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UN Allies Strike Convoy near Brega as Rebels begin Oil Exports
NATO airstrikes near the oil city of Brega (Marsa al-Buraiqa) on Tuesday morning repelled the advance of an 8-vehicle military convoy of Qaddafi loyalists. The […]
Japan Nuclear Woes Galvanize Indian Protests
Indian peasants in Maharashtra are protesting plans to build a nuclear plant on an earthquake fault at Jaitapur. India has an ambitious set of plans […]
Libyan Rebels Aspire to Democracy
The USG Open Source Center translates an article about a rebel news conference in which they lay out their vision of Libya’ future: Libya’s TNC […]
Crackdowns Against Arab Spring Continue
1. Tens of thousands of protesters are said to have come out in the Yemeni city of Taizz on Monday, but were fired on by […]
Libyan Rebels Grateful to West, say Qaddafi Psycho
The USG Open Source Center translates radio broadcasts on Sunday of the Voice of Free Libya Radio, which is based in Benghazi: ‘ Libyan Rebel […]
Westbrook: Half-Measures in Libya will Fail
Here is David A. Westbrook’s guest column for Informed Comment It is in many ways a critique of the position Juan Cole has taken, that […]
Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Libya and the end of NATO
I have a set of questions for Glenn Greenwald. I ask them in the spirit of open and reasoned dialogue and am genuinely interested in […]
Afghan Protests against Qur’an-Burning cause Deaths
Some 2000 protesters came out in Qandahar on Friday, meeting police fire that left 9 dead and 73 injured, when they protested the burning of […]
7 Dead in Syria Unrest
Smaller than expected protests were held in Syria on Friday that were nevertheless met with deadly force that left between 7 and 10 dead. An […]
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