Congress Makes the Case for Palestinians

 

May 26, 2011

By Matt Duss
http://middleeastprogress.org/2011/05/congress-makes-the-case-for-palestinians-un-approach/

 

A Palestinian Revolt in the Making? Jesse Rosenfeld and Joseph Dana

A Palestinian Revolt in the Making?

Jesse Rosenfeld and Joseph Dana

The Palestinian Right to Dream

by Peter Beinart

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-25/benjamin-netanyahus-speech-and-the-palestinian-right-to-dream/#

 

As Congress applauded Netanyahu’s tough speech, a young Ramallah man talked about creating a Palestinian Tahrir Square, using nonviolence—and the hope that American Jews would back such a civil rights approach. Political reality suggests otherwise, writes Peter Beinart, but Palestinians should be allowed to dream.

Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Ass-Backwards in the Middle East

Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Ass-Backwards in the Middle East

Obama pushes Europe not to support Palestinians' U.N. statehood bid

British Premier David Cameron is noncommittal on the Palestinians' statehood bid at a joint news conference in London. The U.S. is deeply worried support for the unilateral step would isolate Israel.

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Brics must put up a fight for IMF top job

Brics must put up a fight for IMF top job Time for emerging markets to get down to the bare-knuckled politics that Europe is now engaged in, writes Eswar Prasad
http://link.ft.com/r/DHGUVV/ZBT6UU/OJS3XZ/6VGIQH/M9YF0Z/FW/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

IMF succession: A contested quarry

FT.com - Analysis

IMF succession: A contested quarry

Europe's quest to retain the top job at a body intellectually dominated by the US appears increasingly futile in a rapidly shifting global economic order http://link.ft.com/r/CTBPCC/5COAD0/BM7X6L/QFEOCW/M9YFVS/QR/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

Iran says Opec will try to fill crude gap

Iran says Opec will try to fill crude gap

http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/EW5KP2/QFRUDM/WLFZMX/XTP8WG/KI/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

Energy headlines: US regulator charges oil traders

Energy headlines: US regulator charges oil traders

May 25, 2011 8:25 am by FT Energy Source

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- CFTC charges traders over oil price – FT
- Oil price jumps as Goldman raises forecasts – The Telegraph
- GE to invest in buoyant gas market – FT
- Shift in power generation lifts gas turbine makers – FT
- Big dogs of oil tangle over gas subsidies – WSJ
- Tymoshenko charged over gas contract – FT
- Shell huts Caspian office – The Telegraph
- Tullow buys North Sea assets – FT
- IAEA launches investigation into Japan nuclear accident – WSJ
- Spent reactor fuel ‘greater risk in US than Japan’ – NY Times
- Mol buy-back to cost €1.9bn – FT
- China’s utilities defy planners to cut production – NY Times Green blog
- US and EU step up Iran nuclear sanctions drive – FT
- US agencies to use only alternative fuel vehicles – Argus
- US smart grid to cost billions and save trillions – Reuters

Hungary’s Mol: never again

Hungary’s Mol: never again Mol Duna refineryHungary is taking no chances with control of Mol (MOL:BUD), the national oil company. After announcing a €2.88bn deal to buy back a controversial 21.2 per cent stake from Surgutneftgaz, the secretive Russian energy group, Budapest is proposing to up its stake further, to up to 24 per cent.

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http://link.ft.com/r/0QSDPP/M9EF1H/EW4YCB/M9KGUX/BM2IL1/LE/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

FT podcast: Energy Weekly

FT podcast: Energy Weekly In this week’s podcast: Crude oil predicted to hit $130; UK green investment bank to open early next year; US energy policy; plus, comments from Energy Source.

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http://link.ft.com/r/0QSDPP/M9EF1H/EW4YCB/M9KGUX/ZB12EE/LE/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

Energy headlines: Shell in Russian talks

Energy headlines: Shell in Russian talks

May 26, 2011 9:16 am by FT Energy Source

- Shell chief Voser in Russian talks – FT
- Shell talks leave BP in shadows – The Times
- BP should return to gulf within a year, says Oppenheimer – Argus
- Arcadia denies oil manipulation- FT
- Chevron chiefs face shareholders after $18bn Ecuador fine – The Guardian
- Resource stock lead global rebound – FT
- Cairn India profit soars – WSJ
- Iran says Opec will try to fill crude gap – FT
- China luring crude from US – Bloomberg
- Investors urged to note opportunities in Iraq – FT
- Exxon says fracking is safe – WSJ
- Investors demand clarity on shale gas – FT
- Chevron shareholders defeat proposal on fracking disclosure – WSJ
- Second largest gas field found in Turkmenistan – The Telegraph
- North Sea tax rise will cost £12bn, industry warns – FT
- Bill allows US military to use high-carbon ‘liquid coal’ – NY Times Green blog
- Wind forecast upgrade should mean drop in fossil fuel use – The Guardian
- Total extends offer for SunPower – Reuters
- UK nuclear plants to undergo EU stress tests – The Telegraph
- Swiss propose an end to nuclear power – FT
- Europe divided over nuclear power – The Guardian
- Japan PM vows to boost renewable energy – Reuters

Oil industry losing the shale PR battle

Oil industry losing the shale PR battle As questions about hydraulic fracturing – fracking as it is known in the industry – continue to build, the oil and gas industry is finding investors asking for more transparency as to how companies are going to face the growing risks to production.

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http://link.ft.com/r/0QSDPP/M9EF1H/EW4YCB/M9KGUX/EW79B8/LE/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

Serbia confirms arrest of Ratko Mladic

Serbia confirms arrest of Ratko Mladic Serbia has confirmed the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the long-sought former Serbian general charged by international authorities with committing war crimes during the Balkan civil wars in the 1990s.

Boris Tadic, president, said: "On behalf of the Republic of Serbia I can announce the arrest of Ratko Mladic. Extradition process is underway."
http://link.ft.com/r/QM42II/3O82NI/V1UB9K/ZBP4VQ/YHUV9L/1G/h?a1=2011&a2=5&a3=26

Middle East is pulled towards Asia by economics and affinity Afshin Molavi | The National (UAE)

Amidst efforts by the Gulf Arabs to decouple their foreign policies from the United States, the Saudi U.S. Relations Information Service featured this item.  http://www.susris.com/2011/05/25/the-meeting-of-west-east-asia-molavi/

Middle East is pulled towards Asia by economics and affinity
Afshin Molavi | The National (UAE)

Straight talk on the Arab Spring

Straight talk on the Arab Spring

from Marc Lynch 

Upheaval: U.S. Policy Towards Iran in a Changing World by Marc Lynch

Upheaval: U.S. Policy Towards Iran in a Changing World

from Marc Lynch by Marc Lynch

Libya: End and Beginning of a European Foreign Policy

Libya: End and Beginning of a European Foreign Policy on 2011/5/25

http://www.williampfaff.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=520

Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned by Yousef Munayyer

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-25/nakba-denials-must-be-condemned/

Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned

by Yousef Munayyer

May 25, 2011 | 10:58am

In a rebuttal to Michael Medved’s Daily Beast article on how the media distort the Mideast debate, Yousef Munayyer writes that the U.S. knew all along that the creation of Israel would endanger the Palestinian people.