Feb 11 2011
I normally don’t – won’t – re-post anything by Mr. Friedman, but in this op-ed, in a single sentence, there is a powerful warning for every oppressor of those blighted spots on this planet where people yearn for their certain unalienable Rights: “Humiliation is the single most powerful human emotion, and overcoming it is the second …
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Feb 08 2011
Ketchup Is a Vegetable & Other Republican Myths – Remember Reagan By H Scott Prosterman, Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 11:33:09 AM PST There they go again, trying to whitewash the legacy of Ronald Reagan. As his centennial approaches, Republicans are trying to make us remember what THEY want us to remember about Reagan. Mainstream …
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Feb 05 2011
We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change? By Johann Hari, Friday, 4 February 2011 The old slogan from the 1960s has come true: the revolution has been televised. The world is watching the Bastille fall on 24/7 rolling news. An elderly thug is trying to buy and beat and tear-gas himself enough …
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Feb 02 2011
Huckabee: Israel can build in West Bank, Jerusalem THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east …
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Jan 30 2011
The Egyptian masses won’t play ally to Israel By Gideon Levy, published 01:55 30.01.11 Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including our top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that “everything is under control,” that Cairo is not Tunis and that Mubarak is strong. Ben-Eliezer said …
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Jan 22 2011
Walid Jumblatt: Lebanon’s kingmaker By Lamis Andoni Last Modified: 22 Jan 2011 15:10 GMT +++ Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March 14 alliance that is brewing in Beirut. Jumblatt leads a bloc of 11 parliamentarians and …
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Jan 16 2011
The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …
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