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The Containment Trap

In one of the most memorable lines of his March 4, 2012, speech on the Middle East, President Obama declared, “Iran’s leaders should understand that

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A Modest Proposal

President Obama’s expressing his opinion about same sex marriage stirred controversy among people who were for or against this concept. I am, personally, for complete

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Tempest

is all Mister Shakespeare’s fault: he set it upon the stage of my homeland— an island, deserted, which is still drowning in the outrageous ocean

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What does Iran want?

As Iranian officials negotiate with world powers in Baghdad, they will seek to advance several of their own goals, while only making modest changes to

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Close to John & Yoko

John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent some time at the Queen Elizabeth, during a “bed in” to protest the Vietnam War carnage in 1969. We

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مرگ بر انگلیس

Britain is the only country in the world with a sustained history of child migration. Only Britain has used child migration as a significant part

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زن بازی در ایران

غلامعلی حداد عادل؛ رئیس شورای تخصصی تحول و ارتقای علوم انسانی گفته : “موضوع مطالعات زنان با رويكردی كه هم‌اكنون در جهان رایج است با

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