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New America Media, News Analysis, Andrew Lam, Posted: Dec 17, 2012
Five years ago the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) described the Iraqi refugee crisis as “the largest long-term population movement in the Middle East since the displacement of Palestinians...
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Nov.24.2012
Despite the recent ceasefire in Gaza, war continues to be the norm, the natural state of affairs in too many spots on this spinning globe. The UN decrees a day in September to be an International Day of Peace. I decree that such a day must be every day. The players change,...
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Nov.11.2012
Woke up this morning and found myself in despair by the toiling news coming out of Tibet. So I decided to try and teach a little history lesson today. Tibet is one of the greatest Buddhist nations in the world. I have been blessed with having many friends that are Tibetan and have studied their...
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Aug.15.2012
New America Media, News Analysis, Andrew Lam, Posted: Aug 15, 2012
The modern world has long thought of refugees in strictly political terms, victims in a world riven by competing ideologies. But as climate change continues unabated, there is a growing population of...
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Apr.09.2012
At the beginning of the 20th century, after 2 bloody opium wars, the hugely profitable worldwide trade in drugs was, according to the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), becoming ‘a global problem’. In 1909, relenting to pressure wielded by anti-opium activists, a group of foreign...
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Jul.08.2010
The Queen Breezes In for an Afternoon Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath at the World Trade Center site in memory of the victims of 9/11. She later visited a garden memorializing the British citizens who were killed that day.
By N. R. KLEINFIELDPublished: July 6, 2010...
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Sep.25.2009
So, there's a new super Viagra coming out, that has proven to be effective in some large percentage of mice. It's a rub-on cream.
To tell you the truth, I am just too damned lazy to make a joke about this while I know each and every one of you already has one swirling around in your demented little...
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Sep.24.2009
Well, it's a damned good thing our President got out there yesterday and reminded the world just how much we suck. I mean, seriously, it's been a couple of days since he's done that. If it weren't for him, some country somewhere might have begun to believe that maybe the United States and its...
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Jul.09.2009
http://www.upiasia.com/Politics/2009/07/08/burma_and_ban_ki-moon_the_end...
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Apr.08.2009
This Passover, as we celebrate our ancestors’ freedom from slavery, we reconnect through our most important holiday with our centuries-long traditions. It is incumbent upon us to contemplate the broader concept of freedom and what it means to us as individuals, as members of our immediate...
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