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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011, 7:45 A.M. ET What American ‘Political Prisoners’? An American hiker channels Noam Chomsky after two years in Iranian jail. By JAMES KIRCHICK Imagine you are Shane Bauer, one of two American hikers released from Iranian captivity last week. On July 31, 2009, you’re traversing a mountain trail in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Unrest Grows as Economy Booms By TOM ORLIK Beijing China’s massive economic-stimulus program has supported near double-digit growth, but also stoked inflation, piled up debt and fueled another unwelcome development: social unrest. In 2010, China was rocked by 180,000 protests, riots and other mass incidents—more than four times the tally from a
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Biggest rally in Israel’s history presses PM 5:56pm EDT By Ari Rabinovitch TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel’s history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform. Protest leaders called it
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AUGUST 20, 2011 By VANESSA FUHRMANS BERLIN—German authorities are scrambling to contain and make sense of a surge in car torchings in the nation’s capital that have raised fears that the vandalism spree could escalate into the broader, more dangerous forms of street crime that have recently hit other pockets of Europe. Cars go up
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner Archive Friday, July 21, 2011Woes of Hanoi Jane: Dissed by the capitalist system she once condemned Hanoi Jane has been humbled. Recently, the home shopping channel QVC canceled a scheduled appearance by Jane Fonda. The actress was supposed to discuss her latest book, “Prime Time.” She is shocked and angry that QVC
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AUGUST 1, 2011 His lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a ‘transformational’ presidency. By FOUAD AJAMI In one of the illuminating, unscripted moments of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said—much to the dismay of his core constituency—that the Reagan presidency had been “transformational” in a way that Bill Clinton’s
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latimes.com Egyptian ‘unity’ rally highlights split within nation The protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, meant to show unity among secularist and Islamist parties in the call for reforms, instead displayed the power of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded groups. ‘The people want an Islamic state,’ tens of thousands Islamists chant while outnumbered secular demonstrators watch
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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– The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: Beware Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty Dream Posted By Mike Brownfield On July 5, 2011 @ 9:22 am In Protect America,The Morning Bell | 71 Comments [1] Fireworks broke the darkness of the sky over Washington last night in a choreographed
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