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nytimes.com - 11 hours ago
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Four envoys to the International Atomic Energy Agency
meeting Thursday, from left, Glyn Davies of the United...
States, Florence Margin of France, Rüdiger Lüdeking of Germany and Ehab Mohamed Mostafa Fawzy of Egypt. The agency is meeting about Iran.
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U.N. Official Says Iran Inquiry Is at ‘a Dead ...
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tnr.com - 15 hours ago
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In recent weeks, Barack Obama's foreign policy has
been widely derided by critics who say he has...
almost nothing to show for his first 10 months in office. But on one of his top priorities--preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon--he may be ...
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Is Russia Finally Getting Serious About Iran?
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signandsight.com - 2 days ago
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Claude Lanzmann is in shock: cinema-goers in Hamburg
who wanted to see his film "Why Israel", were...
attacked by a mob to shouts of " Jewish pigs " - and no one paid any attention. Jonathan Littell sends a reportage from Chechnya , ...
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From the Feuilletons
betsyspage.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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betsyspage.blogspot.com —
Over the years, quite a few of leftist
celebrities such as Naomi Campbell, Danny Glover, Sean Penn,...
and Kevin Spacey have trooped down to Venezuela to express their admiration of Hugo Chavez. Maybe the next time that they're having a softball ...
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What does Hugo Chavez's fan club say about his latest ...
pajamasmedia.com - 3 days ago
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pajamasmedia.com —
Israelis are being painted as peace refusers, terrorizers,
killers, torturers, and recently, pilferers of internal organs....
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Abusing Israel: The Fashionable Thing to Do
news.yahoo.com - 4 days ago
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news.yahoo.com —
CARACAS, Venezuela Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged
terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal , saying the Venezuelan...
imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians. The Venezuelan president ...
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Chavez praises alleged terrorist Carlos the Jackal
telegraph.co.uk - 4 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Fresh from defending Carlos the Jackal Hugo Chavez
managed to upset Ugandans on Sunday by claiming that...
Idi Amin was not as brutal as everyone made him out to be.
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Hugo Chavez 'doubts' brutality of Idi Amin
themedialine.org - 5 days ago
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themedialine.org —
For decades the caf s, classrooms and mosques
of the Middle East have discussed American intervention in...
the region. Eight years of American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a subsequent promise by U.S. President Barack Obama to turn a new page in ...
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The Media Line
faustasblog.com - 6 days ago
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faustasblog.com —
Here’s a bit of news on that “excellent
free Cuban healthcare” sure to warm your heart… or...
something: Agence France Presse story at Noticias 24: Cuba realiza implantes gratuitos de prótesis de penes Cuba operating free penile prosthesis surgeries. There are 28 lucky ...
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Cuba: Get yer free penile implant!
news.bbc.co.uk - 6 days ago
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer
"Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says...
are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a ...
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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends 'Carlos the Jackal'
ansa.it - 6 days ago
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ansa.it —
(ANSA) - Brasilia, November 20 - Cesare Battisti,
the ex- terrorist that the Brazil supreme court has...
ruled should be extradited to Italy, was also involved in terrorist activities while in Brazil, local police told the country's leading daily on ...
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Brazil investigating Battisti
faustasblog.com - 7 days ago
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faustasblog.com —
Michael Fumento , writing at Forbes, explains why
Americans are Not Fit For Combat Low education and...
high-fat diets are keeping Americans out of the military . … About three-fourths of the nation’s 17- to 24-year-olds can’t join the military, largely due to these ...
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How bad schools affect the military
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - 8 days ago
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During her interview with Sean Hannity that aired
last night, Sarah Palin made an interesting declaration: That...
we need to prevent a nuclear Iran by cracking down on "Iraq." Sarah Palin - Iraq - United States - Government - Alaska
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Palin: Crack Down On 'Iraq' To Prevent Nuclear Iran
uk.news.yahoo.com - 8 days ago
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The health watchdog has blocked a critical liver
cancer drug, saying it is too pricey for the...
state health service, leaving manufacturer Bayer vowing to appeal the decision. Skip related content Most people who get the aggressive form of cancer are ...
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NICE says Bayer liver cancer drug too costly
huffingtonpost.com - 9 days ago
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huffingtonpost.com —
French soccer player Thierry Henry has admitted to
committing a handball just before teammate William Gallas scored...
a crucial goal in France's World Cup qualifier match against Ireland. *** SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO *** The AP has more: (AP) SAINT-DENIS, France -- France qualified for its ...
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Thierry Henry Handball Goal VIDEO: "Le Hand Of God" Goal ...
capefarewell.com - 9 days ago
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capefarewell.com —
Claire : Hi Francesca! it was great to
mee... Marion : Where to start? I've been wonderein......
Javier García Wong Kit : Hi Hanna, my name is Javier Garcia W... Javier García Wong Kit : Hi Hanna, my name is Javier Garcia W... eugen : Surprised. Thanks ...
