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- Patrick Buchanan: Dead Souls Of A Cultural Revolution – OpEd
- Sex Tapes And Butlers – OpEd
- Erdogan Raises ‘Four Fingers’ And Shoots Himself In The Foot – OpEd
- I Am Tired Of Being Called A White Racist – OpEd
- Egypt’s Siren Voices – OpEd
- Do Policy Prescriptions Work? Studying Effect Of Race And Religion On People’s Behaviour – Analysis
- Can Myanmar Be Civilized? – OpEd
- The Egyptian Military’s Massacres And The US Government’s High ‘Threshold’ For Violence – OpEd
- Namibia And The Economic Partnership Agreement – Analysis
- Private Gain To A Few Trumps Public Good For The Many – OpEd
- Amidror Out As National Security Advisor, Mossad Deputy Director To Take Over – OpEd
- The ‘Whole’ Problem With Recycling
- Obama Seems Unable To Limit Counterproductive US War On Terror – OpEd
- The Inescapable Reality Of Blowback – OpEd
- China – India: Old Ties Lead To New Model Of Mutual Trust – Analysis
- Afghanistan: Stalled Peace Negotiations – Analysis
- Toxic Nanoparticles May Be Entering Human Food Supply
- A Peek Inside Kerry’s ‘Peace’ Efforts Or Propaganda? – OpEd
- Hagel, Georgian Defense Minister Meet At Pentagon
- US Military Will Remain Strong Despite Budget Cuts, Hagel Tells Hawaii Marines
- Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk, Unfold Russian Flag In Space
- Justice Department To File New Lawsuit Against Texas Over Voter I.D. Law
- The Stress And Cancer Link: ‘Master-Switch’ Stress Gene Enables Cancer’s Spread
- Millions Of Chinese May Face Arsenic Poisoning
- Egypt’s ‘Color Coup’ – OpEd
- Fukushima Leak “Much Worse Than Stated,” Expert Says
- Timor-Leste: Finally Getting It Right? – Analysis
- China’s Latest Investments In Mexico: The Plight Of Maquiladora Workers – Analysis
- Dictators, Massacres, And The Media – OpEd
- On Egypt’s Class-Struggle: Rabias Of The World Unite – OpEd
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:58 PM PDT
Last
Friday, Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian here on a baseball
scholarship, was shot and killed while jogging in Duncan, Okla.,
population 23,000. He died where he fell. Police have three suspects,
two black and one white. The latter said they were bored and decided to
shoot Lane for “the fun of it.” As Lane […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:56 PM PDT
On
August 14, 2013, Russell Simmons posted these words on twitter:
“Funniest thing I’ve ever seen Harriet tubmans [sic] sex diary.” Those
are words guaranteed to catch one’s attention, the way a bomb going off
gets attention. Simmons wasn’t lying or joking either. His latest
entertainment venture, All Def Digital, had in fact produced something
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:52 PM PDT
By
Abdulateef Al-Mulhim THE Republic of Turkey has one of the richest
cultures in the world. Its strategic location gave it such importance
that it could influence the course of many a historic event. For
hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire controlled vast tracts of land in
Asia and Europe. The empire even stretched into […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:49 PM PDT
I
don’t know when it occurred to me that I had gone from having shaken
hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to being called a white racist,
but apparently I was not paying attention. Neither were a lot of others
of my generation who had welcomed and supported the Civil Rights
movement only to […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:25 PM PDT
In
Greek mythology the Sirens were dangerous females who lured sailors
with their enchanting singing to shipwreck on their island’s rocky
coast. Their voices literally bewitched hapless mariners into forgetting
the dangers they were facing until it was too late to save themselves.
Something of the sort seems to be taking place in Egypt at […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:01 PM PDT
How
can academics who provide policy prescriptions and policymakers who
implement policy determine whether a given strategy works? Controlled
Randomised Trials are a useful way to identify racial and religious
discrimination, to evaluate policy, and to bridge academic research and
policy outcomes. By S.P. Harish THE SINGAPORE Government has identified
social cohesion as an important […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:57 PM PDT
Tomas
Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human
rights situation in Myanmar, was in Myanmar last week on a 10-day fact
finding trip. It was his eighth official visit to the country that took
him to Rakhine State, Chin State, Kachin State and Shan State, and
Meikhtila in Mandalay Region. Quintana’s visit […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:53 PM PDT
By
Jeremy R. Hammond On Wednesday, August 14, the Egyptian military
perpetrated its third massacre of protesters since it overthrew the
democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d’etat. The
attack occurred in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda squares, where
demonstrators had been camped out for weeks to protest the coup. It was
“a ferocious assault”, theNew York Times reported on […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:51 PM PDT
By
Henning Melber The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been
negotiated for just over a decade between the EU and the ACP countries
without satisfactory results. Most of the ACP countries have refused to
enter or implement the agreements. Among those on the African continent
at the forefront of resistance has been Namibia. Despite considerable
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:45 PM PDT
Congress
is in recess, but you’d hardly know it. This has been the most
do-nothing, gridlocked Congress in decades. But the recess at least
offers a pause in the ongoing partisan fighting that’s sure to resume in
a few weeks. It also offers an opportunity to step back and ask
ourselves what’s really at stake. […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:42 PM PDT
Bibi
Netanyahu’s national security advisor, IDF general and avowed
settlerist, Yaakov Amirdror is resigning his position next month. He
had a falling out with Netanyahu’s minister for strategic affairs, Yuval
Steinitz. The latter saw Amidror and the NSC as subordinate to him.
