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Obama Closing the Office that Had been charged with closing Guantanamo Bay (Colbert Report)
Stephen Colbert reports on the Obama administration’s closing of the office that was supposed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Colbert Report Get More: […]
Egyptian Cities Erupt in anti-Morsi Demonstrations
Tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated around the country on Friday, despite cold, rainy weather in Alexandria and along the Canal zone. In Cairo itself, […]
Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)
Bill Moyers interviews Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi on why banksters who clearly engaged in illegal activity that crashed the American economy have been held […]
Arts under the Occupation: Dispatch from Palestine (Quran)
LAYLA QURAN writes at ISLAMiCommentary: Layla Quran (pictured outside Ofer Prison, left) is a sophomore global studies major at University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
Chuck Hagel Mauled in Bizarro World of US Senate
The confirmation hearing in the Senate for Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was painful to watch because it displayed the tomfoolery, […]
Why the Senate should Confirm Chuck Hagel as SecDef
Reprint edn.: this appeared earlier, but is a propos of today’s Senate confirmation hearings. A future column will treat that process: I doubt Chuck Hagel, […]
Russia slams Israeli bombing of Syria as Violation of UN Charter
The USG Open Source Center translates the statement at the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply condemning Israel: Text of “Russian Foreign […]
Is Egypt on the Verge of Civil War? Morsi backs off Emergency Decree
Minister of Defense Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that if the country’s turmoil continued, Egypt faced the possibility of a collapse of the state. […]
Syrian Horror Show, as Obama, Kuwait Pledge Refugee Aid (+ Cole Interview)
The UN donors’ conference in Kuwait made some progress on Wednesday morning toward its goal of $1 billion in aid to the some 700,000 Syrian […]
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