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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Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
Part I of a three-part article. Part II. "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil Mar. 7, 2011 (Global Research) -- The United States and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, ...
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Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)
A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad ...
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The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End (Michael T. Klare)
Mar. 4, 2011 (Information Clearinghouse) -- Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be ...
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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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