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Intellectually, I know Osama bin Laden’s death doesn’t change anything. Al Qaeda still exists. The Taliban is still as strong as ever. Our troops won’t be coming home from Afghanistan tomorrow, or probably anytime soon. Iraq is still a mess. Libya is still a mess. Nor will the death of Bin Laden solve the Israel/Palestine [...]

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As those of you who are not Amish hermits already know, on Friday Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak fell from power after thirty years. Like a lot of people, I’ve been glued to the news, and my two primary sources of news have been two places I’ve never turned for news before: (1)Twitter and (2)Al-Jazeera. Without [...]

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Egypt Part II: After the Violence

In my last entry, I posted the following link. It’s an Egyptian woman named Mona Seif, calling into a Speak-to-Tweet service which allowed people in Egypt to post voice messages to Twitter via phone after the regime cut off Internet service. If you haven’t listened to it, please do. Voices from Egypt- Mona Seif I [...]

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Like many all over the world, I’ve found myself glued to the news feeds this past week, watching the protests grow and unfold in Egypt. Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian “President” who was been in power since 1981 (30 years!), is now hanging by a thread. Cairo is almost 7,000 miles away from my own city, [...]

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Aisha’s Story

In the eleven months I’ve posted to this blog, I’ve thus far managed to avoid political topics. But now I’m going to tread the line, because while the topic is definitely political, I feel like this should really be a humanitarian issue first. On the cover of TIME Magazine’s August 9th issue is a picture [...]

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I’m a news junkie, and occasionally I notice a story I’d rather not have seen, like this one: FDA says residue is frog or toad; how did it get in Pepsi can? (Be sure to click on the link and get grossed out by the picture.) Anyway, the remains of a frog somehow got into [...]

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