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 [Perverse Egalitarianism] Integral Cosmopolitanism, Not Good: fancy pants of yesteryear, but the ordinary people whose lives involve movement and relations with the refugee/alien etc, whether guest workers in Dubai, nannies in the UK or whatnot. Certainly, one consequence of this move is that cosmopolitanism ceases to be exclusively a political idea (or an ideal/point of reference) and is worked out in both “the plural”

 [Novakeo.com] Madam Jane predicts: The Bush-Cheney-McCain axis of neo-cons will ...: And then RIA Novisti, a Russian information agency, also just wrote that “Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. ‘The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,’

 [Registan.net] Joining Defensive Alliances: If Iran’s application to the SCO is accepted, Beijing will have formed a defensive alliance across 25% of the world’s land mass, covering an array of countries with varying levels of hostility to the U.S., and containing a fair share of the world’s remaining non-Arab energy sources. If Georgia and Ukraine’s applications to join NATO are accepted, the North Atlantic alliance will have succeeded in almost fully surrounding Russia with an adversary originally designed to defeat it in a cataclysmic war.

 [Global News Blog] Iran News - Iran kills 12 drug smugglers - state media (The Star): China has recently given the International Atomic Energy Agency intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program despite Beijing’s opposition to harsh U.N. Security Council sanctions on Tehran, according to diplomats familiar with the matter.

[Yale Press Log] Parsi and Kurlantzick shortlisted for Arthur Ross Book Award: The Council chose Trita Parsi for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, calling his book "a unique and important dissection of the complicated triangular relations that continue to shape the .

 [Global Issues Web News] Peace Efforts and Conflict Resolution: UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (IPS) - The 15-member U.N. Security Council (UNSC) is set to lose its credibility once again as it prepares to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran while failing to pass any strictures on Israel for its continued heavy-handed repression of Palestinians in Gaza.

[Global Economist] Terror not China: So for all the problems with Russia and China, the 44th president will probably find himself or herself concentrating on much the same range of problems as the 43rd: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine and the broader “war on terror”. The Muslim world is too volatile and the threat from al-Qaeda too immediate for a wholesale shift in the direction of the president’s energies.

 [A1A South] Pelosi Calls on Bush to Boycott Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Why is it that Nancy Pelosi is cozy with some of the most egregious civil rights violators on the planet, but gets her panties in a knot over Tibet?  I suppose it’s just more politically correct to state one’s intentions to kill, say, every Jew and then provide the financial and weapons backing for murderous maniacs to actually engage in wanton destruction aimed at a civilian population that happens to be Jewish.   

[The Post Online (Cameroon)] Parliament Has No Legitimacy - Civil Society Activist: Indonesia, Indonesia Cellular, Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia Surabaya, Inmarsat, Iran, Iran Cellular, Iran Tehran, Iraq, Iraq Cellular, Ireland, Ireland Cell, Ireland Dublin, Israel, Israel cellular, Israel Jerusalem, Israel Tel Aviv .

[Solwans Blog] Communists Sell North Korea And Iran “The Noose To Hang Themselves ...: The only voice that seems willing to call a nuke a nuke is Ehud Olmert of Israel, who came out squarely against Iran’s possession of nuclear power. While he doesn’t have anything to lose in terms of trade, at least, .

[YO BRO IT'S ME LITTY] 36 Hours In Dubai (Friend Post): They probably didn’t think I was Jewish, but just another of many situations I’ve been in here where I was pleasantly surprised by how the situation went. I’ll be the first one to admit how anti-arab I can be, but that really relates more to the terrorist pieces of sh*t all over the world, their sympathizers and sponsors.

[FORpeace - Peace & Community] April Peace News: Dr. King's legacy, resisting war taxes, & more: On March 7th, interfaith delegations meet with staffers from the offices of Senator Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In those meetings faith leaders expressed their concern against war.

[Santa Barbara CA Blog All Things Santa Barbara] Make International Calls for Less: India - Pune, India - Punjab, India - Cell, Indonesia, Indonesia - Jakarta, Indonesia - Surabaya, Indonesia - Cell, Iran, Iran - Tehran, Iran - Cell, Iraq, Iraq - Baghdad, Iraq - Cell, Ireland, Ireland - Cell, Israel, Israel - Cell .

[1913 Intel] The Coming Nuclear War in 2012 - A Reader Responds: I’m not going to read your blog anymore until you stop writing about how “the sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!” And above all you should know better than to make predictions about the future, which is a hazardous business for professionals, never mind an amateur blogger who has a death wish.

 [james's space] Blog list: http://www.eworldvu.com: An Escalating Crisis Between Iran and the West. Article on the problems between the countries in the West and Iran over nuclear weapons deveopment.

 [FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas] Morning Brief, Monday, March 31: Basra is getting back to normal after Iran helped broker a truce between radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government. Iran appears have played the arsonist and the fire brigade in this incident.

[The New Nixon Blog] Forgive Me, Father, If I Was Wrong: A courageous President, Harry Truman, was the first major leader to extend diplomatic recognition to the new state of Israel — a nation that exports no oil, that offers us no strategic advantage.

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