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The Manas Question: Drugs, Revolution and Terrorism

For years the Manas air base near the central Asian republic of Kyrgyz capital of Bishke has been at the centre of a string of allegations revolving around drug-running, terrorism and stage-managed revolutions.

(MANAS, Kyrgyzstan) - The Manas Air Base, situated near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, Afghanistan, has played a key role in the increasingly important Central Asian region since its inception.

First opened in December 2001 to support the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Manas Air Base plays host to the US Ninth Air Force and serves primarily as a transit point for US goods and personnel coming and going from Afghanistan.

Visions of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humour.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Have you chilled your bubbly for the New Year's toast? Thought about resolutions you want to make, and will probably break? Before getting carried away with tomorrow and what can make the New Year a happy one, give a few moments to the year only hours from passing.

Op Ed: `Deja Vu` For YOU, Too?
Deep Array of Desperate Situations Reflects Non-Developments Too Familiar

What Makes You Think There Are Any Positive Change Coming?

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Long ago I learned never to look back but simply to jam down foot and keep driving... Worked fine when I had first license, in Maine, in early 30s... and I must disclose since it soon became professional habit in all I've undertaken ever since.

Global March To Jerusalem المسيرة العالمية إلى القدس

World March to Jerusalem 2012 اعضا اللجنة المرکزیة للمسيرة العالمية إلى القدس یدعوا الناس للمشارکة فی هذة الحرکة فی 30 اذار

(SALEM) - They say 2012 will be the year of great change, and part of what may be a tilting mechanism for goodwill, happens in March in one of the world's most hotly contested regions.

A convergence of human beings of all faiths, involving thousands of people, will culminate in a large-scale rendezvous for peace in Jerusalem.

Agent Orange: Fifty years on, a documentary by Bill Bainbridge

Critics say it’s too little too late for the innocent victims still suffering from the legacy of the war.

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - It’s 50 years since US forces first used the chemical defoliant known as agent orange in Vietnam.

Designed to destroy forest cover being used by the communist forces the dioxin has also had a long and poisonous legacy, causing birth defects in children born long after the war ended.

Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?

These days in Libya it is a good idea to memorize the name of the largest of the local militia and the name of its leader so when approached by the heavily armed unfriendly types...

(TRIPOLI) - The weather in Tripoli this New Year’s weekend is unseasonably bone chilling with heavy rains flooding the streets reminding this observer more of dreary London this time of year than the southern Maghreb coast of the Mediterranean.

My modest family run neighborhood hotel off Omar Muktar Street is clean and cheap, but my room has no heat except what eventually builds up under a stack of velour Turkish blankets.

Comparing Hitler`s `final solution` and Rajapaksa`s `final war` on LTTE

Groups urge opposition to heinous attempts to do business on the dead bodies of the Tamil martyrs.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The UN Report "on accountability in Sri Lanka" is finally out, it amounts to a further brandishing of the liberation struggle for separate Tamil Eelam as 'violent ethnic conflict'.

It is a follow-up on the joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the Government of Sri Lanka made in 2009.

How Israel helped Islamist movements to flourish across the Middle East

Examining Israel’s role in the growth of Islamist movements in the Middle East – Hamas, Hizbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Shi’i theocracy.

(TEL AVIV Redress) - If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel.

Without the active or passive help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams.

Tom Brokaw and Warren Olney to be honored by Southern California Broadcast Journalists

The awards will be presented on Saturday, at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City.

(UNIVERSAL CITY) - Television news icon Tom Brokaw and award-winning radio journalist Warren Olney will receive top honors at the 62nd annual Golden Mike Awards(r) show in Universal City, the Radio & Television News Assn. announced.

Education Ministry blasts Israeli Arab school for taking students to human rights march

'The students carried signs against racism, house demolitions, etc., which violates the director general's circular [i.e. ministry regulations],' ministry tells school.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - The Education Ministry reprimanded the Arara High School and demanded clarifications after the school participated in a human rights march in Tel Aviv at the beginning of the month.

"The students carried signs against racism, house demolitions, etc., which violates the director general's circular [i.e. ministry regulations]," stated the letter sent to the school.