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Israel and Palestine: The Case for Non-intervention »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The recent Israeli military incursion into Gaza has been correctly termed an “invasion”, as put by Congressman Ron Paul. It shows the world, once again ...
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The World Economy is Stabilizing - How is U.S. Economy? »
Posted by: WikiMap 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The U.S. economy seems to be facing very problematical times in today’s day and age. We are in the midst of recession and ...
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Obama Faces Daunting Task Winning Over Arab World »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
A Saudi friend recently asked me a difficult question.
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Norah Al Hassawi was lamenting the horrible televised scenes of bloodshed and human misery in Gaza ...Read (957) | Share | Discuss (89) | Read Full Story at huffingtonpost.com
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Afghanistan and the new great game - The Toronto Star »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Why is Afghanistan so important?
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A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military ...Read (738) | Share | Discuss (25) | Read Full Story at thestar.com
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Shades of Red »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 11 months ago in News
The GOP has offered up a very clear brand by way of its actions and words and this has been soundly rejected by the voting ...
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Obama deplores civilian deaths in Gaza »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Breaking his silence on the conflict in Gaza, the president-elect deplored the civilian casualties, which have been overwhelmingly on the Palestinian side, after a meeting ...
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Israel "Number One Threat" To Mid East: ElBaradei »
Posted by: newsguy2005 1 month, 4 weeks ago in News
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei called Israel the number one threat to the Middle East because of its nuclear capabilities, during a meeting with Iran ...
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Missing What Is In Plain View »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Quin Hillyer complains about Obama’s first television interview, which Jake Tapper reports will be with Al-Arabiya. This is different, but it doesn’t mean ...
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Israel faces deluge of criticism over Gaza at UN - Telegraph »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Speakers from countries as politically disparate as Iran, Brazil, Spain and Iceland condemned what they saw as Israel's disproportionate use of force and called ...
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Our Silence Over Palestine »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 1 week ago in Family
Sunday morning arrived like every Oregon mid-January morning arrives. Night refused retreat, dawn just wouldn’t rise. Getting up and getting out was hard. I ...
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Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 1 week ago in News
A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times ...
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Naomi Wolf: What Do Muslim Women Want? »
Posted by: Ratskii 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The Muslim women leaders I've spoken to do not say, Please tell the West to save us; They are too busy making egalitarian, modernist ...
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Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim, report says - CNN.com »
Posted by: pacodecabra 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Religion
Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim -- and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to an extensive new study that aims ...
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Robert Fisk: Civilians pay price of war from above -
Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent »Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as ...
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America’s Violent Extremism - Paul Craig Roberts »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
After the euphoric attention to idealistic rhetoric dies down, Obama will be criticized for extravagant words that create unrealizable expectations. But were the extravagant words ...
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