Statehood

Senador Santorum? Come Again?

Death Race | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Politics, Republican Primary, Presidential Election 2008, Death Race, Rick Santorum, Gop, Statehood, Gq, Politics News
Death Race

Senador Puertorriqueño has a lovely ring to it, and it's just the kind of moniker a presidential aspirant would love to tout if he's trying to pull off another upset in Sunday's primary. The only problem? Rick Santorum was my senator, and I've never heard of that.

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Fear and Loathing in the Island that Doesn't Exist

Monica Gutierrez | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, War on Drugs, Latino Politics, Civil Rights, Statehood, Independence, Latino Voices News
Monica Gutierrez

To solve the pressing emergency on the Island, Puerto Ricans will have to stand up, work hard, be united, combat ignorance, learn to love their land and respect it, come together as a people and sit -as equals- to negotiate.

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There Are No Silver Bullets to Peace

The Morningside Post | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Hebron, Palestine, Israel, Peace, Birthright, Statehood, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Palestine Statehood Bid, Israel Gaza Operation, Palestine Statehood, World News
The Morningside Post

So long as the Israelis and Palestinians of this city remain guilty of indifference and fail to seek understanding beyond their walls, Hebron's future, like its past, will remain mired in constant struggle.

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Abbas and a "Civil" Intifada in International Bodies

Raghida Dergham | Posted 11.23.2011

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Raghida Dergham

The Palestinian President has always maintained that he opposes an armed third intifada, as this in his opinion would lead to the slaughter of the Palestinians. What he did in New York this week was almost a civil intifada.

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Poll Shows U.S. Public Evenly Divided on Unilateral Palestinian State

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israel, Statehood, Israel Palestine, Aipac, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Hamas, World News
MJ Rosenberg

The United States should support the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. It is time for Obama to deliver on the promise he made in Cairo to use his authority not to defend the deadly status quo but to end it.

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D.C. Residents Pushing To Rename Pennsylvania Avenue

Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Statehood, Vote, Pennsylvania Avenue, DC Statehood, Washington DC, Rename Pennsylvania Avenue, Politics News

Activists for Washington, D.C., statehood are pushing the notion of symbolically renaming Pennsylvania Avenue -- the grand thoroughfare running past t...

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Fighting for a culture of enlightenment in Palestine and beyond

Ziad J. Asali, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salam, Education, Statehood, Sector, Palestinian, Fayyad, Smarter Ideas, Travel News
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.

Last week signaled the rolling launch of an effort to fundamentally reform the Palestinian education sector. This reform effort is taking place in the...

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Why the Rush on the Puerto Rico Statehood Bill? Something Doesn't Add Up

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Democratic Congress, Congress, Statehood, Puerto Rico Statehood, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, hr2499 Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Vote for Statehood, Statehood for Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Statehood Vote, Puerto Rico Bill, h.r. 2499, Puerto Rico Statehood Debate, Politics News
Rep. Luis Gutierrez

A new bill is designed to craft an artificial majority for statehood where none exists now. Every time the people of Puerto Rico have been consulted on this issue through a plebiscite they've said no to Statehood.

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Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India: Crisis

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, India, Telugu, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, Separatism, Tv, Telangana, Postcolonialism, Andhra, Rayalseema, Xenophobia, Save the Rocks, Hyderabad Pubic School, Statehood, Regionalism, Language, Hitech City, Identity, South India, Balkanization, Ndtv, New Indian State, World News
Vamsee Juluri

Hyderabad is the sort of city that makes poets out of ordinary men. It has a history of being home to different sorts of people, accepting them with an easy charm that only Hyderabad knows.

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