Since it is clear to most Americans at this point that America’s continued presence in the Middle East in both Iraq and Afghanistan is not at all primarily as a response and defensive mission with respect to the attacks on this country by Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in September 2001, but for purely economic […]
Mortgage Foreclosure Banking Scam Continues
Forbes Magazine recently published the top ten states in February for home foreclosures around the nation. Surprising to few, the top ten states included a great many of the SunBelt States and the Rust Belt manufacturing states which have been hardest hit by high unemployment rates. There are many factors which Forbes left out in […]
Litigation Funding In Ex-USSR: A Vulture Business
Litigation funding is a relatively young business, although in the past 10 years it grew out of the infant phase and gained some mainstream reputation with the investing public. Legal claims, professionally managed, are now an asset class for hedge funds. Following several successful placements by litigation funders (a recent £200M fundraising by Therium Capital […]
Bid to Silence Critical Media in Kazakstan
Prosecutors seek to wipe out opposition TV and press at a stroke. By Saule Mukhametrakhimova – Central Asia RCA Issue 690, Media rights groups are warning that official moves to ban major opposition TV and press in Kazakstan will destroy the limited amount of pluralism that still exists there. On November 21, the […]
CPI (M) favours rehabilitation of Kashmiri Muslim youth eager to return from POK
Jammu,February 13 (Scoop News)- Appreciating the proposal mooted by the Indian government and Jammu and Kashmir State governments with regard to return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri youth, State Secretary CPI (M) M.Y. Tarigami said today that this has attested the view point of CPI(M) which has projected it in the state legislature five years ago. […]
Bishop Condemns ‘shameful’ Sharia Outcry
A leading bishop today condemned the furore caused by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments on the formalization of sharia law in Britain as a "shame on our nation", after the former home secretary David Blunkett warned of catastrophic consequences. The Bishop of Hulme, the Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, robustly defended Rowan Williams and said he […]