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Bahrain's regime talks softly while bringing the big guns in | Tahiyya Lulu | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/15/bahrain-protesters-saudi-army Saudi Arabian troops as they cross the causeway into Bahrain. Photograph: Reuters The international community is taking weeks to decide whether to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

ECB: European Central Bank home page

The Monthly Bulletin provides a detailed overview of recent economic and monetary developments in the euro area in the form of text and statistics. http://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html
Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2012 4:34 AM EST (Foreign Policy) Whether you are skeptical of the #StopKony campaign or have embraced it ... this excellent analysis should be at the top of your reading list todya. Wed Feb 1, 2012 6:29 AM EST

uspolitics.newsvine.com - Kathy Gill

http://uspolitics.newsvine.com/

Kathy is a great political analyst and knows to have a critic eye on both sides of the US political divide. She is admitedly a liberal, but doesn't hide it. by alphast Dec 1

http://marelles.blogspot.com/ Greece, the land where democracy was invented, entered the European Union in 1981. While we Europeans are all confronted to the worst existential crisis since the Rome treaty, Greece has taken the brunt of it. I am using the word "existential" on purpose, to avoid "economic".

Marelles: European Politics

http://blogs.euobserver.com/berry/ Welcome! The EUobserver Blogs adds personal opinion and debate to our day-to-day news coverage of European Union affairs. Our individual blogs are listed below.

A View from the Outfield

Peter has one the most interesting views on the EU functioning and objectives. He joins interestingly the typical critical mind of a Briton to the faith in European development. by alphast Dec 2

Commission européenne

http://ec.europa.eu/index_fr.htm Les recommandations adressées aux États membres portent sur des mesures coordonnées concernant la création d'emplois, la réforme du marché du travail, l'investissement dans les compétences, l'adéquation entre l’offre et la demande de main-d’œuvre, les politiques d'emploi et les financements.

Le site web officiel de l'Union européenne

Enregistrez-vous si vous souhaitez renforcer la transparence de votre participation à l'élaboration et à la mise en œuvre des politiques de l'UE. L’Année européenne du vieillissement actif et de la solidarité intergénérationnelle vise à sensibiliser les citoyens aux enjeux du vieillissement de la population et au partage des bonnes pratiques dans ce domaine. Europe 2020 – La stratégie de l'Europe en faveur de la croissance http://europa.eu/index_fr.htm

neweurasia.net

http://www.neweurasia.net/ Photograph by Flickr user Qardash (CC-usage). Everyone here at NewEurasia would like to wish our readers a Happy Naw-Rúz (or, if you prefer, Nouruz, Norouz, Norooz, Narooz, Newroz, Newruz, Nauruz, Nawroz, Noruz, Nohrooz, Novruz, Nauroz, Navroz)!
ISIS Europe is a Brussels based independent research and advisory organisation working on aspects of security, defence and peace policies of the EU and NATO .

ISIS Europe

http://www.isis-europe.org/
http://cmp.hku.hk/ Posted on 2012-03-26

China Media Project

So US public radio put out a documentary in January featuring an imaginative fellow called John Daisey, who produced a hard hitting report on conditions at the Foxconn plants that make various Apple devices, among other things (for the record, the group of employees in Wuhan who threatened mass suicide recently were making Xbox 360s). Anyway, it turned out to be the most popular episode ever, went viral, inspired all sorts of activism, all that good stuff. But :

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Afghan Lord

It is said that the Afghan-Chinese relationship goes back to the seventh century when Chinese monks traveled through Silk Road to visit the Buddha statues in Bamyian, blown up by Taliban in 2001.