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Obama Must Build on Arab Peace Initiative

The positive atmosphere surrounding last Thursday's meeting between President Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, confirms the new US administration has changed the approach to the Middle East.

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Iran’s Presidential Elections: Ahmadinejad in Retreat, Reformists on the Rise

With only a week to Iran’s presidential election, the campaign has entered a critical stage. Election fever has gripped Iran. The entire country has come to a practical standstill...

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Recycling Your Old Mattress

A typical mattress is a 23 cubic foot assembly of steel, wood, cotton and polyurethane foam. Given this wide range of materials, mattresses have typically been difficult to recycle – and still most municipal recycling facilities won’t offer to do it for you.

Be Careful with Tourism from the US to Cuba

The advantages and dangers of Cuba being opened to visitors from the United States have begun to be assessed from a great variety of angles and interests, both in the United States and Cuba, as well as in other contexts.

Israeli Public Less Supportive Of Settlements

In previous decades, an American president who pressured Israel to freeze settlement growth, as President Obama has done, would have riled large sections of Israel’s Jewish population. But public sympathy for settlers and the settlements is currently at an all-time low, adding a new dimension to the sometimes tense relationship between Washington and Jerusalem.

Iran’s Presidential Elections: The Landscape

Iran will hold its presidential elections on Friday, June 12, 2009. Although some Iranians, particularly those who live in the diaspora, may dismiss the elections as being ineffectual and devoid of any possible meaningful consequence, the truth is that the significance of the upcoming elections cannot be over-emphasized.

Rich Country, Poor People

The USA is by all accounts the richest nation on Earth. Hardly surprising, really: rich natural resources allied to rapidly developing industry and commerce gave it a head start.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial

While many liberals suggest that with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency the United States has become a post-racial society, many conservatives have now taken the opposite position.

Jobs Numbers Signal Economic Bright Spot

When would losing 345,000 jobs from the economy in a single month seem like a big break? After eight straight months of losing more than 500,000 or 600,000 per month, this month's unemployment numbers put out by the Department of Labor (DOL) must seem like a refreshing change.

Online Poll Shows Strong Working-class Approval for Obama Admin.

President Barack Obama received a resounding round of applause in the initial online public opinion survey conducted by the Center for Working-class Studies (CWCS) at Youngstown State University. According to the survey, 52.6% of the 891 respondents strongly approve and 35% approve of the President’s job performance during his first 100 days in office.

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