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Back to homepageTurkey: Fresh protests spark fears over pending tear gas shipments 0
Post Views: 6 At least one death has been linked to the improper police use of tear gas canisters since the Gezi Park protests began in late May.© Eren Aytu? / NarPhotos “ The Turkish police’s return to the
Read MoreLehman Brothers collapse, five years on: ‘We had almost no control’ 0
Post Views: 5 A Lehman Brothers employee carries her belongings out of its London office on the day the bank collapsed in 2008. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters In the first part of a major series recalling the defining moment of the
Read MoreSyria Ratifies Chemical Weapons Ban 0
Post Views: 5 UN Confirms Receipt of Official Documents Following hot on the heels of comments by President Bashar Assad backing the idea, the Syrian government has formally ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), obliging them to end production of
Read MoreLa Via Catalana rompe estrategias y obliga a los gobiernos a mover ficha 0
Post Views: 7 El president Mas coincidió con el expresident Maragall ayer en una cita literaria David Airob La cuestión catalana El éxito de la cadena desconcierta a los ministros y descoloca al PSOE | La respuesta catalana: “Para saber
Read MoreFrom Russia Without Love 0
Post Views: 12 The Deus ex Machina that Saved Obama and the World In the dramas of Greek and Roman antiquity, playwrights who found that they had backed their characters into hopeless situations would sometimes deploy a plot device called
Read MoreAmerica’s Ridiculous Position on Syria 0
Post Views: 2 Hypocritical Blubbering I read that an American Senator, Bob Menendez, wanted “to vomit” when he was supplied with a copy of Vladimir Putin’s New York Times’ op-ed piece about Syria. Well, I’m sure it wasn’t just a
Read MoreThe Egyptian Revolution’s Next Barrier 0
Post Views: 2 Breaking From the Muslim Brotherhood When the Egyptian army first began its offensive against the Muslim Brotherhood many speculated that such an assault would likely be extended to the same revolutionaries who demanded — in massive demonstrations
Read MoreNSA Control Freaks 0
Post Views: 9 The Obsessive-Compulsive Snoops Those who are attracted to the non-alive are the people who prefer ‘law-and-order’ to living structure, bureaucratic to spontaneous methods, gadgets to living beings, repetition to originality… They want to control life because they
Read MoreCarta abierta de Putin al pueblo de Estados Unidos 0
Post Views: 2 Vladimir Putin En un artículo publicado en The New York Times, el presidente de Rusia advirtió a Estados Unidos que su intervención militar en Siria se traducirá en “una escalada del conflicto más allá de sus
Read MoreNoam Chomsky: While Syria descends into suicide, Israel and the US are enjoying the spectacle 0
Post Views: 10 In an exclusive interview for Ceasefire, renowned scholar Noam Chomsky talks to Frank Barat about the current situation in the Middle East, notably the crisis in Syria, the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the
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