Chevron Gets Fixed
On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because it's different from other oil companies.
On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because it's different from other oil companies.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.
Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
I fear that we might just see exactly how many barrels of oil a given dictator needs to export in order to flaunt the law.
William Bradley | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home
Why the big fade? It's actually not much of a mystery. Once you see the movie, the only mystery is why it wasn't predicted in the first place.
The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.14.2009 | Home
Two middle-aged men have reportedly been detained in Italy while trying to take $134bn in US bonds - equivalent to the entire GDP of Kazakhstan - int...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
According to Israeli public relations official Ido Aharoni Tuesday: "The Arabs, our adversaries, have succeeded in doing to us what 'Borat' did for Ka...
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home
In its current incarnation, Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" would earn an adults-only NC-17 rating from the MPAA's ratings board, the filmmakers have be...
Neatorama | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
Sakhan Dosova of Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan has documents that say she will celebrate her 130th birthday on Friday. Census officials discovered ...
nytimes.com | WILLIAM HARWOOD | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the shuttle Discovery safely away from the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off Thursday...
Sean Jacobs | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
If you don't count Baghdad, Pyongyang (North Korea) or Harare (Zimbabwe) -- cities affected by war or economic sanctions -- which cities are the most ...
Bill Allen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
A worldwide study of education in science and math contains a mixed report card for the U.S. The good news: We did manage to beat Yemen soundly.
Aram Roston | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, ...
Ari Herzog | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
At a time when the World Bank describes the Obama Administration as embracing e-government themes, why does the President-elect's own tech roadmap fail to mention it by name?
Jon Wiener | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
What guidelines should govern Bill if Hillary becomes Secretary of State? Well, no more favors for human rights violators in exchange for big contributions to the Clinton Foundation -- and no more lying to the media about such deals.
James Love | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
It will be interesting to see if the attention to Nursultan Nazarbayev will become more than an occasional opportunistic exercise in Hillary bashing.
William Bradley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
It turns out that McCain's hot rhetoric in the wake of the Russia-Georgia War isn't catching on. But McCain is still seen as the national security/geopolitics maven.
Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.
Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment
Dvortsevov's film had traveled from the Steppe to Cannes -- and he had been in the audience when they thunderously applauded.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
When Obama said Republicans would find a "whole dump truck" of dirt on Hillary Clinton he knew what he was talking about. She just poured $5 million into its tank.
New York Times | JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in sou...
Reuters | Belinda Goldsmith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Q: Who do you favor for President in the United States? A: "I cannot believe that it possible a woman can become Premier of US and A - in Kazakhstan,...
Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green