06 May 2008
Coups & superstitions
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Coup-crazy Thailand is spooked about another possible putsch, after Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej condemned a fortune teller who met the frustrated leader of the 2006 coup.

The prime minister expressed...
04 May 2008
Trip report by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan
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President Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn, Jeff, and I arrived in Israel Sunday, 4/13/08, after a very exciting and successful election monitoring mission in Nepal (see prior trip report). Since Israel had declined to approve a previously planned visit by three of us...
03 May 2008
As Italy’s elections go from bad to worse, Vicenza remains the silver lining
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Stephanie Westbrook
Just when it seemed things could get no worse on the Italian political landscape following the first round of elections, run-off elections this past Sunday and Monday proved the contrary. But the northern city of Vicenza, home to a vibrant...
26 April 2008
National Lawyers Guild urges Israel to permit Richard Falk to enter Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
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David Gespass, NLG
New York -- The National Lawyers Guild calls on Israel to permit Richard Falk, an eminent and widely-respected law professor and scholar, to enter Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories it seized forty years ago and has held...
15 April 2008
America's secret plan to nuke Vietnam & Laos
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Air Force wanted to use "nuclear weapons" against Vietnam in 1959 and 1968, and Laos in 1961, to obliterate communist guerrillas, according to newly declassified secret U.S. Air Force documents.

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06 April 2008
The Spanish 'adios'
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Pablo Ouziel
When trying to understand the geopolitical reality of Spain, one must never forget the two military bases the United States actively maintains in the country. One of which currently serves as the main transit point between the United...

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