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Obama is Doing Right by the Iranian People, So Far

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Hugo Chavez, Britain, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, Sunni, Violence, Paramilitary, Hezbollah, Iran, Taliban, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Basij, George W. Bush, Arab, Revolution, United States, Protest, Tiananmen Square, Shiite, Occupied Territories, Mass Movement, Iraq, John McCain, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.

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Food Inc.: What is the Food Industry Hiding?

Janice Taylor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Safety, Health & Wellness, Farmers' Market, Michael Pollan, Escherichia Coli, Slaughterhouse, Janice Taylor, Cattle, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Industry, United States, Us, New York City, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Eric Schlosser, Green News
Janice Taylor

Food, Inc. is a mind-blowing, stomach-twisting, eye-opening and ultimately heart-breaking film.

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After North Korea: Why Reporters Take Risks (VIDEO)

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Oscar Grant, Twitter, Current TV, Laura Ling, United States, North Korea, Youth Radio, Journalist, Reporters, Euna Lee, Obama, Youthradio, San Francisco, Josh Wolf, World News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Josh Wolf was willing to spend 226 days in jail for his story. We visit him in San Francisco to talk to him about why reporters put themselves in dangerous situations.

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A Coup Manual: What We Should Know About Iran's Election

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Fraud, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, United States, Iran, Dictatorship, Coup, Election, Barack Obama, Protesters, World News
Omid Memarian

No matter what happens in the coming days, Obama should not congratulate Ahmadinejad for his victory. He did not win the election, he stole it.

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Painting a Bulls-Eye on the First Amendment

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, First Amendment, Richard Blumenthal, Communications Decency Act, United States, Attorney General, Craigslist, Classified Advertising, Media News
Leslie Harris

The Connecticut Attorney General's assertion that online speech has lower First Amendment protection than speech in newspapers is shocking. He clearly needs to brush up on First Amendment law.

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Cap and Trade Part 2: Walking the International Tightrope

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Economics, Economy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, United States, Policy, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Legislation, Politics, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Paul Krugman, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Any international climate treaty that omits an eventual cap on China's emissions will be a treaty that fails to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference on the climate.

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Cuba: Human Rights Watch Is In America's Pocket

AP | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Human Rights Watch, Cuba Human Rights Watch, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, United States, US-Cuba Relations, United Nations, Juan Antonio Fernandez Palacios, World News

GENEVA — Cuba's U.N. ambassador in Geneva says Human Rights Watch and other groups are "mercenaries" paid by the U.S. government. Juan Antonio ...

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US Negotiating With North Korea Over Journalists

AP | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: United States, Captured-Journalists-in-North-Korea, North Korea, North Korea Labor Camps, Lisa Ling, Hard Labor Prison, Lisa Ling North Korea, World News

The Obama administration is working "through all possible channels" to secure the release of two young women journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard...

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US: Mideast Peace Talks Should Start Immediately

BBC News | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israel-Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United States, Middle East Peace, George MItchell, Mid-East Talks, Politics News

President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has said that the US wants immediate talks between Israel and the Palestinians....

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The Reality of Aid (II)

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Norway, Netherlands, Aid, United States, Luxembourg, Sweden, Humanitarian Aid, Denmark, Foreign Policy, Germany, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Portugal, Israel, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Greece, Spain, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Nuke, Sessions, Guantanamo, Judge Sotomayor, Extremist, America, Israelis, Muslim, Assalaamu Alaykum, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Midotw, Sotomayor, Racism, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Christians, Quran, Jesus, Terrorist, Palestinians, Barack Obama, Judge, Mddotw, Sonia Sotomayor, Israel, Taliban, Respect, Christian, Egypt, Al Qaeda, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Speech, Fact, Cia, Jeff Sessions, Opinion, Obama, Iraq, Nuclear, Religious Tolerance, Friday Talking Points, Koran, Republican, Iran, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Islamic, Shah of Iran, Mohammed, Islam, Npt, Judiciary Committee, Nuclear Weapon, Palestinian, Palestine, Democracy, United States, Settlements, Moses, Jewish, Zakat, Womens Rights, Barack Hussein Obama, Chris Weigant, Cairo, Shah, Afghanistan, Stereotype. Terrorism, Obama Cairo Speech, Torture, Turkey, Ankara-Turkey, Jerusalem-Israel, Islamic Republic of Iran, Indonesia, Lebanon, South Africa, World News
Chris Weigant

This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Obama Shapes Cybersecurity Policy With a Velvet Hammer

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Civil Liberties, Presidency of Barack Obama, United States, Obama Administration, Privacy, U.S, Matthew Broderick, Politics News
Leslie Harris

U.S. cybersecurity efforts remain a patchwork of uncoordinated and conflicting policies, procedures and processes.

