Georgia sees Russia scheming to stay longer

At the Russian-controlled roadblocks around Gori, the deadpan soldiers are firm but restrained, searching cars and checking identification, but not too rigorously.

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"The threats uttered against a possible Palestinian declaration of independence by our leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Ehud Barak let the Israeli sanctimony (usually tedious and belabored) drop to the floor for a moment, like a woman's slip.

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Gilad Atzmon - Information Clearing House November 12, 2009 Let's once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin.

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A feisty Robert Fisk takes on the "White House-State Department-Pentagon-CNN-Downing Street-Defence Ministry-BBC military-political-journalistic complex..."

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Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday.....dozens of settlers stormed into the house with hired security guards, and demanded that the family vacate immediately.

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The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he's gotten and more.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that Israel had prevented, for the fourth time, the transfer of medical supplies and equipment to the besieged Gaza Strip.

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"I told them we have ownership papers. They said they didn't want to see them. They said, 'it's not your house, it's our house.' They put a gun to my brother's back and said for him to leave the house. He is just 10 years old," she said.

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"So what if the Supreme Court rules? In Israel those decisions are just recommendations, especially if they deal with Palestinian land.

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If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Out of all U.S.

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Those of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act.

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Albania's prime minister says the country wants to repatriate the remains of late King Ahmet Zog from France.

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"Are Israeli youth allowed to speak about their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Not always.

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The Afghan Taliban pose no threat to the West but will continue their fight against occupying foreign forces, they said on Wednesday, the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that removed them from power. U.S.-led forces with the help of Afghan groups overthrew the Taliba …

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The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has reached its "sell-by…" date. A majority of Americans now tell pollsters the mission was a mistake.

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Matt Frei, US correspondent for the BBC, in his diary or blog, talks about the conundrum and responsibility hanging over the US on Afghanistan and the shifting focus and perceptions.

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I'm proud to say that Russ Feingold is my Senator.

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The National Student Conference on 19 September 2009 was a great success, bringing together students and young people from across the country to discuss the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Israel's intensified colonialisation of Palestine, the rise of Islamophobia, the threats of i …

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Great pictures and History too.

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I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act.

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Many of Israel's supporters around the world have spotted an alarming trend in the debate on Middle East peace.

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The Iraqi man who threw his shoe at then-President Bush explains why he did it. He was moved by the destruction and the hatred of the American occupation across Iraq.

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This charade really has to stop. Forty-two years into the Israeli occupation, it's time to find out once and for all, without caveats or reservations, what Israelis actually want.

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Quote: "Ms Najjar says the settlers, who are often masked, sometimes stone the house. Once a petrol bomb set fire to a shed. She compares the attacks to raids by the Ku Klux Klan in the segregation-era United States."

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Nothing earth shattering here for those who already "see the writing on the wall" ( Apartheid wall surely?-Ed ) for the failed state of Israel There are 2 key factors that will change the dynamics of said terror "State" over time;

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"There is a hilltop east of Jerusalem with striking views down into Jericho, across the dry slopes of the West Bank and on to the Dead Sea. From the red ochre of the rock came the name Ma'ale Adumim, Hebrew for the Red Ascent."

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