-Oct-11

Irans hosting of Taliban reflects desire for greater role

by Ernesto Londono
WASHINGTON POST
01-Oct-11

US adds 5 al Qaeda, Taliban, Haqqani Network, and IMU facilitators to terrorist list

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
01-Oct-11

Al Qaeda plays big role in Russia's insurgency-report

by Reuters
ALERT NET (REUTERS)
01-Oct-11

Home-grown terrorism suspect testifies about plot to kidnap and kill

by Staff
LA TIMES
01-Oct-11

Awlakis Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
01-Oct-11

Gone but Not Forgotten: Anwar al-Awlaki might be dead, but his legacy of hatred and radicalism will live on.

by J. M. Berger
FOREIGN POLICY
01-Oct-11

Was Anwar al-Awlaki still a U.S. citizen? Short answer, yes.

by Joshua Keating
FOREIGN POLICY
01-Oct-11

ecret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi

by Peter Finn
WASHINGTON POST
01-Oct-11

Trouble in Sinai

by J. Millard Burr
EWI EXCLUSIVE
30-Sep-11

(August 30, 2011) In April 2010 the peace that had governed the demilitarization of the Sinai for more than a quarter-century was shattered when a string of rockets fired from the Sinai landed near Eilat, the Israeli port at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba....
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EU Details Transaction Tax

by Alessandro Torello
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Sep-11

Swiss Consider Ban on Veils

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Sep-11

An Ancient Greek Debt Solution

by Matthew Dalton
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Sep-11

Europe urgently needs a new Ostpolitik

by THomas de Waal
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Sep-11

IMF lax on Europe? Past rescue efforts elsewhere hit private investors harder

by Howard Schneidger
WASHINGTON POST
30-Sep-11

Without the euro, would Europe have turned to war?

by John Kornblum
WASHINGTON POST
30-Sep-11

Stand up to Putin and stop the Cold Rush

by Ben Macintyre
TIMES UK
30-Sep-11

Vladimir the Eternal: Russia faces the prospect of a quarter-century of Putinism.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Sep-11

Russian Finance Chief Resigns After Public Spat

by William Mauldin, Alan Cullison
WALL STREET JOURNAL
30-Sep-11

Calling Mr. Bond: Putin embraces his inner world-class villain

by David Rothkopf
FOREIGN POLICY
30-Sep-11

Osama bin Laden's bodyguard freed by Pakistan

by Rob Crilly
TELEGRAPH UK
30-Sep-11

Man with links to al-Qaeda preacher arrested

by Dylan Welch
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
30-Sep-11

'Lady Al-Qaeda' confronted with own confessions

by MD Al-Sulami
ARAB NEWS
30-Sep-11

Algeria: 'Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's treasurer killed'

by Staff
ADNKRONOS.COM
30-Sep-11

Federal agents charge Ashland man with targeting Pentagon, Capitol with aerial explosives

by Milton Valencia, et al.
BOSTON GLOBE
30-Sep-11

German court convicts 3 of terrorism for posting radical Islamic propaganda videos on Internet

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
30-Sep-11

FBI's terrorism search goes undersea

by Kim Segal, John Zarella
CNN
30-Sep-11

The Netflix Of Terrorism

by Neal Ungerleider
FAST COMPANY
30-Sep-11

Islamic charity leader sentenced in US on terrorism funding charges

by Brian Tersin
BIKYAMASR.COM
30-Sep-11

Malaysia sukuk sales on track for record

by Staff
BUSINESS TIMES (MALAYSIA)
30-Sep-11

Bank of Khartoum Participates in Bahrain World Conference

by Staff
SUDAN VISION DAILY
30-Sep-11

Islamic example in Cobb School lesson angers critics

by Bo Ermerson
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
30-Sep-11

So Now Abdallah Adhami Is an Art Critic?

by Ann Marlowe
WORLD AFFAIRS
30-Sep-11

Speculation limit fans fear they're losing ground

by Staff
MARKET WATCH
30-Sep-11

Chinese property boom starts to wobble

by Robert Cookson
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Sep-11

Relief rally lifts copper and industrial metals

by Emiko Terazono
FINANCIAL TIMES
30-Sep-11

Hackers hit Syrian government websites

by Shaun Waterman
WASHINGTON TIMES
30-Sep-11

In China, business travelers take extreme precautions to avoid cyber-espionage

by Ellen Nakashima, WIllism Wan
WASHINGTON POST
30-Sep-11

A Roadmap for Beating Latin America's Transnational Criminal Organizations

by Martin Edwin Andersen
JOINT FORCES QUARTERLY, JULY 2011
29-Sep-11

ABSTRACT Transnational criminal organizations have become too well armed, resourced, and influential to be contained by law enforcement resources in Latin America, where official corruption is widespread, police are not trusted, ungoverned spaces leave a vacuum for crime to penetrate, and vulnerable publics are open to anyone who will provide the services and...
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Sudan/United States

by Staff
AFRICA-CONFIDENTIAL.COM
29-Sep-11

State of the Union: After Barack Obamas rejection of the Palestinian U.N. statehood move last week, Israeli envoy Michael Oren sees the U.S.-Israel relationship as strong

by Lee Smith
TABLETMAG.COM
29-Sep-11

The Mideast refugees you never hear about

by Robert Fulford
NATIONAL POST (CANADA)
29-Sep-11

NGO report: 93,000 Copts left Egypt since March

by Emad Khalil
ALMASRYALYOUM.COM
29-Sep-11

The Twitter Generation

by Caryle Murphy
MAJALLA.COM
29-Sep-11

Turkey's Central Bankers Defend Policies

by Marc Champion
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

China's Real Property Problem. Rural unrest will spread unless farmers get more rights.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

Rethinking Taiwan's Defense. Taipei can deter China with a strategy of access-denial around the island and guerrilla warfare on land.

by Dan Blumenthal
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

Turmoil Stings Yuan Bonds

by Lingling Wei
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

China Banks Shunned as Investors Eye 2003 Low in Credit Bust

by Bloomberg
BUSINESS WEEK
29-Sep-11

Testing Chinas Government Transparency Sweet Talk

by Yiyi Lu
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia Warns of Terror Plot

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

Al Qaeda to Iran: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

by Lee Ferran
ABC NEWS
29-Sep-11

Al Qaeda And The Tradition Of Failure

by Staff
STRATEGYPAGE.COM
29-Sep-11

Charges filed in Norway terrorism plot

by AP
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
29-Sep-11

Is Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism?

by Rob Crilly
TELEGRAPH UK
29-Sep-11

Explaining the Absence of Nuclear Terrorism

by Alan Wolfe
HLSWATCH.COM
29-Sep-11

Following Terror Attacks, Kazakhstan Hurriedly Tightens Religious Law

by Farangis Najibullah
RFE/RL
29-Sep-11

Pete King: The Somali Government Supports My Radicalization Hearings

by Joseph Straw
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
29-Sep-11

AQAP releases 7th edition of Inspire

by Thomas Joscelyn
LONG WAR JOURNAL
29-Sep-11

Islamic charity leader sentenced to nearly 3 years

by Jeff Barnard
BOSTON GLOBE
29-Sep-11

When Muslims Are More 'Radical' than 'Islamists'

by Raymond Ibrahim
MEFORUM.ORG
29-Sep-11

Immigrants Want Cross Removed from Swiss Flag

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
29-Sep-11

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2449/immigrants-swiss-flag-cross

by IPT NEWS
RIGHT SIDE NEWS
29-Sep-11

Sharia Vigilante Street Justice in America

by Nonie Darwish
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
29-Sep-11

British Muslims reviving polygamy

by Rosemary Bennett
THE AUSTRALIAN
29-Sep-11

Saudi women can now vote: Hardly a reason to celebrate

by Jennifer Rubin
WASHINGTON POST
29-Sep-11

Project Islamic bond market seen growing in Saudi Arabia

by Staff
REUTERS
29-Sep-11

Costa Rica Tops In Money Laundering In Central America

by Staff
INSIDECOSTARICA.COM
29-Sep-11

Light shines on fee transparency

by DIana Mackay
FINANCIAL TIMES
29-Sep-11

Light shines on fee transparency

by DIana Mackay
FINANCIAL TIMES
29-Sep-11

Roza Otunbayeva: Money laundering schemes in the Kyrgyz energy sector were favorable to the former regime

by Staff
ENG.24.KG
29-Sep-11

Long jail terms in Dominican Republics biggest money laundering case

by Staff
DOMINICAN TODAY
29-Sep-11

Creating Efficiencies In Your Anti-Corruption Compliance Program

by Howard Sklar
FORBES
29-Sep-11

End for tax evasion, but not havens: Kuhn

by Reginald Tachie-Menson
BUSINESSLIVE.COM
29-Sep-11

What The Betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 Can Teach Us About The World and Israel Today

by Barry Rubin
PAJAMAS MEDIA
28-Sep-11

EU ban forces Syria to cut oil production

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
28-Sep-11

Saudis' Vile, State-Sponsored Textbooks

by Nina Shea
REAL CLEAR WORLD
28-Sep-11

Spain recognizes Israel as Jewish homeland, for first time. FM Jimenez's UN speech is particularly dramatic since Spain is considered a leading EU country to support Palestinian rights.

by Barak Ravid
HA'ARETZ
28-Sep-11

Interview: Refugees will not be citizens of new state

by Annie Slemrod
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
28-Sep-11

Stealing the Arab Spring: Abbas ambitious power play

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
28-Sep-11

British Ambassador denounces terror of Syrian regime

by Martin Fletcher
TIMES UK
28-Sep-11

Obama Sold Turkey Drones

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
28-Sep-11

Report From The Middle East: Part One

by Walter Russell Mead
THE AMERICAN INTEREST
28-Sep-11

Abbas Strikes Out: His U.N. speech made waves and drew cheers but will ultimately hurt his cause.

by Elliott Abrams
NATIONAL REVIEW
28-Sep-11

Revenge delays Libyan reconciliation

by Leila Fadel
WASHINGTON POST
28-Sep-11

Abbas's Racist Dream: Why It's Evil and What to Do About It

by Benjamin Kirstein
WORLD JEWISH DAILY
28-Sep-11

BP plans gas pipeline to Europe from Azerbaijan

by David Blair
FINANCIAL TIMES
28-Sep-11

How Libyas Energy Economy Can Avoid Iraqs Mistakes

by Michael Makovsky
THE NEW REPUBLIC
28-Sep-11

Poland's Shale Gas dilemma for Europe. Despite environmental fears, gas finds offer some countries a chance to slash energy costs and loosen dependence on Russia.

by Mary Dejevsky
INDEPENDENT UK
28-Sep-11

6 Energy Companies That Can Double

by Staff
SEEKING ALPHA
28-Sep-11

Hungary Wants to Diversify Away From Russian Gas

by Gergo Racz
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Sep-11

How to win business in Libya

by Emma Farge, et al.
REUTERS
28-Sep-11

The Long Arms of al Qaeda. The terror group is increasingly looking to its affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula and east Africa.

by Robin Simcox
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda revived

by Widad Shahid
THE NEWS (PAKISTAN)
28-Sep-11

Fighting terrorism is a global challenge

by Goodluck Jonathan
BUSINESSDAYONLINE.COM
28-Sep-11

Birmingham Terrorism Bomb Plot Suspects Charged

by Staff
HUFFINGTON POST
28-Sep-11

Book Review: Terrorism, Elections and Democracy: Political Campaigns in the United Sates, Great Britain and Russia

by Matthew Partridge
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC
28-Sep-11

