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Blog Entries by Eric Margolis from 09/2010

Mideast Peace Talks a Cruel Charade

| Posted 09.06.2010 | Politics
Read More: Israel, Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks; Security Walls; Israeli Settlements; Benjamin Netanyahu; Mahmoud Abbas; PLO; Fatah; Hamas; Gaza; Golan; Jordan; Egypt; King Abdullah; Mubarak; Obama, Palestinians, Politics News

For those yearning to see an end to the seven decade Jewish-Palestinian conflict, to see security and tranquility for Israel, and justice for Palestinians, last week's so-called "peace talks" in Washington were a painful farce.

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The CIA'S New Shadow Army

| Posted 09.27.2010 | Politics
Read More: Bob Woodward Obama's Wars, Cia, CIA Pakistan, Obama's Wars, Politics News

Woodward's most interesting revelation in his new book: the US Central Intelligence Agency is operating a secret, 3,000-man Afghan mercenary force whose mission is assassinating Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.

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Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War

| Posted 09.27.2010 | World
Read More: Karakoram Highway, Ladakh, Kashmir Uprising, Tibet, Pakistan, War India and Pakistan, Indian Ocean, Nuclear War India and Pakistan, Muslim Uprising Kashmir, Partition of India, Chinese Navy, China Oil Imports, China, Gwadar, Intfada Kashmir, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Nuclear Weapons India and Pakistan, India, Aksai Chin, Srinagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, World News

A century ago, the great British geopolitician, Sir Halford Mackinder, called Kashmir one of the world's primary strategic pivots -- the nexus of continents, empires, and civilizations.

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