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Lurking Dangers to the Arab Quest for Freedom and Reform
Arab revolutions are currently facing real dangers, which vacillate between lack of prioritisation, stagnation and foreign intervention. In Egypt, there have been deliberate attempts to divide the …

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Myopic Extremists Take the Lead – An Analysis
The electromagnetic spectrum is a window on the real world in all its vast variety. In wavelength it ranges from 0.1 nanometers for gamma rays to long wave infrared …

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Obama, Go Big, Long and Global
Washington - President Obama has only one option as he ponders a world economy teetering on the edge: He needs to go big, go long and go global. …

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When Conflict Gets Impersonally Personal
Charles Sumner. (Photo: Matthew Brady / Wikimedia) In the field of conflict resolution, we define a consensual conflict as one that is conducted about some division of …

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Lemmingly, We Roll Along
There has been unusually wide (and for the most part supportive) reaction to my article of Aug, 7 on Afghanistan, “More U.S. Soldiers Die in Vain,” which was picked …

How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age
Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.

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High-Stakes Blackmail: “Malefactors of Great Wealth“
(Photo: Avelino Maestas) When I recalled that phrase recently, I was sure it had been coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt against the Big Business opponents of the …

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Economics is Always the First Casualty of Politics
President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 12, 2011. (Photo: Chuck Kennedy / White House) Both the past …

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Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab Spring
Rugiya Hassan joins the protest with her son Hamza Jouad, 5, in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on February 23, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) …

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How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now
(Photo: Brian Talbot / Flickr) I like to ask friends about the oddest summer job they ever had. One talks about how he used to don a …