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Blog Entries by Eric Margolis from 01/2011

Sudan Faces an Earthquake

| Posted 01.03.2011 | World
Read More: Gen. Omar El-Bashir, Darfur, Ethopia, Evangelical Missionaries, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan Oil, Sudanese Christians, Sudan, Djibouti, Uganda, Nile Waters, South Sudan, World News

A political earthquake may be about to rock Sudan and send tremors across Africa.

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The North Pacific Is No Longer an American Lake

| Posted 01.11.2011 | World
Read More: China, Arctic, World News

We are still so steeped in Cold War thinking that the prospect of US naval power no longer having a free run in the North Pacific is causing deep consternation in Washington even though this was perfectly predictable and inevitable.

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The Return of Baby Doc

| Posted 01.24.2011 | Politics
Read More: Papa Doc, Ton Ton Macoutes, Voodoo, Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier, Haiti, Politics News

"Baby Doc" will be lucky to escape jail or lynching. But nothing is for sure in Haiti. His luck may yet change. Up in the mountains the drums beat, and the whisper goes around, "the son of our Great Hongan is returned."

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The American Raj in Flames

| Posted 01.31.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Protest, World News

Platitudes aside, there is little concern in the US about bringing real democracy and modern society in the Arab world. Washington still wants obedience, not pluralism, in its Mideast Raj, and primacy for Israel in the Levant.

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