Obama's Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
by Ray McGovern
Before President Barack Obama’s interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, aired before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably hoped that, if Obama discussed Iran, he would give him the strong backing that Israeli leaders crave, freeing them to lash out at Iran — militarily, if they so choose.
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A Banquet Feasts on Yingluck's Troubles in Thailand
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After guests toasted a princess during a royal banquet inside the Grand Palace, dinner talk turned to Thailand's troubled, five-month-old government, stumbling from crisis to crisis, including its newest decision which places one of its cabinet members in the cross-hairs of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Thai government promotes Red Shirt leader & pro-Mugabe supporter
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Thai businesswoman, who is banned by the U.S. Treasury Department from doing business with Americans because she allegedly facilitated financial transactions for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife, has been appointed as the prime minister's office minister.
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Admiral Mullen announces Afghanistan strategy: prepare to nonviolently resist
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The G-20 Announces the New World Order
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Crucial questions on Afghanistan war
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The scapegoat's apology
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The heart of the future
  July 18, 2009
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Italy to declare independence from US military
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Israel attacks justice boat: kidnaps human rights workers, confiscates medicine, toys and olive trees
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North Korea: "sanity" at the brink
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Is anyone speechless?
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Support U.N. Economic Crisis World Conference
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Applying the lessons of Nuremburg to the USA in 2009
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Harvest of suicides
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The big strike
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A new Afghanistan nightmare
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Children of Gaza, run to the angels
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Let Gaza live
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