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April 29, 2008

Egyptians Use Facebook to Deter Censorship

by Laura Kasinof, Middle East Times, Egypt - Egyptians are using the online social networking tool Facebook to defy the government's attempt to muzzle the media and hush recent incidents of police brutality during a strike by workers in a town in the Nile Delta.

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Tribes Versus Terrorists

by Ashley Bommer, Today's Zaman, Turkey - The United States went into Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda. But seven years later, what has the US achieved?...

Illiteracy Eradication Programs Struggle with the Numbers

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Ban the Cluster Bomb

by Lynn Bradach, Los Angeles Times, USA - In the last 10 years, the United States has used cluster bombs in civilian-populated areas of Afghanistan,...

Diction Matters

by Saba Naqvi, Outlook, India - Terror has given Indian politics a big jolt. Just when the political process appeared to be the sum total...

The Rights of the Land

by Robin Kimmerer, Orion, USA - The Onondaga Nation of central New York proposes a radical new vision of property rights....