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Joel Brinkley: Middle Eastern governments continue to let down their people
American VoicesOver many decades, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens in Middle Eastern states had been brutalized, arrested, tortured and killed before Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit salesman, set himself on fire in Tunisia, triggering the Arab Spring. A unique pair...Tags: Joel Brinkley, Egypt, Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, National Government
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Obama's Middle East Policy In Tatters
The Hartford CourantIn the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations...Tags: Cairo (Egypt), Egypt, Movies, Bashar Assad, Separation of Church and State
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Anti-U.S. protests jar Mideast with message of uncertainty
Los Angeles TimesAs night fell Saturday and cars swerved around Tahrir Square tooting their horns, a stout woman in a black veil and robes screamed herself hoarse: "The president is an agent of the Americans!" But the protesters who had tried to charge the U.S. Embassy...Tags: Cairo (Egypt), Parties and Movements, Christopher Stevens, U.S. Embassy, U.S. Department of State
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4 Bellingham teachers working in Tunisia safe after mobs loot their school
Q13 FOX News OnlineFour teachers from Bellingham working abroad in Tunisia are safe in their homes after rioters looted a private school they worked in, the Bellingham Herald reports. The local educators - Kaylee Vaughn, Andy Donahue, Marty Atkins and Allan Brady - were...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film
Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an...
Tags: Sudan, Cairo (Egypt), Armed Conflicts, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy
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Iraqi ironies
Victor Davis HansonAmid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that Syrian President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to...Tags: Victor Davis Hanson, Bashar Assad, Dick Cheney, International Military Interventions, Libya
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Olympics: Men's volleyball team out of medal contention
The quest for a repeat gold medal came to a halt Wednesday for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team. Defending champion Team USA was eliminated from medal contention by Italy, which scored a 28-26, 25-20, 25-20 quarterfinal round victory at Earls Court...
Tags: Brazil, Germany, Russia, Italy, Awards and Prizes
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Defected premier: Syrian regime near collapse
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syria's defected prime minister said Tuesday that Bashar Assad's regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. "The regime is on the verge of collapse morally...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions, Rebellions
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Arab Spring, American summer: Foreign students visit Michiana, tell their stories
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- Menna, 20, paid no attention to politics until the Egyptian revolution started on Jan. 25, 2011. "We never imagined the president would be overthrown," said the young medical student, who lives in Sohag, a city about 240 miles from Cairo,...Tags: Family, U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, Energy Resources, Students
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Thornton, Smith named to U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team roster
Brian Thornton and David Smith, both former UC Irvine standouts, have been named to the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team, pending approval from the U.S. Olympic Committee. Upon approval, Thornton and Smith along with the rest of the nominated team...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Thornton, Germany, Richmond (McHenry, Illinois), Phoenix (Cook, Illinois)
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Islam and democracy
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Beginning last year, the democratically inspired “Arab Spring” movements have toppled repressive regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. As democratic elections begin in these and other countries, however,...Tags: Democracy, Civil Rights, Elections, Human Rights, Democratic Party
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Egyptians begin voting in pivotal runoff election
World NowCAIRO -- A tense Egypt began voting Saturday in the runoff to choose a new president amid a tightening military grip and fears that the result will not lift the nation from decades of authoritarian rule. The choice is stark, if unsettling: Muslim...
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