Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, after Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. -Bard
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers ...
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All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances (Tom Engelhardt)
Feb. 24, 2011 (Tom Dispatch) -- This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet ...
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‘From the Gulf to the Ocean’: The Middle East is Changing (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 17, 2011 -- Now that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring ...
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Tourism Boycott for Egyptian Reforms (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2011 -- How wonderful that the Egyptian dictator Mubarak has finally stepped down. But there are considerable uncertainties about when and how a fully ...
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America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk ...
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The empire struggles on…Obama fails (Jim MIles)
Feb. 3, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- The situation in Egypt remains highly unsettled and the eventual outcome is still an unknown, but two things are clear: first that Obama is a failure, in spite ...
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On 'Political Dialogue' And 'Principles' (Jim Miles)
Jan. 29, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- I have just finished watching an interview from al-Jazeera with former U.S. diplomat to Egypt, Frank Wisner. My gut reaction was anger at the culpability of ...
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Egypt's Internet goes dark during political unrest (Declan McCullagh)
Jan. 27, 2011 (CNET) -- Egypt has gone offline. In a stunning development unprecedented in the modern history of the Internet, a country of more than 80 million people has found itself almost ...
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Nigeria 'To Charge Dick Cheney' over Halliburton, KBR Bribery Case (M.J. Smith)
Cheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFPCheney served as head of Halliburton before becoming vice president under George W. Bush. (AFP) Dec. 2, ...
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Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)
Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...
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Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)
Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast ...
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