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Russia’s Human Rights Problem: North Caucasus – OpEd

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By Guner Ozkan Russia comes near the top of the list of the world’s countries as far as human rights violations are concerned. What is currently happening in the Northern Caucasus presents striking evidences about the human rights situation in Russia. The jailing of Mikhail Kodorskovsky, the killing of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and many [...]

After All Syria Crisis Is Not A Crisis For Just Syrians – OpEd

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By Suleyman Ozeren Flammable as it gets day by day, the Syria crisis is being left to deaf ears by the international community. Iran is the prime supporting side for the Assad regime. Iran considers the Assad regime a front line in its effort to create Shiite-based regions of influence. To Russia, Syria is important [...]

Tajikistan: IRP Leader Examines Moderate Islam’s Influence In Central Asia – Analysis

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Tajikistan has experienced bouts of internal violence in the past couple of years, but the bloody episodes in the Rasht Valley and in Gorno-Badakhshan have little to do with home-grown Islamic extremism, asserts Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, the only legally operating, religiously oriented political group in Central Asia [...]

Speaking Of Intifada: Munir And His Friends – OpEd

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By Tamar Fleishman Munir Naim Hamed can no longer be seen near the checkpoint or at his parents’ home at the refugee camp. Fifteen year old Munir hasn’t been back since he was arrested by soldiers during a protest. They say it will be a while until Munir gets back. They say he is probably [...]

Obama As Commander-In-Chief, Romney As Banal Bully – OpEd

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I thought the third and last presidential debate was a clear win for the President. He displayed the authority of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief – calm, dignified, and confident. He was assertive without being shrill, clear without being condescending. He explained to a clueless Mitt Romney the way the world actually works. Romney seemed out of [...]

Hate Crime Against The Elite? – OpEd

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It has been said before: the definition of a crime, at least in its English context, is determined by what the upper class feel the underclass should not be doing. Elite disapproval finds its way into the criminal statutes with astonishing regularity. The number of crimes dramatically increases less because of the crime than the [...]

It’s All Systems Go For Haj 1433

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P.K. Abdul Ghafour Saudi authorities stepped up preparations for the five-day annual Haj pilgrimage — which begins tomorrow — by mobilizing human and material resources. More than three million pilgrims, including two million from abroad, are expected to take part in the spiritual event. Groups of pilgrims have started the move from Madinah and other [...]

Hezbollah: Eyes Wide Open – OpEd

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By Mohammad Aslam The 19-month-old conflict that’s been raging in Syria between the government and rebel forces has certainly gone on far longer than most people predicted and witnessed a dangerously unforeseen cocktail of events. The fallout from the tragedy could not have been epitomized more vividly than by the recent car bombing which killed the [...]

Spain’s Recession Deepens

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The Bank of Spain said Tuesday that its economy shrank for the fifth straight quarter in the July-to-September period. The central bank said the country’s economic fortunes dropped four-tenths of a percent, matching the contraction in the second quarter. Job losses have mounted in Spain, with more than a quarter of the work force unemployed. [...]

Whistleblower Who Revealed CIA Torture Sentenced To Prison

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Former CIA agent John Kiriakou pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to crimes related to blowing the whistle on the US government’s torture of suspected terrorists and was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kiriakou, 48, agreed to admit to one count of disclosing information identifying a covert agent early Tuesday, [...]

US Elections: Three Meaningless Political Debates – OpEd

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Holy debates, Obatman! For all the personal dislike for each other said to exist between these two ordained priests of American capitalism – often misidentified as Free Market Enterprise – Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have shown to be equally adept at dealing with trivia and secondary issues… and equally inept at dealing with every [...]

Patrick Buchanan: Negotiations Or War With Iran? – OpEd

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“It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven’t had such discussions,” said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program. Sen. Lindsey Graham dissented Sunday: “I think the time for talking is over. [...]

Why There Won’t Be A Ceasefire This Eid Al Adha In Syria – OpEd

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International peace envoy Lakhdar Mr Brahimi, who represents the UN and the Arab League, just left Damascus after urging the government and the rebels to observe a 4 day truce over the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which this year begins at dusk on October 25th. Also called the Feast of the Sacrifice, Adha is [...]

How To Find Qualified Afghan Leadership – Analysis

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By NWSC As 2014 approaches and NATO prepares to leave Afghanistan while the Afghan presidential election begins to activate, there are a set of indigenous conditions that must set the standard for the effective transfer of power to qualified Afghan leadership that cannot be ignored any longer by policy makers. “A leader is one who [...]

The Strategic Motivation Behind The Opening Up Of Frontiers Between Morocco And Algeria – OpEd

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By Said Temsamani The border between Morocco and Algeria was closed in 1994 following an Islamist militant attack in Marrakesh that Morocco blamed on the Algerian secret services. However the media war continues between the two neighboring countries. In fact, a war of words had been launched long ago, since the two states are, practically, [...]

Keeping Greece In Eurozone ‘Impossible’ – Kudrin

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Keeping Greece in the Eurozone is “already impossible,” and the probability that Italy and Spain will be next is “very high,” former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday. “Everything should be done to avoid it, but I don’t feel that the process is under control,” he said in an interview with the Wall [...]

Obama Promises He Will Stop Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program‏ – OpEd

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During his third face-to-face debate with GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney on Monday night, President Barack Obama promised that under no circumstances would he allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons as long as he remains in the Oval Office. “As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will not get a nuclear [...]

DeGeneres Lets Lange Rip Nuns – OpEd

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Jessica Lange is mostly known as King Kong’s girlfriend, though she has found a new life bashing nuns in the FX disaster, “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Joining with her yesterday was the ever sensitive Ellen DeGeneres, a woman who bravely stands up against gay bashing. But when it comes to Catholic bashing, she is quite [...]

Bosnia SDP Forces Out SDA Ministers At Last

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By Elvira M. Jukic Social Democrats finally get their way and expel ministers from the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, from the state government. Two SDA ministers and a deputy minister were removed from Bosnia’s Council of Ministers on October 22 after the largest Croatian party declined to vote against the proposal. Sulejman Tihic, [...]

NASA’s NuSTAR Reveals Flare From Milky Way’s Black Hole

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NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations show the typically mild-mannered black hole during the middle of a flare-up. “We got lucky to have captured an outburst from [...]
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