Yes we can.
If Americans can throw out conventional thinking and a complete paradigm shift of seismic proportions and elect a black Man with a foreign sounding name, Ignore years of racial acrimony differences, stereotypes, Then we Africans have a lot to learn in regard to democracy, tolerance and peaceful co-existence.
l have just come to learn [...]

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Open Letter To War Criminal George Bush — By A Veteran And A Fellow Republican
By Joe Cortina
9-21-6
Mr. Bush
I cannot in good conscience call you my ‘President.‘ That undeserved and unearned degree of respect would stick in my throat like warm vomit. - I respect the title, but do not respect you ­ NO [...]

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Syrian state TV — witnesses say US helicopters attack Iraqi border area, inside Syrian territory, causing several casualties.

By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press Writer
1:38 PM CDT, October 26, 2008
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) U.S. military helicopters attacked an area along Syria’s border with Iraq on Sunday, causing casualties, Syrian state TV and witnesses said.
The television report quoted unnamed Syrian [...]

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The need for real diplomacy with Iran

By JustForeignPolicy.org
Notes:

1. Mohammed Mosaddeq — Served as the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was removed from power by a coup d’état. From an aristocratic background, Mosaddeq was passionately opposed to foreign intervention in Iran. He is most famous as the architect of [...]

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Prof. Ali MazruiNuclear weapons are symbols of military strength. Until 1998, these weapons were a monopoly of the already politically powerful five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Those who are outgunned are sometimes forced to resort to terrorist tactics.
Terrorism is an instrument of the weak and it has been largely associated with Muslims. [...]

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