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Al Qaida affiliate in Africa using Twitter to attract potential recruits
Compiled by Bill Gertz, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Somalian-based Al Qaida affiliate Al Shabaab is recruiting followers through its Twitter page, U.S. sources said. The @HSMPress (Harakat al-Shabaab...
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Morality and foreign policy: Once again, the U.S. is asked, ‘for God’s sake,...
By Sol W. Sanders A perennial American foreign policy debate sets “realism” against “idealism”, national interest versus morality. The dichotomy is often overstated. The two currents divide and merge...
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South Sudan boosted by Uganda after failure of coup backed by Obama...
GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Juba It has been more than a month since former South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar launched his failed coup attempt against the government of President Salva Kiir...
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Doomsday: UN’s 69th General Assembly meets amid ‘unprecedented crisis and...
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are gathering in New York for the 69th General Assembly of the UN. But as diplomats come together for the annual...
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FAITH MATTERS: ‘Selfish’ Germany’s warm welcome to 800,000 refugees
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Measuring a mere 137,000 square miles, Germany is not even as big as the U.S. state of Montana (147,000 sq. mi.). Germany is home to 81 million people, compared with Montana’s one...
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FAITH MATTERS: Volkswagen and Germany’s lost virtue
By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when...
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UN secretary general bemoans refugee tsunami; appeals for consideration,...
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In an impassioned appeal to the media, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres decried the rising tide of refugees worldwide, but advised that ultimately political...
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‘Collapsed state’ Somalia, bedeviled by militant Islam, bites UN hand that...
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — After decades of turmoil resulting from drought, civil conflict, famine, armed militias, terrorists and even pirates, the East African country of Somalia remains a...
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