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In Shift, Egypt Warms to Iran and Hamas, Israel’s Foes
Cairo - Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the …
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Swing-State Ohio at Heart of Union Rights Battle
North Canton, Ohio - In this former company town, an aging smokestack marked with “Hoover” in tall white letters stands like a tombstone over the union jobs lost when …
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News in Brief: Exxon Scores Huge Profits as Gas Prices Rise, and More
Exxon Scores Huge Profits as Gas Prices Rise Gas prices are up, and so are Big Oil's profit margins. Oil giant ExxonMobil posted a $10.65 billion …
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Arrogance and Authority
(Photo: MiiiSH) Washington, DC - It is increasingly common to hear prominent American and European central bankers proclaim, with respect to the crisis of 2008-2010, the following …
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“Pedagogism”: Prejudice and Hatred Directed at Teachers
Though it has been endemic in this country for a number of years, prejudice against and hatred of teachers, or what I term “pedagogism,” has increased to a level …
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David Petraeus, A Threat to CIA Analysis
The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq …
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Haiti, a Nation in Fragments, Faces the Future
Marie Nicoles Meus with her four-month-old daughter, Jousely Pierre, in the doorway of a mud-walled hut she shares with another family in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, April 8, 2011. Meus and …
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Why Churchill Matters
(Image: Henry Holt and Co.) “Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him And The World He Made” Richard Toye Henry Holt, New York (2010) $32 …
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Decision 2012: Urgent and Unsaid
We have often honored election traditions in American politics. This is particularly true of those election cycles that fall every four years when The Congress and White House are …
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“Wild Law” Would Codify Nature as Subject, Not Object
(Image: Green Books)