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A Hunger for Justice: The Perilous Journey of a Modern Day Gandhi

Barbara Becker | Posted 12.05.2009 | World

Read More: Hunger Strike, Western Sahara, Human Rights, Aminatou Haidar, World News
Barbara Becker

Most Americans are currently unaware of an ailing human rights campaigner from Western Sahara now in the third week of a risky hunger strike after being expelled from her occupied homeland by Moroccan authorities.

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Marooned at Lanzarote airport, the 'Gandhi of the Western Sahara'

The Independent | Independent | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Western Sahara, Home News

Expelled from her homeland and weak from a hunger strike, the last thing award-winning Sahrawi independence activist Aminatou Haidar needs r...

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Hostage Diplomacy

Carne Ross | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Diplomacy, Bill Clinton, Kidnapping, Hostages, Terrorism, Terrorist, Obama, Diplomacy, Western Sahara, North Korea, World News
Carne Ross

Clinton's trip to North Korea sends a clear message: hostage-taking gets results. Tehran, Hizbollah, Pyongyang and other violent groups across the world will be taking notes.

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The Student of History Needs to Go to Summer School

Mark Levine | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Obama, War on Terror, Islamic Radicalism, Middle East, Cairo, Obama Cairo, Obama Mideast Trip, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, Soviet Union, Morocco, Israel, Iraq, India, World News
Mark Levine

For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.

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