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Cambodia Deports 20 Uighurs To China, Gets $1.2 Billion

AP | Posted 12.22.2009 | World

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping thanked Cambodia on Monday for deporting 20 Muslim asylum-seekers while handin...

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Matthew Hoh, Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Aghanistan, Vietnam Wars (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karzai, Afghanistan, President Obama, Vietnam War, Kabul, Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Pentagon Papers, White House, Brave New Films, Matthew Hoh, New York Times, Vietnam, US State Department, Politics News

Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...

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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

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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Emma Thompson, Featured in Fatal Promises, Speaks Out on Human Trafficking

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexual Trafficking, Equalilty Now, Emma Thompson, Nomi Network, U.N. Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking, United Nations, Gloria Steinem, Tier 2 Watrch List, Documentary Film, Now, Ngo, Psa, Eliot Spitzer, US State Department, United Arab Emirates, Human Trafficking, Fatal Promises, Prostitution, Kat Rohrer, Helen Bamber Foundation, Journey, Art Installation, History Starts Now, New York State Anit-Trafficking Law, Catw, Entertainment News

A new documentary examines the various facets of human trafficking. The film, four years in the making, follows the stories of five people -- three women and two men.

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A Multiple Choice Test for the State Department

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Iran, Obama Afghanistan, US State Department, Pakistan, Civilian Casualties, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Diplomacy, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Space Exploration, Aarp, Obama Iraq, North Korea, Politics News

In light of the reports that July was the deadliest month for U.S. and allied forces, in Afghanistan, I've come up with a multiple choice exam for the State Department.

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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder

thenation.com | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Millitary, Erik Prince, Weapons, Weapons Manufacturing, Erik Prince Blackwater, Virginia, US Marines, Weapons Transportaion, Blackwater, Blackwater Worldwide, War in Iraq, Erik Prince Murder, Xe, US State Department, Erik Prince on Trial, Politics News

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in...

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Iran Claims US Backed A Coup Plot, Tries 4 Suspects

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Four Iranians have been tried on charges of seeking to topple Iran's Islamic government with the alleged support of the U.S. Stat...

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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clive Stafford-Smith, John Bellinger, David Miliband, CIA Secret Prisons, US State Department, UK High Court, Terrorism, American Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, Military Commissions, Politics News

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

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People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Stage an Olympic Protest

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black Power, Human Rights, Boycott Opening Ceremonies, Tlatelolco Massacre, Beijing, Tibet, Boycott Olympics, 1968 Olympics, Tankman, Tiananmen Square, LeBron James, Olympics, US State Department, Tibet Protests, Politics News

Despite the severity of China's transgressions, the US remains in contention to win at least as much gold as China at the Human Rights Abuse Olympics.

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