Israel stirs the pot in Syria

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 […]

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La desecación del Tigris y el Eúfrates

Cuenca del Tigris y el Eúfrates. Fuente: FAO Ojo con este notición que ha pasado desapercibido S. McCoy, Valor Añadido/Cotizalia, 13 de marzo, 2013 Saben ustedes que uno de los mayores focos de conflicto a nivel internacional es lo que se ha dado a conocer como Oriente Medio, que no sólo engloba a Israel, Siria, Jordania o […]

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Making enemies in Yemen

A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a US drone strike targeting suspected al-Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, Feb. 3, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah). Read also: «My Village Was Attacked By US Drones in Yemen» Making enemies in Yemen Aljazeera – Sun, May 5, 2013 A group […]

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Did Putin Sink Cyprus?

Did Putin Sink Cyprus? By BEN JUDAH, Istanbul, The Opinion Pages – NYT, April 2, 2013 THE blue-glass skyscrapers of Moscow City — fragments of Russia’s boom-time dream — are visible from the Kremlin walls, within which there was once hope that those towers could supplant the West’s financial centers. When the sun sets behind them, […]

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El rescate de Chipre (3)

Illustration by Neal Fox, for Bloomberg Busineesweek (January, 2013) Why the EU is right on Cyprus By Peter Gumbel, Reuters, March 18, 2013 The reaction to this weekend’s European Union bailout deal for Cyprus has gone from initial shock to rather predictable condemnation. “Europe botches another rescue”, ran the headline on an editorial in the Financial Times. “It’s as if […]

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