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How to destroy Hezbollah, Dyab Abou Jahjah

Lebanon nowadays seems much bigger than it actually is. In a way this is no surprise for a country that always was a playground for regional and international agendas and a laboratory for testing any new formula in the area. However, this time,...

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Partners in pragmatism: Why the EU should give a little to take a lot , Fabrizio Tassinari

As European Union and Russian leaders meet tomorrow, Tuesday, for a bilateral summit, they find their checkered relationship in the midst of yet another reversal. After the early post-Soviet chaos and the belligerent posture under President Vladimir...

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If Assange is a spy, then so am I, Mark Lee Hunter

The founder of Wikileaks is a spy? That's what Sarah Palin says. But that makes me a spy, too. I don't agree. I'm a journalist. And what Julian Assange is doing is a form of journalism: He is publishing the news.

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Civil society rejects invitation to 'build the Big Society', Niki Seth-Smith

The government wrote an open letter to civil society organisations in November, inviting them to "be the key partners in building the Big Society". The Directory of Social Change has composed a tongue in cheek but pertinent reply, explaining why the...

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Is the world getting larger or smaller?, , Doreen Massey

It is hard to escape the grand statements: the world is getting smaller; we live in a global village; speed-up has conquered distance; time, finally, has annihilated space. We read of the death of distance, and that geography too is dead. (But then...

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oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of December 6th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss

Ex-prisoners critique the 'correctional economy'

Legalized medical marijuana has helped remove the looming physical and mental presence of the narcotics police from our lives for the first time since we started smoking weed. If we...

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