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Gold traders in Iran’s bazaars are on strike again: “Gold merchants throughout Iran are joining a strike to protest a new tax on gold that they say severely hurts their business, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. “The gold bazaar in Tehran went on strike shortly after the government announced on September 26 that it was [...] Vladimir Socor reports on the stalled nomination of Matthew Bryza to be U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan: “The post of US ambassador in Baku has been vacant since July 2009. US-based Armenian advocacy groups such as ANCA are interested in prolonging that hiatus. They seek to affect US policy by leveraging their capacity for obstruction. [...] The tiresome New START ratification debate has put the Economist‘s editorial writers in an irritable mood. The case against New START is a mixture of political opportunism, ignorance and perfectionism. Shamefully, some Republicans, disregarding the convention that you should not play politics with nuclear missiles, just can’t face giving Mr Obama a “win” before [...] When the U.S. and India pushed through the 2008 nuclear deal, part of the U.S. rationale was that its firms would be able to access the lucrative Indian civil nuclear market, currently valued at around $150 billion. Now, the Indian parliament has passed a bill defining who is liable in the event of a [...] Bernard Finel, riffing on the wrongheaded suggestion from the otherwise intelligent David Axe that the US involve itself militarily in the Congo (because, hey, our military is getting lazy just sitting around doing nothing, and our budget surpluses need to be spent somewhere, and winning other nations’ civil wars is something of a specialty for [...] Gulliver, reacting to reports that the US is mulling over a $1.2 billion arms/training package to Yemen as part of a burgeoning whack-a-mole counterterrorism effort in that country, sums it up quite concisely: A dude tried to get on an airplane in the U.S. with a bomb in his pants, and this is causing [...] Joshua Foust sounds a somewhat pessimistic note on the eve of Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. In addition to the increased marginalization of women politicians (through intimidation and vioelence, no less), there is evidence of backsliding: In comparison to the 2009 election, nearly 600 additional voting stations will be closed this year. These closures are [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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