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  • July 2008

    • McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

      newser  |  New Republic  |  Jul 16, 08 4:06 PM CDT

      McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

      John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic —at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’s proposal for a league of democracies shows that the Republican—erroneously—thinks the world is defined by regimes struggling to impose their form of government on others. More »

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      John McCain  • China  • Iran  • Russia  • Saudi Arabia  • G-8

    • Dear God: Please Lower Gas Prices!

      newser  |  CNS News  |  Jul 4, 08 6:21 PM CDT

      Dear God: Please Lower Gas Prices!

      Many analysts say there isn't a prayer of gas prices coming down any time soon, but there's a group out there bent on proving them wrong, reports CNS News. The Prayer at the Pump Movement, led by Seventh-Day Adventist Rocky Twyman, has been holding vigils at gas stations across the country asking for divine intervention to lower pump prices. More »

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      oil price  • gas prices  • Saudi Arabia  • prayer

  • June 2008

    • Saudis May Boost Oil Supply Even Higher

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Jun 22, 08 4:11 PM CDT

      Saudis May Boost Oil Supply Even Higher

      A hastily organized summit meeting in Saudi Arabia today offered little relief to oil consumers, Bloomberg reports. The Saudis did vow to increase production if needed, but OPEC blamed speculators and the credit crisis, not markets, for surging oil prices. "Saudi Arabia is prepared and willing to produce additional barrels of crude above and beyond the 9.7 million barrels per day," a Saudi minister said. More »

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      oil price  • oil  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • oil production  • oil companies  • oil crisis  • foreign oil  • oil industry

    • Saudi Oil Boost Little More Than PR

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 18, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      Saudi Oil Boost Little More Than PR

      Saudi Arabia consenting to increase oil output is more public-relations ploy than problem-solver, Vivienne Walt writes in Time , since the half-million extra barrels a day won't make much of a dent, if the Saudis even have that much to spare. One analyst says the move is really an attempt “to pump out the message to the West that ‘we are not trying to hurt your economy.'" More »

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      recession  • Saudi Arabia  • crude oil  • oil reserves

    • Saudis Bumping Oil Flow 2% to Slow Soaring Prices

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 16, 08 7:02 AM CDT

      Saudis Bumping Oil Flow 2% to Slow Soaring Prices

      Saudi Arabia, worried soaring prices could weaken the world's appetite for oil, will increase production by 200,000 barrels a day, beginning next month, the Saudi oil minister told UN chief Ban Ki-moon in a meeting yesterday. The move follows a May increase of 300,000 barrels, the AP notes. More »

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      United Nations  • oil price  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • oil production

    • Saudis to Boost Oil Output to Record Level

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 14, 08 6:14 AM CDT

      Saudis to Boost Oil Output to Record Level

      Saudi Arabia aims to put the brakes on oil prices by raising output to its highest ever, the New York Times reports. The kingdom resisted calls from President Bush earlier this year to boost production, but is now concerned that record oil prices could lead to lower demand in the long term by cutting economic growth and making alternative fuels more viable. More »

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      oil price  • oil  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • King Abdullah  • oil production

    • Oil Prices Threaten US-Saudi Relations

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 08 6:46 AM CDT

      Oil Prices Threaten US-Saudi Relations

      The weakening dollar and rising oil prices are marring more than just the American economy: It’s also eroding the long-standing friendly relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reports. A bleak economic outlook has cost the US clout with its oil-producing ally. “There’s certainly a perception that the power equation has changed,” said an oil analyst. More »

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      George W. Bush  • China  • oil price  • United States  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • Asia  • oil production

  • May 2008

    • CIA Chief: Tide Turning Against Al-Qaeda

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 30, 08 8:57 AM CDT

      CIA Chief: Tide Turning Against Al-Qaeda

      Al-Qaeda is "near strategic defeat" in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and the tide is turning against it elsewhere, CIA chief Michael Hayden says in a surprisingly upbeat Washington Post interview today. In contrast to a  reports of an al-Qaeda resurgence a year ago, Hayden now cites “significant setbacks for al-Qaeda globally,” as "a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam.” He says the Iraq war is no longer a boon to al-Qaeda recruitment. More »

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      Iraq  • al-Qaeda  • CIA  • War on Terror  • Saudi Arabia  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • Michael Hayden

    • Dear Yanks: Time to Snap Out of Oil Coma

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  May 20, 08 2:37 PM CDT

      Dear Yanks: Time to Snap Out of Oil Coma

      Romancing the Saudis and railing against speculators won’t accomplish anything, Gerard Baker tells American pols in the Guardian : A second industrial revolution is driving oil prices up and there’s no turning back. Stop the populism— the "economically illiterate idea for a gas tax holiday," for instance—and the saber-rattling, and instead focus on areas, like energy efficiency, where progress is being made.  More »

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      Russia  • Saudi Arabia  • crude oil  • populism

    • Bush, Stop Begging the Saudis

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 17, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      Bush, Stop Begging the Saudis

      Whichever adviser sent President Bush to plead with the Saudi king to help bring down oil prices should be canned, the Wall Street Journal opines. Bush had the same request turned down during a visit in January, and the rebuff is even more humiliating the second time around. If Bush wants to go begging, he'd be better off turning to Fed chief Ben Bernanke, "creator of our current commodity-price spike." More »

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      George W. Bush  • oil price  • Ben Bernanke  • Saudi Arabia  • King Abdullah  • oil production

