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Double Standards: How Our Lawlessness Strengthens Our Enemies

Shahid Buttar | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, Cairo, Blackwater, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Iraq Contractors, War on Drugs, Torture, Dick Cheney, U.S. Constitution, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

We have failed to even investigate torturers, yet we have prosecuted and imprisoned millions for lesser offenses. And we allow mass murderers the ben...

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Egypt Blocks 1,200 From Entering Gaza To Protest Israeli Closures

AFP | Adel Zaanoun (AFP) – 8 Hours Ago | Posted 12.31.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Erez, Gaza, Solidarity, Palestinians, Middle East, Hamas, Peace, Gaza Freedom March, Gaza Strip, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Cairo, Egypt, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Zionism, Israel, World News

EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip -- Hundreds of people including international activists protested on both sides of a Gaza Strip border crossing on Thursday ...

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Arab League chief: More UN, less U.S. in Mideast peace bids

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Home News

CAIRO - The United Nations must play a bigger role in trying to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the United States should not be the only ...

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Remembering December 30, 2006

Jessica Olien | Posted 12.30.2009 | World

Read More: December 30, Iraq, Eid, Saddam Hussein, 2006, Cairo, World News
Jessica Olien

So much was happening that I understood none of it. The camera shook then swung upward. A man with a thick black mustache was being led to a platform.

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The Israel/Gaza Face-Off in Los Angeles

Linda Milazzo | Posted 01.02.2010 | Los Angeles

Read More: LA Jews for Peace, Egypt, The Goldstone Report, Blockade, Humanitarians, Medea Benjamin, Israeli Consulate, Palestine, Gaza Freedom March, United States, Los Angelenos, The United Nations, Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Occupation, Cairo, Vigil, Border, Liberation, Codepink, Israel, American Flag, Justice, Los Angeles News
Linda Milazzo

Monday night, in remembrance of the one-year anniversary of Israel's Operation Cast Lead that killed 1,400 Gazans, and in solidarity with the 1,400 in...

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Gaza Freedom March Update -- December 29th

Kathy Kelly | Posted 12.29.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza Freedom March, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Cairo, World News
Kathy Kelly

About 500 people, including several hundred Gaza Freedom Marchers and scores of Egyptian citizens, are holding a rally outside the offices of an Egyptian Union of Journalists.

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Egypt Cracks Down On Foreign Protesters Traveling To Gaza

Christian Science Monitor | Liam Stack | Posted 12.29.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Islam, Social Justice, Gaza, Gaza War, Judaism, Netanyahu, Palestinians, Two-State, Hamas, Peace, Protesters, Gaza Freedom March, Gaza Strip, Human Rights, Cairo, Land Rights, Egypt, Code Pink, Israel, Mubarak, Un, Refugees, World News

Getting in to the Gaza Strip is no easy feat, but driving across Egypt should not be this hard. On Sunday, more than 1,000 international activists ...

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Egypt denies U.S. rights activists entry to Gaza

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Egypt, Home News

Egyptian security forces on Tuesday prevented dozens of American activists from reaching the U.S. embassy in Cairo, where they hoped to ask the ambass...

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Gaza aid convoy awaits Egypt nod

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Cairo, Egypt, Home News

Viva Palestina remains stranded with Cairo reluctant to let it through Nuweiba port....

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Egypt blamed for Gaza convoy delay

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Cairo, Egypt, Home News

UK politician says Cairo refusing to let aid convoy enter Gaza through Red Sea port....

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Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize

William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Cairo, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Taliban, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, World News
William Bradley

Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.

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Hamas leaders head to Cairo to hammer out Shalit deal

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Israel, Home News

Hamas delegates headed to Cairo on Monday to debate a final prisoner list presented by Israel for an exchange which would see the release of abducted ...

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Soccer game fractures relations between Algeria, Egypt

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Angry football fans converge on the Algerian embassy in Cairo. Photo: madmonk Hoda Osman, a special correspondent for Worldfocus and an Egyp...

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Egypt-Algeria in football spat

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Cairo recalls ambassador over reports of attacks on fans after World Cup qualifier. ...

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A matter of life and death? (Egypt vs Algeria is more important than that)

The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Had Bill Shankly hailed from Cairo rather than a Scottish mining village, he might have said: "Football's not a matter of life and death - but it can...

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A matter of life and death? (Egypt vs Algeria is much more important than that)

The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Had Bill Shankly hailed from Cairo rather than a Scottish mining village, he might have said: "Football's not a matter of life and death - but it can...

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Ancient Mummies Had Heart Disease

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Heart Problems, Egyptian Mummies, Cairo, Egypt, Mummies Heart Disease, Mummies, Health News, Risk Factors, Egyptian National Museum of Antiquities, Heart Disease, Ancient Mummies, World News

ORLANDO, Fla. — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. "We think of i...

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Cairo match ends peacefully

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

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No violent incidents as Egypt celebrates football victory over Algeria. ...

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Rivalries persist over Cairo match

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

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Tensions rise as Algeria and Egypt prepare for crucial World Cup qualifying game....

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Algerian Soccer Team Attacked With Bricks In Bloody Cairo Assault (VIDEO)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports

Read More: Cairo Football Attack, Algerian Football Team Attacked, Video, Algeria Soccer Team Attack, Cairo, Egypt, Algeria, Soccer, Algerian Football Bus Attack, Algerian Soccer Bus Attack, Cairo Soccer Attack, Sports News

A bus carrying the Algerian national soccer team was attacked after leaving the airport in Cairo, Goal.com reports. According to the web site, bricks ...

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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Deadly train crash in Egypt

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Home News

At least 15 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....

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Deaths as Egyptian trains crash

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home

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At least 14 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....

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6 1/2 Years On, the U.S. Mission in Iraq has Only Just Begun

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Germany, Cairo, Ray Odierno, Middle East, Pakistan, Korea, Baghdad, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Japan, War on Terror, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, War Wire, World News
Rahim Kanani

There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.

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Iran, Israel attend secret nuclear meet in Cairo

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

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Israeli and Iranian representatives recently took part in a conference in Cairo on nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, the Israel Atomic Ene...

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