In the years following his departure from the position of mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani has pursued the dream of every red-blooded American boy– make money and lots of it. He speeds around the nation and world spouting his endless story about how he single-handedly saved New York City from terrorists and at [...]

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Right wing Republican conservatives have been filling television with their weird comments about releasing prisoners from Guantanamo into the “streets of America” as though the Obama administration was simply going to dump them in the nearest city and walk away. the European Union is examining the possibility it could take some of the released prisoners [...]

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Thousands of Tamils living in Canada formed a human chain throughout Toronto in an effort to make the world aware of the plight of their relatives on the island of Sri Lanka. A government offense against the minority Tamils has pounded the rebel forces but it has also resulted in the death of thousands and [...]

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Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, admitted the time table for withdrawing US troops from Iraq is not written in stone and has some flexibility. He indicated President Obama would be happy if the vast majority of American troops were out of Iraq within his sixteen months goal, and would not [...]

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It is difficult to separate the ROK from the DPRK when it comes to which one is more agitated about conditions on the Korean peninsula and how to solve them. Trouble has been brewing for a few years as each accuses the other of being the source of conflict. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [...]

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During the past half century while Israel was being isolated by Arab nations, the Muslim nation of Turkey maintained close working relations and the military forces of both countries even worked on joint exercises. Israel last month decided to invade Gaza and end rocket attacks regardless of the diplomatic cost of such an operation. At [...]

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Practicioners of witchcraft and sorcery in post industrial societies are found in banks and members of the stock market who beguile people through deception and creating illusions of money that doesn’t really exist other than in the mind of the stockbrokers. Mr. Madoff was able to mystify people for half a century with his tales [...]

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The centuries old conflict between Sunnis and Shiites cropped up once again, but this time in the tiny nation of Bahrain. The native born population of the island kingdom is small and there is heavy dependance on labor from other countries. Thousands of Shiites have flocked to Bahrain, but the government is not interested in [...]

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There is the oft repeated story of the Emperor who frightened people to such an extent none would dare tell him that he was entirely naked in public for fear of punishment. President Sarkozy of France has fired several people who committed the crime of allowing his majesty to hear the unfortunate sound of boos [...]

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The situation in Zimbabwe has gone beyond “critical” into a human disaster stage in which unemployment has now reached 90% and inflation is at a 250,000,000% rate while million s have fled the country in search of any form of work. Movement for Democratic Change,(MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has decided to accept the position of [...]

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