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The Unheralded Revolution: Can the Gains Made by Iraq's Women Be Echoed Elsewhere?

Look beyond the jockeying for jobs in Iraq's embryonic transitional government. Focus instead on the final results in that Arab country's matrix-breaking election. They reveal a little-publicized result that President Bush, feminist organizations and democracy advocates should be shouting from the rooftops.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-24

Kurd who will seal Saddam's fate

Favourite for presidency insists on a federal, secular state

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-24

Bloggers rally for jailed Iranians

An online protest Tuesday of Iran's crackdown against bloggers made an impact--even on Iranian officials.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-22

NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-18

Ralph Peters: IRAQ ELECTION WINNERS

THE results of Iraq's first free elections are in. They're better than any realist could have expected. And, predictably, the media are grasping at every possible negative.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-18

Text of Rice's remarks in Paris

Especially worth reading is Rice's response to a question from the President of the French Council of Muslims.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-10

A beacon is lit in Iraq. But not in your names, Robin, Douglas and the BBC

The September 11 attack underlined, in the most terrible fashion, the consequences of our not-so-benign neglect of the Middle East and the wider Islamic world. From Morocco to Iran a huge swath of humanity was sunk in oppression, denied not just democracy but freedom of speech, property rights, freedom of association, freedom from fear and freedom to hope.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-02

The Iraqis have their say

In a November 2003 speech, George Bush declared that Iraq was to be but the first instalment in a new American project. He argued that 60 years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East - all in the name of stability and security - had only contributed to the poisoning of the political order.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-02-02

Iraq holds its breath

"I'm not backing down," she said. "For years we have been prevented from tasting what democracy is and it's important we go through with these elections." That iron resolve has cost her son's life and made targets of other relatives but the 46-year-old, representing the United Iraqi Alliance list, a grouping of big Shia parties which is expected to dominate the poll, is not for turning.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-01-29

The Iraq Election and the Bogus Objections to it

But Western media and governments are also handicapped in dealing with Iraq by a peculiar double standard regarding the very status of the Iraqi Arab Sunnis as a formerly-ruling, and oppressive, minority. Twenty years ago, nobody would have listened to the argument that dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa and the holding of elections there should be blocked out of fairness to the white minority in that country. Few today listen to those who declare that fair elections and the forging of a new political system in Northern Ireland should be delayed out of concern for the feelings of the Protestant minority.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-01-25

The Iraqi people will defy the Ba'athists and Islamofascists

..a recent poll by the London-based paper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat found that 66% of those asked supported the elections on schedule. Iraqi women, who due to past bloodshed constitute a majority of the Iraqi population, are particularly interested.

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-01-25

Tigris tales

Baghdad is in election fever, pasted with posters of candidates whose names most people don't even know

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-01-25

Zarqawi' vows war on Iraq poll

We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it,"

  • Posted by keza
  • Published: 2005-01-24
 

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