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Barred Muslim Scholar Back in U.S. (Adam Habib)

by RAINman on 17. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By PATRICIA COHEN
The New York Times  - August 15, 2010
ATLANTA — After being denied entry at Kennedy Airport without explanation nearly four years ago, the South African Muslim scholar Adam Mahomed Habib was in Atlanta this weekend to give a talk at a sociology conference. His subject? Making democratic governments more accountable to the people.
Mr. Habib, [...]

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Paul Kagame: America’s Genocidaire in Central Africa

by RAINman on 13. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Glen Ford
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary   -  August 11, 2010
Precisely like his predecessor, President Obama empowers a pro-western Murder Inc. in Black Africa, a roster that includes the most vicious mass murderers and assassins on the continent. One of them, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, who is culpable in [...]

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Muslim blowback?

by RAINman on 06. May, 2010 in Opinion

By M Junaid Levesque-Alam*
Asia Times Online - 6 May 2010
It is hard to overstate just how deeply unpopular the United States is in the Muslim world.
A 2008 poll of six majority Muslim countries found that overwhelmingly large portions of the population, ranging from 71% in Morocco to 87% in Egypt, held unfavorable opinions of [...]

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Obama Tries to Mend Fences With American Jews

by RAINman on 06. May, 2010 in Analysis

By HELENE COOPER
The New York Times – 4 May 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama had lunch on Tuesday with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration’s stance against the Israeli government’s construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem.

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Obama renews Syria sanctions

by RAINman on 05. May, 2010 in General

Al Jazeera – 4 May 2010
Barack Obama, the US president, has renewed economic sanctions against Syria for another year.
He cited what the White House called Syria’s “extraordinary threat” to US security and foreign policy in taking the decision on Monday.

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Necons side with Israel against Obama

by RAINman on 18. Mar, 2010 in Opinion

Middle East Online – 17 March 2010

In a phrase that the neocons used in the 1980s to demonize Americans who criticized Ronald Reagan’s bloody policies in Central America, it could be said that the Washington Post’s editorial writers are ‘blaming America first’ – and largely taking the side of Israel, notes Robert Parry.

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Video: Dr. Nathan Brown: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Inter-Palestinian Divide

by RAINman on 19. Jan, 2010 in Videos NEW!!!

Haitham Sabbah –  15  January 2010

While many have looked into the effect of U.S. foreign policy on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in general, the role of U.S. policy in internal Palestinian politics and the current divide between the two largest parties in the Palestinian political spectrum has been under discussed. What role has U.S. policy played [...]

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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

by RAINman on 23. Dec, 2009 in Analysis

Middle East Online – 22 December 2009
Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel to accommodate the Palestinians in a Middle East peace accord. The neocons appear to be especially eager to divert [...]

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