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Thomas Friedman -- Hasbara GrandMaster Or Elitist Dupe?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Al Qaeda, Thomas Friedman, David Miliband, Al Jazeera, Nyt, New York Times, Lebanon, Obama, Idf, Cluster Bombs, The Narrative, Gaza War, Muslims, Arabs, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Israel, Hasbara, Politics News
Sharmine Narwani

My mouth is fixed in a gape -- unable to correct itself after Thomas Friedman's pronouncement that for two decades, U.S. foreign policy has been dedicated to rescuing Muslims or freeing them from tyranny. Where does one begin, pray tell?

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UN Gets Israeli Cluster Bomb Map For Lebanon: 1 In 4 Undetonated

BBC | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Cluster Bomb Map, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Bombs, Lebanon, Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Cluster Bomb Ban, Israel, Israel Lebanon War, Advocacy, World News

Israel has handed over details of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the war in 2006, UN peacekeeping forces have confirmed....

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Russia/Georgia: Cluster Bombs' Harm Shows Need to Join Ban

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Cluster Bombs, Russia Georgia War, Georgia Russia, Russia George South Ossetia, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Human Rights Watch, South Ossetia, Georgia, South Ossetia Fighting, Cluster Bomb Ban, Georgia South Ossetia War, Geneva, China, World News
Human Rights Watch

(Geneva) -- The loss of lives and livelihoods from cluster munitions used by Russia and Georgia during the August 2008 armed conflict reinforces the i...

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Cluster Bombs In The Balkans, 10 Years Later, Still Threaten 160,000 People

Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Norwegian People's Aid, Cluster Bombs, Kosovo, Foreign Affairs, Balkans, Serbia, Cluster Bomb Ban, NATO Cluster Bomb Treaty, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

BELGRADE, Apr 8 (IPS) - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the N...

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Cluster Bomb Kills 52 At Sri Lankan Hospital

Press Trust Of India | T V Sriram | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka Civil War, Cluster Bombs, Tamil Tigers Suicide Bomber, Asia, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka, World News

At least 52 civilians were killed in shelling in Sri Lanka's embattled northern Wanni region, where a hospital came under attack for the fourth straig...

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lebanon, Montenegro, Kosovo, World, War, George W. Bush, Serbia, Obama Administration, Weapons, Laos, Barack Obama, Politics, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Albania, Mines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama Administration, President Clinton, World News
Donald Steinberg

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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Hillary Clinton Brings Hawkish Record to State Department

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Iran, Cluster Bombs, Latin America, Israel, Palestine, Nuclear Proliferation, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

The appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is nothing less than a betrayal of the anti-war constituency responsible for Barack Obama win...

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Over 100 Nations Back Cluster Bomb Ban, US And Russia Refuse

AP | DOUG MELLGREN | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Clusterbomb Ban, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Bomb Ban, Us Refuses to Sign Cluster Bomb Ban, World News

OSLO, Norway — An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearl...

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Forty Years After 'Secret War' In Laos, Countries Sign Convention Banning Cluster Bombs

The Guardian | Ian MacKinnon in Phonsavanh, Laos | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bombs, Secret War Laos, Southeast Asia, Vietnam War, Secret War, Vietnam, Laos, Asia, World News

More than 100 countries will today sign a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos, the most bombed nation on earth, their lethal legacy i...

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Stigmatizing War

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cluster Bombs, War, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Munitions, Dublin Cluster Bomb Ban, Diplomacy, Rules of Engagement, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The moral center of humanity slowly asserts itself. Only the most powerful are too afraid to join. You may have missed the news: At the end of May, 1...

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Bombs Away?

Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dublin, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Bombs, Nato, European Union, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steven Solomon and David Kaye

A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.

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Eat Your Heart Out Gandhi

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Cluster Bombs, Defense, Israel, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

In refusing to sign a treaty to ban cluster bombs, our focus and that of the other munitions' manufacturers was not on how deleterious cluster bombs are, but on their monetary value.

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The United States of Cluster Bombs

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Lebanon, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Pakistan, Treaty, Banning, United States, International Committe of the Red Cross, China, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Israel, India, Dublin, Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Politics News
Steven Crandell

The treaty banning cluster munitions would not be seen as undermining "military utility" but instead as a prudent step to stop avoidable civilian deaths and injuries.

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