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Summer Qassim

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Beard Feared, Sheared

Summer Qassim | Posted November 29, 2009 | World


There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless--boys and women--and I am neither one."- - Greek saying


A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man without a beard looks like a woman. - Afghan Saying

Please set aside notions of...

Yoani Sanchez

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War Games in Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted November 28, 2009 | World


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Someone shoved a piece of paper under my door. A sheet cut in half with instructions about how to evacuate in the case of a hurricane or an invasion. One phrase struck me like the refrain of a bad song: "Sew a tag to the clothes of minor children with...

Joseph B. Treaster

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United Nations Food Leader On Defeating Hunger

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted November 28, 2009 | World


WASHINGTON - This year the number of poor people around the world struggling to get enough food for survival for themselves and their families has risen to a little more than a billion - the highest level in 30 years.

Food supplies have been reduced by floods and droughts. But...

Johann Hari

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Dubai Has Always Been Bankrupt -- Morally and Environmentally

Johann Hari | Posted November 28, 2009 | World


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Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these...

Roger Morris

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Matthew Hoh Speaks Grim Truth To Power

Roger Morris | Posted November 28, 2009 | World


The rare resignation on principle is always telling in American government. When Matthew Hoh recently left the State Department -- a Marine Captain in Iraq who became a diplomat in Afghanistan -- his act was significant far beyond the first reports.

Hoh speaks grim truth to power. His message is...

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

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Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:

Massacre in Mindanao
SI Analysis: At least 57 people were brutally killed as a result of a longstanding political rivalry in this southern island of the Philippines. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo quickly called a state of emergency. But...

Yoani Sanchez

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The Permanent Forced Childhood Of A "Kept" People

Yoani Sanchez | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


It delights us to cure ourselves of that stage of life we call adolescence and, in particular, to become independent. Finding an answer to that question we have asked ourselves so often: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Able to leave home without explaining ourselves, being...

Johann Hari

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Why Are These Artists Defending Pedophiles?

Johann Hari | Posted November 27, 2009 | Entertainment


Over the past few years, there has been a drip-drip of artists defending old men who abuse their power over young boys and girls for sexual pleasure. It ranges from Alan Bennett's claim that a teacher who gropes his pupils can be the real child or true innocent, to the...

Gary S. Chafetz

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The Lost Army: Found At Last?

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted November 28, 2009 | World


A stunning archaeological find surfaced two weeks ago amid world-wide media coverage: "Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert." The longstanding mystery surrounding the Lost Army of Cambyses--50,000 Persian soldiers swallowed up in a hurricane-force sandstorm in 525 BC--had finally been solved.

As one of the world's leading experts on...

Sharmine Narwani

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Eleventh-hour CPR On Iran Nuclear Talks

Sharmine Narwani | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


Face this fact. If Iran tomorrow announced a complete halt of its uranium enrichment program and ordered an immediate dismantling of its nuclear facilities under the full supervision of an IAEA safeguards army of inspectors ... we would still not cut the Islamic Republic any slack.

We would likely move...

Dave Zirin

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Amy Goodman And Canada's Olympic Paranoia

Dave Zirin | Posted November 28, 2009 | Sports


When it comes to independent, agitational journalism, the standard is Amy Goodman and her radio/television institution, Democracy Now! Goodman and her staff often find themselves accosted by officials, foreign and domestic. This happened again on Thursday. But it didn't happen in East Timor or Burma. Goodman was detained by...

Michael Shermer

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Theism v. Atheism: I'm A Realist, Not An "Accommodationist"

Michael Shermer | Posted November 27, 2009 | Politics


On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (Tuesday, November 24) I wrote an invited opinion editorial for CNN.

The title, "Religion, Evolution can Live Side by Side," was written by the CNN editors, but it does capture the thrust of the...

Pamela Ezell

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Invictus Translation: Obama Needs Rugby

Pamela Ezell | Posted November 27, 2009 | Entertainment


During the opening moments of director Clint Eastwood's Invictus, when Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) is inaugurated as president of an after-apartheid South Africa, it dawned on me, it was a bigger twist of fate for Mandela to be president there than for Obama to be president here.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


The great hope was that President Obama would have the courage and political sense to do what JFK did forty six years ago. Kennedy told the generals 'no' to their demand for escalation in Vietnam. It wasn't easy. The Pentagon had drawn up plans for the massive military ramp up,...

Bernard-Henri Lévy

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Polanski's Release From Prison

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted November 27, 2009 | Entertainment


The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director's partisans -- including those published on the French review's website of La Règle du Jeu -- have finally been fruitful. It shows...

Daniel Wagner

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Iran's Economic Vulnerabilities

Daniel Wagner | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


Although there is sharp political division for and against Ahmadinejad in Iran, there is virtual unanimity among all political factions that Iran must have nuclear weapons in order to protect itself. Given this, even if President Ahmadinejad and the hard line clerics were to be removed from power in Iran,...

Christopher Sabatini

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Sunday's Elections Left As Risky Option in Honduras

Christopher Sabatini | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


As Hondurans go to the polls this Sunday, months of negotiations and years of diplomatic precedent hang in the balance. The Obama administration hopes that the presidential elections will end the political crisis in Honduras. The deep divisions in Honduran society and the firmness with which most Latin American leaders...

Georgianne Nienaber

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UN Report on Congo: A Boeing 727 From Florida, Money Laundering and Gold for Dubai

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted November 27, 2009 | World


From New York to Singapore, hundreds of major news organizations, including the New York Times, the BBC, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Voice of America utilized the worst possible news cycle to announce that they were in receipt of a "leaked" United Nations Report detailing:

• Arms...

Daoud Kuttab

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Palestine After Abbas

Daoud Kuttab | Posted November 26, 2009 | World


RAMALLAH - A political leader's decision not to seek re-election usually triggers fervent discussion about potential heirs. Yet, President Mahmoud Abbas's withdrawal from the presidential election scheduled for January 24, 2010, has produced nothing of the kind in Palestine - not because of a dearth of leadership or a reluctance...

Joseph B. Treaster

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Clean Water Is Good Business; But It's No Easy Sell

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted November 27, 2009 | Green


MIAMI--For nearly 10 years, Greg Allgood has been working on the problem of clean drinking water for one of the biggest corporations in America - Procter & Gamble, the maker of Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and Pampers, the disposable diapers.

Procter & Gamble also makes a powder containing chlorine...

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