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26 September 2010
Sex change operations in Thailand
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Using a penis to create a vagina is relatively easy, compared to the surgical difficulty of constructing a penis with a clitoris.

Thailand's most famous transgender surgeon, Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon,...
14 September 2010
Wall Street's Mercenaries Ride Donkeys
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David Swanson
Robert Scheer's new book "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street," is not yet another account of how we got robbed or "why the economy imploded for dummies."...
10 September 2010
The photo before the storm: peace talks already failed
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Ramzy Baroud
A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their first direct talks in many months certainly don’t say anything new.

It was the...
02 September 2010
Behind the Israeli wall: A lesson in reality
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Ramzy Baroud
Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter – is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the...
02 September 2010
Let's fact check the AP's fact checking on Obama's speech
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David Swanson
FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US?
By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS (AP)
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies...
01 September 2010
Viktor Bout avoids an immediate boot to America
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American officials hoping to extradite Viktor Bout on Wednesday (August 25) were unable to fly the suspected Russian weapons smuggler to New York, because the U.S. added fresh allegations against him which must be...

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