IRS tightens grip in CAIR probe: Lawmaker also refers complaint to FBI over foreign funding

by Staff
WND
28-Sep-11

Al Qaedas Dumbest Terrorists

by Daniel Freedman
FORBES
28-Sep-11

Bachmann Warns of Hezbollah Training Camps, Weapons in Cuba

by Neil King
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Sep-11

Ayatollah: Hezbollah will respond to attack on Iran

by Kristin Dailey
DAILY STAR (LEBANON)
28-Sep-11

The Axis of Evil Is Holding Lebanon a Hostage

by Elias Bejjani
CANADA FREE PRESS
28-Sep-11

Brussels move catch Big Four on back foot

by Jennifer Hughes, Alex Barker
FINANCIAL TIMES
28-Sep-11

Coke chief criticises US tax rules

by Alan Rappeport
FINANCIAL TIMES
28-Sep-11

The IMF must stop playing second fiddle in Europe

by Raghuram Rajan
FINANCIAL TIMES
28-Sep-11

The IMF fails again

by Martin Walker
UPI
28-Sep-11

Flight From Risk Thrashes Emerging-Market Currencies, Debt

by Cynthia Lin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Sep-11

Foreign central banks' US debt holdings fall: Fed

by Staff
REUTERS
28-Sep-11

The Great Taboo: Arab Racism

by Rebecca Tinsley
HUFFINGTON POST
26-Sep-11

'Danny the Red' in Ramallah

by Gil Ronen
ARUTZ SHEVA
26-Sep-11

Mass grave discovered in Libya

by Cal Flyn
SUNDAY TIMES UK
26-Sep-11

The fight for Sirte

by Paul Teed
SUNDAY TIMES UK
26-Sep-11

Saudi women given voting rights

by Hugh Tomlinson
TIMES UK
26-Sep-11

The Arab Spring: Iran vs. Saudi Arabia

by CJ Radin
LONG WAR JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

Tolerance of Arabia: Pole dancer sparks outrage in Muslim community after taking erotic art to Saudi

by Deborah Arthurs, Jenni Marsh
DAILY MAIL UK
26-Sep-11

To Stave Off Arab Spring Revolts, Saudi Arabia and Fellow Gulf Countries Spend $150 Billion

by Staff
KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON TODAY
26-Sep-11

While the diplomats haggle, deadly tensions are mounting in the nascent Palestine. The quest for Palestinian statehood at the UN has worsened a climate of fear on the ground in the West Bank

by Harriet Sherwood
GUARDIAN UK
26-Sep-11

Dumped in the desert ... Gaddafis yellowcake stockpile

by Richard Spencer
TELEGRAPH UK
26-Sep-11

China Rebuffs Hopes It Might Help Bail Out Europe

by Bob Davis
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

Unrest on Rise as China Booms

by Tom Orlik
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

Calm Returns After Riots in China

by Brian Spegele
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

The Worse Banks Treat the Chinese, the More the Chinese Save

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

Taiwan, Japan sign protection pact

by Jason Tan, et al.
TAIPEI TIMES
26-Sep-11

Guess Where Chinese Companies Spent The $68 Billion They Invested In Other Countries?

by Christina Nelson
BUSINESS INSIDER
26-Sep-11

A power shift in Asia

by Robert Kaplan
WASHINGTON POST
26-Sep-11

Impossible Pakistan: Obama's team is right to expose Islamabad's double terror game.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

Brits asked to donate cash to al-Qaeda on terror website

by Nick Owens
MIRROR UK
26-Sep-11

Terrorism at a Thai brothel: In Asia's bloodiest Islamist insurgency, jihadis target a lesser known breed of sex tourist

by Patrick Winn
SALON
26-Sep-11

Iran exile group MEK seeks US terror de-listing

by Bahman Kalbasi
BBC
26-Sep-11

A New Al Qaeda in Pakistan

by Tara McKelvey
THE DAILY BEAST
26-Sep-11

Lawsuit claiming Saudi Arabia aided al-Qaida dropped by insurers who made massive 9/11 payouts

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
26-Sep-11

UK refuses to sign up to oil, mining and gas transparency initiative

by Sean O'Hare
TELEGRAPH UK
26-Sep-11

Could a Simple Bill Save the World Economy?

by Lloyd Chapman
HUFFINGTON POST
26-Sep-11

French court clears Panama's Noriega for extradition

by Staff
REUTERS
26-Sep-11

Sri Lanka Amends Money Laundering, Terrorism Finance Laws

by Samuel Rubenfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Sep-11

http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2011/09/23/sri-lanka-amends-money-laundering-terrorism-finance-laws/?mod=google_news_blog

by Baptiste Aboulian
FINANCIAL TIMES
26-Sep-11

Transparency and the IMF

by David Gartner
BROOKINGS
26-Sep-11

US tax authorities target bank deals

by Vanessa Houlder, et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
26-Sep-11

The Islamization of British Police

by Henrik Clausen
EUROPE NEWS.DK
26-Sep-11

Malaysia delays renminbi Islamic bond

by Sarah Mishkin
FINANCIAL TIMES
26-Sep-11

A Response to Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

by David Yerushalmi
AMERICAN THINKER
26-Sep-11

Here and There in the Middle East: Sharia Law Measuring Scale, Turkey or Iran, and the Israeli Peace Initiative Contest

by Barry Rubin
BARRY RUBIN
26-Sep-11

London is Under Sharia Law - Apparently

by Shea Wong
TECHNORATI.COM
26-Sep-11

LCP launches sharia-compliant London fund

by Stephen Wilmot
FINANCIAL TIMES
26-Sep-11

Albaraka, Turkey Unit to Sell $500 Million in Sukuk in 2011

by Alaa Shahine
BLOOMBERG
26-Sep-11

Kazakhstan is the central hub of Islamic finance for CIS countries

by Zubair Mughal
ZAWYA.COM
26-Sep-11

Israel's Conflict as Game Theory

by Yisrael Aumann
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
25-Sep-11

The Do-Nothing Strategy

by Aaron David Miller
FOREIGN POLICY
25-Sep-11

Syria: The revolution will be weaponised

by Nir Rosen
AL JAZEERA
25-Sep-11

Gaddafi on the frontline, daughter claims

by Lucinda Beaman, Tom Coghlan
TIMES UK
25-Sep-11

Israel Offers PeaceAgain. By accepting a Jewish state, Palestinians can have their own.

by Michael Oren
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Iran's Lawyers Who Need Lawyers: The arrest of Abdolfattah Soltani is only the latest instance of a disturbing trend.

by Kishan Manocha
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

U.S., Israel Walk Line on Palestinian Finances

by Joshua Mitnick
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Hezbollah Considers a Future Without Syria's Assad

by Thanassis Cambanis
THE ATLANTIC
25-Sep-11

The Noble and the Ignoble in the Eastern Mediterranean

by Claire Berlinski
RICOCHET.COM
25-Sep-11

What Hath Obama Wrought

by Lee Smith
WEEKLY STANDARD
25-Sep-11

The People, No: Egypts populist problem.

by Jamie Kirchick
WEEKLY STANDARD
25-Sep-11

Uncle Sam and the Saudi Split: Why is the House of Saud risking its hard-won relationship with Washington over the Palestine statehood issue?

by David Ottaway
FOREIGN POLICY
25-Sep-11

Bahrain Boiling: Welcome to the Arab revolt that failed.

by Simon Henderson
FOREIGN POLICY
25-Sep-11

UBS boss Oswald Grbel steps down over rogue trader

by Simon Freeman
TIMES UK
25-Sep-11

KPMG picked to lead UBS probe

by Anousha Sakoui, Megan Murphy
FINANCIAL TIMES ADVISER
25-Sep-11

A French Banking Primer: The effects of a system that 'encourages excessive financial leverage.'

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Multi-trillion plan to save the eurozone being prepared

by Philip Aldrick, Jeremy Warner
TELEGRAPH UK
25-Sep-11

Russias $88 Billion of Foreign Investment Not Such Great News

by Ira Iosebashvili
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Moscow Crafting Its Own International Aid Agency

by Anatoly Medetsky
MOSCOW TIMES
25-Sep-11

Russia Fights Cold War Suspicion With Cash

by Zoltan Simon
BLOOMBERG
25-Sep-11

Russia Fights Cold War Suspicion With Cash

by Zoltan Simon
BLOOMBERG
25-Sep-11

Medvedev backs Vladimir Putin in Russian President bid

by STAFF
TIMES UK
25-Sep-11

Nicaragua and the Anti-American Axis: President Daniel Ortega has grown close to Iran and Venezuela while persecuting domestic dissidents.

by Roger Guevara Mena
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Big Labor's Yanqui Imperialism: The U.S. trade representative is trying to deny due process to Guatemala in defiance of free-trade agreement rules.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Venezuela Bans Gold Exports; State To Hold 55% In Mining Ventures

by Kejal Vyas
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Venezuela Bans Gold Exports; State To Hold 55% In Mining Ventures

by Kejal Vyas
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Iran's "Invasion" of Latin America

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
HUDSON NY
25-Sep-11

Sugar production costs set to surge

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Sep-11

Investors bet miners will follow golds gains

by Jack Farchy
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Sep-11

Small Factories Take Root in Africa

by Peter Wonacott
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

The Biggest Commodity Bubble of All Time: Response to Critics

by L. Randall Wray
ECONOMONITOR.COM
25-Sep-11

Commodities Erase This Year's Gains in Selloff

by Fuller Money
PROACTIVEINVESTORS.COM
25-Sep-11

Gold loses lustre amid widespread sell-off

by Emiko Terazono
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Sep-11

The Internet and China's Rule-of-Law Games. Why Beijing makes a business of allowing companies to break the rules.

by Joseph Sternberg
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Thailand Tightens Web's Leash: Companies Including Google and Microsoft Fear Ending Up in Prosecutors' Sights, Chilling Online Commerce

by James Hookway
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Sep-11

Theyre watching. And they can bring you down. Why the world is scared of hacktivists.

by Joseph Menn
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Sep-11

Pakistan frees al Qaeda commander: report

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
24-Sep-11

US building a 'constellation' of drone bases

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
24-Sep-11

Charity clampdown to curb terrorist financing leads to more kidnappings

by Aliya Sternstein
NEXT GOV.COM
24-Sep-11

WikiLeaks cables: Saudis tagged in funding terrorists in PH

by Jojo Malig
ABS-CBNNEWS.COM
24-Sep-11

Met Police counter-terrorism role should end, MPs say

by Staff
BBC
24-Sep-11

Mullens Testimony Challenges Pakistani Leaders on Terror: View

by The Editors
BLOOMBERG
24-Sep-11

China's Double Game on Terrorism. Like Tibetans, Uighurs seek freedom from oppression, but Beijing calls them extremists.

by Rebiya Kadeer
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Sep-11

UN Asked To Support Terrorism

by Staff
STRATEGY PAGE
24-Sep-11

Domestic Terrorism: Focus on Militia Extremism

by Staff
FBI.GOV
24-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda's Secrets: The 'Protection Money' Racket in Mosul

by Karl Hudson
NIQASH.ORG
24-Sep-11

US designates Hamas operative linked to Iran, al Qaeda

by Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
24-Sep-11

Countering Terrorist Financing: Progress and Priorities

by Lisa Monaco
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
24-Sep-11

Statement of Lisa O. Monaco Assistant Attorney General National Security Division U.S. Department of Justice Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate “Countering Terrorist Financing: Progress and Priorities” September 21, 2011 Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Kyl, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting...
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Funding the Enemy

by Caroline Glick
Funding the Enemy
24-Sep-11

NYPD ethnic tracking included citizens

by AP IMPACT
AP
24-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda Flourishes in the Sub-Sahara

by Frank Crimi
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
24-Sep-11

The Land of Gas and Honey: Israel's giant new natural gas find will transform the Middle East -- and add more fuel to an already combustible region.

