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Emerging Powers Cooking Up New International Order
Rio de Janeiro - Since the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement, there has been no louder and more compelling call for a rethinking of the international economic system as …
Blackwater Indicted for Violating Federal Firearms Laws
Raleigh, North Carolina - Five former employees of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater violated a series of federal firearms laws to give the company a leg …
Journalism’s Parasites
No matter how much this week's Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is “a disaster,” as Ted Koppel said recently. And unfortunately, retrospection …
Politicians Honoring Their Kind
Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you …
Crocodile Tears on Wall Street
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for …
Lie to Congress; Get Fourth Star
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment - and instead getting rewarded handsomely - for …
Boldness vs. Bullets at the Gaza Border
The razor-wire and concrete frontier between Israel and Gaza is intermittently interrupted by remote-controlled metal observation towers equipped with motion sensors. When the sensors detect something, the metal petals …
An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantanamo Loses His Habeas Petition
Such is the prevailing disregard for the fate of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo that last week, when Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of …
‘Haystack’ Gives Iranian Opposition Hope for Evading Internet Censorship
Istanbul, Turkey — Opposition activists in Iran are beginning to deploy a new weapon in the cyber war against the regime that they hope will defeat extensive government efforts …
Women’s College Corrects Gender Miseducation
Manila - Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean’, but hardly …