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March 22, 2007 |
Political correctness is killing our freedoms
Telegraph (UK)
Europe's citizens must be on their guard against political correctness and moralising politicians, says the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. |
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March 21, 2007 |
Missing the story on deep integration
Miscellaneous
It has become the great North American non-issue. At the end of 2006, the Canadian Press compiled a list of the year's major news events. The March meeting in Cancun between Stephen Harper, Vicente Fox and George Bush, where the three leaders furthered the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), did not make the cut. |
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March 21, 2007 |
EU-style union coming to a continent near you
Worldnet Daily
A memo signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff implements a controversial program condemned by critics as a precursor to a European Union-style partnership with Mexico and Canada. |
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March 17, 2007 |
Iran Is Playing a Growing Role in Iraq Economy
New York Times
While the Bush administration works to stop Iran from meddling in Iraq, Iranian air-conditioners fill Iraqi appliance stores, Iranian tomatoes ripen on the windowsills of kitchens here and legions of white Iranian-made Peugeots sit in Iraqi driveways. |
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March 17, 2007 |
Lawmaker battles Trans-Texas Corridor
Worldnet Daily
Citing concern for personal property rights, a Texas lawmaker has filed legislation to delay construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor, a proposed network of privately funded, limited-access toll roads seen by some critics as part of an incremental merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. |
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March 16, 2007 |
Mexico, U.S. presidents promise to extend free trade
People's Daily Online
Presidents Felipe Calderon of Mexico and George W. Bush of the United States held a series of meetings on Wednesday, promising to extend the free trade agreement between the two nations. |
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March 14, 2007 |
Trade Deficit Sets Record for 5th Year
Yahoo! News
The deficit in the broadest measure of trade set a record for the fifth consecutive year even though the imbalance in the final three months of 2006 shrank, reflecting a lower foreign oil bill. |
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March 12, 2007 |
The richest city in the world
CNNMoney
Khaldoon Khalifa al Mubarak is a man in a hurry. The 31-year-old, American-educated developer steps on the gas of his silver Audi and zooms past a hole in the ground crawling with construction workers - the future home of a $1.3 billion complex featuring three skyscrapers, two five-star hotels, and a souk. The car zips by a new $3 billion hotel that boasts 1,002 Swarovski crystal chandeliers and a gold-leaf dome larger than the one atop St. Paul's Cathedral in London. |
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March 12, 2007 |
Halliburton's Dubai move sparks US political ire
Yahoo! News
Halliburton's decision to move its base from Texas to Dubai sparked a political firestorm Monday as Senator
Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats expressed outrage at the oil services giant. |
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March 12, 2007 |
Halliburton's Dubai Move Makes Democrats Suspicious
ABC News
Halliburton Co., currently the largest military contractor in Iraq with billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts, announced Sunday that it was planning to move its CEO and corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. |
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