A string of public rebukes of U.S. foreign policy in recent weeks, from Jerusalem to Red Square, is highlighting how the global goodwill President Barack Obama enjoyed on taking office last year has often failed to translate into wins on the foreign-policy front.
Nations Decline to March to U.S. Beat – WSJ.com

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The West treats the nuclear programs of Iran, North Korea and Syria as individual entities, but they are really a cooperative effort between these rogue governments. The three countries work closely together, allowing each partner to benefit from the progress made by another. This makes the threat more severe, but it also means that stopping [...]

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A global decline in political freedom is partly the fault of the middle class.
The Global Decline In Democracy – Newsweek.com

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Iran attempted to buy a nuclear bomb from Pakistan as early as 1987, a leading Middle East analyst has told Haaretz.
Documents obtained by Simon Henderson, a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former journalist, offer crucial evidence that Iran’s nuclear program is not wholly for civilian purposes as it [...]

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There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency sweeping across our modern world, and it’s an epidemic of such depth and seriousness that it makes the H1N1 swine flu epidemic look like a case of the sniffles by comparison. Vitamin D deficiency is not only alarmingly widespread, it’s also a root cause of many other [...]

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“Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued to arise, and a spike in such activity followed the Gaza conflict in the winter of 2008-2009,” the State Department said in an annual report.
“Often despite official efforts to combat the problem, societal anti-Semitism persisted across Europe, South America, and beyond and manifested itself in classic forms,” it [...]

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This is typical Leftist thinking. Troublemaker countries like Iran are truly victims. Who is the victimizer? Countries that are successful and powerful like America and Israel.
This is a sick and dangerous way of thinking that literally says bad is good and good is bad. This thinking is just as dangerous as Marxism/Communism.
His conclusion is [...]

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Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday.
Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed collection, which is 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from [...]

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Watch an interesting video about prostitution in Mexico City.
On Location: Mexico City Vice

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They’re here, they’re queer, and governments from Africa to Asia don’t quite know what to do about it. Four countries where gay rights movements face an upward battle for equality.
Four New Gay Rights Battlegrounds – By Peter Williams | Foreign Policy

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