Saudi King: Oil Prices Should Be Much Higher
CAIRO, Egypt — OPEC held off on announcing new oil output cuts on Saturday, but its alarm over falling demand and a slumping economy potentially...
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Deepak Chopra on Mumbai: Too Controversial for CNN?
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
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Deepak Chopra went on CNN Wednesday night to give his take on the Mumbai attacks and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, but producers cut Chopra off when he started to get too controversial.
Memo to Americans Spying for Another Country or Considering It
Keith Thomson | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
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A recent Defense Department report cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing state secrets to al-Qaeda, China, Egypt, Cuba, Poland, Germany, Russia, North Korea, France, among others.
Pirates of Somalia
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
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They are 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. This year alone, brazen Somali pirates have attacked 95 vessels. The corsairs still hold 16 ships and up to 300 sailors.
Oil Piracy, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, You and Me
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
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For the first time ever, an unguarded Saudi oil tanker displacing 318,000 tons (the size of a small island), sailing off the Kenyan coast, was picked off by a band of pirates operating a motorized dinghy.
Ouhoud Al Fahad: First Saudi Female Anchor Debunks Media Stereotypes
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media
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Ouhoud Al Fahad, is a strikingly attractive, coquettish, smart, articulate and ambitious brunette who lights up TV screens as a news anchor on a leading Arab satellite channel.
Saudis May Use Military Force Against Somali Pirates
Press TV | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home
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Saudi Arabia is likely to use military force to rescue a giant oil tanker recently seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. The country might...
The New World Economy
Zachary Karabell | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business
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The financial balance of power is shifting. China, Brazil, even Japan can all claim more sound economies than the United States. They expect a voice, and they are not asking permission.
Bush Tells UN That Faith Sustained Him Through Presidency (VIDEO)
AP/ABC | BEN FELLER | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
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UNITED NATIONS — President George W. Bush said Thursday that faith changed his life long ago and has sustained him through the challenges of his...
Paper: Saudi Arabia Using UN Interfaith Dialogue To Push Global Blasphemy Law
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
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World leaders gathering at the United Nations this week for a special session of the General Assembly to advance interfaith dialogue should have no il...
Ahmadinejad's Letter To Obama, His Response, and Its Impact on the Islamic World
Omid Memarian | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
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Obama's response to Ahmadinejad's congratulations letter could be the first step toward drawing a new foreign policy framework in order to bring the United States on the right track.
Oil Prices in Steep Decline: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
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Something sinister is afoot in the steep decline of oil prices: Our sense of outrage at the oil industry risks being mollified; just when we become serious about alternative fuels, suddenly, magically, the price of oil retreats.
The Bush Years' Single Accomplishment: Exxon Mobil's Staggering Record Profit
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
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In breathtaking example of the manner in which oil has corrupted the Bush administration we have prima facie evidence of the perverted priorities of the last eight years.
The Silent Saudi Squeeze (and a Suffragist Solution)
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
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As our presidential nominees discuss bailouts and economic plans they have largely ignored one particular issue that underpins them all: Saudi Arabia.
Darfur Crisis Offers Arab League a Chance to Shine
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home
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To say the League of Arab States hasn't had the best relations with the United States would be an understatement. The 22-member organization is as o...
Dare We Stand Up for Muslim Women?
Johann Hari | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
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Shahnaz's husband and his brothers carefully gathered up battery acid, pinned her down, and hurled it into her face. Her crime was to be a Muslim woman who wanted to be treated as equal to a man.
As the Bush Years Wind Down the New York Times Signals Hard Times Ahead for Russia, Venezuela, Iran
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business
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Sam Bodman,
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Against the interests of the nation this administration has permitted, even encouraged the dramatic transfer of wealth to oil interests in dimensions beyond the fondest dreams of Croesus.
McCain's Good Oil, Bad Oil
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
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There is no way we will be sending $700 billion dollars to "tyrants and dictators" unless we are talking about the banking industry.
Meltdown in the Desert
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
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The demise of Wall Street has reached the Arabian Sahara and is threatening to put an end to its construction boom, which has flourished from several years of petro-bonanza.
Karzai Reveals Saudi Relationship: A Two-Year Effort To Help Curb Taliban
NY Times | JOHN F. BURNS and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
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KABUL, Afghanistan --President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he had sought help from the Saudi royal family for the last two years to bring the resur...
Ramadan Reveals Importance of Community Versus Individual
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living
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Since our family returned from the US, I have been repeatedly asked to compare life in America to life in the Middle East.
A Lot of Israelis and a Lot of Saudis for Barack Obama?
Steve Clemons | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
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I have stumbled across "A Lot of Saudis and Israelis for Barack Obama." They aren't a single group -- but it's clear Obama is popular across the Middle East.
What Bush Won't Tell You
Jamal Dajani | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business
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$700 billion is not going to be enough according to many experts. Tonight Bush will not tell the U.S. taxpayer that America is also drowning in debt to countries such as China.
MEMO TO BUSH: Declare War on Stockbrokerism
Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
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Christopher Cox,
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Imagine this situation: Russia attacks America, and in order to teach the world what happens when you try attacking America's Mighty Might, we attack...
As It Meets, Time to Make OPEC Understand Access To Our Market Can No Longer Be Taken For Granted
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.09.2008 | Business
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The US market for oil should no longer be available to all suppliers irrespective of their adversarial policies and their pricing strategies.
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AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY and ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business