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How Western Corporations Have Been Helping Tyrants Suppress Rebellions in the Arab World

Timothy Karr, Clothilde Le Coz, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 28, 2011.

It's hard to lecture other countries on the importance of online freedom when U.S. companies are exporting technological systems that aid repression.

U.S. Calls for Arab World to Normalize Israel Ties

Agence France Presse July 27, 2009.

U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell called on Arab states on Monday to fully normalize ties with Israel, after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Right Finds Its New Attack on Obama

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: World. June 4, 2009.

Only a few hours after his historic speech conservatives go after the president.

Obama's Cairo Speech Promises 'New Beginning' With Muslim World; Condemns West Bank Settlements

Agence France PresseJune 4, 2009.

"There is so much fear, so much mistrust," the president said. "But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward."

Rebuid Gaza? Look at Iraq

AzzamanJanuary 20, 2009.

The world powers and their proxies are masters at destruction, but rebuilding is something they've never learned to do.