Number one this incursion into your land these past 20 years, and before, the reason anyone is interested in your land, and particularly the United States, it's oil.

Cultivating India as a reliable partner in the global economy and in international affairs is a high priority for the US as well. Obama s visit to India can help to realize that relationship s potential.

WASHINGTON, DC Sovereign debt has been back in the news recently, this time because of a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Argentine debt. As a result of the ruling, a complicated issue is likely to become even more so.

Some people in the Iranian blogosphere have felt insulted after The Columbus Dispatch published a cartoon resembling Iran to a sewer with cockroaches coming out of it . The issue has also attracted NIAC s attention, By publishing this racist cartoon, the editors of the Dispatch have insulted and propagated hate against the Iranian American community .

The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Argentina was bound to honor its obligations to the holdout bondholders in the same proportion (namely 100 ) as the holders of the exchange bonds. It was that ruling that the Supreme Court recently upheld.

Canada and Mexico were transformed in this way by the 1987 US Canada Free Trade Agreement and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. On average, 40 of Mexican exports to the United States now have US content.

Europe s debt crisis and its leaders apparent inability to take coordinated action gave the Kremlin additional ammunition. Given that Europe s overall debts and deficits are much lower than those of the US or Japan, the logic went, it should have been able to avoid polarization and paralysis.

The Brisbane Summit therefore needs to rediscover the activism that it displayed in 2008 and 2009, during the height of the financial crisis. It must be led by the United States and other advanced economies, and backed up by major emerging economies.

Iranian President,Mahmoud Ahmadineajd s speech at Columbia University in New York and university president Lee C. Bollinger s criticism and tough words during his introduction remarks on Monday 24 September have become a hot topic in media throughout the world.

Aside from the focus on price and the need to absorb US farms excess output, school lunches reflect a broader trend toward turning food preparation into industrial production. Uniformity is prized above quality, and convenience is valued over freshness (and often over cost).

But there is reason for hope. In the ongoing round of negotiations, the two key players, Iran and the United States, have seemed willing if not desperate to bring the talks to a successful conclusion.

Even in the US, where members of the same sex can marry in 35 states (as I did in New York last April), in 29 states it is still legal to fire someone solely on the basis of their sexual orientation. In 34 states, it is legal to fire a transgender employee.