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After wavering for three months and holding ten crisis meetings with top officials, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a decision his chief commanding officer in Afghanistan wanted him to take. He agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, disappointing a section of the population who voted him into office last year in the hope that he would …
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One day the wall will fall in the Arab world, By Rami G. Khouri
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday passed very quietly in the Arab world, because the meaning of the wall’s fall – the transition from total state control to human freedom – also bypassed the Arab world. Not the Islamic world, or the Middle East, but the Arab world. For many reasons, the Arab world collectively …
Read More »Dubai in deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread, By Patrick Hosking and David Robertson
THEY ATTEMPTED TO CREATE A PARADISE ON EARTH – TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST HORSE RACE TRACT IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST AIR PORT IN THE WORLD, BIGGEST CAR RACING TRACT IN THE WORLD USING THE BLOOD AND SWEAT OF THE ASIAN BLACKS. NOW IN A HELL HOLE. Work has been halted on the artificial islandsFears of a dangerous new …
Read More »Politics of Babri Masjid, By Kuldip Nayar
“LET the temple come up.” This was the remark by Atal Behari Vajpayee when I asked his reaction to the destruction of the Babri Masjid one day after. I was surprised by his comment because I considered him a liberal force in the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet I did not attach much importance to his remark. Now that the …
Read More »PALESTINIANS LOSING FAITH IN OBAMA’S PEACE DRIVE
November 29 marks the international day of solidarity with the Palestinians. As this day nears, hope of an independent Palestinian state emerging during United States President Barack Obama’s first term in office is fast diminishing. Even Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has lost faith in the US-mediated peace process. To mark the international day of solidarity with the Palestinians, Abbas …
Read More »Britain must de-Zionise Itself Immediately, By Gilad Atzmon
November 17, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — On Monday the British TV broadcaster, Channel 4 screened Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby, a devastating expose of the Jewish lobby in the UK*. ‘We couldn’t find a conspiracy’ affirmed Peter Oborne the Daily Mail’s political commentator behind the film. He was right. After running the show for so many years, the Jewish lobby’s …
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