Tag: middle east
group name: politicsforus
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May 15, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry
JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
I read the following quote in my Newsweek today, and I damn near spit out my coffee, and fell out of my chair.
If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated, . . .
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January 16, 2008 12:41 PM EST --
How the Pentagon planted a false story - Gareth Porter
The ballyhooed US-Iranian Strait of Hormuz speedboat incident was essentially a propaganda hoax concocted by the Pentagon as evidence . . .
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September 26, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech
NPR.org, September 19, 2006 · The following is a transcript of remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations General Assembly . . .
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October 19, 2007 01:20 PM EDT --
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has granted US citizenship to 32,500 foreign soldiers. In July 2002, US President George W. Bush issued an executive order authorizing a fast track to citizenship . . .
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January 20, 2008 06:02 PM EST --
Red, White and Blue Tag Sale
By MAUREEN DOWD
N Y TIMES
January 20, 2008
"....A Washington Post cartoon by Tom Toles summed it up best: ' Great to be . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
As the President moves to veto only his second piece
of legislation in six years because it doesn't give him
(and presumably the generals in Baghdad) a free hand
in the Iraq situation, it would . . .
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January 12, 2009 03:01 PM EST --
Few speak out for Palestinians in U.S. Congress
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) -http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN09303848?sp=true
Many voices around . . .
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November 29, 2007 09:52 AM EST --
"The 'war on terror' is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is 'globalization', says 1998 Nobel Prize economics laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to . . .
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March 07, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
I finished 1967 . It is not an easy read unless you are very familiar with the names of the leading Israeli politicians, which I am not, from this era.
It does cast a new light on the 1967 War . . .
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July 26, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
The war in Iraq is a clash of cultures, as Inside the Surge, a sober, low-key video film by Guardian photographer Sean Smith makes clear. http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2135293,00.html . . .
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August 26, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
What do we owe the Iraqi’s? What is our responsibility as Iraq faces the fastest growing refugee and humanitarian crisis in the world? We chose invade and occupy this country and look . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
I received an email from Michelle H earlier today with this question: "
" You are the scientist...How many years of oil do we have left on the planet?
I'm thinking . . .
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February 11, 2007 11:17 PM EST --
What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p09s02-coop.html
Recognition would imply acceptance that they deserve to be treated as subhumans. . . .
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September 03, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
August 31, 2007
UN Observer
by Felicity Arbuthnot
"...A thousand years before the Mongol invasion, the [Middle East ] region had developed a “sophisticated civilisation” with “innovations . . .
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December 10, 2007 05:58 AM EST --
Happy Xmas, your war is over !
By DAVID WOODING
Whitehall Editor of The Sun
in Basra
Published: Dec.10,2007
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article563496.ece
GORDON Brown . . .
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October 10, 2008 09:37 AM EDT --
"Death, fear and mayhem, spread by a failed coalition 'surge' in Afghanistan in 2007, has brutalized the population and filled the ranks of the Taliban with enraged Afghans who've seen . . .
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September 17, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
"Why was "sheik" Abu Risha so important? As the New York Times put it this morning, "Abu Risha had become a charismatic symbol of the security gains in Sunni areas that . . .
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October 03, 2007 04:04 AM EDT --
'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html
CHARLES HAWLEY and DAVID GORDON SMITH, Interviewers . . .
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October 16, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
William S. Lind is one of the best American military analysts I know, a worthy pupil of Martin van Creveld, the Israeli military historian and theorist . Both have . . .
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