by Robin Mills
FOREIGN POLICY
24-Sep-11

Looking for a way out of the gas problem. Experts advise Ukraine to use its European Energy Community membership to win the argument with Gazprom

by Natalia Bilousova
THE DAY (KIEV)
24-Sep-11

HURRIYET: Russia dominates 'great game' with fresh moves

by Ali Kayalar
HURRIYET
24-Sep-11

Last moves for Caspian gas

by Staff
HURRIYET
24-Sep-11

Russian Gas Dispute With Ukraine Threatens New Supply Disruption to Europe

by Henry Meyer, Daryna Krasnolutska
BLOOMBERG
24-Sep-11

Lee Sees Russia Pipeline Via N. Korea as Win on Energy Cost

by Brett Miller, Matthew Winkler
BLOOMBERG
24-Sep-11

Turkey cannot block Israel's oil supply. Most of Israel's oil is transported via Turkey, but international treaties guarantee supply.

by Amiram Barkat
GLOBES
24-Sep-11

Gas deposits fuel old and new rivalries. Cyprus joins forces with Israel to drill for gas off southern coast, prompting angry reaction from Turkey

by Harry van Versendaal
EKATHIMERINI.COM
24-Sep-11

LCP unveils sharia-compliant London property fund

by Fiona Nicolson
FINANCIAL TIMES ADVISER
24-Sep-11

Islamic finance: Niche market defies its critics, gaining in depth and sophistication

by Staff
REUTERS
24-Sep-11

AFDI/SIOA chief Pamela Geller Wins Free Speech Victory Over Lawyer Tied to Hamas-Linked CAIR

by Staff
Market Watch
24-Sep-11

Claiming injustice, Libya Islamists push political role

by Staff
MSNBC.MSN.COM
24-Sep-11

World Islamic Finance Summit: Islamic banking gaining credence after recession

by Staff
EXPRESS TRIBUNE (PAKISTAN)
24-Sep-11

Islamic Finance Today: Corporate Social Responsibility of Islamic Banks

by Staff
ISLAMIC-FINANCE.ME
24-Sep-11

Sharia judiciary: UN membership a legal, historic right

by Staff
MA'AN NEWS
24-Sep-11

Mikes drowning in new billion$: Filthy rich mayor is cleaning up

by David Seifman, Bill Sanderson
NEW YORK POST
24-Sep-11

Agrobank on track to be first regional Islamic agriculture bank

by Rupa Damodaran, Cheryl Yvonne Achu
BUSINESS TIMES (MALAYSIA)
24-Sep-11

Al-Jazeera chief replaced by Qatari royal

by James Hider
TIMES UK
23-Sep-11

Three killed in Ankara car bomb attack

by Alexander Christie-Miller
TIMES UK
23-Sep-11

Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois

by David Goldman
ASIA TIMES
23-Sep-11

Saudi Arabia Executes Man Convicted of "Sorcery"

by Staff
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
23-Sep-11

30,000 political prisoners in Saudi Arabia: Interview with Ali al-Ahmad, Director of IGA, Washington

by Interview with Ali al-Ahmad
PRESS TV
23-Sep-11

Gordon - Palestine to Deny Citizenship to 45 Percent of its Palestinian

by Evelyn Gordon
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE
23-Sep-11

Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians. Patriarch Rai has unraveled the struggles of millions of Maronites.

by Karim Anton Souaid
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Ex-Libyan Prime Minister Arrested in Tunisia

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Kurdish Militants Claim Turkey Bombing

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

The Shuttered White House and Its Fantasies

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
23-Sep-11

Syria says spy helped Israel kill Hezbollah chief

by Dominic Evans
REUTERS
23-Sep-11

The World According to Ahmadinejad

by Ash Jain
WEEKLY STANDARD
23-Sep-11

NATO extends Libyan campaign for up to 90 days

by REUTERS
WASHINGTON POST
23-Sep-11

The Real Iran

by Raymond Ibrahim
HUDSON NY
23-Sep-11

Veto or no veto, the Middle East is on the brink

by Anne-Marie Slaughter
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Sep-11

World economy is in dangerous new phase, says IMF

by Kathryn Hopkins, Roland Watson
TIMES UK
23-Sep-11

Brazil Says Europe Must 'Save Itself': The Country's Finance Minister Sets Tough Conditions Before Emerging Economies Can Provide Aid

by Erin McCarthy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Markets crash as Fed plan falls short

by Chris Johnson, et al.
TIMES UK
23-Sep-11

French court fines two women for wearing niqabs

by Alison Culliford Paris
TIMES UK
23-Sep-11

U.K. Sets Its Sights on 'Rogue' Traders

by David Enrich, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Europes Moral Decadence Fuels Spread of Islamic Fundamentalism. The left has done its job well: Norwegian reporters, for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, are now actually loath to remind reader

by Bruce Bawer
PAJAMAS MEDIA
23-Sep-11

Bulgaria and Romania excluded from EUs Schengen

by Stanley Pignal
FINANCIAL TIMES
23-Sep-11

Why China Is a Financial Midget: Beijing's economic model will prevent the yuan from replacing the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

by Jonathan Anderson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Washington Accuses China Over Chicken Export Duties

by Tom Barkley, Aaron Back
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

U.S. Faces Rising Risks in Vow to Defend Taiwan

by Jeremy Page, Paul Mozur
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Rise Seen in North Korean Intimidation

by Evan Ramstad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

China Must Open More to Foreign Investment, De Gucht Says

by Jonathan Stearns
BLOOMBERG
23-Sep-11

China plans free zone for Arabs: Projects and halal food industry to be focus of business forum

by S. D. Gupta
GULF NEWS
23-Sep-11

Boston-Power Announces $125 Million in New Financing - Private Equity Growth Capital and Government Support from China Will Substantially Expand Presence in World's Fastest-growing Region for Clean Te

by Business Wire
MARKET WATCH
23-Sep-11

China's cash floods into Canadian energy sector

by Wenran Jiang
ASIA TIMES
23-Sep-11

Speed Dating With Japan's Leaders. Washington is growing uneasy with the churn seen in Tokyo.

by Michael Auslin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Sep-11

Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

by Alesandr Shustov
STRATEGIC-CULTURE.ORG
22-Sep-11

Central Asian armies start exercises to counter potential Arab Spring-style unrest

by James Kilner
TELEGRAPH UK
22-Sep-11

War Drums Beating: Anti-American George Soros Promoting Anti-Americanism in Central Asia

by Warner Todd Huston
STOPTHEACLU.COM
22-Sep-11

US wants 'New Silk Road' in Central Asia to trade with India

by Press Trust of India
HINDUSTANI TIMES
22-Sep-11

Obama prepares to punish Pakistan

by M. K. Bhadrakumar
ASIA TIMES
22-Sep-11

Tilting toward Tehran?

by Michael Kugelman
FOREIGN POLICY
22-Sep-11

Germany orders money-laundering probe on Taib

by Malaysiakini
YAHOO NEWS
22-Sep-11

Sri Lanka police probe Maldivian money laundering racket

by Asif Fuard
HAVEERU ONLINE
22-Sep-11

Survey Finds Big Business Breaks Out AML Compliance

by Samuel Rubenfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Sep-11

Credit Suisse, Jefferies, JPMorgan, Hynix in Court News

by Bloomberg
BUSINESS WEEK
22-Sep-11

Transparency: A welcome trend for financial institutions of every size and type

by Alan Cane
FINANCIAL TIMES
22-Sep-11

Canadian government aware of Malaysian money-laundering allegations

by Staff
WORLD-WIRE.COM
22-Sep-11

High Tide: From Belarus Helping Iran To Brazils Latest Resignation

by Samuel Rubenfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Sep-11

What We Now Know. Bin Laden struck first, but Saddam was at least as big a terror threat.

by Jim Lacey
NATIONAL REVIEW
22-Sep-11

U.S. Expands Drone Flights to Take Aim at East Africa

by Julian Barnes
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Sep-11

Turkish Explosion Is Called Terrorism

by Marc Champion, Joe Parkinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
22-Sep-11

Homeland Insecurity: Prosecutors not tackling terror-funding channels. Analyst says crackdown can happen if authorities have the will

by Staff
WORLD NEWS DAILY
22-Sep-11

Niger asks help fighting terrorism after Libya conflict

by Staff
REUTERS
22-Sep-11

Why the UNs Palestinian Vote Affirms Terrorism

by Michael Rubin
AMERICAN.COM
22-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda 'still planning operations in Britain', Theresa May warns. The leadership of al-Qaeda is still planning operations in Britain as it radicalises and recruits cells for operations overseas, th

by Duncan Gardham
TELEGRAPH UK
22-Sep-11

'Invisible ink' Al Qaeda fanatic jailed for 10 years is released after serving less than THREE

by Emily Allen
DAILY MAIL UK
22-Sep-11

Terrorists linked to al-Qaeda arrested in Birmingham UK

by Martin Barillas
SPERO FORUM
22-Sep-11

A Secret License to Kill

by David Cole
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
22-Sep-11

All eyes on Hezbollah

by Daniel Nisman
JERUSALEM POST
22-Sep-11

Al Qaeda-linked suspects to stand trial in Saudi Arabia

by Staff
REUTERS
22-Sep-11

Blueprints: Mapping US Muslim Communities: The NYPD method for mapping home-grown terrorism is flawed and infringes on First Amendment rights, scholar argues.

by Amna Akbar
AL JAZEERA
22-Sep-11

Michelle Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood

by Eileen Toplansky
AMERICAN THINKER
22-Sep-11

Egyptian Leader Ahmed Said: Muslim Brotherhood Eclipses New Political Parties

by Amy Woods, Ashley Martella
NEWSMAX
22-Sep-11

No-Go Zones for Non-Muslims Multiplying All Over Europe

by Claire Reitz
TECHNORATI.COM
22-Sep-11

What are prospects of Islamic banking in Azerbaijan?

by Staff
TREND (AZERBAIJAN)
22-Sep-11

You have nothing to fear, says Aussie mufti

by Staff
HERALD SUN (AUSTRALIA)
22-Sep-11

Egypt bars Islamist hard-line political party

by Maggie Michael
AP
22-Sep-11

Muslims in the United States

by Toni Johnson
COUNcil ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
22-Sep-11

Muslims in the United States

by Toni Johnson
COUNcil ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
22-Sep-11

Barclays opens Islamic window in the Dubai International Financial Centre

by Staff
ALBAWABA.COM
22-Sep-11

France Bans Muslim Street Prayers: "An Occupation Without Tanks and Soldiers"

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
22-Sep-11

Report: U.S. losing influence in Egypt despite $1.3 billion in aid

by Staff
WORLD TRIBUNE
20-Sep-11

Winter Is On My Head: Israels Predicament

by Alan Johnson
WORLD AFFAIRS
20-Sep-11

Americas UN test: Standing up for our ally Israel

by Benny Avni
New York Post
20-Sep-11

As Iran edges closer to nukes

by Barbara Slavin
POLITICO
20-Sep-11

Israel: Adrift at Sea Alone

by Tom Friedman
NEW YORK TIMES
20-Sep-11

Smoke Signals: U.S. abandonment of the old Middle East order has led to provocations against Israel, which are likely to intensify after the Palestinian statehood vote

by Lee Smith
TABLET
20-Sep-11

John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam

by Steve Schwartz
AMERICAN THINKER
20-Sep-11

Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi's secret meetings

by Coin Freeman, Robert Mendick
TELEGRAPH UK
20-Sep-11

Israeli embassy break-in led by Jam'a al-Islamiya of NY Twin Towers 1993 bombing

by Staff
DEBKA
20-Sep-11

Across the West Bank, rallies are planned to support the Palestinian bid for statehood. Israelis fear what will happen if they turn violent.

by Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff
TABLET
20-Sep-11

FM DAVUTOGLU: YES, WE ARE THE NEW OTTOMANS

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Turkeys economic lie: Turkey no economic powerhouse, Erdogans credit bubble will soon explode

by Guy Bechor
YNET NEWS
20-Sep-11

U.S. Seeks to Strengthen Trade Ties With Turkey

by Joe Parkinson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

U.S. Weighs a Direct Line to Tehran. Officials Consider Closer Exchanges After a Series of 'Near-Misses' in Gulf

by Jay Solomon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

Team Obama pushes new Quartet statement to avoid Palestinian U.N. bid

by Josh Rogin
FOREIGN POLICY
20-Sep-11

The end of an era in Iran

by Ray Takeyh
WASHINGTON POST
20-Sep-11

Some human rights questions for Irans president

by Karim Sajadpout
WASHINGTON POST
20-Sep-11

Euro Bonds Won't Save the Euro: A new ﾬ2 trillion monetary fund, linked to the central bank, could better assist cash-strapped governments in liquidity crises.

