Middle East
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The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: War is Criminal Any Day (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 12, 2010 -- The media’s habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outlets commented ...
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Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 4, 2010 -- The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military ...
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BOOKS: A Choice of Enemies - America Confronts the Middle East, By Lawrence Freedman (Jim Miles)
A Choice of Enemies -- America Confronts the Middle East. Lawrence Freedman. Anchor Canada (Random House). 2009. Nov. 17, 2009 -- The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active ...
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Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 15, 2009 -- As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between Dec. 27, 2008 and Jan. 18, 2009, millions around the world ...
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Insurgents Taking Charge in Kunduz | Gul Rahim Niazmand
Once one of the most stable provinces, parts of Kunduz are falling under Taleban control Oct. 12, 2009 (Institute For War And Peace Reporting) -- The vehicle is marked Kunduz provincial police ...
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Obama’s Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin America (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2009 -- Latin America stands at the threshold of a new era: one that promises a return to political uncertainty, violence and chaos, or one of ...
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Iran’s Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2009 -- World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly ...
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What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)
Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties ...
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Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is 'to destabilize Pakistan' (Jeremy R. Hammond)
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, ...
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The Case of the ‘Fatwa’ to Rig Iran’s Election (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Jeremy R. Hammond -- World News Trust July 21, 2009 -- The propaganda campaign to paint the victory of the incumbent candidate in Iran’s June presidential election as having been a stolen one began ...
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Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Obama’s foreign policy parallels Bush’s. The train may have switched tracks, but it’s still headed in the same direction
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