CAIRO – Almost six months after the popular uprising that led to the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, the honeymoon between protesters and Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) – initially portrayed as a "defender of the revolution" – appears to be over. "The people’s confidence in the SCAF, which appears …
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Justin Raimondo doesn’t want advice from a 60s leftover
Tom Engelhardt on Washington’s singular accomplishment
At least three Iraqis were killed five others were wounded in light violence.
UNITED NATIONS — The most pressing global challenge to children’s rights may be the increasing number of military attacks on schools in war zones, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. “It’s an issue that we now want to get more attention to internationally, so that we can sort of stigmatize the issue, …
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was at it again last week. She was in Turkey attending a NATO gathering dealing with what to do about the succession in Libya, based on the perhaps erroneous assumption that Muammar Gadhafi is on his way out. Clinton and NATO decided, based on their own admittedly partial view of …
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When Bahraini ambassador Houda Ezra Nonoo arrived in Washington three years ago, she was greeted as the representative of a close U.S. ally with a reputation for more openness and tolerance than most Gulf nations. Nonoo was also a novelty as a woman representing an Arab country, and even more unusually, a Jew — one …
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At least six Iraqis were killed and 12 more were wounded in new violence.
Fortified by formal U.S. recognition as Libya’s legitimate government, fighters loyal to the rebel Benghazi-based Transitional National Council (TNC) made a key advance Monday by reportedly gaining control of most of the eastern oil port of Brega. But whether that achievement, combined with the diplomatic gains made by the TNC in recent days, will be …
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PESHAWAR — A video showing a group of 16 Pakistani policemen, hands tied behind their backs, being executed by Taliban gunmen in the Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is only the latest in a series showing brutal acts designed to strike terror in the areas bordering Afghanistan. In the video, released on Monday, an unknown …
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