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Beatboxer Shlomo on climate change expedition in The Arctic
sadlyno.com - 9 days ago
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sadlyno.com —
There was once a love letter by one
William Ward to Silvio Berlusconi published in Newsweek :...
It’s not just for his showmanship; Italians also appreciate his hard work as a retail politician and electoral strategist. Berlusconi has not only ...
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Blogger Ethics Panel Edition
fivefeetoffury.com - 9 days ago
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fivefeetoffury.com —
America's angriest columnist is angry: Today I saw
on the computer machine that it’s illegal for Frenchwomen...
to wear pants in public! I guess that’s where that rhyme came from: “I see Paris, I see France, I see ladies underpants”! I thought at first ...
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Ed Anger says, 'Send Hillary to France!'
weeklyworldnews.com - 9 days ago
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weeklyworldnews.com —
Everybody knows Hillary Clinton wears the pants in
that crazy family, but now she could go to...
jail for it!
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ED ANGER SAYS: “SEND HILLARY TO FRANCE!”
fivefeetoffury.com - 9 days ago
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fivefeetoffury.com —
Why I hate my country: "Al-Qaeda will exploit
this to use this country as a base for...
launching its operations against the United States." "Quebec also is home to a large Algerian community, in which there are radical elements ... as we had confirmed from interrogations of this ...
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Canada remains a haven for terrorists, a French ...
tnr.com - 10 days ago
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tnr.com —
Yesterday, I noted that Europe's cap-and-trade system seems
to be faring pretty well at cutting CO2 emissions....
As a partial counterpoint, though, check out Eloi Laurent's analysis of the ongoing carbon-tax debate in France. The story here is that the E.U. read more
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Why France Is Mulling A Carbon Tax
feedproxy.google.com - 10 days ago
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feedproxy.google.com —
Yep, Glenn Beck opines that his loony conservative
cohort is an underaged girl getting raped by Big...
Government (just like Roman Polanski did!): We’re the young girl saying ‘no, no help me,’ and the government is Roman Polanski. In the end I think we’re all going to be cowering in France. ...
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Beck: "We're the young girl saying 'no, no, help me,' ...
brusselsjournal.com - 10 days ago
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brusselsjournal.com —
On Friday November 14 Novopress had warned of
possible violence if Algeria lost a soccer match against...
Egypt. Algeria did lose on Saturday night and, as predicted, Algerian immigrants in France turned violent. The following very short video shows a scene of a boat burning in the port of ...
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A Wild Week-End in France
news.bbc.co.uk - 10 days ago
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news.bbc.co.uk —
A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant
is being hailed as "Viagra for women" after surprising...
but not unpleasant side effects. In three separate trials, the drug flibanserin did wonders for women's flagging sex drive despite doing nothing to ...
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'Female Viagra' discovery claim
americanthinker.com - 13 days ago
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americanthinker.com —
The all-American restaurant chain with its iconic golden
arches helped bring down the Wall and has paid...
a price for it ever since.
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McDonald's and the Berlin Wall
timesonline.co.uk - 13 days ago
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timesonline.co.uk —
The Pakistani Army ran training camps for a
Muslim extremist group, at least until recently, with the...
acceptance of the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to France s foremost anti-terrorist expert. Jean-Louis Brugui re, who retired in 2007 ...
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Pakistani Army ran Muslim extremist training camps, says ...
themoderatevoice.com - 14 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died on October 30th (aged
100), made the study of anthropology as fashionable as...
philosophy and poetry. The Economist pays a tribute: “Before Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ...
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: ‘Neolithic’ & A Man of Science
agentbedhead.com - 15 days ago
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agentbedhead.com —
If there’s one thing we can all agree
on, it’s that international athletics is the high road...
to understanding between nations—and anyone who feels different had better plan on carrying their teeth...
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The Joke Went Right Over His Head
bloomberg.com - 16 days ago
themoderatevoice.com - 16 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
‘HOPE FOR THE OTHER WALLS’ Despite the mind-boggling
number of issues he must attend to – was...
it a mistake for President Obama to refrain from traveling to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall? According to Le Figaro’s chief ...
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Absent from Berlin, Obama Misses Grand Opportunity: Le ...
nytimes.com - 16 days ago
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nytimes.com —
Nov. 10, 2009 The International Energy Agency sees
lower oil demand in the next decades, according to...
its annual World Energy Outlook report. Nov. 9, 2009 Oil companies shut down offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Ida churned ...
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The New York Times
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 16 days ago
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
CAP has the day off for Veterans’ Day,
as does much of Washington DC though not, as...
best I can tell, the non-DC private sector economy. I sort of wish we called our November 11 observance Armistice Day like they do in other countries. ...
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Veterans’ Day / Armistice Day
reuters.com - 17 days ago
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reuters.com —
Caren Bohan and Ross Colvin WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
An unsettled political situation in Iran may be complicating...
efforts to seal a nuclear fuel deal between Tehran and major world powers, President Barack Obama said on Monday. Obama told Reuters in an ...
