Amid the increased likelihood that President Barack Obama will cave in to pressure from foreign policy hawks to “Libya-ize” Syria and to accord Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the same treatment meted out to Libya’s Col. Muammar Gaddafi,...
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29 August 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A TV station in Buddhist-majority Thailand has
agreed to allow government-approved "Islamic experts" to revise a soap
opera script after a small but vocal Muslim group complained that the
show misrepresents their...
27 August 2013
Mairead Maguire, Nobel peace laureate, today appealed to the Rt. Hon. William Hague, British Foreign Minister, and M. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, to stop calling for military action against Syria which, she said, will only...
27 August 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- If you have an itchy trigger finger in Thailand,
you need to be relatively wealthy to buy some of the best quality guns
which are made in America and avidly collected.
Tourists meanwhile can buy custom-...
Tourists meanwhile can buy custom-...
26 August 2013
David Miranda was traveling from Berlin to Brazil on business. He is Glen Greenwald's partner and also an employee of the Guardian. He was carrying a laptop, USB drives, a camera and gaming consoles. He was traveling between meetings with...