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GM as Parable, and Israel's Sudden Choice: Obama or Kahane

Bradley Burston | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, West Bank, General Motors, Gm, Saudi Arabia, Israel, United States, Settlements, Meir Kahane, Settlers, Barack Obama, World News
Bradley Burston

In the end, the disgrace shown the Arabs does deep disgrace to the perpetrator, but, more importantly, does the deepest disgrace of all to the State of Israel.

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Iran Official Blames Mosque Explosion On US

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Jalal Sayyah, Iran Mosque Attack, Iran Election, Terrorism, Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Iran Mosque Explosion, US-Iran Relations, United States, Iran, Iran Elections, Advocacy, World News

Following the explosion that ripped through a Shiite Muslim mosque in south-eastern Iran and killed over 20 people Thursday, one Iranian official is p...

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The Mantra of 20 nuclear Weapon States -- Why 20?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Weapons, U.N., Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, United States, Iaea, Mikhail Gorbachev, North Korea, World News
Evelyn Leopold

Today there are eight nuclear weapons states. North Korea, which just tested its second device, makes nine.

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Bishop to Queen 4: Recapturing Iran on the Grand Chessboard

Pye Ian | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Us Relations, United States, Iran, Opec, OPEC Oil, World News
Pye Ian

Winning Iran's good graces and regional loyalty would pay keen long term dividends.

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Will China Save the World from Depression?

Walden Bello | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

Read More: China, Economic Crisis, Rural Communities, Infrastructure, Economic Stimulus Package, Chinese Exports, United States, Beijing-China, American Consumers, Industrialized Agriculture, World News
Walden Bello

The heroic American middle class consumer -- weighed down by massive debt -- has ceased to be the key stimulus for global production, but don't expect Beijing to save the global economy any time soon.

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British House of Commons: Demanding Justice For Armenians, Not Just Genocide Recognition

Harut Sassounian | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Baroness Cox, BBC Radio, European Court of Human Rights, Genocide Denial, World Court, United Nations, British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group, Feeding a Crocodile, Appeasement, London, Armenia, House of Lords, Winston Chruchill, British Parliament, Greece, Ottoman Empire, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, New York Life Insurance, House of Commons, Turkey, Serbia, Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, Holocaust, European Parliament, United States, Armenian Genocide, Sultan Abdul Hamid, 1955 Istanbul Pogroms, U.S. Federal Courts, Kuwait, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Pres. Reagan, Great Britain, Varlik Vergisi, Slovenia, German Banks, Dr. Israel Charny, Istanbul-Turkey, Adana, Genoci, Axa, Genocide, World News
Harut Sassounian

This continuum of massacres, genocide and deportations highlights the existence of a long-term strategy implemented by successive Turkish regimes from the 1890's to more recent times.

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Arthur Delaney

U.S. Sick Leave Policy Makes Nation More Vulnerable To Swine Flu

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Workers, Sick Days, Paid Sick Days, United States, Politics News

The United States lags behind developed nations in mandating paid sick leave for workers, a deficiency that makes the nation more vulnerable to contag...

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El Sistema Comes to the USA

Amy Novogratz | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: United States, El Sistema, New England Conservatory of Music, Venezuela, Music, Children, World News
Amy Novogratz

El Sistema has already transformed the lives of thousands of Venezuelan children and produced extraordinary talent. With the support of the world, it would transform the lives of many more.

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Jughead is Real: The Truth About Lost's H-Bomb

Joe Cirincione | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, United States, Lost Episodes, Nuclear, Cold War, Nuclear Weapons, Hydrogen-Bomb, Lost, World News
Joe Cirincione

We have been exceedingly lucky to get this far without an intentional or accidental use of nukes. So the next time you think about how crazy Lost is, just think about how insane our nuclear stockpiles are.

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Lessons for Americans from Roxana Saberi's Release

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Reporters Without Borders, Roxana Saberi, United States, Iran, Evin Prison, Barack Obama, World News
Sam Sedaei

Roxana Saberi's story should be the beginning of another story, and that is the US government's speaking up about human rights atrocities in all parts of the world, rather than just Darfur.

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America's Essential Political Insanity

Ian Welsh | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, United States, Workers, Americans, America, Domestic Policy, War, Politics News
Ian Welsh

In America, you can get away with being nuts as long as enough people are benefiting from you being insane.

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Iran: The Day the Revolution Lost Its Way

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Republic of Iran, Terrorism, 30th Iranian Revolution Celebration, Iran, United States, Khatami, Ayatollah Khomeini, United Arab Emirates, Mosaddeq, Uae, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Backing Hizbollah, Hamas, Venezuela and Syria would be less odd if Iran had spent some time tackling issues in its immediate vicinity and within its own borders.

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Obama, Pakistan, Afghanistan Leaders To Meet

AP | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Barack Obama, Asif Ali Zardari, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, United States, Obama Karzai Zardari, World News

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Wednesday with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif...

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