Tag: politics
member name: Firoze H.
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June 15, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
I was reminded of the old saying"it takes one to know one", when I read about the current situation in Palestine. There is avirtual civil war going on out there, with Hamas and Fatah jockeying . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
A report carried by some Indian newspapers yesterday threw up some pretty amazing statistics. The report stated that 12% of scientists, 38% of doctors, 36% of the scientists at NASA, 34% of . . .
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October 19, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
If the political polls in the US are taken at face value, Barack Obama is already the President-Elect. John McCain is so far behind that some believe he is merely going through the motions. . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
What impact will the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto have on the US presidential race? The simple answer is: none at all. For sure, the presidential candidates from both parties, who . . .
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November 05, 2006 05:53 AM EST --
Probably the most important and divisive issue in the 2006 United States Congressional election is the problem of Iraq. The Democrats are portraying it as a political and military misadventure of gigantic . . .
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March 14, 2007 01:21 AM EDT --
The Great White Chief has come to smoke the peace pipe with the native Indians; only it has left a bad taste in their mouths. George Bush’s ‘winning hearts and minds’ tour of Latin America . . .
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April 05, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
The hot button issue in the USA right now is the Democratic Party’s proposal to start withdrawing US troops from Iraq this summer and complete the withdrawal by April 2008. It’s another matter . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:15 AM EDT --
Even those who are not particularly fond of the USA have a grudging admiration of its justice system. Folks with an ingrained sense of right and wrong – and who experience American jurisprudence . . .
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June 26, 2007 04:41 AM EDT --
Something ominous is going on in Iran right now – and it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. The ruling clerics – and their pet poodle, Ahmadinejad – are striking back. One fact that . . .
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June 28, 2007 02:38 AM EDT --
Gyanendra Rai was a Lance Corporal in the British Army, who fought in the Falkland’s war; 25 years ago. For those with short memories, the Falkland Islands is a British colony and consists of two . . .
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July 15, 2007 03:15 AM EDT --
Religion usually stirs up strong emotions. Religion is more often experienced with the heart, rather than the head – and why not? Faith is not governed by intellect, but by a perception that there . . .
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July 17, 2007 02:10 AM EDT --
In recent months, outsourcing has been elevated to a whole new level. Forget about help desks and computer programmers. The Pentagon is now outsourcing its fighting men. The US army is renting out entire . . .
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November 17, 2007 08:23 AM EST --
I watched the Democratic Presidential debate last Thursday. During the second half, members of the audience got to ask questions of the candidates on the stage. One lady stood up with her son, who had . . .
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January 31, 2008 06:26 AM EST --
If I was to start this article with the sentence, "I have a problem with George Bush", the predictable response from many Americans would be, "doesn't everybody?" My . . .
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February 25, 2008 04:28 AM EST --
This may seem like an alarmist and premature statement, but I believe this chaotic land of diverse languages, cultures and skin tones, that we call India, is under attack - not by an outside . . .
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May 14, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
Something momentous is happening in Turkey right now. Most Americans, preoccupied with Iraq, may not be aware of it – or even care. Well, they should.
First, a brief précis . . .
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June 14, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
Timeline…..Baghdad…..circa 2000
George Bush is convinced Saddam Hussein is developing chemical and nuclear weapons… Formulates tentative plan to invade Iraq.
Timeline…..Tehran…..2006 . . .
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July 24, 2007 04:39 AM EDT --
Judging by what’s on the news channels these days, there seem to be two hot-button, foreign policy issues agitating US politicians and the general public. The first is pulling American troops out . . .
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September 11, 2007 04:08 AM EDT --
So, according to the progress report – and all those fancy charts - delivered by US general Petreus, the surge is working. Impressive percentages are being trotted out about the fall in number of . . .
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October 20, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
George Bush’s speechwriter must have the easiest job in the administration. His boss hardly ever requires new material. Fighting in Iraq is keeping Al Qaeda out of the United States: the ‘surge’ . . .
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