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Parliament as a whole may have to Choose Iraqi Prime Minister
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that despite their announced coalition, the religious Shiite State of Law and National Iraqi Alliance lists will probably have to resort […]
Shiite Parties Form Largest Coalition in Iraq; Ayatollahs to choose PM; Win for Iran
The pan-Arab London daily al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that sources close to the two major Shiite coalitions have revealed that they will form a […]
Israeli Settler Terrorists Plan more Mosque Burnings
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas charged that a fire that damaged a Palestinian mosque in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank was set by Israeli terrorists […]
Suspect Arrested in Times Square Bomb Plot; Afghan anger at NATO Grows
As US authorities arrested Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American recently returned from Peshawar, on suspicion of ties to the Pakistani Taliban and involvement in the Times […]
From Waziristan to New York
It is a measure of the inter-connected character of our globalized world that the security of New York may be tied to events in distant, […]
I want My Country back from Big Oil
I want my country back. I want back the country of Teddy Roosevelt, who cared about our natural environment. I want back the country of […]
Can “Proximity Talks” Avert Boycotts of Apartheid Israel?
President Obama threatened that he would take over the Israel-Palestine peace process himself, along with European allies, and recognize a Palestinian state, if Israeli-Palestinian negotiations […]
Veiling ban in Belgium: It is all about the State
The bill proposing a ban on the niqab or the kind of Muslim veil that covers the entire face, passed by the lower house of […]
Chaudhry: Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\
This is a guest essay by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, University of California, Berkeley, one of our country’s foremost academic specialists in comparative politics.: “…for this […]
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