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How has a reporting service that has been trusted throughout the world become a puppet of our ever encroaching state and corporate machinery? Is there a new Room 101 censoring their reports? Are they under a series of gagging orders as I suspected?My thoughts - please feel free to disagreeI think they have become ultimately risk-averse, or in common parlance, have lost their balls. They are gagging themselves.

What makes me wonder is that why the president has to interfere in such stuff , in fact why the GPS is considered a matter of national security and why the army objects the use of GPS despite all its bases are spotted by the satellites !!??

approximately 128 individuals have been arrested and sentenced to death for nothing more than being LGBT. And according to Iraqi-LGBT, executions are scheduled this week to start in "batches of 20."

Since the U.S. invasion, the death penalty in Iraq has soared to levels that not even Texas approaches.

If the Iraq government hopes to become part of the family of nations, it must respect the rights of all segements of its population, including all homosexual persons (who do not choose their sexual orientation).  To merit international respect, the government must behave justly and refrain from persecuting LGBT persons.   The world is watching Iraq as it develops into a true democracy that respects human rights. Posted by Stephen Harris

I am very excited that the Middle East Studies program has been able to bring Waltz with Bashir to Carlisle.  It will play for four nights at the Carlisle Theatre, a cool art deco relic.  On the last evening, next Wednesday, I will moderate a panel discussion after the showing.  Among the panelists will be someone who was serving in the Israeli army at the time of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon - the events remembered in the film - as well as someone who was protesting the war as a member of Peace Now.  How cool is that?