Tag Archives: middle-east

Change #2

June 12, 2008 – 03:27 pm

From Tom Friedman’s Obama’s Rise Has Muslim World Giving America Another Look: “It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Democrats’ nomination of Obama as their candidate for president has done more to improve America’s image abroad…than the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years. Of course, Egyptians still have their grievances [...]

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Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question

February 6, 2008 – 02:04 pm

From the International Herald Tribune’s Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question: “Four undersea communication cables have been cut in the past week [two in the Mediterranean and two in the Persian Gulf], raising questions about the safety of the oceanic network that handles the bulk of the world’s Internet and telephone traffic.” [A [...]

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On Palestine

January 27, 2006 – 01:35 pm

“…for a long period we acted as if our democracy were something that perpetuated itself automatically; as if our ancestors had succeeded in setting up a machine that solved the problem of perpetual motion in politics. We acted as if democracy were something that took place…when men and women went to the polls once a [...]

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