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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

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Kyrgyzstan Expels US, Endangering Afghanistan Logistics for US Troops: Major Victory for Putin

Kyrgyzstan Expels US, Endangering Afghanistan Logistics for US Troops: Major Victory for Putin

In a major blow for the US and NATO military effort in Afghanistan, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted Thursday formally to end US use of […]

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Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar

Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar

Murtaza Haidar shares with IC his letter to the editor of the MIT International Review [pdf] Gillespie et al. Finding Osama Bin Laden : An […]

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Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?

Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?

McClatchy is alarmed at the rapid deterioration of relations between Kurds and Arabs in the north of Iraq. The victory of the Sunni Arab nationalist […]

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Obama Orders 17,000 US Troops to Afghanistan

Obama Orders 17,000 US Troops to Afghanistan

President Barack Obama has decided to send 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that “the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention”. […]

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Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff’s; 8 Shiite Pilgrims Killed

Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff’s; 8 Shiite Pilgrims Killed

The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has issued a report on as much as $125 billion unaccounted-for reconstruction and military equipment money […]

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You Have Moved on, But the Injured and Burned Children of Gaza Have Not; Call for Cyberspace Aid Convoy

You Have Moved on, But the Injured and Burned Children of Gaza Have Not; Call for Cyberspace Aid Convoy

The demonstrating crowds have gone home. The blog postings have tapered off. The pundits have moved on. Congress is back to its old tricks, ignoring […]

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Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival

Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival

Blogs are not the best vehicles for narrow-casting, but for readers in my area, I wanted to bring to your attention The Ann Arbor Palestine […]

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US Predator Kills 30 in Pakistan; Obama snubs Karzai; US Succeeds Soviets in Afghanistan?

US Predator Kills 30 in Pakistan; Obama snubs Karzai; US Succeeds Soviets in Afghanistan?

A US predator drone hit a guest house of supporters of Baitullah Mahsud in South Waziristan on Saturday, killing about 20 persons and wounding 15. […]

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40 Dead, 80 Wounded in Deadly Bombing of Pilgrims to Karbala

40 Dead, 80 Wounded in Deadly Bombing of Pilgrims to Karbala

A female suicide bomber detonated her payload in Musayyib on Friday in a tent of pilgrims taking a rest from their walk to the holy […]

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