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Central Asia's waking giantMost people in the west have never heard of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, but it's time they did. Marcel de Haas 5 January 2009 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) brings together almost half the world's population, several members own nuclear...

The Great Dragon Awakens: China Challenges American Hegemony by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco PART 2 Number two: The implicit threat of using American sea power to enforce a naval blockade against China to interrupt both its shipment of goods overseas as well as the flow of critical...

The Great Dragon Awakens: China Challenges American Hegemony by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco January 6, 2009 PART 1 Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive...

More than 40 killed in Gaza school strike January 6. 2009 GAZA // An Israeli strike has killed at least 42 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip, the third such attack in a day, medics said. An Israeli army artillery battery fires a smoke bomb into the Gaza...

Offensive traumatises generation of children Jonathan Cook January 6. 2009 The four-storey building of the Community Mental Health Programme in Gaza City is damaged, its walls still standing but the offices of its 150 employees wrecked by an Israeli bombing raid last week...

240,000 Dollars awarded to blogger forced to cover Arab T-shirt January 6, 2009 NEW YORK (AFP) — An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay...

Russia has halted all gas supplies to European countries including Turkey and Greece. 06 Jan 2009 The move comes amid a deepening rift between Russia and Ukraine, which hosts a pipeline supplying gas from its bigger neighbour to countries across Europe. Bulgaria and Macedonia also...

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Will There Be A Recovery? Somber Thoughts for the New Year By Paul Craig Roberts Jan 05, 2009 Economists will scoff at the question in the title. But that's because they are trying to fit the present into the past. In the past recoveries were routine, because recessions were...

Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse Americans must prepare themselves for a massive collapse in the dollar as investors around the world dump their US assets, a former Bank of England policymaker has warned. By Edmund Conway 06 Jan 2009 The long-held assumption that US...

Israeli Professor Under Hamas Rocket Fire, Neve Gordon Condemns Israeli Invasion of Gaza January 05, 2009 Neve Gordon,chair of the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the author of Israel’s Occupation. Earlier this morning, three...

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AN ALL OUT WAR AGAINST CIVILIANS Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"...

Sony May Announce Drastic Cost Cuts: Media By REUTERS Published: January 5, 2009 TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp is likely to announce closures of Japanese factories and major divisions early next month, the Times of London said on Monday, but the company denied any such plan existed...

Chinese manufacturing shrinks in December January 5, 2009 BEIJING(AP) - China's manufacturing shrank for a third month in December as export demand fell, suggesting an economic slump is worsening despite government efforts to shield the country from global turmoil, according to data reported...

Inventor of the Hawaiian shirt dies Monday, January 5, 2009 Alfred Shaheen, who was credited with inventing the Hawaiian shirt, has died You'd be forgiven for never hearing of designer Alfred Shaheen. Yet he inspired one of the most colourful, amusing and unforgettable styles of...

Women turn to brothel industry in tough economy January 5,2009 It's known as the world's oldest profession and in a time of recession, there is apparently no shortage in the number of women applying for jobs. The owner of The Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada, says he is getting a...

Wounded GAZA family lay bleeding for 20 hours By Amira Hass 12:43 05/01/2009 Three hours after the Israel Defense Forces began their ground operation in the Gaza Strip, at about 10:30 P.M. Saturday night, a shell or missile hit the house owned by Hussein al A'aiedy and his...

HOW GAZA WAS TORN APART Tanks, rockets, death and terror: a civilian catastrophe unfolding. Incessant bombardment, no electricity, no water, and the hospitals full to overflowing. Hazem Balousha in Gaza City and Chris McGreal in Jerusalem January 05, 2009 It has never been like this...