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Last Updated: Dec 7, 2013 - 8:10:25 AM |
Analyses
How Congress Can End The Sequester and Tax Loophole Madness
Congress could, if it chose to, vote today to repeal the mindless across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester and at the same time close loopholes corporations use to escape paying taxes, ensuring that we have the resources to put the American economy back on track while ending incentives for sending American jobs overseas
Dec 7, 2013 - 8:09:32 AM
Business
Statoil and ExxonMobil Hit the Gas
Partners on Tanzania’s offshore Block 2, Statoil and ExxonMobil, have made a new natural gas discovery with the drilling of their latest well. The well, the Mronge-1, gave the partners an additional 2-3 Tcf of gas in place and marks the partners’ fifth discovery on the bloc
Dec 7, 2013 - 8:08:27 AM
International
France in the Central African Republic is Latest Use of 'Hollande Doctrine'
The country is using military intervention in Africa for humanitarian means – but also to boost its leader's polls
Dec 7, 2013 - 8:07:09 AM
Defence & Arms
Militarization of the Arctic Heats Up, Russia Takes the Lead
As the world’s attention is focused on a swath of territory in the East China Sea that now falls under Beijing’s surprise Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), other countries are making preparations to raise the stakes in a much larger region where the stakes could be even higher — the Arctic.
Dec 7, 2013 - 8:05:57 AM
Business
Why Hollande’s France is the Sick Man of Europe
France is in a funk. François Hollande is the most unpopular president in the history of French polling. The country’s economy is now considered “the sick man of Europe” and French voters still see the cure as worse than the disease. Any attempt to adjust, even minimally, France’s statist economic model and cradle-to-grave social safety net is met with paralyzing howls of protest.
Dec 7, 2013 - 8:04:36 AM
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