{"id":2608,"date":"2008-05-21T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2008-05-21T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T12:00:06","slug":"2008-5-21-links-may-18th-to-may-21st-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Links May 18th to May 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for May 18th through May 21st:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/18\/business\/worldbusiness\/18focus.html?ei=5070&amp;en=5ae6c03f57309c3e&amp;ex=1211860800&amp;emc=eta1&amp;pagewanted=print\">World&rsquo;s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut &#8211; New York Times<\/a> &#8211; Post-Green Revolution cuts in agro R&amp;D has its role in surging food prices<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/asie-pacifique\/article\/2008\/05\/20\/taslima-nasreen-eternelle-proscrite_1047233_3216.html?xtor=RSS-3210\">Le Monde.fr : Taslima Nasreen, &eacute;ternelle proscrite &#8211; Asie-Pacifique<\/a> &#8211; Bengali writer threatened by Islamists on the run<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/proche-orient\/article\/2008\/05\/20\/l-offensive-du-hezbollah-aggrave-la-guerre-des-ondes-au-liban_1047244_3218.html?xtor=RSS-3210\">Le Monde.fr : L&#8217;offensive du Hezbollah aggrave la &#8220;guerre des ondes&#8221; au Liban &#8211; Proche-Orient<\/a> &#8211; Article looks at Hizbullah&#39;s shut-down of the Mustaqbal media group, fears of diminished freedom of expression in Lebanon<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasry-alyoum.com\/article2.aspx?ArticleID=105843\">Almasry Alyoum: Egyptian-American Confrontation At Davos Forum<\/a> &#8211; &quot;President Mubarak has deliberately left the main hall without waiting to hear Bush&#39;s speech, as the latter arrived an hour after the start of the meeting and missed Mubarak&#39;s speech.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v30\/n09\/mack01_.html\">LRB &middot; Donald MacKenzie: End-of-the-World Trade<\/a> &#8211; Nothing to do (directly) with Middle East, but take the time and effort to read this and you will know a lot more about modern finance and the current economic crisis, and from that it&#39;s not tough to see where major Arab sovereign funds come in<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for May 18th through May 21st:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/18\/business\/worldbusiness\/18focus.html?ei=5070&amp;en=5ae6c03f57309c3e&amp;ex=1211860800&amp;emc=eta1&amp;pagewanted=print\">World&rsquo;s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut &#8211; New York Times<\/a> &#8211; Post-Green Revolution cuts in agro R&amp;D has its role in surging food prices<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/asie-pacifique\/article\/2008\/05\/20\/taslima-nasreen-eternelle-proscrite_1047233_3216.html?xtor=RSS-3210\">Le Monde.fr : Taslima Nasreen, &eacute;ternelle proscrite &#8211; Asie-Pacifique<\/a> &#8211; Bengali writer threatened by Islamists on the run<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/proche-orient\/article\/2008\/05\/20\/l-offensive-du-hezbollah-aggrave-la-guerre-des-ondes-au-liban_1047244_3218.html?xtor=RSS-3210\">Le Monde.fr : L&#8217;offensive du Hezbollah aggrave la &#8220;guerre des ondes&#8221; au Liban &#8211; Proche-Orient<\/a> &#8211; Article looks at Hizbullah&#39;s shut-down of the Mustaqbal media group, fears of diminished freedom of expression in Lebanon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasry-alyoum.com\/article2.aspx?ArticleID=105843\">Almasry Alyoum: Egyptian-American Confrontation At Davos Forum<\/a> &#8211; &quot;President Mubarak has deliberately left the main hall without waiting to hear Bush&#39;s speech, as the latter arrived an hour after the start of the meeting and missed Mubarak&#39;s speech.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v30\/n09\/mack01_.html\">LRB &middot; Donald MacKenzie: End-of-the-World Trade<\/a> &#8211; Nothing to do (directly) with Middle East, but take the time and effort to read this and you will know a lot more about modern finance and the current economic crisis, and from that it&#39;s not tough to see where major Arab sovereign funds come in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}