Iraq: Infighting Increases Instability
By Ali al-Fadhily

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Increasing conflict and finger pointing between leading Shi’ite political blocs are heightening instability in war-torn Iraq

Handy Hints For Post-Petroleum
By Peter Goodchild

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The priority of these “hints” will vary as the years go by, but most of them will remain relevant over the course of the century. The slight bias toward northern North America is partly due to the fact that the area meets most of the criteria

Wheat Biopiracy The Real Issues The Government Is Avoiding
By Vandana Shiva

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The epidemic of biopiracy is an assault on our living heritage of biodiversity and cumulative innovation embodied in the traditional knowledge of agriculture and medicine. In the long run, it determines livelihoods and economic sovereignty because what is commonly available becomes an intellectual property of a company for which royalty must be paid. It is the governments duty to protect the resources and heritage of the country and prevent its usurpation by foreign interests and commercial corporations

Meeting: Institutionalization Of Racism
By Haidar Eid

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The idea of defining the country as exclusively white and democratic at the same time was never accepted by the international community. It was considered blatant racism. Unlike Palestinians, Black Africans are considered human beings, and therefore, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights applies to them. That is precisely what the call for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state means

Palestine: The First Imperative
By Roni Ben Efrat

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A new path is needed in Palestine. The first imperative must be to the stronger: Israel must cease to exploit Palestinian weakness, as it has in the past, in order to wring concessions. That is a necessary condition for the process that then must follow: the building of a Palestinian economy and the renewal of independent Palestinian institutions

Lincoln Was Wrong: The Case Of Fooling Most Of The People Most Of The Time
By John Chuckman

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This year marks the forty-fourth anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination. What is most remarkable about this is the stunningly simple fact that, despite innumerable books and several official investigations, we still do not know what happened in 1963

The Trouble With Thankfulness
By David Swanson

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This Thanksgiving, go out of your way to thank somebody who is working for radical democratic change in the world. And, this holiday season, thank your loved ones for who they are. Don’t thank anybody else for them. But put your generosity where it belongs: in actions aimed at benefitting those in the world who have it worst

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