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Chevron Gets Fixed

Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Angola, Chevron, Burma, Climate Change, Protest, Oil, Yes Men, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Torture Memos, Big Oil, Green News
Antonia Juhasz

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.

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Burma, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, International Law, Democracy, Iran, Due Process, Detainees, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Courts, Political Prisoners, Justice, Asia, Yevgeny Zhovtis, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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The Scandal of International Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: People's Republic of China, Somalia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Iraq, China, Eritrea, Iran, Belarus, Indonesia, Vietnam, Religious Liberty, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Islam, Turkey, Religious Persecution, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Religion, Tajikistan, Burma, Venezuela, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Eqypt, World News
Doug Bandow

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.

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Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gas, Foreign Affairs, Rule of Law, Robert Amsterdam, International Law, Democracy, United States, Barack Obama, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Central Asia, Oil, Osce, Political Prisoners, Freedom of Press, Europe, Yevgeny Zhovtis, World News
Robert Amsterdam

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.

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Why the Big Fade for Bruno?

William Bradley | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Harrison Ford, Russia, Posh Spice, Ali G, British TV, Bbc, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hbo, Nascar, Ron Paul, Talladega Nights, Peter Sellers, Borat, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emmy Nominations, Formula One, Kazakhstan, David Beckham, Bruno, Nikki Finke, Patricia Duff, Da Ali G Show, Home News
William Bradley

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.

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$134bn bond scam arrests

The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Switzerland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Home News

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...

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Israel: Arab Governments Are 'Borat'-ing Us

Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Knesset, Arabs, Kazakhstan, Borat Israel, Ido Aharoni, Avigdor Lieberman, Borat Kazakhstan, Foreign Affairs, Borat, Israel, Israel Kazakhstan, Advocacy, World News

According to Israeli public relations official Ido Aharoni Tuesday: "The Arabs, our adversaries, have succeeded in doing to us what 'Borat' did for Ka...

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MPAA Gives 'Bruno' NC-17 Rating

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kazakhstan, Austria, Home News

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...

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Kazakh Woman's Passport Birth Date, If True, Would Make Her 130 Years-Old

Neatorama | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Sakhan Dosova, 130 Year-Old Woman, Kazakhstan, 130 Year Old Woman, Wordl's Oldest Woman, World News

Sakhan Dosova of Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan has documents that say she will celebrate her 130th birthday on Friday. Census officials discovered ...

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Russian Rocket Carries Space Tourist

nytimes.com | WILLIAM HARWOOD | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Space Travel, Tourism, Kazakhstan, Russia Soyuz Rocket, Travel, Space Tourism, Soyuz, Soyuz Tma-14, Russia Space Tourist, Charles Simonyi, World News

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the shuttle Discovery safely away from the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off Thursday...

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The Worst Places in the World to Work

Sean Jacobs | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mumbai India, Jakarta, Indonesia, Riyadh, Lagos, Worst Places to Work, Business Week, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Saudi-Arabia, Almaty, World News
Sean Jacobs

If you don't count Baghdad, Pyongyang (North Korea) or Harare (Zimbabwe) -- cities affected by war or economic sanctions -- which cities are the most ...

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Science is Back in the House

Bill Allen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, TIMMS Report, President Obama, Inaugural Address, Competitiveness, Secretary of Education, Teacher Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Science, Anti-Science, Mathematics, Barack Obama Inaugural Address, Science Education, Barack Obama, Taiwan, Yemen, England, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Borat, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Education Reform, Schools, Japan, Teaching, Learning, Politics News
Bill Allen

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.

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Palace intrigue: Obama and his Justice Department are about to inherit the dysfunctional family problems of a Kazakh dictator

Aram Roston | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Oil, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Kazakhstan, Hillary Clinton, Borat, Cheney, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Aram Roston, Sacha Baron Cohen, World News
Aram Roston

Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, ...

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Where is Obama on Social Media and E-Government?

Ari Herzog | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Social Media, Kazakhstan, E-Government, Bulgaria, Unesco, Ecuador, World Bank, East Africa, New Media, Vietnam, Technology, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ari Herzog

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?

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Hillary's Big Ethics Problem: Bill

Jon Wiener | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Kazakhstan, Hillary Clinton, Hilliary Clinton Secretary of State, Bill Clinton Foundation, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politics News
Jon Wiener

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.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev

James Love | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Secretary of State, Ethics Violations, Westinghouse, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Politics News
James Love

It will be interesting to see if the attention to Nursultan Nazarbayev will become more than an occasional opportunistic exercise in Hillary bashing.

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"New Cold War" Leaves Voters Cold But Shows Obama's Need

William Bradley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, John McCain, Presidential Campaign, Middle East, Georgia, Geopolitics, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan, Barack Obama, Russia Georgia War, Joe Biden, Politics News
William Bradley

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.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News
Judah Freed

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.

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Miracle on the Steppes (and the Red Carpet): Tulpan, Winner of a Certain Regard

Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lamb, Cannes Film Festival 2008, Kazakhstan, Animals, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Dvortsevov's film had traveled from the Steppe to Cannes -- and he had been in the audience when they thunderously applauded.

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Hillary's $5 Million Dump Truck

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Arkansas, Barack Obama Fundraising, Clinton Loan, Rose Law Firm, Funding, Corporate Boards, $5 Millon Loan, Dump Truck of Dirt, Supermarket Magnate, Super Tuesday Results, Hillary Clinton Fundraising, Kazakhstan, Bill Clinton, Giustra, Marc Cooper. Ron Burkle, Breaking Politics News, Whitewater, Hillary Clinton, : Barack Obama, Uranium Deal, Home News
Marc Cooper

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.

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Undercutting U.S. Policy, Bill Clinton Praised Foreign Autocrat

New York Times | JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Clinton Donor Giustra, Kazakhstan, Frank Giustra, Politics News

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...

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Borat Is Back: "To Give A Woman Power Is Like To Give A Monkey A Gun"

Reuters | Belinda Goldsmith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Borat, Kazakhstan, Hillary Clinton, Sacha Baron Cohen, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

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,...

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