TerraViva-Europe, Thursday, February 6, 2014

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2014/2/6
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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 > >
	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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TerraViva-Europe: Syrian Refugees, Israel lobbyist and Iran, Native Brazilians, Poverty and Ethiopia, Mexico and the Economics of Drugs and more - Thursday, January 23, 2014

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2014/1/23
	Swiss Spring for Syrian Refugees Passes Ray Smith Switzerland facilitated family reunification for Syrians in September. So far, more than 1,100 Syrian refugees have benefited from the programme, while thousands are waiting at Swiss embassies in the region, hoping for a similar chance. Surprised by these numbers, Switzerland put an end to the ... MORE > >
	Top Israel Lobby Group Loses Battle on Iran, But War Not Over Jim Lobe Eight years ago, Stephen Rosen, then a top official at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and well-known around Washington for his aggressiveness, hawkish views, and political smarts, was asked by Jeffrey Goldberg of the New Yorker magazine whether some recent negative publicity ... MORE > >
	Dammed Rivers Create Hardship for Brazil's Native Peoples Mario Osava The Itaparica hydroelectric power plant occupied land belonging to the Pankararu indigenous people, but while others were compensated, they were not. They have lost land and access to the São Francisco river, charge native leaders in Paulo Afonso, a city in northeastern Brazil. "We can no longer ... MORE > >
	The Missing Faces of Ethiopia's Poor Nick Ashdown It's hard to tell if Gelegay Tsegaye is smiling, since a flap of skin covers half his mouth, but his eyes crinkle when he talks and his muffled voice rings with an upbeat cadence. He's sitting in a special ward of the Korean Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's most modern healthcare ... MORE > >
	Drugs Displace Maize on Mexico's Small Farms Emilio Godoy As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes its 20-year milestone, Mexico is seeing the displacement of traditional crops like maize by marihuana and opium poppy as a result of falling prices for the country's most important agricultural product. After NAFTA came into force between ... MORE > >
	Elites Will 'Consider Inequality' Ray Smith With no acute crisis on the radar, this year's Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will move away from the response mode of the past years and "look for solutions for the really fundamental issues," its founder Klaus Schwab said at the pre-meeting press conference. "We cannot afford ... MORE > >
	Syrian Spillover Deepens Lebanese Divide Shelly Kittleson In northern Lebanon's largest city, Tripoli, Syria Street cuts through neighbourhoods that back opposite sides of the war raging in Syria, 30 km away. Clashes between them resumed this weekend after a cross-border rocket attack. The frontline of the Jabal Mohsen area, overlooking the rival Bab ... MORE > >
Corruption Probes Threaten to Derail Turkish Economy Dorian Jones The escalating turmoil over corruption allegations against Turkey's political elite is now threatening the ruling Justice and Development Party's greatest achievement – Turkey's economic growth. With national elections looming in the future, that threat could affect the party's 11-plus-year hold on ... MORE > >
	Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill, Unsigned but Still Effective Faith Lokens Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, has reportedly refused to sign a controversial anti-gay bill that would mean life in prison for people convicted of homosexual acts. But many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex (LGBTI) people in the East African country, and NGOs trying to ... MORE > >
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