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America’s Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org
America's Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org ‘Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil […]
NATO to Provide $500 mn. to Bribe Taliban; Seeks Exit beginning 2011; Obama’s Request for 10,000-troop NATO Surge Quietly Rejected
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have called the London Conference on Afghanistan for domestic political purposes, as a sort of publicity stunt. But the […]
Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan
Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan | TomDispatch “The foreign soldiers, most of them tattooed and bearded, then went on to the […]
Israeli Militarism, Local Conflicts Driving Palestinian Children Crazy
Flesh and Stone – War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank “23.2 percent had post-traumatic stress […]
Foreign Affairs in Obama’s State of the Union: Caught between the Utopian and the Propagandistic
Understandably, President Obama concentrated on domestic issues, especially job creation, in his State of the Union address. But there were a few paragraphs toward the […]
22 Dead, 80 wounded in Baghdad Crime Lab Bombing,
AP reports that guerrillas drove a car bomb into an Interior Ministry crime lab in the Karrada district of Baghdad on Tuesday, only a day […]
Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu’s office ; Or, Rightwing Politics is Mostly Dirty Tricks
Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu's office – USATODAY.com James O’Keefe, the rightwing activist who tried to punk ACORN by dressing as a […]
Beauty in Arab Culture Quizas in Arabic: Riachi’s "Belaaks"
Headline news of the sort on which I concentrate on at Informed Comment is driven by dramatic events, with violence being the most dramatic. But […]
Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET
Juan Cole will be a guest in the Second Life virtual world on Jay Ackroyd’s Virtually Speaking interview show at 9 pm Eastern, 1/28/2010. Note […]