Tag: Middle East
India Backs Iran's Nuclear Program
"ABU DHABI: India on Monday backed Iran's "peaceful" nuclear programme and said New Delhi would continue its "significant" engagement with Tehran since the oil-rich nation is an important-role player in the Middle...
The 'Race' Card
The majority of people of African descent, living in America, do not have the luxury of compartmentalizing our collective experience here in America, beginning with forced immigration, enslavement, the...
Bahrain Islamists failed to stop Sexy Haifa Wehbe...
In the Middle East the show goes on..
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A few months ago (august 2007) I wrote here about a ban against Egypt actor Amr Waked. A similar story is now surfacing in Bahrain with the provocative...
Pentagon targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
"Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11 Published on Tuesday, May 06, 2008. Source: IPS WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not...
Neocons Admit that "War on Terror" is a Hoax
"Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax Published on Thursday, May 08, 2008. Source: George Washington's Blog Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the...
Beirut is Cautiously Calm, while 7 Dead at Mount ...
UPDATE 3 12:30 GMT - Hezbollah has just issued a communiqué saying that Waleed Jinbelat’s Socialist Party militia had kidnapped three of its members, and executed two of them in...
Pictures from Beirut Fighting
" The text is quoted from the Israeli “haaretz” newspaper.…”Lebanese army moves into W. Beirut after Hezbollah takeover 17:38 09/05/2008 Lebanese troops began taking up positions in some...
Trough Oil?
Forget peak oil for a little while. Are oil prices set to drop in the mid term?"The difficulty with the bubble moniker is determining exactly how much of the price is being driven by purely speculative factors. With Crude, a variety of forces are driving prices: A...
Oil at $123, heading for $150
Perhaps for oil the only way is up with $150-200 within 18 months to two years being forecast by the experts at Goldman Sachs, not a firm to take lightly.
RIGHT NOW...Fighting in BEIRUT
UPDATE 4 19:53 GMT - Accourding to Al-Manar TV, belonging to Hezbullah (the opposition), the opposition and Hezbullah has REJECTED Saad Al-Hariri's 4 plan proposal. This rejection is a setp back for a near...
CanWest goes after Vancouver Sun parody creator
CanWest is going after the publisher who parodied the Vancouver Sun. According to the website supporting the parodist:"In early June, 2007, a parody of The Vancouver Sun newspaper was produced and copies...
Twelve reasons Dubai real estate should continue ...
While price rises have been constant and considerable, there has not been anything resembling a mania, or universal optimism. There are still a few skeptics at any dinner party. It is only when they fall quiet that you should worry about the future of any market, for that is...
Two B.C. tourists identified as survivors of fier...
A newlywed couple are among the survivors of a bus crash in Egypt that occurred two days ago. they were on their way home after a month-long honeymoon in the Middle East. The couple from Surrey, BC are now in an...
Gaza Facing Food Crisis, says UN
With a shocking 70% of Gaza residents living "at a 'deep poverty' income level of $1.20...per head per day or less", Gazans are also facing an unprecedented food crisis and a rapid deterioration in public...
Can Dubai accommodate 15m tourists by 2015? « Pe...
Dubai is already a bigger tourism destination than the Land of the Pharaohs, and the hotels of the future are coming out of the ground.
