The post Israel and the Arab Gulf States: An Undeclared Alliance appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Joseph Puder In her Washington Post column on May 5, 2013, Jennifer Rubin blasted the Obama administration, opining that “As for the Middle East, when a U.S. president is this passive and unwilling to act in accord with its words, … read more »

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The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1701 in August 2006, which brought about an end to the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The resolution called on the Lebanese government to “secure its borders and other entry … read more »

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The post Sustain Gains. Invest in Malaria. Save Three Million Children’s Lives in the Next 1000 Days appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Ambassador Donald Koran, opinion Today, around half the world’s population is at risk from malaria – a preventable and treatable disease that claims the life of a child every minute. Just ten years ago it was estimated that globally, … read more »

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The post World Malaria Day: highlighting awareness of a preventable disease that still kills thousands appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma Almost half the world’s population – an estimated three billion people – live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Endemic to 107 countries in the tropics and subtropics, it is responsible for around one million deaths … read more »

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The post Excusing Jihad In Boston appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev woke up and told investigators that he and his brother Tamerlan were waging a lone jihad when they set off two bombs packed with nails and ball bearings at the Boston Marathon. He said his brother came up … read more »

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The post Lessons from Boston and Chechnya appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Dennis Prager We cannot bring back the stolen lives. We cannot bring back the lost limbs or the lost hearing. And we cannot mitigate the infinite grief of the victims’ loved ones. But there is something we can and … read more »

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The post A Commentary on the Marathon Murders appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Richard Falk   The dominant reactions to the horrific bombings on April 15th, the day of the running of the Boston Marathon, as well as the celebration of Patriots Day, have been so far: compassion for the victims, a … read more »

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The post Nicolas Maduro: Hard Won Victory appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Nil NIKANDROV The Venezuelan National Election Council (CNE – Consejo Nacional Electoral) has announced the election results. As the forecasts had said, Nicolas Maduro has won. It was a tough fight, Maduro has gained 50.76% of the vote against 49.07% … read more »

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The post War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The Story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Ajamu Baraka This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of the most egregious expressions of naked power and imperial ambition since the Second World War. The attack defied both an outraged world opinion … read more »

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The post Saudi Arabia to Give Public Beheadings the Axe? appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

A lack of qualified swordsmen may relegate the barbaric Saudi practice of public beheadings to the historical ash heap, although such a change is unlikely to slow down the swelling numbers of people being put to death in the Saudi … read more »

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The post Which Israel is Obama visiting? appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Whether or not he achieves diplomatic breakthroughs on his visit to Israel, President Obama’s trip could help the peace process by focusing news media attention, for once, on positive aspects of normal existence in that controversial corner of the Middle … read more »

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The post White House Partners with Muslim Brotherhood Front appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with Muslim Brotherhood origins and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial, recently toured the White House and met with multiple officials. According to the group, Paul Monteiro, … read more »

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The post Iraq War: Ten years, ten questions appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

A decade after Operation ‘Shock and Awe’, Iraq has been the captive of unspeakable violence. But what is at all about? KHADIJA PATEL asks 10 of the most pressing questions about the enduring legacy of the war in Iraq. 1. … read more »

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The post Squandering Iraq: Why Couldn’t America Succeed? appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

With all American troops left Iraq since December 2011, America has squandered an extraordinary military victory that was won in the spring of 2003 when U.S. forces overthrew the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Ten years after the … read more »

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By Paul Craig Roberts March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive … read more »

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After a decade of combat, casualties, massive displacement, persisting violence, enhanced sectarian tension and violence between Shi’ias and Sunnis, periodic suicide bombings, and autocratic governance, a negative assessment of the Iraq War as a strategic move by the United States, … read more »

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The post Donald Kaberuka: “There are new ways, new alternatives towards achieving economic success” appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Stripping those born here of their citizenship by arbitrary acts of government has alarming historical overtones and raises serious questions about the British state. Why have such acts increased so rapidly under the Coalition? A recent investigation by the Bureau … read more »

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The post Looking for Way Out of Syrian Crisis appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

Boris DOLGOV On March 11 a delegation of the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change led by its Coordinator Heysam Manaa, visited Moscow to hold talks with top officials of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the negotiations and … read more »

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The post India rape suspect found dead in jail cell. Police say suicide; parents allege murder appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

New Delhi (CNN) — One of the men accused of gang raping and fatally beating a woman on a New Delhi bus was found dead in his jail cell Monday. Police say Ram Singh hanged himself. But his lawyer and … read more »

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The post 50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution appeared first on IndepthAfrica.

By Salim Lamrani – Opera Mundi President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013 of cancer at age 58, marked forever the history of Venezuela and Latin America. 1. Never in the history of Latin America, has a political … read more »

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