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| Post-Al Qathafi Libya and Natural Resource Governance |
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The stability of Libya’s post-Al Qathafi political environment now depends on a myriad of factors – not least of which is the governance and distribution of this North African country’s sizeable natural resource wealth.
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| Syria, the Arab Yugoslavia of Middle East |
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The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad stands as the Yugoslavia of the Middle East, that has to join the expansion southward of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as the “new world order” engineered by the US unipolar power.
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| The Plight of Libyan Diplomats |
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The job diplomat to many would present a stereotype of someone driving around in a big chauffeur driven car, attending parties and receptions in some exotic location and earning a large salary. Never was this further from the truth as far as Libyan career diplomats are concerned.
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| Wednesday Big Day for for EU Top Brass |
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The EU’s 13th crisis management summit in two years, held in Brussels at the weekend, was the non-event we have come to expect from the leaders of a world economy mired in inescapable debt. Wednesday October 26 is now the big day. So what is the situation they now face and how did it come about?
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| Iraq War Declared Over, but War Party Persists - by Ramzy Baroud |
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In a White House Statement on October 21, US President Barack Obama pledged that his country would finally withdraw forces from Iraq. “After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over,” he said.
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| The People of the revolution |
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I have had the urge to write about this revolution from the very first day it started. It started with the odds stacked high against it and survived in spite of all the hardships it faced, because of God's guidance and because of the determination of the millions of Libyans who decided that they could no longer be oppressed and abused.
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| The Real ‘Theatre of the Absurd’: Netanyahu and His Endgame in Palestine - By Ramzy Baroud |
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During his deliberately offensive speech on September 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the General Assembly as “the theatre of the absurd.” Israel’s few friends at the United Nations - led by the US delegation - listened gleefully and applauded as Netanyahu heralded a steady stream of insults.
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| Afghanistan: Ten Years of Tragedy and Misguided Policy - By Ramzy Baroud |
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On July 1, 2002, US planes bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region’s many mountains. For a few hours, its people thought they were safe from a war they had never invited. They celebrated, and as customs go, fired intermittently into the air.
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| US Intervention And Syrian Uprising - by Ramzy Baroud |
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US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and, oftentimes, anger.
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| The Failed Coup |
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In what must be one of the centuries' most brazen, callous, and happily self-destructive performances by a politician. Mahmoud Jibril the de facto Prime Minister of Libya’s Transitional National Council, appointed himself both Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister in a proposed 36-member cabinet he presented last month. (According to the Washington Post, “Libyans wait, and worry, as government delays forming cabinet” 9/27/11).
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| Libyans Dare to Dream - Reasons to be Cheerful - by Sami Zaptia |
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It is very easy to be pessimistic about Libya’s future in view of the trauma it has been through since February 17th. Certainly listening to some analysts across the plethora of satellite TV news stations you could very easily, as an uninformed outsider, draw the conclusion that Libya’s future looks gloomy.
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| Why Exactly Does Libya Need Democracy? |
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Everyone these days speaks about the necessity for a democratic system in post Gaddafi Libya. Most, speak of it in vague terms that make it sound as the magic pill that will solve all of Libya’s problems. Yet, much of that discussion seems to take place in the absence of what does that really means and how will this, undefined democracy, meet the needs of the country and its people.
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| Is an Islamic State (Caliphate) an Extreme Islamic Goal? |
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The word 'extreme' only takes on meaning when defined against some benchmark. 'Extreme' weather is a serious departure from a normal, expected climate; extremely hot or cold water is defined as such when compared against, say, lukewarm. The word is relative and defined in relation to some 'norm'. Ideas are not different.
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| Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted - by Ramzy Baroud |
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“Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with us.” These were the words of an exhausted man as he described the condition of his dying son in an interview with The Real News, an alternative news source.
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| The Fallacy of Palestinian Statehood and the Arab Betrayal - by Abdul Wahid |
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This week Mahmoud Abbas visited New York to apply to the United Nations for it to recognise the Palestinian authority as a fully-fledged member state.
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