International Politics Archive

  • Wikileaks

    92,000 Secret Docs About Afghan War (WikiLeaks)

    More than 90,000 secret military records of the US war in Afghanistan were published online Sunday providing new evidence that Americans have been misled for years about the war in Afghanistan. The White House quickly lashed out at the release of the documents. National Security...

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    Chinese companies rent white foreigners

    Well isn’t this quite the story. Do you want to be rented? lol Chinese companies hire white people to portray executives or clients and are Often hired in second-tier Chinese cities to impress clients and officials.

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  • My Man’s Woman OST/내 남자의 여자

    My Man’s Woman OST/내 남자의 여자

    My Man’s Woman is one of the most under-rated Korean dramas out there.  I just started watching this drama (currently on episode 9) and I can’t get enough.  My favorite part so far is when Hwa-young and Eun-Soo are fighting and Hwa-young hits Eun-Soo with...

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  • Country Profile of Haiti

    Country Profile of Haiti

    Haiti became the world’s first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in a series of wars in the early 19th century. However, decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship have left it...

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  • Nearly Half of Somalia’s People Need Aid

    Nearly Half of Somalia’s People Need Aid

    The United Nations is renewing its multi-million dollar appeal for Somalia, which it says is facing a peak in its 18 years of humanitarian crisis.  U.N. agencies pledge to continue assistance to millions of needy Somali people despite the attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu...

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  • The Hidden Cost of War

    The Hidden Cost of War

    In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what’s behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book,...

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  • US Government to Pay Taliban to Switch Sides

    US Government to Pay Taliban to Switch Sides

    I can tell you there are a bunch of idots in our government.  The BBC reports that the US will start to pay the Taliban to switch sides.  Well, you know you are losing the war when you have to pay your enemy not to...

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  • CIA won’t release torture documents

    CIA won’t release torture documents

    The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to release a series of key documents about its secret prison and torture program. The announcement came in response to a court-imposed deadline in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The CIA says releasing information on...

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