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Green said that while there have been political networking sites before Essembly—including left-leaning Dfalink.com—he thinks that his site was the first to be ostensibly neutral...
...Hizballah's key patrons, it's difficult to describe Iran as neutral in the unfolding conflict. Since the Ayatollah Khomeini launched Hizballah in the early eighties to spread Shia revolution, Western officials say Iran has kept contingents of Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon, the most strategic area outside its own borders where Tehran can exercise influence. Western diplomatic estimates of how many are there and where exactly they are vary, but several hundred Revolutionary Guards are believed to operate in the Hizballah-controlled Beqaa Valley, providing operational training to the movement's guerilla forces. For its part, Iran insists...
...Republic. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the 1924 Immigration Act - which used quotas to limit immigration from Southern Europe (read: Italy) - to the debate during World War II on how many Jewish refugees the U.S. should take in, we have never managed to have an ethnic-neutral, origin-neutral discussion of immigration reform. It always becomes about keeping out "those people." The present debate is no different, just because the people we're most eager to keep out have brown skin and speak Spanish. One of my readers is, at least, honest about it. His e-mail...
...Movement, ending decades of isolation from the humanitarian group; in Geneva. Since 1949, the Israeli agency had been excluded for refusing to wear the Movement's official red cross or red crescent symbols because of their religious connotations. Last week the international group adopted a new official emblem, the neutral red crystal. It also amended rules excluding non-sovereign states from membership, enabling the Palestine Red Crescent Society to join...
...gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals...