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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 13, 2009

  What It Was Like Being Forced to Leave Palestine 60 Years Ago

By Suzanne Manneh, New America Media: Editor's Note: The current conflict between Hamas forces and Israel has rekindled memories among many Palestinian expats of a time more than six decades ago when they were forced to flee their homeland as violence erupted there. A 78-year-old...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 4, 2009

  Understanding the Gaza catastrophe

By RICHARD FALK* For 18 months, the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normality of daily life. A flicker of hope emerged some six months ago, when an Egyptian-arranged truce produced an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2008

  The crisis of capitalism: toward the end of a materialist age

By İBRAHİM ÖZTÜRK: Today we are paying the cost of the last, but not the least, crisis caused by the "capitalist ideology." To remind you, a serious crisis came at the beginning of the 20th century that resulted in World War I. The second big crisis came with the Great Depression and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 12, 2008

  The first world peace prompted the Second World War

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - The First World War ended exactly 90 years ago - in peace, as all wars do. That peace was the first attempt in history to establish a truly global control system which would not allow a repetition of a global war. The aim of that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 9, 2008

  Where should Obama start the change in US policy in the Mideast?

By HALUK ÖZDALGA* The Bush administration is approaching its final days in dire disappointment in all areas. In international relations, it is a huge failure felt most severely in the greater Middle East, an area of direct concern for Turkey. The single most important reason for this...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  From crisis to panic

By ASIM ERDİLEK: It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 9, 2008

  The Bloody Drumbeat Of Crime and A Young Sovereign Bahamas

This Independence Day, Bahamas: Bahama Journal Editorial - Nassau, Bahamas: Even as our people celebrate Independence, they are being obliged to note and understand that the popular tourist myth of their country and the wider Caribbean as a string of island paradises is being undermined...... [view]

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