    • Saudis Won't Budge on Oil

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 16, 08 6:26 PM CDT

      Saudis Won't Budge on Oil

      Saudi Arabia's leaders today denied a request from visiting President Bush that they boost oil production to help ease rising gas prices, the AP reports. "Supply and demand are in balance today," the kingdom's oil minister said, with the commodity pushing $128 per barrel. "How much does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy people who are questioning our oil practices and policies?" More »

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      George W. Bush  • oil price  • Saudi Arabia  • oil production

    • Women-Only Saudi Hotel Raises Debate on Progress

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  May 15, 08 4:49 PM CDT

      Women-Only Saudi Hotel Raises Debate on Progress

      Saudi businesswomen are embracing a hotel for women-only that frees them of the pressures from a society in which they can't drive and, until January, couldn't check into a hotel without permission from a male guardian. But others are concerned the Luthan Hotel & Spa simply reinforces the kingdom's gender segregation. The Christian Science Monitor profiles the hotel and the controversy. More »

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      women  • Saudi Arabia  • women's rights  • luxury hotels  • gender segregation

    • OPEC May Boost Oil Output to Ease Prices

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 9, 08 7:39 PM CDT

      OPEC May Boost Oil Output to Ease Prices

      As crude hit $125 a barrel today, one OPEC member said the cartel may boost oil production to relieve prices, the New York Times reports. The move would conflict with OPEC's public stand that speculators, not oil supplies, have been keeping prices high. “We would consider among other options the possibility of increasing output as a way to ensure market stability,” Libya's top oil official said. More »

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      oil price  • gas prices  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • Libya  • oil production  • investment  • speculation  • supply and demand

    • Blasts Accompany Crippling Lebanon Strike

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 7, 08 1:04 PM CDT

      Blasts Accompany Crippling Lebanon Strike

      Explosions and gunfire sounded throughout Beirut today as a politically charged workers' strike turned violent. A Hezbollah-led opposition party had called for a one-day general strike, ostensibly for higher wages, the BBC reports. But things soon turned ugly, with flaming barricades along major roads, and gunfire between various factions in several neighborhoods; casualty figures remained unclear. More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • Syria  • Lebanon  • Hezbollah  • strike  • general strike

    • Mozart Helps Snap Saudi Taboos

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 3, 08 9:56 PM CDT

      Mozart Helps Snap Saudi Taboos

      Mozart hasn't challenged cultural taboos for more than 200 years, but last night he caused quite a stir in Saudi Arabia. A German-based quartet gave the nation its first public classical concert where men were allowed to hear Mozart and sit next to, gasp, women. "The concert is a sign that things are changing rapidly here," a German ambassador told the AP. More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • concert  • classical music  • Muslim women  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • April 2008

    • Gas-Tax Break Shameful Policy

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 30, 08 5:29 PM CDT

      Gas-Tax Break Shameful Policy

      The “McCain-Clinton” gas-tax vacation is an abomination of energy policy, Thomas Friedman declares in the New York Times . “This is money laundering: We borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks.” Worse than just despicable pandering, it would encourage gas consumption and drive the renewables market overseas. More »

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      China  • Saudi Arabia  • renewable energy  • tax credit  • gas tax holiday

    • Mecca Time Plugged for World Standard

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 21, 08 4:57 PM CDT

      Mecca Time Plugged for World Standard

      A group of Muslim scholars wants Mecca time to replace Greenwich Mean Time as the world's default setting, the BBC reports. As Islam’s holiest city lies in perfect longitudinal alignment to magnetic north, scientists told a Qatar conference that Mecca was the “true” center of the earth. GMT, they argue, is a relic of British imperialism, and should be abolished. More »

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      Islam  • Saudi Arabia  • England  • Qatar  • scientists  • Mecca  • time  • Greenwich Mean Time

    • Guardian System Has Saudi Women 'Perpetual Minors'

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 21, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Guardian System Has Saudi Women 'Perpetual Minors'

      Women in Saudi Arabia need to gain a male guardian’s consent to do almost anything, living as “perpetual minors,” the Telegraph reports. Research by Human Rights Watch found that male permission is needed to go to a doctor, travel, and even get dressed. In addition, strict segregation denies women access to public libraries and educational institutions. More »

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      women  • Islam  • Saudi Arabia  • women's rights  • sexism  • Human Rights Watch  • Islamic Sharia law  • gender discrimination  • repression

    • Osama Bin Laden 'Alive & Well'

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 3, 08 4:25 AM CDT

      Osama Bin Laden 'Alive &amp; Well'

      Seven years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is alive and well, according to his deputy. "Sheik Osama bin Laden is in good health. The ill-intentioned always try to circulate false reports about him being sick," said Ayman al-Zawahiri in a 104-minute recording posted on the internet. The comments were in response to questions from the public solicited by web sites linked to al-Qaeda. More »

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      Iraq war  • Israel  • al-Qaeda  • Hamas  • United States  • Saudi Arabia  • Osama bin Laden  • jihad  • Afghanistan war  • Islamic terrorism  • Ayman al-Zawahiri

    • How Osama Rejected His Family's Values

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 1, 08 1:20 PM CDT

      How Osama Rejected His Family's Values

      Osama is the most famous of the bin Ladens, but he’s also the clan's black sheep. In his new book, The bin Ladens , Steve Coll explores the sprawling family, which is so different from its most famous scion that Osama’s war takes on a Freudian dimension. The book "possesses the novelistic energy of a rags-to-riches family epic," Michiko Kakutani raves in today's Times.  More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • Osama bin Laden  • book reviews  • international relations

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