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Tag Archives: Middle East
octubre
13
Kashagan: A Giant in the (Painfully Slow) Making
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Read more: «Kashagan is World’s Most Expensive Energy Project: $136 Billion«; «A $30 Billion Hole In Caspian Sea?»; «Environmentalists concerned about Kashagan Field oil rig»; «На Кашагане зафиксирована утечка газа»; «Chinese firm foils ONGC Videsh’s $5 billion Kazakh deal»; «Para qué ha ido Rajoy a Kazajistán» Kashagan: A Giant in the (Painfully Slow) Making OilPrice.com, […]
octubre
05
With Russia in Middle East, China Claims Central Asia
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev after being awarded an honorary Doctorate from Nazarbayev University in Astana. ©AFP With Russia in Middle East, China Claims Central Asia By Zachary Keck, The Diplomat, October 2, 2013 Russia’s Middle East policy is all the rage these days. An article in the Washington Post on Tuesday notes […]
octubre
03
Erdogan ‘Demo- cratization Package’ (1)
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People watch a television broadcasting the speech of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a coffee shop in Istanbul, Sept. 30, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/ Osman Orsal) Will ‘Democratization Package’ Restore Erdogan’s Reputation? Semih Idiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse; October 1, 2013 When the Arab Spring broke out in December 2010, Turkey was considered a neutral […]
septiembre
28
Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions wins Turkish missile deal
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China HQ-9 (or export version FD-2000) anti-aircraft missile system Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions wins Turkish missile deal By Ece Toksabay (Istanbul), Reuters, Sep 27, 2013 (Reuters) – NATO member Turkey has chosen a Chinese defense firm hit by U.S. sanctions to co-produce a $4 billion long-range air and missile defense system, rejecting rival bids from Russian, […]
China’s Marlboro Country
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China’s Marlboro Country Te-Ping Chen, ICIJ, June 29, 2009 On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the streets downtown, where motorcyclists wearing bamboo-frond hats determinedly vie for passengers in a riot of honking. A cheerful red banner in the city center exhorts citizens to […]
Flash Point in the Eastern Mediterranean
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The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) transits the Suez Canal.- Navy Live Flash Point in the Eastern Mediterranean Will conflict in the Middle East trigger the next great power war? James Stavridis, Foreign Policy, July 19, 2013 This is not a new crisis. The Greek poet Constantine Cavafy lived and wrote in Egypt a […]
The AKP can’t have it all its own way
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President Morsi and PM Erdogan: September, 2012: «Turkish democracy is example for Muslim world: Erdogan» The AKP can’t have it all its own way Semih İdiz, Hürriyet, July 09, 2013 There is a lot of angry moralizing on the part of Turkish Islamists aimed at the West for its reluctance to label what happened in […]
Israel stirs the pot in Syria
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Israel stirs the pot in Syria by Jonathan Cook, Mondoweiss, June 17, 2013 For much of the past two years Israel stood sphinx-like on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war. Did it want Bashar al-Assad’s regime toppled? Did it favour military intervention to help opposition forces? And what did it think of the increasing visibility of Islamist […]
China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
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An oil refinery in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, in which China has a stake. China has poured money and workers into Iraq. NABIL AL-JOURANI / Associated PressExxon Mobil China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom By TIM ARANGO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS June 2, 2013 BAGHDAD — Since the American-led invasion of 2003, Iraq has become one of […]
Jihad rap
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Dirty Kuffar (2005), jihad rap from Digihad Sheikh Terrah Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad By KENDRA SALOIS, The New Inquiry «Is rap the battleground between Muslims?” asked the American journalist. I watched as her subject, a Casablancan emcee named Soultana, shifted her gaze into the middle distance, her face expressionless. We all went silent. The journalist, […]
Turkey to become a ‘net energy exporter’
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A model of Turkey’s second nuclear power plant to be built in the Black Sea city of Sinop Turkey to become a ‘net energy exporter’ ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency / Hürriyet, 05/07/2013 Turkey may become a net energy exporter in the Middle East in the medium term, specifically in light of failures to provide […]
From the Ruins of Empire
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Book review: «From the Ruins of Empire. The intellectuals who remade Asia» by Pankaj Mishra By Oliver Stuenkel – Post Western World Japan’s military victory over Russia in 1905, the first time a non-Western army had beaten a traditional Western power, sent shock waves through the world and energized leading thinkers across Asia. Tagore, Sun […]
The Messages Of Russia’s Military Exercise In The Black Sea
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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a military exercise in Anapa, a Russian Black Sea resort. Read also: China and Russia conduct ‘surprise’ military exercises The Messages Of Russia’s Military Exercise In The Black Sea – Analysis By Habibe Özdal, Journal of Turkish Weekly, April 1, 2013 Putin, Russia’s president, ordered for a military exercise in the Black […]
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