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Timeline: Chemical weapons attacks | www.ajc.com - 0 views

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weapons chemical Iraq

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    chemical weapons
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From Suez to Iraq, the lessons of our past cast a long shadow over Syria | Peter Beaumo... - 0 views

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  • Many spies, politicians and military men believed that the Iraqi dictator held such weapons, because their experience of Saddam's use of poison gas in Halabja and during the Iran-Iraq war,
  • a horrible conflict that in many ways demands a forceful response, but where any such response is so fraught with risk as to make it difficult to contemplate
  • Syria
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  • Looking at Syria we can't help but see it through the filter of Iraq, through a mood of sharpened scepticism of the media, politics and intelligence agencies.
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In Defense of Django | Mother Jones - 0 views

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nytimes movie racism slavery

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    Is Django historically accurate?  This is an insightful film review.
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TEDxAtlanta - Harrison Dillon - Resolving Food and Oil at Scale - YouTube - 0 views

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oil sustainability energy

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    "http://youtu.be/Fj8ZkoL-_wA"  Solazyme--one of the solutions to oil; oil from algae: flexible, scalable, affordable. . . 
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How to Read in 2013 - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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As Coal Boosts Mozambique, The Rural Poor Are Left Behind - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Story of Stuff

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    Relates to Story of Stuff where Annie Leonard says "According to companies setting up shop in the third world, the locals "don't own these resources even if they've been living there for generations, they don't oven the means of production and they're not buying a lot of stuff.  And in this system, if you don't own or buy a lot of stuff, dou don't have value."
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Military spending: how much does the military cost each country, listed | News | guardi... - 0 views

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Military spending military gdp

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  • Kay Bradley on 01 Nov 12
     
    Comparative military spending; you can reorganize data to rank by $; % of GDP, etc.  
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The Clash of Ignorance | The Nation - 0 views

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muslim Middle East Huntington

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    Edward Said on the Clash of Civilizations debate.  
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In Sweden, Immigration Policies Begin to Rankle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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immigration sweden policies

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  • who say that immigrants are not only failing to pay their way, but that they also are refusing to learn the ways of their host country.
  • “They do not respect Swedish people,” Mrs. Nilsson said. “As long as they learn the language and behave like Swedes, they are welcome. But they do not. Immigration as it is now needs to stop.”
  • They scoff at the notion that Swedes are somehow special — less racist and xenophobic than other Europeans. They believe the country has been generous with financial support, but little else.
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  • Sweden’s liberal policies have become costly. In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Sweden, which had more manufacturing jobs than citizens to fill them, invited immigrants in
  • In some of those apartment blocks, the unemployment rate among immigrants stands at 80 percent.
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