MIDDLE EAST NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2011, 6:54 A.M. ET By CHARLES LEVINSON and TAHANI KARRAR-LEWSLEY CAIRO—Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya Sunday, as the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule. Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed 233 deaths […]
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 By AMIR TAHERI ‘Hang them! Hang them!” the mob shouted while goose-stepping towards the podium. Some beat their chests and others raised clenched fists. “Allah is the greatest!” chanted the turbaned clerics. This was the scene Tuesday in the Islamic Majlis, Iran’s ersatz parliament. Members raged against the “heads of sedition,” calling
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 When King George III heard Washington had refused to be king, he said, ‘If that is true, he must be the greatest man in the world.’ By JOHN R. MILLER Today we merge Washington’s birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales. But it
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 Who’s in charge of our political system—voters or unions? By JOHN FUND This week President Obama was roundly criticized, even by many of his allies, for submitting a federal budget that actually increases our already crushing deficit. But that didn’t stop him Thursday from jumping into Wisconsin’s titanic budget battle. He accused
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood wants, start with its motto. By AYAAN HIRSI ALI, author of Infidel ‘Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” So
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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Iran’s Leadership Cracks Down In Aftermath of Protests, State Makes More Arrests, as White House Sharpens Support of the Opposition By FARNAZ FASSIHI The Iranian government threatened opposition leaders with execution and made a fresh wave of arrests, a day after the largest protests in a year prompted clashes in which at
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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Protester Killed in Bahrain; Skirmishes in Yemen; Call for Rebel Executions in Iran By JOE PARKINSON, ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN BARNES Protests that started in Tunisia and spread across the Middle East have resulted in the deaths of two people in Bahrain, where the opposition bloc in parliament defected in response. Farnaz
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 States need relief from the program’s inflexible rules and escalating costs. By PETER SUDERMAN Facing growing resistance to Medicaid costs, the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, sent a letter to states last week noting the “urgency of your State budget concerns” and suggesting some minor program changes to
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? The Saudi royal family is corrupt, infirm, increasingly criticized in social media—and about to face a delicate, perhaps divisive succession process. By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE Riyadh, Saudi Arabia In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now
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