by Philippe Marini
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

U.K. Police Make Terror Arrests

by Alistair MacDonald
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

World Bank Chief Warns Europe to Take Responsibility

by Sudeep Reddy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

Industrial Politics: Qatar Interested in EADS Investment

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
20-Sep-11

UBS Raises Tally on Losses: Details Emerge Behind $2.3 Billion 'Rogue' Trading; Small Problem Got Bigger

by Dana Cimilluca, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

Siemens shelters up to ﾬ6bn at ECB

by Daniel Schafer, et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
20-Sep-11

Credit Suisse strikes tax deal with Germany

by Haig Simonian
FINANCIAL TIMES
20-Sep-11

Greece should default and abandon the euro

by Nouriel Roubini
FINANCIAL TIMES
20-Sep-11

The ChinaNorth KoreaIran Nuclear Triangle

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
20-Sep-11

Presidential Office denies King's remarks on cross-strait meeting

by Staff
CHINA POST
20-Sep-11

China 'faces subprime credit bubble crisis': Monetary tightening in China threatens to pop the $1.7 trillion (ﾣ1.07 trillion) credit bubble in local government finance and expose the country's simmeri

by Staff
TELEGRAPH UK
20-Sep-11

US debate gathers pace over Taiwan role

by Robin Kwong
FINANCIAL TIMES
20-Sep-11

China's Dam-Builders to the World

by Asia Sentinel
THE IRRAWADDY
20-Sep-11

Top 50 of the Hurun Rich List 2011

by Staff
HURUN.NET
20-Sep-11

China's European Trade Fumble: Beijing shows how ill-prepared it is for economic leadership.

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

Chinese Demand Revives Ivory Trade

by Alexandra Wexler
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Sep-11

A Reality Check for Brazil

by Jaime Daremblum
REAL CLEAR WORLD
18-Sep-11

India Eyes Latin America. The South Asian giants burgeoning presence in the Western Hemisphere is unambiguously good for both Latin America and the United States.

by Jaime Daremblum
PAJAMAS MEDIA
18-Sep-11

Argentina Posts 9.1% 2nd-Quarter Growth

by Taos Turner
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Sep-11

US embassy in Algiers issues warning about Al-Qaeda threat

by Staff
AFP
18-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda Joins the Syrian Rebellion

by Frank Crimi
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
18-Sep-11

Is Al Qaeda Really On The Ropes?

by Bruce Riedel
BUSINESS INSIDER
18-Sep-11

Islamic Mafia: Al-Qaeda collects $5mil monthly in Iraqi city

by Jim Kouri
EXAMINER
18-Sep-11

NBI investigating terrorism activities in Finland

by Staff
YLE.FI
18-Sep-11

U.S. warns of terrorism as it seeks Libyan arms

by Bradley Klapper
AP
18-Sep-11

At White House, Weighing Limits of Terror Fight

by Charlie Savage
NEW YORK TIMES
18-Sep-11

Brazil Rate Cut Could Start Broad Anti-Recession Drive

by Tom Murphy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Sep-11

Delta One forced out of the shadows

by Tracy Alloway, Izabella Kaminska
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Sep-11

Forced borrowing: the WMD of fiscal policy

by Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Gabriele Galateri di Genola, Philippe Weil
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Sep-11

For French Banks, Problems Abound

by Geoffrey Smith
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Sep-11

Euro crisis ministers squabble over new bank tax

by Sadie Gray
TIMES UK
18-Sep-11

Growing mistrust among European banks

by David Ignatius
WASHINGTON POST
18-Sep-11

Revolt over risks of elite class of bankers

by John Gapper
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Sep-11

Brazilian rescue plan sparks surprise

by Joe Leahy, Jamil Anderlini
FINANCIAL TIMES
18-Sep-11

Iran Accuses Businessman of Bank Fraud

by Staff
AP
18-Sep-11

Islamic Sharia Law Court Opens in Belgium

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
18-Sep-11

Another Baby-step for Sharia in America

by Richard Weltz
AMERICAN THINKER
18-Sep-11

Khamenei Must Go (and Take Ahmadinejad too, Please)

by Michael Ledeen
PAJAMAS MEDIA
17-Sep-11

The Billionaire Prince Of Saudi Arabia Is Launching A News Channel

by Julie Zeveloff
BUSINESS INSIDER
17-Sep-11

Saudi Arabia Sends War Tanks to Yemen

by Staff
YEMEN POST
17-Sep-11

Iran-Turkey: dueling demagogues

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
17-Sep-11

Turkey plans possible ground invasion of N. Iraq before winter

by Staff
WORLD TRIBUNE
17-Sep-11

Optimists Were Wrong About the Arab Spring. There's a reason that hatred of Israel played well on the Arab street.

by Joseph Joffe
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

Sanctions Won't End Syria's Repression: It is ultimately Syria's poor who will suffer under the EU's oil embargo, not the Assad clan.

by Hicham El Moussaoui
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

U.S., Europe See Syrian Stalemate: Diplomats Say Assad Could Hang On Amid U.N. Deadlock and Sanctions' Limited Bite; Americans Told to Leave Country

by Jay Solomon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

'Google' Activist Raps Egypt Rulers

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

Pyrrhic Palestinian victory? U.N. vote could have unintended consequences

by Joel Mowbray
WASHINGTON TIMES
17-Sep-11

Sondage/ J￩rusalem-Est pr￩f￨re Isra￫l. 70 % des Palestiniens musulmans de J￩rusalem-Est pr￩f￨rent Isra￫l ￠ la Palestine. Pour pr￩server leur niveau de vie. Et leur libert￩.

by Michel Gurfinkiel
MICHELGURFINKIEL.COM
17-Sep-11

Islamists hit at Libyas liberal leadership

by Borzou Daragahi, Roula Khalaf
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-Sep-11

US tells eurozone leaders they risk catastrophe

by David Charter
TIMES UK
17-Sep-11

Ban on outdoor Muslim prayer risks anarchy

by Adam Sage Paris
TIMES UK
17-Sep-11

Finance Chiefs Meet to Resolve Splits on Crisis

by Laurence Norman, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

Brussels Plan on Border Control Stirs Dispute

by John Miller
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

Bank Probe in Stanford Case: Prosecutors Are Investigating Whether Societe Generale Ignored Suspicious Transactions

by Michael Rothfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

China Ties Aiding Europe to Its Own Trade Goals

by Keith Bradsher
NEW YORK TIMES
17-Sep-11

US concerned about Taiwan candidate

by Anna Fifield, et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-Sep-11

Dalian: Green slopes slowly disappear under waves of high-tech industry

by Kathrin Hille
FINANCIAL TIMES
17-Sep-11

China Looks at Baidu: Search Firm Joins List of Internet Companies Under Scrutiny

by Loretta Chao, Owen Fletcher
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

Shanghai Shuts 2 Factories in Lead Poisoning Probe

by James Areddy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
17-Sep-11

China's investing woes

by Phil Levy
FOREIGN POLICY
17-Sep-11

Economics, politics spur Islamic banking in Oman

by Martina Fuchs, Shaheen Pasha
REUTERS
17-Sep-11

Smear, Inc.: Silencing the Critics of Islamic Supremacism

by Mark Tapson
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
17-Sep-11

Muslim Brotherhood Channel

by Staff
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY
17-Sep-11

Polygamy, welfare benefits and an insidious silence

by Baroness Flather
DAILY MAIL UK
17-Sep-11

Libya's new 'leader' says Sharia law will be used as basis to guide country after fall of Gaddafi regime

by Wil Longbottom
DAILY MAIL UK
17-Sep-11

Indonesia starts $1 billion Islamic fund: Major fund hoped to revive Sharia-law banking, heal budget deficit

by Patrick Winn
GLOBAL POST
17-Sep-11

The European Caliphate: A refugee from the Muslim world sees it taking shape.

by Clifford May
NATIONAL REVIEW
17-Sep-11

International Task Force Takes Aim at Illicit Proliferation Funding: An intergovernmental group is sharpening global financial controls to prevent the financing of WMD proliferation and terrorism.

by Javier Serrat
WMD JUNCTION
16-Sep-11

Osama Bin Laden: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
16-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Pakistan: Pentagon

by AFP
AFP
16-Sep-11

Why an Al Qaeda presence in Sinai might be good for Israeli-Egyptian relations

by Michael Weiss
TELEGRAPH UK
16-Sep-11

U.S. Blames Pakistan-Based Group for Attack on Embassy in Kabul

by Jack Healy, Alissa Rubin
NEW YORK TIMES
16-Sep-11

Ryan Mauro: CAIR vs. the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Program

by Ryan Mauro
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
16-Sep-11

Treasury's war on terrorist funding

by John Snow
POLITICO
16-Sep-11

Cut terrors Saudi pocket money

by Bharat Karnad
DECCAN Chronicle
16-Sep-11

Al-Qaedas affiliates in Africa, working side by side

by Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON POST
16-Sep-11

African viewpoint: Why Nigeria's Boko Haram is so bold

by Sola Odunfa
BBC
16-Sep-11

U.S. Designates Indian Mujahedeen as Terror Group

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

Three Terrorist Groups in Africa Pose Threat to U.S., American Commander Says

by Thom Shanker, Eric Schmitt
NEW YORK TIMES
16-Sep-11

Canada's Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

Turkey's Threat to Israel's New Gas Riches

by Simon Henderson
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
16-Sep-11

Gazprom, an Austrian Bank and No Rule of Law

by Daniel Rothstein
MOSCOW TIMES
16-Sep-11

US energy groups act on natural gas demand

by Sheila McNulty
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-Sep-11

Last-ditch mission to save eurozone

by Charles Bremner, Sam Fleming
TIMES UK
16-Sep-11

Europe should not count too much on Chinese cash

by Henny Sender
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-Sep-11

UK trader Kweku Adoboli arrested over $2bn UBS loss

by Katherine Griffiths, David Brown
TIMES UK
16-Sep-11

A Brave New World for Britain's Banks: If Woolworths is allowed to fail, why not Barclays?

by Joe Marshall
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

Central Banks Boost Dollar Liquidity

by Tom Fairless, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

A rogue trader at UBS or a rogue bank?

by John Gapper
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-Sep-11

High-Frequency Firms May Face Tougher EU Market-Abuse Rules

by Jim Brunsden
BLOOMBERG
16-Sep-11

How Hard Is it for Governments to Get Rid of Their Gold? Depends where they keep it.

by Joshua Keating
FOREIGN POLICY
16-Sep-11

Leave the Euro to the PIGS: Europe's responsible countries should establish their own new currency union.

by Allan Meltzer
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

EU market abuse rules to cover spot commodities

by Staff
REUTERS
16-Sep-11

European Parliament pushes for extractives transparency

by Joe Powell
ONE.ORG
16-Sep-11

Delhi Muddies the Land Market: New legislation could add to distortions and weaken property rights.

by Editorial Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

India Gasoline Prices Lifted About 5%

by Rakesh Sharma, Eric Yep
WALL STREET JOURNAL
16-Sep-11

Cargill warns on weakening global growth

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
16-Sep-11

Facebook Page Calls for Action Against Israeli Embassy in Amman

by Jeremy Kaplan
FOX NEWS
15-Sep-11

Expert: Hamas policy crux of dispute with Ankara

by Oren Kessler
JERUSALEM POST
15-Sep-11

Cairos Embassy Riots: Anti-Israeli Sentiment in Egypt Has Nothing to do with Palestine

by Eric Trager
THE NEW REPUBLIC
15-Sep-11

Is Erdogan being reckless?

