Middle East
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WikiLeaks Collaborating With Media Outlets on Release of Iraq Documents (Newsweek)
Sept. 9, 2010 (Newsweek) -- A London-based journalism nonprofit is working with the WikiLeaks Web site and TV and print media in several countries on programs and stories based on what is described ...
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The Photo before the Storm: Peace Talks Already Failed (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 9, 2010 -- A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Toward a New Public Diplomacy - Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Philip Seib. (Jim Miles)
Toward a New Public Diplomacy -- Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy. Ed. Philip Seib. Palgrave MacMillan, New York. 2009. Sept. 7, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This collection of essays could be ...
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Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 2, 2010 -- Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book -- or any piece of writing for that ...
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Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law (William Fisher)
Aug. 31, 2010 -- NEW YORK (Inter Press Service) -- Two of the nation's most influential human rights organisations have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to carry out "targeted ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
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Rebranding Iraq: Playing with Numbers and Human Lives (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 26, 2010 -- The soldiers of the U.S. 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. "We won," they claimed. "It’s ...
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Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Aug. 20, 2010 -- (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is "A truly historic end to seven years of war," in the words of Lt. Col Mark ...
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Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ...
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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High ...
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Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house ...
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