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Obama: hard for Iran to make quick decisions
weeklystandard.com - 18 days ago
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weeklystandard.com —
It's 1973 all over again, as New York
enters the ninth year of the reign of Michael...
Bloomberg. by Fred Siegel and Harry Siegel 11/16/2009, Volume 015, Issue 09
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France on the Hudson
online.wsj.com - 18 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,
in the West Bank town of Halhul, north of...
Hebron, on Sunday.
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Obama Hosts Netanyahu
dailymail.co.uk - 18 days ago
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dailymail.co.uk —
I think the majority of Christians in this
country have either forgotten what they have prayed for...
since they were little boys and girls or did`nt know what their prayer meant when they pray for Almighty God`s Government to take over here on earth. ...
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MELANIE PHILLIPS: We were fools to think the fall of the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 21 days ago
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the
American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power...
and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so ...
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Nuclear Socialism
frumforum.com - 21 days ago
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frumforum.com —
First Brad Plumer in the New Republic ,
then Matt Yglesias on his site have marveled at...
the supposedly strange enthusiasm of conservatives for nuclear power. What's strange about it? It's pure cold economic rationality.
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Conservatives Heart Nuke Power
notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com —
Dana Milbank E J Dionne Jr Mehdi Khalaji
"Look at the stories we're talking about today and...
I think it's about a transcendent party." - Michael Steele "Presumably, the chairman meant that his party is ascendant , meaning on the rise, and not transcendent , meaning beyond the limits of ...
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Yankees Win, Worldwide Wave of Corruption Trials
outsidethebeltway.com - 22 days ago
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outsidethebeltway.com —
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the seizing
of the U. S. embassy in Tehran by factions...
of the revolution that overthrew the shah. President Obama has issued a statement on the occasion which I will reproduce in full here: Thirty years ago ...
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Marking the Anniversary of the Embassy Seizure
mabus.biz - 23 days ago
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mabus.biz —
Donald Rumsfeld Why could Donald Rumsfeld be Mabus?
Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st...
Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001. Before assuming his present post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White ...
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Donald Rumsfeld as Mabus
expatica.com - 23 days ago
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expatica.com —
A second source echoed that stance, saying "no-one
else can get unanimity" following informal discussions between EU...
heads of government and state at a two-day summit in Brussels last week. Centre-right van Rompuy's spokesman Dirk De Backer issued a ...
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Expatica Spain
phy6.org - 24 days ago
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phy6.org —
When lava flows out of a volcano and
hardens, the result is often a black rock known...
as basalt. Basalt is slightly magnetic, and as it solidifies and cools, it becomes magnetized in the direction of the prevailing magnetic field. The process is ...
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Millennium of Geomagnetism
britannica.com - 24 days ago
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britannica.com —
born June 25, 1814, Metz, France died May
29, 1896, Paris French geochemist and a pioneer in...
the application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena. In 1838 Daubr e became regional mining engineer for the d partement of ...
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Auguste Daubree (French geochemist)
theglitteringeye.com - 24 days ago
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theglitteringeye.com —
Ezra Klein is undoubtedly correct, even tautological, in
his assertion about why U. S. healthcare is so...
expensive in his conversation with Kaiser-Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so ...
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Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
politico.com - 24 days ago
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politico.com —
Asked about Iran's recent request to modify a
uranium reprocessing deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said...
that she urges Iran to accept the deal as is because "we are not altering it." "I want to reiterate that this is a ...
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Clinton: Iran should accept nuclear deal 'as is'
haaretz.com - 24 days ago
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haaretz.com —
A joint French-British UN initiative would call on
Israel and the Palestinians to hold immediate, independent investigations...
into war crimes allegations stemming from the war in Gaza, as part of a bid to send the Goldstone report back to Geneva and ...
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U.K., France want Israel, PA to probe Goldstone war ...
online.wsj.com - 25 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
[ Trade ] Agence France-Presse /Getty Images John
Paulson was among the executives testifying on hedge fund...
regulation before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last November. From left, George Soros of Soros Fund Management, James ...
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In 'The Greatest Trade Ever,' Gregory Zuckerman Details ...
themoderatevoice.com - 28 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
Moving on to another French view of the
Afghan conflict, Laurent Joffrin of the newspaper Liberation suggests...
that however bad the situation may be, the West in the person of President Barack Obama should not pull out of Afghanistan – yet. For Liberation , Laurent Joffrin writes in ...
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Let’s Give Afghans ‘One More Chance’: Liberation, France
themoderatevoice.com - 28 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
Is it a fact that President Obama is
‘dithering’ – as former VP Cheney has said –...
over a decision on Iraq? In his editorial for Le Figaro yesterday, influential French columnist Pierre Rousselin seemed to agree, if not in a much more sympathetic fashion than Mr. ...
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‘It’s Time for Obama to Decide’ on Afghanistan: Le ...