by Tariq Alhomayed
AL ARABIYA
15-Sep-11

Q&A: Edward Luttwak: The military strategist talks about Israeli security, Henry Kissinger, the Arab Spring, and the death of Osama Bin Laden

by David Samuels
TABLET
15-Sep-11

Palestinians Launch Propaganda Campaign "Palestine: State 194"

by Staff
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
15-Sep-11

Israeli officials: Jordan hanging by a thread

by Staff
YNET NEWS
15-Sep-11

Spain Revives Rape Case Against Saudi Prince

by Raphael Minder
NEW YORK TIMES
15-Sep-11

Iran changes rhetoric over Syria

by Roula Khalaf, Najmeh Bozorgmehr
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Sep-11

Losing Iraq?

by Max Boot
WEEKLY STANDARD
15-Sep-11

Erdogan's 'Dangerous Macho Posturing': EU Politicians Slam Turkey's Anti-Israel Course

by Annett Meiritz
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
15-Sep-11

Islamists emerge in force in new Libya

by Leila Fadel
WASHINGTON POST
15-Sep-11

Germany Names Crisis Specialist to ECB

by Marcus Walker, Geoffrey Smith
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

U.K. Takes Legal Action Against ECB

by Geoffrey Smith, Ainsley Thomson
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

Europe turmoil triggers rush for Yankee issuance

by Robin Wigglesworth, Nicole Bullock
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Sep-11

Gold leasing rates fall amid dollar rush

by Jack Farchy
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Sep-11

HSBC dropped from silver price suppression lawsuit

by Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Sep-11

Time for Germany to make its fateful choice

by Martin Wolf
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Sep-11

China's False Promises: Despite declarations of letting the yuan rise, the Party has every incentive not to.

by John Lee
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

The Yanks Are Welcome in Oz: On its 60th anniversary, the U.S.-Australia security alliance faces new threatsespecially from China.

by Andrew Shearer
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

Wen Offers No Specifics for Europe Aid

by Aaron Black, Esther Fung
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

Noda 'Concerned' Over Chinese Military Build-Up

by Toko Sekiguchi, Takashi Nachamichi
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Sep-11

Pakistan: No rights or drinking water for residents in one of Islamabads Christian ghettoes

by Jibran Khan
AsiaNews.it
15-Sep-11

Former Saudi spy chief: U.S. should have declared end to Afghan war after killing of bin Laden

by Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON POST
15-Sep-11

Asia's New Great Game: China and India are both hungry for Burma's vast natural riches. But will Burma's people pay the price or can this Southeast Asian backwater finally enter the 21st century?

by Thant Myint-U
FOREIGN POLICY
15-Sep-11

Thailand Launches New War Against Illegal Drugs

by AP
THE IRRAWADDY
15-Sep-11

Indonesia demands repatriation of export earnings

by Anthony Deutsch
Indonesia demands repatriation of export earnings
15-Sep-11

Faces of Past Haunt Scrutiny of Libyan Fund

by Benoit Faucon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

Defense Minister Barak signed an agreement with Greek Defense Minister as cooperation grows

by Staff
IDF WEBSITE
14-Sep-11

Trial of 'Lady Al-Qaeda' begins this month

by MD Al-Sulami
ARAB NEWS
14-Sep-11

Egypts Botched Revolution

by Michael Totten
PAJAMAS MEDIA
14-Sep-11

Libya: The War for Radical Islam, and a Defeat for the United States

by Guy Milli￨re
HUDSON NY
14-Sep-11

Military Trials for Civilians: Tomorrow Youll Be the Defendant

by Alaa Al Aswany
WORLD AFFAIRS
14-Sep-11

Lessons from the embassy takeover

by Caroline Glick
JERUSALEM POST
14-Sep-11

Egypts oldest scapegoat: Behind Israeli embassy attack

by Benny Avni
NEW YORK POST
14-Sep-11

Will the Arab Spring turn into winter? Some courageous Muslim thinkers could create a beachhead for the development of Arab democracy.

by Robert Reilly
MERCATORNET
14-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda has become Pakistanised and getting stronger

by ANIl Gupta, Haiyan Wang
DAILY NEWS & ANALYSIS (INDIA)
14-Sep-11

'Attiya Allah' authors article in latest edition of al Qaeda magazine

by Bill Roggio
LONG WAR JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki 'radicalised in London'

by Secunder Kermani
BBC
14-Sep-11

Terrorism as Treason: US Citizens and Domestic Terror

by Lauren Prunty
THE JURIST
14-Sep-11

Al Qaedas Failure on Wall Street

by Zachary Karabell
DAILY BEAST
14-Sep-11

Lloyd's Says Saudis Should Pay $215 Million for Sept. 11 Claims

by Erin McAuley
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
14-Sep-11

Was Iran behind 9/11? US lawsuit charges that Iran, Hezbollah involved in facilitation of September 11 attacks. Ynetnews presents special report about dramatic revelations that could change everythin

by Ronen Bergman
YNET NEWS
14-Sep-11

Learning from 9/11: The clearest lesson: We can no longer assume were safe

by John Bolton
DAILY.COM
14-Sep-11

Former Israel Navy Chief: Israel can defend its gas fields

by Yuval Azoulai
GLOBES
14-Sep-11

Ukraine's Monopoly on European Gas Exports Broken

by Ben Aris
MOSCOW TIMES
14-Sep-11

Names to watch in Libyan oil industry

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
14-Sep-11

More Energy Tensions With Russia?

by Alessandro Torello
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

Oklahoma Faces Appellate Showdown Over Anti-Sharia Law

by Nathan Koppel
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

Islamic Sharia Law Proliferates in Germany

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
14-Sep-11

UK Law Enforcement Favors Sharia over Citizen Groups

by Staff
RIGHT SIDE NEWS
14-Sep-11

Nigeria: Sharia court sentences two to amputation for theft

by Staff
JIHAD WATCH
14-Sep-11

Rebel with a cause in Mindanao

by Jacob Zenn
ASIA TIMES
14-Sep-11

Antwerp: Shariah4Belgium opens Shariah court

by HLN
ISLAM IN EUROPE
14-Sep-11

Australia Lags Behind Other Countries Committed To Improving Transparency In Oil, Gas And Mining

by Raymond Scheicher
OFFICIAL WIRE
14-Sep-11

Enhancing Financial Stability: The Role of Transparency

by Donald Kohn
BROOKINGS
14-Sep-11

Prosecutors Back Down On Money Laundering Charge In FCPA Sting Case

by Samuel Rubenfeld
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

U.S. readies papers v. Swiss banks on tax evasion

by Lynnley Browning
REUTERS
14-Sep-11

'Gold Mine' of Data Helps Officials Clamp Down on Offshore Tax Havens

by Robert Frank
WALL STREET JOURNAL
14-Sep-11

Two Decades of Pursuing al Qaeda. When 9/11 happened, Judge Michael Mukaseylater U.S. attorney generalknew all about a free society's vulnerabilities to mass terrorism.

by James Taranto
WALL STREET JOURNAL
11-Sep-11

How the NYPD Foiled the Post-9/11 Terror Plots. New York's police commissioner has 1,200 staff members devoted to counterterrorism, at home and abroad.

by Judy Miller
WALL STREET JOURNAL
11-Sep-11

How the terrorists extract huge indirect economic costs

by Editorial Staff
NEW YORK TIMES
11-Sep-11

Al-Qaida affiliate, not famine, is responsible for Somalian genocide

by Rachel Alexander
ENTERSTAGERIGHT.COM
11-Sep-11

Winning the Battle Against Al-Qaeda, Losing the War Against Jihad. Even if al-Qaeda were totally eradicated tomorrow, the terror threat to the West would hardly recede.

by Raymond Ibrahim
PAJAMAS MEDIA
11-Sep-11

In wake of 9/11, intelligence cooperation proves vital: As terror groups spread their operations around the globe cooperation between intelligence agencies is vital.

by Yossi Melman
HA'ARETZ
11-Sep-11

WikiLeaks: Media Relations, Hezbollah Style

by Pesach Benson
HONEST REPORTING
11-Sep-11

The South American Arrangement

by Staff
STRATEGY PAGE
11-Sep-11

Blair warns post-9/11 fight against terrorism not over with bin Ladens death

by AP
WASHINGTON POST
11-Sep-11

NBC News Twitter feed hacked with fake terrorism post

by Staff
LA TIMES
11-Sep-11

Study reveals the many faces of terrorism

by Peter Bergen
CNN
11-Sep-11

Terrorism After Bin Laden Turns to Smaller Strategic Targets

by Staff
BLOOMBERG
11-Sep-11

New evidence links Saudi Arabia to 9/11 hijackers: Graham

by Stephen Nohlgren, Susan Taylor Martin
St. Petersburg Times
11-Sep-11

Review of Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda by Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker

by Derek Leebaert
WASHINGTON POST
11-Sep-11

Shadowy Figure: Al Qaeda's Size Is Hard to Measure

by Carl Bialik
WALL STREET JOURNAL
11-Sep-11

The Next Ten Years of Al-Qaeda

by Zal Khalilzad
THE NATIONAL INTEREST
11-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda Takes Tripoli

by John Rosenthal
HUDSON NY
11-Sep-11

Enduring freedom

by David Gardner
FINANCIAL TIMES
11-Sep-11

Arms smuggling explodes across Egypt-Libya border

by Mohanned Sabry
MCCLATCHY DC
10-Sep-11

Turkey Pledges Navy Escort for Gaza Aid

by AP
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

Egypt's Military Criticized for Move to Rein In Media

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

'EU super state was doomed to failure' [Interview with Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider]

by Staff
RT.COM
10-Sep-11

The World from Berlin: 'Germany Is in the Jihadists' Crosshairs'

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
10-Sep-11

ECB resignation hits global markets

by Ralph Atkins, et al.
FINANCIAL TIMES
10-Sep-11

College Threatens to Nix 9/11 Tribute As Too American

by Jason Mattera
HUMAN EVENTS
10-Sep-11

Report Card on the 9/11 Commission's Recommendations

by Peter Gadiel, Patrick Dunleavy
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
10-Sep-11

Advocate for Libya, Syria Failed to File Disclosures

by Louise Radnofsky
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

U.S. Puts Top Venezuelan General on Blacklist

by Jose De Cordoba
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

Legal Affairs: Bankrupting global jihad

by Jonna Paraszczuk
JERUSALEM CENTER
10-Sep-11

Islamist Sleeper Cells Proliferating in Germany

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
10-Sep-11

The Mysterious Raid on Eilat: Why No One Wants to Dig Too Deep

by Karl Vick, Khan Younis
TIME
10-Sep-11

The war America fights

by Caroline Glick
JERUSALEM POST
10-Sep-11

Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen gaining strength as a powerful domestic insurgency

by Karen DeYoung
WASHINGTON POST
10-Sep-11

European Union Warns of Spreading Al Qaeda Off-Shoot in North Africa

by AP
FOX NEWS
10-Sep-11

How the Treasury Dept. Catches al-Qaeda Terrorists Post 9/11

by Elizabeth MacDonald
FOX BUSINESS
10-Sep-11

Jihadist terrorism: Al-Qaeda franchises are still cause for concern

by James Blitz
FINANCIAL TIMES
10-Sep-11

U.S. tries new ways to stop terror financing

by Rachelle Younglai
REUTERS
10-Sep-11

Saudi Arabias Terror Finance Problem

by Jonathan Schanzer
WEEKLY STANDARD
10-Sep-11

Jerusalem Day events in Toronto were sponsored by a local Shi'ite organization and included anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist and anti-American slogans.

by STAFF
MEIR-AMIT
10-Sep-11

U.S. Sues Big Banks Over Home Mortgages

by Nick Timiraos, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

European banks hit by US probe concerns

by Martha Gill
FINANCIAL TIMES
10-Sep-11

Can the World Still Feed Itself? Yes, says Nestle's chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, but not if we burn food for fuel, fear genetic advances and fail to charge for water.

