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On Freedom and Imperialism: Arab Spring and the Intellectual Divide (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 30, 2011 -- The so-called "Arab Spring" is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing ...
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Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests (Jim Miles)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- I did not catch as much of Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole program, then ...
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‘Zero-Problems’ Foreign Policy No More: Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2011 -- When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would ...
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Syria on the Brink: Uprising Victim to Regional, International Power Play (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 16, 2011 -- Syrians continue to be victimized, not only in violent clashes with the Syrian military, but also by regional and international players with various ...
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The US is a Police State: Review of 'State Power and Democracy,' by Andrew Kolin (Prof. John McMurtry)
Nov. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- Global Research Editor's Note: This article by Professor McMurtry had been commissioned by an academic journal called New Politics. Upon receiving Professor ...
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‘Islamists’ on Probation: Western Reaction to Tunisian Elections (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2011 -- Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections Oct. 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it ...
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Oo-rah: War and the Free Will of Pool Balls (Fred Reed)
Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- that ...
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Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 20, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (Information Clearing House) -- Hundreds of defense contractors that defrauded the U.S. military received more than $1.1 trillion in Pentagon ...
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Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran (Ray McGovern)
Ray McGovern Oct. 24, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at ...
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The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)
The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be ...
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The End Of History (Paul Craig Roberts)
Paul Craig Roberts Oct. 20, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya? If Washington’s plans succeed, Libya will become another ...
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