However, Israeli law determines that the NSC advisor is appointed by,
and reports […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:39 PM PDT
Jennifer
Argo, a marketing professor in the U of A’s Alberta School of Business,
says that people are psychologically hard-wired to believe that
products that are damaged or that aren’t whole—such as small or ripped
paper or dented cans—are useless, and this leads users to trash them
rather than recycle them. To circumvent overcrowding landfills […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:37 PM PDT
A
true cynic would question the timing of Middle East-wide U.S. embassy
closings and a barrage of drone attacks in Yemen when the Obama
administration is defending its intrusive spying on Americans after
exposure by an intelligence agency contractor. Although in May,
President Obama told us that he would wind down the war against Al […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:33 PM PDT
Nidal
Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army major and psychiatrist who murdered 13
military and civilian personnel and injured dozens more at the Fort Hood
Army Base in Texas on November 5, 2009, has explained why he did so: “I
would like to agree with the prosecution that it wasn’t done under the
heat of sudden […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:31 PM PDT
By
S. Jaishankar It is fashionable in China today to speak of a “new type”
of great power relations, indeed of international relations as a whole.
In Chinese terminology, this approach is based on three key concepts:
non-conflict and non-confrontation including proper handling of
differences, mutual respect including for core interests and major
concerns, and […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:28 PM PDT
By
Mayank S Bubna The first half of 2013 proved to be ‘old hat’ for
Afghanistan in five major domain areas: the lack of substantive progress
on a bilateral security arrangement with the US, set backs to peace
negotiations, an uncertain security transition, problems besetting
prison handovers and unresolved election woes. Bilateral Security
Arrangement (BSA) […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:25 PM PDT
Over
the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food
packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased. For
example, farmers have used silver nanoparticles as a pesticide because
of their capability to suppress the growth of harmful organisms.
However, a growing concern is that these particles could pose a
potential health […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:23 PM PDT
By
Sam Bahour The first proclaimed leak from Secretary John Kerry’s
efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as it is so often
called, were published last week in the reputable London-based daily
Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat. The source is said to be from a posting from
the website of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, who
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:22 PM PDT
Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel met at the Pentagon yesterday with Georgian
Defense Minister Irakli Alasania, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little
said. In a statement summarizing the meeting, Little said Hagel
acknowledged Georgia’s continuing contribution to the International
Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and that he thanked Alasania
for the sacrifices Georgia’s soldiers and their families […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:20 PM PDT
By
Donna Miles Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel assured Marines in Hawaii
today that despite deep budget and force cuts, the U.S. military will
remain the world’s best, and the nation will honor the commitments it
has made to them. Hagel kicked off a four-nation trip to Southeast Asia
with a troop talk at Marine Corps […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:16 PM PDT
Two
Russian cosmonauts on Thursday completed an almost six-hour spacewalk
outside the International Space Station and successfully returned on
board the orbital outpost. According to Russia’s Mission Control Center,
Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin
replaced a laser communications experiment with a new platform for a
small optical camera system on the […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:14 PM PDT
The
Department of Justice said Thursday that it will file a new lawsuit
against the State of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, and the
Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety over the State’s
strict voter photo identification law (SB 14). The United States’
complaint seeks a declaration that SB 14 violates Section […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:10 PM PDT
In
an unexpected finding, scientists have linked the activation of a
stress gene in immune-system cells to the spread of breast cancer to
other parts of the body. Researchers say the study suggests this gene,
called ATF3, may be the crucial link between stress and cancer,
including the major cause of cancer death – its […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:35 PM PDT
By
Chantal Britt A new statistical model predicts that almost 20 million
people across China are at a high risk for poisoning because they use
arsenic-laden groundwater, Swiss and Chinese researchers warned on
Thursday. The scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science
and Technology Eawag and the China Medical University in Shenyang
estimate that […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:28 PM PDT
A
new tactic has been added to the US democracy promotion arsenal, where
‘color revolutions’ are too difficult, and ‘postmodern coups’ fail. The
smoke is already clearing in the wake of Egypt’s latest coup—the
whodunnit and why. All traces of the post-2011 attempts to reform and
clean up the corruption of the previous 40 years […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:21 PM PDT
A
nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water
leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated, the
news agency said. Mycle Schneider is an independent consultant who has
previously advised the French and German governments. He says water is
leaking out all over the site and there […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:19 PM PDT
Following
the July 2012 elections Timor-Leste formed one of the largest
governments in the region made up of 57 cabinet members. This has led to
serious mismanagement, corruption and a state of near anarchy. A year
later, the country’s leadership is addressing its predicament. By Loro
Horta TIMOR-LESTE’s government has been sliding quickly to a […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:14 PM PDT
By
Isabella Fabens Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, in the course of a
trip to Asia last April, initiated important trade discussions on a
stopover in China. [1] In return, Chinese President Xi Jinping returned
the courtesy during his visit to Mexico on June 4. [2] Mexico is
attempting to reduce its trade deficit with […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:11 PM PDT
Does
Bashar al-Assad check his approval ratings? Probably not. But that’s no
reason to believe that he or his government lack interest in their
public image. Indeed, Assad probably pays as much attention to how he is
perceived in New York and Washington, as he is in Homs or Alleppo,
which is not to say […]
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Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:09 PM PDT
“Lord!
You know well that my keen desire is to carry out Your commandments and
to serve Thee with all my heart, O light of my eyes. If I were free I
would pass the whole day and night in prayers. But what should I do when
you have made me a slave of a […]
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