by Brian Carney
WALL STREET JOURNAL
10-Sep-11

New Egypt troop presence in Sinai a gamble for Israel

by Edmund Sanders
LA TIMES
09-Sep-11

The Turkish-Israeli Cold War

by Henri Barkey
NATIONAL INTEREST
09-Sep-11

Turkeys foreign policy shift

by Tony Badran
NOW LEBANON
09-Sep-11

Taxes in the Age of Terrorism: Echoes

by Joseph Thorndyke
BLOOMBERG
09-Sep-11

Scandinavia emerges as the haven of choice

by Peter Garnham
FINANCIAL TIMES
09-Sep-11

Libor inquiry looks at criminal angle

by Brooke Masters, Kara Scannell
FINANCIAL TIMES
09-Sep-11

Impact of Chinese Investments in Africa

by Staff
DIPLOMATIC COURIER
09-Sep-11

China's double-edged trade with Latin America

by Jordi Zamora
AFPC CHINA REFORM MONITOR
08-Sep-11

Falkland Islands' bid to grow its own food amid fears of Argentina blockade

by Robin Yapp
TELEGRAPH UK
08-Sep-11

Bet You Wish You Had Rule of Law Now: Beijing could have avoided its current Web censorship headache if it had followed its own rules a decade ago.

by Joseph Sternberg
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Sep-11

Henan Case Underscores Depth of Chinas Slavery Problem

by Staff
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Sep-11

Russia-Ukraine Honeymoon Over As Gas Dispute Deepens

by Gregory Feifer
RFE/RL
08-Sep-11

War damage to hit return of Libya crude

by Javier Blas
FINANCIAL TIMES
08-Sep-11

U.S. Eyes Covert Plan to Counter Iran in Iraq

by Julian Barnes, et al.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
08-Sep-11

Turkey has one-third of terrorism convicts in world

by Staff
TODAY'S ZAMAN
08-Sep-11

US cable likens Mindanao to Afghanistan

by Philip Tubeza
PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER
08-Sep-11

How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right. In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.

by Andrew McCarthy
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS
08-Sep-11

America vs. Jihadists: States can and will support al Qaeda, unless they continue to fear an American response.

by Reuel Marc Gerecht
WEEKLY STANDARD
08-Sep-11

7 Things You Didnt Know About the War on Terror. From an attempt to negotiate with Osama bin Laden to a proposal to threaten to bomb Mecca, it's been a wild decade for the U.S. national security esta

by Eric Schmitt, Thomas Shanker
FOREIGN POLICY
08-Sep-11

How Saudi Arabia can contain Iran and other benefits from Syria's turmoil

by Bilal Saab
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China curbs Iran energy work

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Norway slow to convict terror suspects

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Islamic Justice in Europe: 'It's Often a Dictate of Power'

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DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Dont Fear Islamic Law in America

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Unreal. New York Times Is Now Promoting Shariah Law

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Cuba's Terror Smoking Gun

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Chinese Monetary Reserve-ations. Beijing shows new signs of losing control of credit creation.

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03-Sep-11

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03-Sep-11

Police search of Moscow files a trading threat, says BP

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TIMES UK
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The Internet and Iran: 'It Is Possible to Pull the Plug'

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DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
03-Sep-11

Homegrown terror threat: Muslim-Americans playing 'prominent roles' in Al Qaeda and threatening more attacks on home soil, reveals 9/11 report card

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An Emerging Threat: Al-Qaeda In The Sinai Peninsula Analysis

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The Dollar Is Still China's Best friend

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Impeding Funding For Terrorists: U.S. Department of the Treasury freezes assets of three senior members of the Jemaah Islamiya.

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02-Sep-11

Suspect Admits Killing U.S. Airmen

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WALL STREET JOURNAL
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DOJ Keeping Islamic Bank Settlement Secret

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The Algemeiner
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World's largest gas company posts huge profit

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01-Sep-11

Who Would Bail Out the European Central Bank? The ECB has been 'talking its book' by opposing sovereign debt restructurings.

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Chinese tycoon seeks to buy tract of Iceland

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FINANCIAL TIMES
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ASIA TIMES
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Horse-trading with Russia wins Exxon the Arctic gold

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FOREIGN POLICY
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Major money-laundering scandal hits Geneva

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SWISSINFO.CH
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Senior Official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad: If We Come to Power, We will Launch a Campaign of Islamic Conquests to Instate Shari'a Worldwide

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Gadhafis exit to spur Libyas Shariah banking

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BLOOMBERG
31-Aug-11

Muslims in Britain Demand Sharia-Compliant Student Loans

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HUDSON NY
31-Aug-11

Suspected North Korean cyberattack on a bank raises fears for S. Korea, allies

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WASHINGTON POST
31-Aug-11

Tehran's Ghost Fleet: A Chinese state-owned firm in Hong Kong has been helping Iranian ships get around U.S. sanctions.

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30-Aug-11

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Syrian unrest raises fears about chemical arsenal

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WASHINGTON POST
30-Aug-11

Chinese push into Australia shows it's not cheaper to build a mine than to buy one

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Former fugitive found guilty in Defense Logistics Agency fraud

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State-media video candidly depicts Chinas developing cyber-weaponry

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China Shutters 6,600 Websites for Manipulating Information Online

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Al-Qaeda plotting against European economy, report says

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Iran and Al Qaedas Operations Chief

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Underwear bomber suspect admitted he worked for al Qaeda

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China poised to be next big buyer of US hard assets

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UBS And Credit Suisse To Take Lumps from Swiss-British Tax Agreement

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There is no moral case for tax havens. They are the epitome of unfairness and injustice, leaving ordinary citizens to foot the bill for multinational corporations

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Sharia Enshrined in Libyan Draft Constitution

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29-Aug-11

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The Surging Franc: Swiss Fear the End of Economic Paradise

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27-Aug-11

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Buffett to invest $5bn in Bank of America

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27-Aug-11

Indonesian journalists support Islamic fundamentalism: Survey

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JAKARTA POST
27-Aug-11

Islamic law at heart of new Libyan constitution

by Middle East Desk
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27-Aug-11

Ocean Bank to pay nearly $11 million in drug money case

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27-Aug-11

Swiss president criticizes US demands for transmitting data on suspected tax evaders

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WASHINGTON POST
27-Aug-11

The New Epicenter of China's Discontent. Dispatch from a city that wasn't supposed to be on the brink.

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25-Aug-11

Al Qaeda linked to Israeli bus ambush. U.S. investigates faction in Sinai

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25-Aug-11

Al Qaeda's Challenge

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NEW YORK TIMES
25-Aug-11

Al Qaeda cell targeted by Treasury Department tied to multiple terror groups

by Thomas Joscelyn
LONG WAR JOURNAL
25-Aug-11

Al Qaeda crimes financed by Afghan drug money - Russian official

by Staff
VOICE OF RUSSIA
25-Aug-11

North Korea to be pacified with gas

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25-Aug-11

Derivatives market adapting to anti-fraud rules

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FINCAD
25-Aug-11

Anti-Sharia Leader Yerushalmi Claims Ive Never Called For Discrimination Against Muslims

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25-Aug-11

History, Hardliners, and Humility: Western culture has changed, and Islamic culture can, too.

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
25-Aug-11

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Leader Wants Reforms Across The Arab World

by Staff
RFE/RL
25-Aug-11

U.S. taxpayers funding terrorism: the ties that blind

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CHINA DAILY
25-Aug-11

We warn the Chinese emperor

by Staff
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
25-Aug-11

The Islamist Threat Inside Our Military. There should be a moratorium on granting conscientious objector status to Muslims based on claims of religious faith.

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25-Aug-11

Promoting Islam at Lackland Air Force Base

by Timothy Furnish
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25-Aug-11

Worlds rich families face US asset disclosure

by Dan MCrum
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Aug-11

Wikileaks Bank of America data has been destroyed

by Richard Waters
FINANCIAL TIMES
25-Aug-11

Bernanke Reflates Kirchner's Presidency. A global commodity boom assures her re-election to a second term.

by Mary O'Grady
WALL STREET JOURNAL
25-Aug-11

State Department: Iran the 'most active state sponsor of terrorism'

by Thomas Joscelyn
LONG WAR JOURNAL
25-Aug-11

Terrorism Attacks Increased Worldwide While Deaths Declined

by David Lerman
BLOOMBERG
25-Aug-11

Indonesia reduces sentences for 84 terror convicts

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AFP
25-Aug-11

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22-Aug-11

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22-Aug-11

Germany has set back the fight against tax evasion. Those who squirrel away undeclared wealth in Switzerland will be pleased by this deal. What's worse, the UK may follow suit

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GUARDIAN UK
22-Aug-11

Analysis: Critics say new law makes them tax agents

by Lynnley Browning
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22-Aug-11

The Hidden Hand: The Obama administration finally highlights Irans key role in supporting al Qaeda

by Steve Hayes, Thomas Joscelyn
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21-Aug-11

Venezuela Moves to Take Over Gold Sector

by Kejal Vyas, Jose De Cordoba
WALL STREET JOURNAL
20-Aug-11

European Concerns Over Muslim Immigration Go Mainstream

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
19-Aug-11

Lessons for Europe's Crisis From U.S. and Brazil

by David Wessell
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19-Aug-11

Exxon, U.S. Government Duel Over Huge Oil Find

by Russell Gold
WALL STREET JOURNAL
19-Aug-11

The Bahraini Experiment: Economic liberalization without democracy has bought growth at the price of persistent political tension.

by Marian Tupy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
18-Aug-11

The Muslim Brotherhoods Discontents

by Michael Totten
PAJAMAS MEDIA
18-Aug-11

Kathryn Bigelow given 'top-level access' to bin Laden mission files. Barack Obamas administration has been accused of giving information about the killing of Osama bin Laden to an Oscar-winning film

by Jon Swaine
TELEGRAPH UK
18-Aug-11

Russia and China accused of cyber-spying campaign to steal U.S. secrets

by Ken Dilanian
LA TIMES
17-Aug-11

Iran gearing for 'cyber war'? Tehran establishes new cyber command as Iranian technology minister vows to 'block Israel's unmatched cyber terrorism'

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YNET NEWS
17-Aug-11

Computer labs Chinese-made parts raise spy concerns. Defense contractor uses Chinese gear

by Eli Lake
WASHINGTON TIMES
17-Aug-11

COHA Charges 'Neo-Colonialism' in Agricultural Land Deals by China, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia in Latin America

by David Kinchen
HUNTINGTON NEWS
17-Aug-11

China Threatens to Use Financial Weapon Against America

by Gordon Chang
WORLD AFFAIRS
17-Aug-11

Pakistan targets Islamic finance growth in rural areas

by Shaheen Pasha, Sahar Ahmed
REUTERS
17-Aug-11

Islamic finance industry needs consolidation

by Rushdi Siddiqui
GULF NEWS
17-Aug-11

Birmingham (UK) first choice for sharia finance in Europe

by Staff
CREEPING SHARI'A
17-Aug-11

Met police quadruples size of cybercrime unit Scotland Yard issues fresh warning to hackers following arrests of teenagers accused of links to LulzSec and Anonymous

by Josh Halliday
GUARDIAN UK
06-Aug-11

Al Qaeda will enter the cyber world, warns former CIA terrorism chief

by William Jackson
GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS
05-Aug-11

Britain at greatest risk of terrorism

by Staff
INDEPENDENT UK
05-Aug-11

China chief suspect in major cyber attack

by Staff
TELEGRAPH UK
05-Aug-11

Stuxnet-style attack could wreak havoc at prisons, researchers say

by Kevin McCaney
GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS
05-Aug-11

Stuxnet targeted 5 Iranian facilities, report states. Symantec researchers describe how worm sought to reprogram industrial controls

by Kevin McCaney
GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS
05-Aug-11

