April 2012
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New memorandum details Bush administration's...
Scott Horton (New York):
Yesterday the Obama Administration, after a delay of several years, released an important document relating to the Bush Administration’s torture policies: a memorandum by Philip Zelikow, a high-ranking State Department lawyer and confidant of Condoleezza Rice, which aggressively refuted Justice Department memoranda that sought to authorize the use of thirteen “enhanced...
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March 2012
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Syria and the art of revolution
Al-bab (UK):
Next week, The Assad House for Arts and Culture (as the building is officially known) will be staging Gao Xingjian’s absurdist drama, Bus Stop. When first produced in China, it ran to 13 performances and was then closed by the authorities on grounds of political ambiguity. It’s a story about people who spend 10 years waiting for a bus and complaining before they...
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By staying in the race, is Gingrich helping...
The Booman Tribute (USA):
Some are suggesting that Newt Gingrich can be of more help to Santorum by staying in than by dropping out. This is actually not that hard to decide. The goal for Santorum and for Gingrich is to deny Romney an outright majority of the delegates. This might allow them to prevent his nomination on the first ballot in Tampa. So, as long as Romney isn’t getting more...
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UAE refuses to issue visas to Syrian citizens
Syria News Wire (Damascus/London):
Last week, the UAE cancelled residency permits for Syrians and refused to issue visas to anyone holding a Syrian passport.
The SNC’s weasel-worded statement accuses the world of stirring up a controversy and trying to divide the two brotherly peoples:
The cancelation of residency permits for several Syrian citizens residing in the United Arab Emirates...
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Evidence may link Qadhafi to Sarkozy election...
Issandr El Amrani Arabist.net (Cairo):
Back in the early days of Libya war, the reasons for France’s rapid intervention were the subject of much discussion. One of the rumors that was floating was that Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, was eager to cover up the Qaddafi regime’s close ties with his own party and business networks including the financing of Sarkozy’s...
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16-year-old girl commits suicide after being...
al-bab.com (UK):
A 16-year-old Moroccan girl from Larache killed herself on Saturday by swallowing rat poison after being forced to marry a man who had raped her, al-Massae newspaper reports (in Arabic).
The girl, referred to as “Amina F”, was 15 at the time she was raped by a man more than 10 years her elder. Following mediation between the two families it was arranged that the couple...
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Why high gas prices are here to stay
The offshore rig Deepwater Horizon burns in the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion in April 2010 (Photo by Dr. Oscar Garcia).
TomDispatch.com (USA):
In energy terms, we are now entering a world whose grim nature has yet to be fully grasped. This pivotal shift has been brought about by the disappearance of relatively accessible and inexpensive petroleum — “easy oil,” in the parlance...
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Syrian army ordered to shoot civilians or else be...
Maysaloon (Syria):
I was told by a source close to me that soldiers in Idlib are given three magazines a day and told to empty these into the crowds, otherwise they will be shot. The person who told my source is a close friend who is doing his military service in the Idlib area. That person was back in Damascus on leave, and he looked like he had lost much weight. He said that there are...
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Homs: Local activists risk their lives to retrieve...
Syrian Revolution Digest (Washington, D.C.)
In Bab Al-Sibaa Neighborhood, Homs City, local activists risk their lives to retrieve the bodies of victims of the massacres in Adawiyah and Karm Al-Zeitun neighborhoods, snipers are making their task a dangerous one, as local activist, Abou Moadh explains as he stands over the body of martyred woman.
Abou Moadh finally makes it to the house where the...
