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Obama and Thomas Friedman
Herein lies the problem, Obama reads Thomas Friedman for analysis of the Middle East. I almost threw up a little when I read this.
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Video: The Police State of Bahrain Targets Medics
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Saudi Arabia condemns church burnings in Egypt (while destroying Shi’i mosques)
Does the Saudi regime (the mastermind of the counter-revolution) think it’s a beacon of freedom, democracy, human rights, and religious tolerance to offer such words? I mean, it’s an utter joke for the Saudi authorities, the most brutal and sectarian … Continue reading
Posted in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
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Video: Iran’s Internal Power Struggle
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Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
Guernica: It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing … Continue reading
Five myths about Osama bin Laden
Washington Post: Few individuals in recent history have exerted greater influence on world events than Osama bin Laden — and even fewer have inspired as much mythology. From the origins of the al-Qaeda terrorist network to the devastation of Sept. … Continue reading
Time Magazine’s Historic Cover
The first time Time Magzine put the face of a murderer with a bloody X over it on its cover was when Hitler’s regime was brought to a crumbling defeat at the end of WWII. After that, Time did it … Continue reading
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Video: Syria’s Day of Defiance
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Video: Update on the Police State of Bahrain’s Crackdown
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Iran’s internal power struggle
The Guardian: Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several people said to … Continue reading
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Trump’s Racist Subconscious
CNN: Donald Trump questioning the president’s educational background took me back to those unfortunate memories. President Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in political science. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna … Continue reading
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Onondaga Nation leaders blast ‘Geronimo’ codename for Bin Laden
Syracuse.com: Onondaga Nation Territory — Leaders of the Onondaga Nation blasted as “reprehensible†the code name used for Osama bin Laden in the commando assault that killed him: “Geronimo.†“We’ve ID’d Geronimo,†U.S. forces reported by radio Sunday to the … Continue reading
VIDEO: Syria Protests Spread North
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Sarkozy: France could recognise Palestine
al Jazeera: France may recognise a Palestinian state later this year Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said in an interview with a leading weekly magazine. “If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its … Continue reading
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