Is Norway promoting terror? Op-ed: Despite claims to contrary, Norway has indirectly promoted Palestinian terrorism

by Manfred Gerstenfeld
YNET NEWS
04-Aug-11

Two legal systems, and two choices. Which do we want? A big chunk of our population waits for the edicts of men schooled in a medieval interpretation of a 1,500-year-old religion

by Christina Patterson
INDEPENDENT UK
04-Aug-11

Bombmaking materials allegedly found in soldiers motel correspond with al-Qaeda recipe

by Jason Ukman
WASHINGTON POST
01-Aug-11

Al Qaeda, the Internet, and the Arab Spring

by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
LONG WAR JOURNAL
01-Aug-11

Al-Qaeda in Iran

by Rebecca White
NATIONAL INTEREST
31-Jul-11

Treasury Exposes Secret Deal Between Iran and Al Qaeda

by Thomas Joscelyn
WEEKLY STANDARD
31-Jul-11

Probe into secretive Sharia law courts scrapped as Muslim leaders close ranks

by Steve Doughty, Neil Sears
DAILY MAIL UK
31-Jul-11

Volts Dont Lie? An Alternative Approach to Calculating Chinas Growth

by Tom Orlik
WALL STREET JOURNAL
31-Jul-11

How China Could Make U.S. Stocks Soar

by Dan Caplinger
MOTLEY FOOL
31-Jul-11

Naser Abdo, AWOL soldier, charged in Fort Hood bomb plot

by Peter Finn, Alice Fordham
WASHINGTON POST
31-Jul-11

In Middle East, Power and Influence Shifting to Turkey at Irans Expense

by Staff
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
30-Jul-11

$8 billion laundered in Colombia every year: PG

by Stephen Manker
COLOMBIA REPORTS
30-Jul-11

Gigabytes of files stolen from Italian cyber police

by James Delahunty
AFTER DAWN
30-Jul-11

Al Qaeda in Iraq makes online appeal for funds for widows and orphans

by AP
THE NATIONAL (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
29-Jul-11

Al-Qaeda seeks $12m ransom for Frenchmen

by Staff
NEWS24
29-Jul-11

'No porn or prostitution': Islamic extremists set up Sharia law controlled zones in British cities

by Rebecca Camber
DAILY MAIL UK
29-Jul-11

Hackers Breach South Korean Database

by Evan Ramstad
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Jul-11

Iran revolutionary guards' commander set to become president of Opec. Rostam Ghasemi, who is blacklisted by western powers, could have major role in determining global oil price

by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
GUARDIAN UK
28-Jul-11

Lawmakers Fight to Protect Anonymity for Foreign Accountholders. Claims of Dire Economic Consequences Unfounded; U.S. Citizens Already Required to Disclose Information

by Clark Gascoigne
GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRITY
26-Jul-11

Al-Qaeda turns to crime

by Rajeh Said
MAGHAREBIA
24-Jul-11

Norway's 'National Tragedy': Over 90 Dead in Twin Attacks

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
24-Jul-11

Terrorism suspect ordered to leave London. Father on control order must leave London over fear of fundraising for militants

by Owen Bowcott
GUARDIAN UK
24-Jul-11

NPR Counter-Terrorism Series Omits Inconvenient Truths

by Staff
CAMERA
24-Jul-11

Gazprom Plans to Supply North Korea With Gas, Moscow News Says

by Lyubov Pronina
BLOOMBERG
24-Jul-11

What Is Going On with the Hezbollah Commander Who Killed U.S. Troops in Iraq?

by Andrew McCarthy
NATION REVIEW
23-Jul-11

The Holiday Island of Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, Hosts Hezbollah Militants

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
HUDSON NY
23-Jul-11

Ontario extortion racket has ties to Hezbollah

by Stewart Bell
NATIONAL POST (CANADA)
23-Jul-11

Britain's "Islamic Emirates Project"

by Soeren Kern
HUDSON NY
23-Jul-11

Where Buenos Aires Hides its Cash. The Bank for International Settlements must tackle what looks very much like the corruption of its own regulations.

by Frits Bolkestein
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Jul-11

Chinese Banks Are Worse Off Than You Think: Rosy loan-to-deposit ratios hide a serious nonperforming-loan problem.

by Patrick Chovanec
WALL STREET JOURNAL
23-Jul-11

Documents outline alleged funneling of Pakistani funds to U.S. candidates

by Dan Eggen, Karin Brulliard
WASHINGTON POST
22-Jul-11

HSBC Acts on Offshore Cash: As U.S. Cracks Down on Tax Evasion, U.K. Bank Drops American Residents Keeping Money Abroad

by Dan Fitzpatrick, Evan Perez, Laura Saunders
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jul-11

Head of Washington nonprofit accused of acting as illegal agent of Pakistani government

by Jason Ukman
WASHINGTON POST
20-Jul-11

Iraqi refugees in U.S. rechecked for terrorism links/ Officials fear lapses in immigration security may have let insurgents and potential terrorists enter the country. More than 58,000 Iraqis are bein

by Brian Bennett
LA TIMES
20-Jul-11

Foreign investors snapping up choice Silicon Valley property

by Patrick May, Pete Carey
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
19-Jul-11

Somali terror group linked to Al Qaeda 'recruited 21 men in Minnesota'

by Staff
DAILY MAIL UK
18-Jul-11

A European terrorist finance tracking system: available options

by Staff
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
18-Jul-11

Hezbollah in Mexico

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
HUDSON NY
17-Jul-11

Spanish Bros Allegedly Laundered $26 Million in Drug Money by Being Total Miami Badasses

by Michael Miller
MIAMI NEW TIMES
17-Jul-11

24,000 Pentagon files stolen in major cyber breach, official says

by Jason Ukman, Ellen Nakashima
WASHINGTON POST
16-Jul-11

Hezbollah Hooks Up With Mexican Drug Cartels

by Grace Wyler
BUSINESS INSIDER
15-Jul-11

Tax haven abuse costs the UK government ﾣ16 billion per year. A report calling for the Government to put a stop to tax haven abuse and save the UK economy ﾣ18 billion a year was unveiled at a House of

by Sean O'Hare
TELEGRAPH UK
15-Jul-11

US ethanol refiners use more corn than farmers

by Gregory Meyer
FINANCIAL TIMES
14-Jul-11

Iran tightens online censorship to counter US 'shadow internet'. Tehran fury at 'internet in a suitcase' prompts upgrade to web filtering system blocking forbidden websites

by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
GUARDIAN UK
14-Jul-11

When will Egypt go broke?

by Spengler
ASIA TIMES
13-Jul-11

Panetta appears to link al-Qaeda presence with Iraq invasion

by Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON POST
13-Jul-11

Sharia creeps into Hungary

by Emmy Abdul Alim
CREEPING SHARIA
13-Jul-11

Malaysia's dhimmis fund Islamic da'wah

by Staff
Jihad Watch
13-Jul-11

Federal Government Rules Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Purpose

by Staff
HUFFINGTON POST
11-Jul-11

The Road to Serfdom and the Arab Revolt: The dictators who came to power in the 1950s and '60s were economic levelers who impoverished their countries. Today's unrest is the result.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
09-Jul-11

The Road to Serfdom and the Arab Revolt: The dictators who came to power in the 1950s and '60s were economic levelers who impoverished their countries. Today's unrest is the result.

by Fouad Ajami
WALL STREET JOURNAL
09-Jul-11

Malthus, Marx, and Markets

by Mois￩s Na￭m
HUFFINGTON POST
09-Jul-11

A Glimpse Inside Libya's Finances

by Liz Rappaport, Margaret Coker
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Jul-11

How to get Pakistan to break with Islamic militants

by Zal Khalilzad
WASHINGTON POST
02-Jul-11

New details on attack that took out al-Qaedas communications hub

by Steve Ragan
TECH HERALD
02-Jul-11

Red Shirts and Rowdy Royals. The secret WikiLeaks cables that explain how Thailand went from paradise to political mayhem.

by Andrew MacGregor Marshall
FOREIGN POLICY
02-Jul-11

China and Pakistan: An alliance is built

by James Lamont, Farhan Bokhari
FINANCIAL TIMES
02-Jul-11

Chinese investment in Europe: Streaks of red

by Staff
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02-Jul-11

U.S. Fails to Find Iran Suppliers

by Christopher Rhoads
WALL STREET JOURNAL
02-Jul-11

U.S. shifts to closer contact with Egypt Islamists

by Arshad Mohammed
REUTERS
01-Jul-11

Egypt's pro-democracy activists feel their grip slipping. Opposition groups seek to postpone September elections amid fears that the more unified Muslim Brotherhood and members of the former regime w

by Jeffrey Fleishman
LA TIMES
01-Jul-11

Outpost of Tyranny: The conditions that created the Arab Spring are just as present in the former Soviet Union.

by David Kramer, Christopher Walker
FOREIGN POLICY
01-Jul-11

Six uranium traffickers arrested in Moldova

by Staff
RADIO NETHERLANDS
01-Jul-11

Where al Qaeda Is Winning

by Bruce Riedel
DAILY BEAST
30-Jun-11

Nigeria Struggles Against Militant Upsurge: Military Takes Control of Northern City, Site of Two Bombings, as Islamist Group Shows New Willingness to Target Civilians

by Will Conors
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Jun-11

China Needs a Credit Crunch: Reports of piling local government debt should be a wake-up call to Beijing to address the issue.

by Victor Shih
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Jun-11

Hedge Funds Max Out on China Short Plays

by Alison Tudor
WALL STREET JOURNAL
29-Jun-11

Profile of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's Heir as Leader of Al-Qaeda

by Staff
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
28-Jun-11

EU Leaders Admit Fenceless Europe Was an Illusion

by Marcin Sobczyk
WALL STREET JOURNAL
28-Jun-11

Massive energy discoveries complicate relations between Israel and Lebanon. Analysis by Mary E. Stonaker

by Mary Stonaker
AL ARABIYA
28-Jun-11

Gazprom reaches the Asia-Pacific

by Nehay Oleg
VOICE OF RUSSIA
28-Jun-11

Spanish Police Crack Chinese Money-Laundering Ring, Arrest 34

by Staff
BLOOMBERG
28-Jun-11

How safe are Britain's cyber borders? Chinese hackers are launching thousands of attacks on Britain every day. Is time running out to defend ourselves?

by Sean Rayment
TELEGRAPH UK
28-Jun-11

Senior Al-Qaeda Operative Lost Almost $20 Million Trading Futures Market In Chicago&

by Staff
Chicago Tribune
27-Jun-11

Sovereign funds, private equity flocking to Mongolia

by Fayen Wong
REUTERS
27-Jun-11

Ohio Woman Sentenced to Over 3 Years in Terrorism Funding Plot

by Staff
AP
27-Jun-11

Lithuanias Move to Gain Energy Independence Complicated by Russkies

by Daniel Halper
WEEKLY STANDARD
27-Jun-11

Anti-Virus Pioneer Evgeny Kaspersky. 'I Fear the Net Will Soon Become a War Zone'

by Staff
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
27-Jun-11

The Muslim Brotherhood

by Staff
THE MEIR AMIT INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER
26-Jun-11

Young Brothers Rebel in Egypt. Muslim Brotherhood Members Launch Secular Party, Marring Pre-Election Unity

by Matt Bradley
WALL STREET JOURNAL
26-Jun-11

Al Qaeda Posts 'Hit List' of U.S. American executives, officials and companies-An invitation to jihadists world-wide

by Judson Berger
FOX NEWS
26-Jun-11

CAIR Loses IRS Status

by Staff
IPT NEWS
26-Jun-11

Hackers attack News International servers. Attack on publisher apparently in retaliation for Sun coverage of LulzSec hacking coverage

by Charles Arthur
GUARDIAN UK
26-Jun-11

Treasury seeks brainy search engine to help follow terrorist money

by Aliya Sternstein
NEXTGOV.COM
26-Jun-11

How 'The Family' Controlled Tunisia

by David Gautheir-Villars
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Jun-11

