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Long Live Palestine

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Update below. With huge cheers Palestine membership in the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was today approved in a meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris by a 107 to 14 vote with  52 abstentions. The United States acted immediately by cutting off funds to the body which would have been due in November. That doesn’t come [...]

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Ig Noble Prize

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The world is eagerly awaiting this year’s decision of Oslo’s Peace Nobel Prize Committee, chaired by Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland. While last year’s choice, Chinese human rights activist, literary critic, writer, and academic, dissident Liu Xiaobo was very much okay (not for his fellow countrymen, of course), the year before, the group around Jagland [...]

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Obama’s New Middle East

Posted in Middle East, USA, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

How President Obama would address, in his speech on recent developments in the Middle East, the three key players, which have not participated in any constructive way in what is called the Arab Uprising, was in fact quite interesting. First Iran. Well, the current power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his rapidly shrinking support [...]

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Joe and Gamal

Posted in Egypt, USA, WikiLeaks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »

While Cairo is rocked for the fifth day in succession by an uprising of its people which ultimately will send its dictator president Hosni Mubarak packing in a similar way as Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali earlier this month, WikiLeaks has posted a confidential diplomatic cable of January 15, 2009, regarding the brutality of the police in [...]

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Dealing With the Pariah State

Posted in Israel, South Africa, tagged , , , , , , on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

See update below. That Israel may have offered the former apartheid regime in South Africa nuclear warheads back in the 1975 doesn’t come as a surprise. As it won’t surprise that Shimon Peres’ office says that Israel has never negotiated the exchange of nuclear weapons. Again arrested Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has compared Peres with the [...]

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