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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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Should President Obama's First Prime Time TV Discussion About his Health Care Plan Belong Solely to ABC News?

Eric Deggans | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Government, Politics, Nightline, Good Morning America, Charlie Gibson, Media, Abc, ABC News, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Tv, Health Care, Diane Sawyer, Barack Obama, World News, Media News

I find it disturbing to see that the nation's first stab at real health care reform in more than a dozen years may start off with a cynical partnership between a politician and a network news division.

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Gaza's Mud Homes Build Hope

Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Rafah, Green Building, Architecture, Adobe, Refugees, Advocacy, World News, World News

Not only are some of the ideas coming out of Gaza extremely creative, but they also present a modern twist on working with indigenous knowledge and the environment.

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Rush Limbaugh Accuses Huffington Post Of Ignoring Iranian Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

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Oh, snap! Rush Limbaugh says that we here at the Huffington Post are history's greatest monsters because while "people are being gunned down in Iran"...

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Iran Election TWITTER Feeds: Constant Updates

Posted 07.15.2009 | World

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With the Iranian government jamming cell phones and text messages and blocking access to many social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter has em...

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, World, Afghanistan, Palau, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, World News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Politics News, Albania, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, China, Closing Guantanamo, World News

Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

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The Difference Between Bush's "Freedom Agenda" and Obama's "Support for Human Rights"

Neil Hicks | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Iran, Cairo Speech, President Obama, Middle East, u.s. Foreign Policy, Freedom Agenda, Saudi Arabia, President George W. Bush, Human Rights Promotion, World News, Politics News

President Obama's strength is that he does not need to engage in the abrasive and divisive rhetoric of the Bush administration to get the attention of the region's autocratic governments.

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Obama Dubbed "The Heir of Antar" As Reactions To His Cairo Speech Continue

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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If there was a "reaction of the week" award, then it should go without any hesitation to popular Iraqi poet, Abbas Chechan.

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How Do You Say "Kumbaya" in Arabic?

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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A few thoughts after the Cairo Address. I don't know about you, but I am increasingly weary of our national leader trying to win friends and influen...

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Obama: Three Continents, One Day

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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First published at WashingtonTimes.com DRESDEN, GERMANY -- The whirlwind tour continues here Friday as President Obama sees Buchenwald concent...

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Ignored In Obama Speech: Shift From Bush On Muslim Charities

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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I credit Spencer Ackerman for being the guy who got me looking for the many ways President Barack Obama applies counterinsurgency strategy to policy a...

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Report on Cheney Shows Why We Need The Truth

Jon Soltz | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

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Did Dick Cheney knowingly send intelligence officials to Congress to mislead them about the use of waterboarding? Did the Vice President himself?

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Samantha Orobator Sentenced To Life By Lao Court

AP | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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VIENTIANE, Laos — A court in Laos found a pregnant British woman guilty of trafficking heroin and sentenced her to life in prison Wednesday, a c...

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Missing Air France Plane: How Did It Crash?

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 Wednesday while investigators focused on a nightmari...

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Obama Egypt Speech: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In With Advice And Predictions (UPDATED)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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Reviews and reactions around the world to President Obama's Cairo University speech vary from being laudatory to disappointed to downright caustic, de...

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Forgotten: The Second Anniversary of a Guantanamo Suicide

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.

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Auschwitz: the Musical, or the problem of North Korea

Eric Lurio | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Recently, I saw a film called Yodok Stories, about a concentration camp in North Korea. It's at once one of the most heartbreaking and weirdest films I've seen in quite a while.

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Serbian Rehab Beatings Lead To Torture Charges Against Priest

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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BELGRADE, Serbia — Police filed torture charges Friday against a Serbian Orthodox priest who allegedly beat a drug rehab patient with a shovel. ...

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Japan University Giving Out IPhones To GPS-Track Truants

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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TOKYO — A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that ...

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Carlos Conde: Philippine Journalist On Army 'Hit List'

BETA | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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An international media group urged the government Thursday to explain the inclusion of journalist Carlos Conde in the "order of battle" of the Philipp...

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Asia Copes With Diabetes Crisis

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

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New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60% of all cases likely to occur in Asia. A study in the Journal of the...

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Haitian Remittances Decreasing With Economic Struggle (AUDIO SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post Contributors | Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltram | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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By Emily Feldman and Damiano Beltrami Gertha Brice shielded herself from the rain beneath a narrow awning in East Flatbush. Sunday services had just ...

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Shock Teen Pregnancy Video In UK Sparks Controversy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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An extremely explicit YouTube video meant to scare teenage girls out of ever getting pregnant has become somewhat of a web sensation after it was init...

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UN Gaza Probe To Proceed Despite Israel

BBC | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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A UN inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza will go ahead even if Israel does not co-operate, says Richard Goldstone, who leads the inquiry team....

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