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US reassures Israel over security Joe Biden, the US vice-president, and Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, have held talks over the percieved threat posed by Iran and on reviving the Middle East peace process.
Nigerians bury massacre victims Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group.
US and Russia resume nuclear talks US and Russian negotiators are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty aimed at reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals.
Locals struggle in quake-hit Turkey Hundreds of villagers in eastern Turkey have spent the night sleeping outside after their homes were destroyed in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake.

Netanyahu Re-igniting Religious War in the Holy Land

Netanyahu’s late decision to add the Islamic Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem to the so-called “Israeli list of national heritage sites” seems to be re-igniting the spark of religious war between Jewish-Israelis on one side and the Moslem-Palestinians and the Islamic World on the other side. 

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Obama Could Be Biggest Winner

Iraq’s election results will confirm, but not bestow power
 
Polls have closed in Iraq as I start to write this column early Sunday morning, Pacific Time in the US.  As many as 10 million Iraqis are estimated to have cast their vote, showing their indomitable character – threats and all, adding to the vote of yet another 600,000 expatriates and refugees abroad, as well as the nation’s military, which had already done so this past week amid turmoil orchestrated by Iraq’s branch of Al Qaeda. 

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Conservatives Love Castro’s Judicial System

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Last December a 60-year-old American citizen was taken into custody in Havana by Cuban authorities. The man, Alan Phillip Gross, who resides in Potomac, Maryland, is suspected of being a spy for the CIA.

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Census Data Not So Confidential After All

By Mary L. G. Theroux

The current $350 million ad campaign for the 2010 Census, including the much-maligned $2.5 million Super Bowl spots, urges individuals to “Tell your story.” The Census Bureau is particularly eager for minorities and illegal immigrants to do so, as they are traditionally believed to be the most undercounted.

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His Master's Voice

The government of the province of Ontario delivered a throne speech on March 8 and what was not in the speech is perhaps more significant than what they said. What was not in the speech was plans to meld four large and lucrative corporations that are owned by the taxpayers of Ontario into one large entity to be up for grabs for the private sector. According to the Toronto Star,...

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Obama’s Message to Schoolchildren

When President Obama announced last August that he would address American schoolchildren in a nationwide televised speech, the Right went bananas. August, of course, was the height of the health-care controversy, and conservative leaders and media commentators imagined that Obama was going to make an overt pitch for his quest for government control over medicine and medical insurance,...

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Informed consent

By William Blum

About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: "The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being"; the pregnant woman has "an existing...

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Understanding Toyota Sudden Acceleration

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

As a materials and manufacturing engineer with decades of experience with failure analysis of manufactured products, and as an owner of a Toyota vehicle, I am saddened by the lack of expertise and insight shared with Congress and the public about the sudden acceleration problem.

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The Banality of Jewish Symbolism

In a remarkable exposé of the Mossad operation in Dubai, The Times happens to refer to Meir Dagan’s (the Mossad chief) ‘philosophy’. “The tone of Dagan’s directorship is set by a photograph on the wall of his modest office in the Tel Aviv headquarters. It shows an old Jew standing...

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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine - Barcelona Session

Launched on March 4, 2009, "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law (to settle) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (by focusing on) the enunciation of law by authoritative bodies (and) address(ing) the failure of application of law even though it has been so clearly identified. (It begins where the International Court of Justice)...

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