Saudi Suggests 'Squeezing' Iran Over Nuclear Ambitions

by Jay Solomon
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Jun-11

The Kirchner Government's Schizophrenic Relationship with Iran

by Jaime Daremblum
WEEKLY STANDARD
24-Jun-11

From Somalia to Nigeria: Jihad

by Katherine Zimmerman
WEEKLY STANDARD
24-Jun-11

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Italy Targets Chinese Businesses. Police Raid 70 Textile Makers, Seize Assets in Antifraud Crackdown After One-Year Probe

by Stacy Meichtry
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Jun-11

Shale Gas and the Putin Puzzle: Everyone complains about Russia. Here's a chance to do something about it.

by Holman Jenkins
WALL STREET JOURNAL
24-Jun-11

Would a Civic State Allow Sharia Law?

by Alaa Al Aswany
WORLD AFFAIRS
21-Jun-11

Terror Front Tries to Get Book Banned

by Art Moore
GRENDEL REPORT
21-Jun-11

Georgetown U. Received $325,000 Funneled Through Terror Front Group. Internal emails and faxes document the universitys collusion with the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference to promote

by Patrick Poole
PAJAMAS MEDIA
21-Jun-11

China's Cyberassault on America. If we discovered Chinese explosives laid throughout our national electrical system, we'd consider it an act of war. China's digital bombs pose as grave a threat.

by Richard Clarke
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jun-11

US wanted closer scrutiny of cash couriers providing terror financing

by Staff
DAWN
21-Jun-11

Today's Pirates Have Their Own Stock Exchange Western powers patrol the seas but do little to stop pirate financing.

by Avi Jorisch
WALL STREET JOURNAL
21-Jun-11

Libyan Investment Authority report - annotated

by STAFF
GUARDIAN UK
15-Jun-11

HSBC, Goldman and SocGen managed Libyan money: report

by REUTERS
ARAB NEWS
15-Jun-11

Pakistani journalist who wrote about military's links to Al Qaeda is found slain

by Alex Rodriquez
LA TIMES
15-Jun-11

What Pakistan's ISI doesn't want the world to know about Osama bin Laden's couriers. Residents of the couriers' hometown report being intimidated by intelligence agencies, which are under the spotlig

by Issam Ahmed
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
15-Jun-11

Pakistans spy agencies are suspected of ties to reporters death

by Karien Bruiliard
WASHINGTON POST
15-Jun-11

US hunts Osamas golden chain: US Treasury officials are scouring files obtained from Bin Laden's house for clues to Al-Qaeda backers who may have visited the leader

by Christina Lamb
TIMES UK
15-Jun-11

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
CNN
15-Jun-11

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rachel Ehrenfeld: Al Qaeda might suffer setbacks from bin Laden's death, but none major Al Qaeda's many branches and groups are mostly funded by international crime, she says Terrorists are sustained by international drug trafficking and kidnapping, she writes People, states, groups that fund terrorism must be identified, assets frozen, she says...
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A More Efficient Way To Reveal Osama And al Qaedas Secrets

by Rachel Ehrenfeld
BIG PEACE
15-Jun-11

Talking on the CBS show “60 Minutes,” President Obama noted: “It’s going to take some time for us to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site” during the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. This information, according to Mr. Obama, gives the U.S. a chance “to…really deliver a fatal blow [to Al Qaeda], if we follow through...
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Hidden Weakness in China's Banks A nonperforming loans problem may be festering at the largest Chinese banks, even though the official numbers say otherwise.

by Ted Osborn
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Jun-11

In praise of privacy rules

by Christopher Caldwell
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Jun-11

Libel Laws and Britains Stapled Mouth

by Judy Bachrach
WORLD AFFAIRS
15-Jun-11

Universities: The breeding grounds of terror The evidence that British student campuses have become hotbeds of Islamist radicalisation is overwhelming, says Anthony Glees. It is time to get tough on t

by Anthony Glees
TELEGRAPH UK
15-Jun-11

The growing risks of our four-speed world

by Uri Dadush, Moises Naim
FINANCIAL TIMES
15-Jun-11

U.K. Treasury Targeted in Cyber Attacks

by Alistair MacDonald
WALL STREET JOURNAL
15-Jun-11

How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
WIRED
15-Jun-11

Washington moves to classify cyber-attacks as acts of war. Pentagon has concluded that the laws of armed conflict can be widened to embrace cyberwarfare

by Ed Pilkington
GUARDIAN UK
15-Jun-11

List of cyber-weapons developed by Pentagon to streamline computer warfare

by Ellen Nakashima
WASHINGTON POST
15-Jun-11

The Coordinates of Radicalism: Sharia compliance correlates with violent attitudes among American Muslims.

by Andrew McCarthy
NATIONAL REVIEW
15-Jun-11

Foreign Shariah advisories make their mark in Malaysian Islamic capital market

by Mushtak Parker
ARAB NEWS
15-Jun-11

Strengthen Banks' Incentives to Choke Off Terrorists' Cash Flow

by Scot Helfstein
AMERICAN BANKER
15-Jun-11

Two Florida imams among six accused of sending $50,000 to Pakistani Taliban

by Nina Mandell
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
15-Jun-11

Salafi party opposes coalition with forces who reject Sharia

by EGYPT INDEPENDENT
ALMASRALYOUM.COM
23-Jan-11

Egypt hires Sinai Bedouin militias to combat Palestinian, al Qaeda terror

US debate gathers pace over Taiwan role

by Robin Kwong
FINANCIAL TIMES

Iranian naval vessels to be deployed near U.S. sea borders: commander

by Political Desk
TEHRAN TIMES

Uncovering Chinese Companies' Secrets and Lies. State secrecy laws make less of a difference in stock scandals than you think. Geography matters more.

by Joseph Sternberg
WALL STREET JOURNAL

A Battle Versus Whatever It Is: An insidious bit of malware, 'Conficker' has infected millions of computers. No one knows its ultimate purpose. Review of Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowd

Recession-hit Spanish roll out the welcome mat on the Costa del Solski

by Tony Hapln, Graham Keeley
TIMES UK

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Welcome

Hizbollah in South America's Tri-Border: The Genesis

The European Crisis

Greece on brink of collapse. Europes financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greeces economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable e

Euro Lies and Italy's Crisis

Greeces exit may become the euros envy

Germany and the Euro Crisis: Is the Powerhouse Really So Pure?

Muslim Voters Change Europe

Democracy and the Euro. Greeks have to face the consequences of their own political choices.

A French-Greek wake-up call

Justice for Srebrenica

The last chance to rescue the euro

Greek Leftist Leader Throws Down Gauntlet on Debt

Middle East

Algeria bucks Arab Spring: FLN crushes Islamists in legislative polls. Number of elected women rises to 145 from seven in outgoing assembly following introduction of quotas.

Adviser to Arafat wanted for embezzlement, fraud.

Hezbollahs Newest Threat. Lebanons Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who arent eager to serve as human shields again

'Khamenei told me that Israel must be burned to the ground' Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar tells crowd in Jerusalem that during meeting with Iran's supreme leader in 2000, Ayatollah Al

What Happened to Israel's Reputation? How in 40 years the Jewish state went from inspiring underdog to supposed oppressor.

Aboul Fotouh could be Egypt's next president because he's many people's second choice

Islamists in tune with west over economy

What to Expect When You're Expecting to Become a Jihadi

Iranians Have Democratic Values. New research reveals that Iranian society has a pro-liberal value structure deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime.

Energy, Banking, Latin America

Cnooc Deploys Oil Rig as Weapon to Assert China Sea Claims

Dubai Shares Slump to Lowest in Three Months on Greece, Oil Drop

Qataris buy stake in Shell

U.S. Probes Lebanon Banking Deals

75% of poor don't have bank accounts

US banker pleads guilty to China bribes

Beijing's Financial Scapegoat. A tycoon takes the fall for China's flawed banking system.

Chinas Big Banks Look More Like Paper Tigers

Evo Morales's Victims Push Back: As protests against him rise and his popularity falls, the Bolivian president nationalizes another big company.

South Americas New Pariah: Yes, Argentina should be kicked out of the G-20.

Mexican Jihad

FBI Arrests 28 Members of Honduran Drug Ring in Virginia

Europe

The Problem with European 'Human Rights'. Judges at the court in Strasbourg have assumed an activist role for too long.

How the Swiss 'Debt Brake' Tamed Government. Behold, a good idea from Europe: Spending in Switzerland can't increase by more than trendline tax revenue.

A Europe torn asunder?

Europe Loses Billions to Tax Evasion

At What Cost EU Membership? Central and eastern European leaders must acknowledge that liberalization has stalled as regulations have mounted.

German police arrest more than 100 Salafist protesters as clashes leave 29 officers injured

The EU's Black Holes: Saving the Euro Will Require Banking Sector Reform

Lessons from the French Election: Globalization Is a Killer

Spain's Bad Bank: Bankia's rescue could be just the beginning.

As European Austerity Ends, So Could the Euro

Islam Arrives in the Basque Country

Europes Brain-Dead Right: Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot.

Egypt: Shortage at the Pump

Lugar and Macedonia: End of an Era

21st-Century Zurich Gnomes

United States, Terrorism & Finance

Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations. UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans

Awarding the Useless

The Daqduq Fiasco: A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq.

The Daqduq Fiasco: A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq.

Is American decline real? More and more thinkers are warning that our glory days are over, but their arguments are flawedand old

Scientific freedom and security. The world

How Pakistan Lets Terrorism Fester

Al Qaeda's Most Dangerous Franchise. It is from Yemen, not tribal Pakistan, that the group is most likely to strike America next.

Al Qaeda Double Agent Had Western Roots Supposed Suicide Bomber Held an EU Passport, Grew Up in West; Ruse Drew on Lessons From Failed Christmas Day Plot

Clear and present danger. Clearing-houses may add danger as well as efficiency

The Devil in HML's Details

Muslim Brotherhood & Commodities

The Muslim Brotherhood's presidential campaign falters in an evolving Egypt. Egyptian voters want stability but they also fear a return to the old days. The Brotherhood isn't handling this tension ver

Egyptian Election Delay Is Unacceptable, Says Brotherhood

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood Divides

Osama bin Laden on the Muslim Brotherhood

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood rise from the ashes

Indians charging up for tomorrow's gold buying festival frenzy. Traders are hoping for at least a 25% jump in gold buying tomorrow as consumers head to the shops on Akshaya Tritiya, considered one of

Follow the money

China Reaches Out to Its Adversaries Over Rare Earths

Hedge funds bullish on industrial metals

China Digs It. How Beijing Cornered the Rare Earths Market

Iran accepts renminbi for crude oil

Crude tumbles on US recovery fears

FREE SPEECH: RACHEL EHRENFELD

Corruption, Cyber & Technology, and China

Greece on brink of collapse. Europes financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greeces economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable e

Greeces exit may become the euros envy

Hezbollahs Newest Threat. Lebanons Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who arent eager to serve as human shields again

Chinas Big Banks Look More Like Paper Tigers

South Americas New Pariah: Yes, Argentina should be kicked out of the G-20.

Europes Brain-Dead Right: Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot.

Is American decline real? More and more thinkers are warning that our glory days are over, but their arguments are flawedand old

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood Divides

Chinas princeling generals hit by Bo purge

CAIRs Sharia Fog Machine

Whats Going On in Azerbaijan? The Iran-al Qaeda alliance.

Dr. Morsi: Sinai is Priority in Nahda (Renaissance) Project. Egypts Freedom and Justice Party Chairman assures the people of El-Arish that a quarter of the Nahda Project is dedicated to the developme

The Whole World Is Watching. Obamas Atrocities Prevention Board institutionalizes indifference to mass murder.

Backlash builds over 60 Minutes hatchet job on Israel