Women in Egypt

As Egyptians prepare to go to the polls on 23-24 May and vote in the country’s first properly free presidential election, many of their expectations for a liberated Egypt remain unfulfilled. The scenes of men and women marching alongside one another during mass protests t …

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State Department's new Middle East fund in trouble on Capitol Hill

The biggest single new initiative in the State Department's $51.6 billion budget proposal for next year was a Middle East Incentive Fund -- $770 million in mostly new money to help State respond to the Arab Spring by supporting emerging democracies and their c …

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U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region Conducts Training Friday Morning for NATO Summit in Chicago

Whether residents were mentally ready or not, a training exercise involving Air Force KC-135 tankers, Air Force F-16s, and a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopters took place this morning in Chicago as part of the military’s preparation for the NATO Summit that begins o …

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Postcolonial Theory, Whiteness & Palestine

Like Rabbinical Judaism and Stalinism, the postcolonial discourse is extremely intolerant towards dissent and criticism. It surrounds itself with a defense wall, operates as an intellectual ghetto. In fact, it also invented political correctness just to police and curtail, by m …

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Is it time for Kofi Annan to give up in Syria?

A growing number of Western diplomats argue privately that it time for Kofi Annan to declare his bid to resolve the Syrian crisis has failed.    The first U.N. monitoring team in Syria.[Photo:worldnews.msnbc.msn.com]

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Obama Will Meet with NATO to Ponder Afghanistan Future

 President Barack Obama will host the NATO alliance Sunday in Chicago to talk of long-term commitments to Afghanistan, tempered by the fact that the countries are tired of the war, their budgets are strained and they see a need to resist what one analyst called “a rush …

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Camp Ashraf Residents Invite U.S. To Inspect The Camp Without Delay

At the oral hearing of in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, considering the petition by the MEK for a writ of mandamus regarding the State Department’s failure to decide on the FTO designation of the group, the governments' solicitor claimed t …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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