21 November 2010
A follow up on my fifth grade essay: education at gunpoint
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Ramzy Baroud
I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on "Education and Youth". Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like this:

"Youth is the backbone of any nation...
20 November 2010
U.S. wars are bankrupting the world
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David Swanson
The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "...
14 November 2010
Foreign Affairs - remaking the Middle East
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Jim Miles
The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in particular the subtitle “New Challenges Call for New Policies. Are the U.S. and Israel Ready to Change Course?” (September/October 2010) The U.S. has been trying to...
14 November 2010
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi gains freedom & challenges regime
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Freed after seven years under house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Sunday (November 14) she will investigate "many allegations of vote-rigging" in last week's election, but offered to talk...
09 November 2010
Canada stands by Israel...
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Jim Miles
A couple weeks after being rejected by the General Assembly for a position on the Security Council, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has expressed his sour grapes at the rejection stating that Canada will not "pretend" to be an "...
08 November 2010
Bush Boasts of Waterboard Order
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Ray McGovern
Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a totally unapologetic Bush bragging, for example, about authorizing the CIA to...

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