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Iran blocks Facebook over presidential hopeful »
Posted by: israeligirl1 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Iran has blocked access to Facebook ahead of June presidential polls, to prevent supporters of the leading opposition candidate from using the site for his ...
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Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 1 week ago in News
Since 1945, the USA has been responsible either directly or indirectly of helping remove dozens of governments, many democratically elected, around the world. Sometimes the ...
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Amnesty: Hospitals are not safe in Iran »
Posted by: israeligirl1 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
According to Amnesty International Iranians wounded during protests are being seized at hospitals by members of an Islamic militia. The Basijis, the government para military ...
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How Iran is filtering out dissent »
Posted by: israeligirl1 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Iranian regime crackdown strategy was well prepared on one front: internet censorship. Internet providers are required to go through state-controlled gateways making blocking easier ...
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Our Suicide Bombers : Thoughts on Western Jihad »
Posted by: dissent 3 months ago in Political Opinion
The actor Will Smith is no one's image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as ...
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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: THE PATH TO CULTURAL BIPOLARISM »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month ago in Political Opinion
ON THE BRINK OF COLLECTIVE MANIA AND SUICIDE
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"Exceptionalism" is a term with which I did not become familiar until this year. That was soon ...Read (184) | Share | Discuss (13) | Read Full Story at opednews.com
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Ex-S Korea leader 'kills himself' »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The former president of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, who had been under investigation for alleged corruption, has apparently committed suicide.
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Obama's deafening silence on Honduras »
Posted by: dissent 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, the divide between the United States and Latin America continues to grow ...
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Lebanese hoping for 'central bloc' following election results - Robert Fisk »
Posted by: dissent 5 months ago in News
There will be no Islamic Republic of Lebanon. Nor will there be a pro-Western Lebanese republic. There will, after yesterday's vote – for the Hizbollah-Christian ...
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Why the Secret Service and FBI Must Investigate Threats Against Obama and Beef Up Security to Protect Him »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months ago in Political Opinion
The right-wing hate speech polluting the debate over health care is generating more and more threats against President Barack Obama, some truly frightening.
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Robert Reich: The Real Scandal of AIG »
Posted by: cosmogenium 8 months ago in Business & Finance
The real scandal of AIG isn't just that American taxpayers have so far committed $170 billion to the giant insurer because it is thought ...
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Is conservatism dead? »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
When in 1962 Clinton Rossiter published a revised edition of Conservatism in America, he gave it the subtitle The Thankless Persuasion. A decade earlier, Raymond ...
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Video Round-Up of Riots and Protests in the Streets of Iran Following Rigged Election »
Posted by: metavirus 5 months ago in News
The streets of Iran have erupted in waves of rioting and protests in the wake of what many are calling a nakedly rigged election result ...
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Iran's Abdullah Nuri -- The Man Who Won't Be President »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Abdullah Nuri's supporters describe him as man of principle who is willing to defend his beliefs.
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These qualities, they say, make Nuri the only ...Read (240) | Share | Discuss (2) | Read Full Story at rferl.org
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Teabagger Co-sponsor Warns Of Pitchforks, Guns, Civil War And Revolution »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months ago in Political News
Think Progress references some of the groups which paid $10,000 to Freedomworks for the privilege of sponsoring Saturday’s teabagger events. The radical fringe ...
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