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Global stock markets surged almost 2.0 percent and commodity prices rallied yesterday after US legislators struck a deal to halt a round of automatic fiscal tightening that threatened to push the world’s largest economy into recession.Oil prices rose to near 11-week highs and Saudi stocks …
The beginning of a new year has always been a good time to assess where one has been and where one is going. On New Year’s Day P.K. Abdul Ghafour, writing for Arab News, gave a lengthy recitation of achievements in Saudi Arabia ['The year the Kingdom took a giant leap'] in 2012 including …
You can see the sanctions-induced deterioration in Iran’s production, as well as the beginning of the rise in Iraqi production which I expect to go on in fits and starts for many years, assuming the country can remain politically stable. Iraq has now surpassed Iran in production to become …
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a $253,381,949 U.S. Air Force contract to support an F-15SA modernization program in Saudi Arabia, the Defense Department said Monday.Saudi Arabia is upgrading its F-15 fleet under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S., where Boeing (NYSE: BA) will …
The tally, which Pillay said was based on an ‘exhaustive’ five-month analysis in which researchers cross-referenced seven sources, shows 59,648 people killed between March 15, 2011, and Nov. 30, 2012. It does not specify whether the dead were rebels, soldiers or civilians. Given that the …
Though some will see this as a triumph for digital transparency, there are also less altruistic forces at work. Twitter dedicates a team of at least 20 people to recruiting ‘high-touch clients,’ like celebrities and politicians — who in turn attract other users and make the platform look good. …
2013 will see Iranian influence in the Middle East continue a decline that began with the Arab upheavals of 2011. Iran’s two major allies in the Arab world are Syria and Lebanon. In Lebanon, Iran arms the Shiite party-militia Hizbullah, and does so overland through Iraq and Syria. Since Israel …
This was the birth of what we can now look back on as two decades of threats by Israel to ‘bomb Iran’ — with or without the consent, assistance and/or leadership of the United States — to prevent Iran’s impending development of nuclear capability. Iran was struggling to recover …
Something rare just happened. Rather than me having to dog various of the media handlers or key policy hands at the National Security Council or White House on whether Chuck Hagel is on or off the SecDef list, I just got a phone call from a senior Executive Branch person in the know who said …
U.S. officials claim that Pakistan readied nuclear weapons during the Kargil conflict without the knowledge of then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. But, even at the height of their crises neither India nor Pakistan have attempted, as the U.S. did in 1962, anything quite as foolish as …
A U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan killed at least six people, Pakistani government officials said on Thursday, including the powerful Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir Wazir. Nazir was killed along with another key commander of his group, Rapa Khan, and four …
The Gatekeepers is a film about our story, Israel’s story, from the Six Day War until today, as told from a security perspective. Each of the film’s six protagonists — Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter and Yuval Diskin — served successively as the head of Shin …Previous post: Challenges 2013
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