by TomDispatch
12.18.2011
The four occupations of planet earth How the occupied became the occupiersBy Tom Engelhardt On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!” Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended to figures on this planet, nothing caught the [...]
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by News Sources
12.18.2011
Nicholas Kristof writes: When President Obama decides soon whether to approve a $53 million arms sale to our close but despotic ally Bahrain, he must weigh the fact that America has a major naval base here and that Bahrain is a moderate, modernizing bulwark against Iran. Yet he should also understand the systematic, violent repression [...]
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