Middle East
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Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast (Ramzy Baroud)
Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither ...
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The Rights of Women as Casualties of War (Ramzy Baroud)
Nov. 21, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses also helped further ...
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Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections (Ramzy Baroud)
Nov. 14, 2008 -- (World News Trust) -- There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if disingenuously, to have a reasonable chance at getting ...
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Playgrounds for Palestine: One Marathon at a Time (Ramzy Baroud)
Nov. 6, 2008 (World News Trust) -- My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my ...
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The Racism of McCain... and Obama... and the Media (Jeremy R. Hammond)
The underlying assumption in the argument that association with Rashid Khalidi or his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is worthy of criticism is itself, by its own standard, inherently ...
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A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making (Ramsy Baroud)
Oct. 31, 2008 (World News Trust) -- At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. The question, although seemingly uncomplicated, ...
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Europe and the Middle East: Will EU Be a More Just Mediator? (Ramzy Baroud)
Oct. 19,2008 (World News Trust) -- Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East's most protracted conflict, that of Israel and Palestine. But ...
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ICC and al-Bashir: Ocampo's Justice (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 30, 2008 The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbors, including Chad, which ...
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Legalizing Occupation: Bush's Last Maneuver In Iraq (Ramzy Baroud)
(World News Trust) -- When U.S. forces descended on Baghdad five years ago, they seemed unstoppable. Military arrogance had reached an all time high, and it seemed only a matter of time before the ...
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9/11: Looking for Truth in Credentials: The Peculiar WTC 'Experts' (Kevin Ryan)
The fact is that the experts found to support the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 are predominantly those who profit from doing so. That’s not to say that all of these people were “part of the ...
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Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Craig Roberts)
In a few short years, the Bush-Cheney regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the ...
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