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One of the depressing things about hanging out in journalism for a long time, or simply reading the Newspapers for a long time, is that nothing changes. Stories repeat themselves. I have made that point before. So even that is a repetition, and de…

By Patrick O'Connor In one of her last official acts as speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) traveled to Oslo, Norway, to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for a jailed Chinese human-rights Activist. The outgoing speaker made …

Published: Dec. 10, 2010 at 7:27 AM Ramallah, West Bank, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority plans to stop coordinating security with Israel, a senior Palestinian official told al-Quds al-Arabi. Khana Amira told the London-based Arab-langua…

The House passed a resolution Wednesday honoring Chinese Democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, even as China cracked down on Dissidents two days before the Nobel ceremony in Oslo. The resolution introduced by Rep. Chris Smi…

Obama’s Special Envoy to the Middle East doesn’t understand the problem. The 700 days are almost up. On Jan. 22, 2009, his second full day in office, President Obama signed orders to close the Guantanamo Bay Prison and announced former…

A resolution likely to anger China will come to the floor in the lame-duck session, the Republican sponsor said Thursday evening after a conversation with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), a member of the House Foreign …

The Roots Of ‘Sharia’ Hysteria Rachel Sladja over at TPM Muckraker has a good report looking into the roots of the Sharia Peril hysteria that, over the past year, has moved from the Right-wing fringe into the mainstream conservati…