With UN Permission, U.S. Leads Missile Assault on Gadaffi Forces in Libya
Following a second day of UN-approved missile strikes by U.S., French, and British fighter jets and naval forces, military officials said that troops...
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A Real Cost/Benefit Analysis of Libyan Intervention
President Obama has made the "decision" to put American soldiers into harm's way in Libya without the required permission under the U.S. Constitution...
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Libya: One Quagmire Too Far?
Is Libya one quagmire too far? The United Nations Security Council's passage of a resolution on March 17 imposing a no-fly zone over...
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Muslims Burn Churches in Ethiopia
An attack by militant Muslims which has thus far destroyed at least a dozen churches may signal an expansion in anti-Christian violence in...
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Riots Erupt in Cairo After Church is Burned
Although the Coptic Church in Egypt has suffered varying degrees of persecution for centuries, events in the past few months appear to indicate...
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Libya: To Intervene or Not to Intervene?
For all their talk about making the world safe for democracy, Western — and particularly U.S. — leaders seem to give very little...
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Involvement of Socialist International in 2011 Protests
From opposition protests in Albania to the revolutions in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, the involvement of the Socialist International (SI) is...
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Libya’s Revolution
What began in Tunisia is no longer containable, as revolution sweeps through the Middle East, challenging whatever government lies in its path —...
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Gadhafi’s Libya, Agent of the Soviet Menace
As protests enflame the Middle East, destabilizing pro-Western governments, America’s adversaries now find themselves in turmoil. Unlike protests in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and...
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Situation in Libya Deteriorates as Gadhafi’s Son Warns of Civil War
As unrest in the Middle East bled over into Libya, anti-government protesters were reportedly close to controlling Benghazi, the nation’s second largest city,...
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Somali Pirates Hijack Bible Ministry Vessel
Somali thugs have hijacked the yacht of a couple who were in the middle of a sea voyage to take Bibles to other...
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Turmoil in the Middle East: Bahrain’s Revolution
Emboldened by the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of the United States, other pro-American regimes in the region are...
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Forming a New Constitution in Egypt
This past Wednesday as Egyptian society slowly returned to normality, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces appointed Tareq al-Bishry, a retired...
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Crisis at the Suez Canal
With the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak at the unrelenting demands of Egyptian protestors, the fate of Egypt still remains perilous. And when...
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Egypt: Did Anything Important Happen?
When the Los Angeles Times confirmed that protests that started in January in Tunisia and then moved to Egypt were spreading to Algeria,...
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