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 | Egypt’s Generals Face a Watery Battle Shelly Kittleson
Heavy reliance on water intensive crops, a major upstream dam project for the Nile basin, and rising groundwater levels pushing at pharaoh-era monuments will be pressing issues for the next Egyptian president - whether military or civilian. As criticism continues over the military’s ... MORE > >
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 | U.S. Selling Coal Mining Rights at Undervalued Prices Bryant Harris
The U.S. government is violating federal leasing policies when it sells land to certain coal-mining companies, according to a new audit from an official watchdog agency. The practice could be costing taxpayers millions of dollars even as mining operations degrade the environmental integrity of ... MORE > >
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 | Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nuclear Arms Programme Gareth Porter
When Western intelligence agencies began in the early 1990s to intercept telexes from an Iranian university to foreign high technology firms, intelligence analysts believed they saw the first signs of military involvement in Iran’s nuclear programme. That suspicion led to U.S. intelligence ... MORE > >
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 | After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point Carey L. Biron
Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years, leading some analysts to warn that the fight for local control over forests has reached an inflection point with a new danger of backtracking on ... MORE > >
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 | Carbon-Neutral Costa Rica: A Climate Change Mirage? Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Meeting Costa Rica’s self-imposed goal of being the first country in the world to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021 will depend on the priority given this aim by the winner of the second round of the presidential elections in April. To be carbon neutral means removing as much carbon dioxide ... MORE > >
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 | Saving the Tiny Island of Petite Martinique Peter Richards
Sanchez is a small central business district in Petite Martinique, the tiny island that forms part of the tri-nation state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Petite Martinique’s 586 acres are dominated by communal, recreational, artisanal and industrial land in close proximity to each ... MORE > >
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 | OP-ED: Egypt’s Revolution Teeters as Sisi Seeks the Presidency Emile Nakhleh
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is set to run for president and is expected to win handily. The ruling junta and the interim government have taken several steps to make this happen. Interim President Adly Mansour recently promoted Sisi to Field Marshal, the highest rank in the Egyptian military, despite ... MORE > >
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 | Not Enough Money to Bring Peace to CAR Matthew Newsome
There are growing concerns that the massive funding crisis for peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) will jeopardise any prospect of restoring stability to the country. “The resources being allocated to the crisis are so inadequate to the task. The notion that a few ... MORE > >
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 | Pakistan Caught Between Talking and Fighting Ashfaq Yusufzai
Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government. Preliminary talks were scheduled to begin Tuesday between a team nominated by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif comprising officials and journalists, and a team supporting the Taliban, comprising mostly ... MORE > >
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