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This Year Anti-Incumbency Movement Succeeds or Fails (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust June 25, 2010 -- For some years a number of groups have mounted an anti-incumbency campaign aimed at ridding Congress of the huge majority that keep getting ...
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The Runaway General (Michael Hastings)
Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House June 22, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- ...
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Righting a Perpetual Wrong (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 24, 2010 -- Finally, a parliamentary debate in Lebanon over the human rights of Palestinian refugees. What is unfortunate though, is that granting basic civil ...
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A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts: One Jew's Hard Awakening (Phil Rockstroh)
Phil Rockstroh Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust June 18, 2010 -- Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Quicksand - America's Pursuit Of Power In The Middle East. By Geoffrey Wawro (Jim Miles)
Quicksand -- America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East. Geoffrey Wawro. Penguin Press, New York, 2010. June 16, 2010 -- (Palestine Chronicle) -- From first impression to last impression this ...
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Middle East is Changing, and Ankara Knows It (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 16, 2010 -- "Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister ...
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CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years (Arab News)
June 17, 2010 -- (Arab News) -- A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years. The CIA report predicts "an inexorable ...
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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)
June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the ...
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Tropical Storm May Pose Threat to BP Spill Cleanup (Stuart Biggs and Jeremy van Loon)
June 22, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season may enter the Gulf of Mexico as soon as next week, possibly disrupting BP Plc's efforts to clean up the worst oil spill ...
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The Song Remains the Same (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust June 9, 2010 -- The President appeared on NBC’s “Today” show yesterday, the fluffiest of all fluffy news shows. The President has his claws out and he’s going to ...
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Grow Up Or Die. But How? (Carolyn Baker)
A commentary on Clinton Callhan's Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings June 16, 2010 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- In May 2008, psychotherapist Clinton Callahan offered me an article entitled ...
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