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September 2, 2010
Tributes to Allen Quicke

China makes its North Korea move

A long handshake between President Hu Jintao and Kim Jong-il in Jilin province explicitly placed China's Korean Peninsula eggs in the North's basket. The idea that Beijing will acquiesce to the collapse of the Pyongyang regime and reunification under the aegis of South Korea is a discounted commodity. China called South Korea's bluff - and the United States is ill-equipped to respond.
- Peter Lee (Sep 02, '10)

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Sheen wearing off Indian growth

India's latest stunning headline growth figures are raising hopes of a 9% economic full-year expansion. Unfortunately, while production charges ahead, demand for factory goods is less strong, and the government is not plugging the gap left by reluctant consumers.
- Kunal Kumar Kundu(Sep 02, '10)

Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes'

Flood-battered Pakistan, which wants the International Monetary Fund to ease terms for an already obtained multi-billion dollar loan, may impose special taxes to make up washed-out revenue while facing reconstruction bills that can only keep mounting.
- Syed Fazl-e-Haider(Sep 02, '10)

Malaysia reaps reform benefits

Economic reforms instituted by Najib Razak after he took over as Malaysian prime minister less than 18 months ago appear to be paying off. The stock market is driving ahead, exports of oil and electronics have soared, and domestic spending is on the rise. If there is a downside, it isn't showing yet.
- Robert M Cutler(Sep 02, '10)

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Secret path to riches

The great secret to being poor is to believe that a money-creating government like the present one in Washington is going to preserve the value of your income, pension and savings. The secret to being rich in such circumstances is steadily but surely to accumulate gold!!
(Sep 02, '10)

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Al-Qaeda makes a point with Lahore attack

The incident on Wednesday night in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, in which at least 35 people were killed and more than 250 injured after three bombs exploded during a Shi'ite procession, is not an isolated attack. Al-Qaeda has set its sights on spreading the tribal-based insurgency to main urban centers.
- Syed Saleem Shahzad (Sep 02, '10)
   

THE ROVING EYE

The degree zero of culture

LIFE IN TALIBANISTAN, PART 2
A decade ago it was a sad sight at the University of Kabul to witness a group of eminent professors at what was once one of the best centers of learning in the world being subjected to the sermons of a mediocre madrassa student who never finished the equivalent of primary school. This was Baudrillard's degree zero of culture, remixed by the Taliban.
This is the second article in a three-part report.
PART 1: 'Throw these infidels in jail'
- Pepe Escobar (Sep 02, '10)
   

Clawing back credibility in Kyrgyzstan

The United States and Russia have a key role to play in Kyrgyzstan’s fragile attempts to become the first functioning democracy in Central Asia. Many Kyrgyz still suspect, however, that the US is merely continuing its obsessive pursuit of strategic assets in the region, while for Moscow securing the former-Soviet space against religious extremists takes priority.
- Yong Kwon (Sep 02, '10)
   

Iraqis uneasy over what happens next

boots020910With the 50,000 United States troops left in Iraq serving mostly as a deterrent against large-scale violence, many Iraqis are ill at ease. The nation still has no government, and there are concerns that Iraqi troops and police may fail to hold sectarian peace together as insurgents tied to al-Qaeda continue to launch attacks.
- Heather Maher and Charles Recknagel (Sep 02, '10)
   

Hiroshima's poisonous past

While each year Japan solemnly marks the thousands killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, there is no shrine on Okunoshima Island, which lies a short distance from Hiroshima. Here the Imperial Army produced chemical weapons that reaped a deadly harvest.
- Peter J Brown (Sep 02, '10)
   

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THE ROVING EYE

Throw these infidels in jail

LIFE IN TALIBANISTAN, PART 1
A road trip across Taliban-ruled Afghanistan a decade ago revealed people living in a social, cultural, political and economic nightmare. On the face of it, very little has changed since the sojourn through a strict Kalashnikov culture. If schizophrenia defined the Taliban in power, US schizophrenia still rules. This is the first article in a three-part report.
- Pepe Escobar(Sep 01, '10)

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Stillness conquers heat

Laozi's Biography, a quasi novel by Yu Shicun about the central figure in Taoism, could be the beginning of a watershed, elevate the sage's cryptic verses on Chinese culture's inner workings in the same way as a modern interpretation by Yu Dan started the Confucian craze. Setting up Tao Institutes would help to reveal what foreigners do not grasp about basic Chinese ideas.
- Francesco Sisci(Sep 01, '10)

US Southeast Asian pose risks China clash

A show of force from China appears to have left the United States undeterred in flexing its military muscle in Southeast Asia. As Washington steps up military assistance to Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia to support its "soft power" interests in the region, its pose risks provoking a "hard power" confrontation with a China already on edge over naval maneuvers further afield.
- Clifford McCoy(Aug 31, '10)

Jobs deficit lays bare failure of Obamanomics

The grim state of US unemployment is expected to have worsened again in August, as small businesses wither and large corporations continue to head to China. The Obama administration's rejection of demands for higher duties to counter the effects of a weak yuan does nothing to improve the prospects of the jobless.
- Peter Morici(Sep 01, '10)
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I want to assure our subscribers that atimes.net will continue to publish despite the loss we have endured. I ask only that you give me a bit of time as I get my legs working to follow in the path that Allen has forged.tjohn
Great Hot Shot photo today, but it raises thoughts about what''s going on. It just made me think, "really?!" - but in situations like wild fires, as an American Expat, I can say that a large part of California (and local states), spends quite a bit of time on fire. This does does not mitigate my sadness for the situation Russia, really, but instead makes me wonder 'international crisis', vs a 'local [usual] problem. Good luck to Russiq. tjohn
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"In the future, North Korea will consolidate and develop exchanges and cooperation with China in every sphere, and make increasing efforts to strengthen friendly cooperation between our two militaries," North Korean military leader Kim Yong-nam told People's Liberation Army (PLA) commander Zhang Youxia saying that their two countries' military forces should grow closer.

Kim added, "[their] traditional friendship has withstood the test of history and shown great vitality," to Zhang during a meeting of senior North Korean military leaders this week. (source: Xinhua)

China is just as edgy about the joint US and South Korean military exercises in international waters south of the Korean peninsula as North Korea. Even still it is unlikely that any substantive military aid will be given to North Korea, as China works hard to become one of the world's leading nations. North Korea meanwhile is reclusive and generally recognized throughout the world community as a nation that stirs up trouble - something China can't be too closely associated with as it develops and moves forward. For more analysis see Peter Lee's story today titled "China makes its North Korea move". (tjohn)

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I would suggest that those interested in Holocaust denial and other aspects of rationalizing the slaughter of Jews have all the resources they require on the multitude of internet websites on the subject. Those wishing to put the activities of Hitler "in context" likewise have a multitude of primitive organizations they may join. After all it was not that many Jews he had gassed, etc. - what's 6,000,000 Jews to the 25 or 30 million Russians who died during WWII? - Jim the Moron

I actually do agree with many of the comments made by each of you, and also know that Jim can be a bit snarky or sarcastic at times (no worries), your comparison of Russians versus Jews lost during the war troubles me though.

Of course I wish no one was lost, but that is not the reality of war. However Jews were herded like cattle on to trains and taken to gas chambers, whereas Russians (many civilians unfortunately), were mostly soldiers. Ill-equipped as they were, they still had a fighting chance, where the Jews did not. - tjohn


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